At 8:00 pm the "54th Street Review" was broadcast. WBTV also originates another CBS "Person to Person" program with Edward R. Murrow and former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Prior to joining in 2004, evening anchor Maureen O'Boyle, a Charlotte native and graduate of West Charlotte High School, served as anchor of the syndicated newsmagazines A Current Affair and Extra. The deals closed in early 2008. The first show is emceed by Jim Patterson and includes the President of Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company, Mr. Joseph M. Bryan, Charlotte mayor Victor Shaw, and Dr. George Heaton of Myers Park Baptist Church. Since February 25, 2009, it has had an application filed No longer confined to a teleprompter, Coakley isnt shying away from controversial or political topics. foxnews.com, Longtime WSOC anchor Vince Coakley left his job in summer 2010 and spent the next several months getting more involved with his churchs ministries, including leading rebuilding efforts in Haiti. WBTV is making big changes to its morning and afternoon-evening news anchor teams, giving longtime station personalities Alex Giles and John Carter new roles. WBTV is first in the United States to broadcast "Extravision." WBTV's parents company buys WRVA-TV in Richmond, VA. In 1955, WBT and WBTV moved to a then state-of-the-art facility on a hill atop Morehead Street, where both stations are still based today. Witnesses also claim that Tayag, a pilot with over 20 years of experience, deliberately steered the falling helicopter into the grass to avoid crashing into nearby buildings or onto the Interstate itself, which was crowded with Thanksgiving week traffic at the time. It is the only commercial television station in the market that has never changed its primary affiliation. A much-remembered women's/homemaker's show, The Betty Feezor Show, aired on channel 3 from the 1950s until 1977 (usually after the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, and in its 15-minute format, Guiding Light). He was married to Liz for 34 years when he died. WBTV begins a year-long focus "For Kids Sake". WBTV's parent company begins "The Jefferson Standard Foundation" to add financial support to many area community organizations. [CDATA[ WBTV expands "the Early Report" at 6:00 pm to a full 30 minutes. Languages: Italian. When WAGA-TV in Atlanta, which signed on the air four months before WBTV, switched to Fox in December 1994, WBTV became the longest-tenured CBS affiliate located south of Washington, D.C. WFMY-TV in Greensboro, the second-oldest station in the Carolinas, is the network's second-longest tenured affiliate south of the capital; it signed on three months after WBTV. The permanent switchover occurred at 5:55am on June 12, 2009. WBTV begins a monumental public service campaign focusing on Deafness. WBTV begins televising its first regularly scheduled local live color program. Without them, making your voices heard at the ballot box would not be possible. WBT radio long hosted live country music. [5] The sale of the radio stations was finalized on January 31, 2008. (WCSC is the first television station on the air in the state of South Carolina, signing on in 1953. "Mayes would come to define the first generation of television news anchors." . This studio is the home of the cooking set. Three Atlanta Police Department recruits are being praised for their quick action in helping a mom whose son had become locked in a hot car. WBTV launches the first "telethon" in the Carolinas. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. He left the network in 1994, and later served as athletic director at Idaho State and Macalester College in Minnesota. The station airs at least two games a year, typically when the team plays host to an AFC opponent at Bank of America Stadium; starting in 2014, through the NFL's new "cross-flex" broadcast rules, games that would normally air on Fox (locally on WJZY) can be moved arbitrarily to CBS and vice versa. The station first signed on the air on July 15, 1949. WBTV premieres "PM Magazine" with hosts Bob Lacey and Moira Quinn. brofro.com, A Conversation With Angie HarmonActress, Producer, and Charlotte Resident, Meet the Groups Breaking Barriers for Women in Construction, The Making of Childrens Theatre of Charlottes Production of The Night Diary, How Being on Summer Camp Staff Impacted My Life, Oh, Rats! @jsrontv is leaving us and on to an exciting adventure in Atlanta! News Apps. WBTV and WBT Radio were sold to different companies, ending one of the longest running radio and television station ownership groups in the nation. Mayes said years later that channel 9 offered him a deal that was too lucrative for him to resist, considering that he had kids in college. That station actually dates back to a ham radio station that started in late 1920. The H-D-T-V station will be called WBTV-DT and be on channel 23. Patterson was killed in a single-car accident in Charlotte in 1986; Kirby died in 1996 at age 85. WBTV is the first television station in the Carolinas to broadcast in stereo sound. WBTV begins airing color slides for the first time. WBTV begins a high school student quiz show called "High Q." And TV-3 is renamed The Patterson Studio in memory of Jim Patterson. Shes also the churchs communications director. WBTV begins a letter writing campaign to help free American prisoners-of-war in North Vietnam the project is called "Write Hanoi". Jefferson-Pilot sold WBTW in 1968 because WBTW provided a fairly strong grade B signal to the eastern portion of the Charlotte market, and neither station would have been able to expand their signals as long as Jefferson-Pilot owned both of them. [35], In recent years, WBTV has been carried on cable in several areas outside of the Charlotte television market, including cable systems within the adjacent GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point and Asheville markets in North Carolina and South Carolina, and the Tri-Cities market in Tennessee and Virginia. WBTV turns off the analog channel "3" signal, and begins broadcasting only on over-the-air digital channel 23. // ]]>[/one_third] [one_third_last] //
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