Bojangles has brought back its fried fish-filet sandwich for Lent this year. And by the end of 1949 the number had risen to 8,500 television sets. Channel 3 took on secondary affiliations with NBC and ABC until Charlotte's second VHF station, WSOC-TV (channel 9), took the NBC affiliation when it signed on in April 1957. Notre Dame won 14 to 7. [5] The sale of the radio stations was finalized on January 31, 2008. WBTV was granted the first full-power construction permit for a digital television signal in the United States in 1998, which went on the air that year operating at 1 million watts[20]equivalent to 5 million watts for an analog transmitter. Following Fox's purchase of WJZY and WMYT, the WBTV-produced newscast returned to WJZY when it became the market's Fox owned-and-operated station on July 1, 2013, which continued to air until the station launched its own news department (and hour-long 10:00p.m. newscast) on January 1, 2014. All local programming on WBTCV in 1990 will focus on Recycling garbage, preserving water resources and minimizing air pollution. WBTV announces the formation of Jefferson Productions, a division of the Broadcasting Company to specialize in commercial production and program syndication. She spent five years at KYW-TV as co-anchor of the 5, 6, and 11 P.M. newscasts and is a former beauty queen from Levittown, Pennsylvania who competed at Miss Teen USA 1990 and Miss USA 1996. News defined the careers of Clyde Lee and Diane Willis for a combined five decades. WBTV premieres "Top O' the Day" hosted by Clyde McLean with segments by Vivian Harris, Ty Boyd, C.J. A special demonstration of WBTV's mobile television truck is conducted in Greenville. Jefferson Standard/Jefferson-Pilot acquired several other radio and television stations across the country, with WBTV serving as the company's flagship station. [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. Friday, April 20, 2007. The station didn't air the CBS version of Wheel of Fortune until late in that show's run. The partnership was extended to football in 2004; Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial had been the sole producer of ACC football telecasts since 1984. But he lasted only four months there and was let go in March. WBTV anchor Knowles dies at age 42: MARK WASHBURN Staff Writer WBTV anchor Bob Knowles died Tuesday, three years after he was diagnosed with a rare cancer that flared up again on his honeymoon two months ago. If you give your opinion, label it as a commentary. WBTV originates Edward R. Murrow's interview with Charlottean Harry Golden for the CBS Network program, "Person to Person.". The helicopter uses aviation fuel, rather than jet fuel. WBTV installs a satellite Earth Station enabling instant television coverage from anywhere in the world. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. WBTV begins sponsorship of "Project Graduation". (Worldwide fears of "Y2K" related problems never materialized.). It is a Robinson R44 Raven II. She anchors FOX 5 News at 4p and co-anchors FOX 5 News Edge at 11 with anchor Tom Haynes. [36], transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, Channel 23 digital TV stations in the United States, Channel 3 virtual TV stations in the United States, Entercom To Swap Charlotte Stations To Radio One For WPHI, WTEM and St. Louis Duo, "Celebrating WBTV's anniversary WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC", "Lincoln Financial Press Releases LFG Announces Sale of Television, Sports, and Charlotte Radio Properties", Charlotte Observer | 17 November 2007 | Old TV-radio couple breaking up, "State dedicates historic marker to memorialize NC's oldest broadcast station", "Historical marker spotlights Wilder Building, broadcasting's Charlotte birthplace", "GRAY AND RAYCOM TO COMBINE IN A $3.6 BILLION TRANSACTION", "Gray Acquiring Raycom For $3.65B, Forming No. WBTV sign-on, July 15, 1949. He revealed his pending departure on WBTV's early morning news program. Charlotte Mayor John Belk proclaims this day as "WBTV Day" in honor of twenty years of community service to the people of Charlotte. . It is hosted by C.J. (WRVA-TV signed on April 29, 1956.). WBTV and WBT Radio host the inaugural "Blood Give-In" at the stations' studios at One Julian Price Place. Studios here until 1955"). You can still hear BroFro in the morning here in syndication, and it continues to feature a good deal of local commentary. Filmed programs ran from 6:30 pm to sign-off. Doug Mayes begins WBTV's first regularly scheduled news programs as "The Esso Reporter" a ten minute newscast airing at 6:30 pm Monday - Friday. Man died Wednesday. WBTV premieres the station's new $75,000 mobile television truck at the N.C. Republican convention, held in Charlotte. The band shell at Freedom Park in Charlotte is dedicated to former WBTV/WBT personality and public affairs director, Alan Newcomb. Without them, making your voices heard at the ballot box would not be possible. WBTV, WBT, and WLNK continue to stay based in the same building at One Julian Price Place, as they have been since 1955. He left the network in 1994, and later served as athletic director at Idaho State and Macalester College in Minnesota. WBTV received one of the last construction permits issued before the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) "freeze" on new television licenses, which lasted until the Commission released its Sixth Report and Order in 1952. The permanent switchover occurred at 5:55am on June 12, 2009. The test pattern is occasionally interrupted by the latest telenews and weather reports. WBTV is first in the United States to broadcast "Extravision." "The CBS Evening News" with Dan Rather is broadcast from the Patterson Studio to celebrate WBTV's 40th Anniversary the previous week. "WBTV" is the Grand Marshall of "The 52nd Annual Carolinas' Carrousel Parade." These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); This project is the idea of Loonis McGlohon. By a freak atmosphere accident WBTV is received on Channel 3 in a town named Arthur, located inNorth Dakota. It is the first building in the USA specifically built for color telecasting. WBTV and WBT personalities auction thousands of dollars of donated merchandise to Carolina viewers. WBTV was purchased by Montgomery, Alabama based Raycom Media Inc. WBTV's "QC . Wacky weatherman Mark Mathis was fired as cohost of FOX News Rising at the end of August 2010, leaving FOX Charlotte for the second time. WBTV carries President Eisenhower's address from Freedom Park in Charlotte commemorating the 179th anniversary of the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Reception reports were received from cities as far away as 150 miles. This studio is the home of the news set. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A two million dollar expansion program to the WBTV/WBT building is completed. Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter. Many longtime friends and colleagues of C.J. 69-year-old suffers stroke in his N.C. home; Realtor showing house leaves him there. You can cancel at any time. A genuine nice guy in a business where egos can run to the outsize, Knowles was known for his. Web Extra Links. Thousands of potential viewers pack into the Armory, "from the pin-striped to the barefooted", to see demonstrations of various TV sets. WBTV is the first station in the United Stated to produce a weeknight newscast for a local PBS station, WTVI-TV. However, area viewers could watch those preempted shows on WSPA-TV in Spartanburg or WFMY through a strong antenna (WFMY and WSPA were and still are available on some cable systems in the Charlotte market, although non-local programming is subject to blackout due to network non-duplication and syndication exclusivity rules). WBTV reunited members of WBT Radio's "Briarhoppers" for a television reunion show. WBTV's brand new "Sky 3" helicopter returns to daily operation. Updates of evacuations and changes in security to buildings in Uptown Charlotte are broadcast in addition to the CBS News coverage from around the world. For many years, WBTV aired Face the Nation on Sundays at 11:30a.m.; most CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone air it at 10:30a.m. Contests. She has interviewed the likes of President Donald Trump, former First Lady Laura Bush and then-Senator Barack Obama during his first presidential campaign. WBTV's new building is dedicated on the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. She anchors FOX 5 News at 4p and co-anchors FOX 5 News Edge at 11 with anchor Tom Haynes. This is the Panthers first visit to the Super Bowl. While there she won numerous Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards, RTDNAC Awards and NABJ Awards. Morning and midday anchor John Carter formerly served as a North Carolina state senator prior to joining the station. For many years, WBTV was one of the country's most dominant television stations. About WBTV. Cameron joined WBTV in 1981 as the station's sports director, and then succeeded longtime anchor Bob Inman upon his retirement in 1996. (Construction of WBT-TV was delayed quite a few months due to the flurry of TV stations going on-the-air in larger U.S. cities. This was the first, and like several to come had as its presenter Jim Patterson, the announcer who first signed on the station in 1949. 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. WBTV News in the evening expands to an hour long program from 5:30 to 6:30om. However, WBTV and WWBT retain their Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial-era logos and branding (WCSC has since changed its logo and graphics, following its switch to high definition newscasts). Also this month, WBTV and area TV set dealers hold a contest for the 100,000th television set purchased in the coverage area. Viewers also saw for the first time on Carolina television the personalities they had heard so often, and for so long, on WBT Radio. Sure, she adds to the long list of attractive blondes on Rupert Murdochs conservative network, but she has nearly twenty years experience and the Chapel Hill degree to back it up. WBTV's older brother, WBT Radio celebrates its 75th Anniversary of receiving those call letters. tonia bendickson.com, Brotha Fred (birth name Christopher Frederick) moved his popular A.M. Mayhem morning show from 96.1 FM in Charlotte to Chicagos 103.5 KISS FM in January, taking David L. (Livingston) with him and adding Chicagoan Angi Taylor to the team. Diana Williams (later at WABC-TV in New York City; now retired) served as an anchor at WBTV during the early 1980s; she was succeeded as the station's main female anchor by Sara James (now a reporter for Dateline NBC). One Atlanta attorney has seen many loving parents through that process for more than two decades. WBTV News in a partnership with First Union Bank becomes the first television station in the United States to develop computerized election returns projections. By August 1, 1949, there are already 2,000 sets in Carolina households. 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). Lately, the job of a poll worker has become more polarizing but for some that is not swaying their desire to serve. WBTV begins a major public service campaign on Diabetes awareness. On November 15, 2013, both WBTV and WBT were dedicated with a North Carolina historical marker at the corner of Tryon and Third Streets (reading "WBT/WBTV Oldest broadcast stations in North Carolina established 1922. (The event lasts three days.). Phil Agresta, Nelson Benton and Earl Wells are in charge of the broadcast. A special journalism scholarship is also announced in C.J. WBTV News reporters are sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to cover local National Guard troops on deployment in the War On Terror. WBTV begins a public service project called "WBTV On the Job". Moments later viewers heard the first voice on television in the Carolinas', that of Jim Patterson signing on to WBTV and announcing the evenings programming. 32K views, 612 likes, 76 loves, 134 comments, 40 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from WBTV News: GOODBYE LYNDSAY! Remembering Jason & Chip. are in the standing-room only attendance. WBTV is Charlotte's first TV station to use mounted cameras on towers throughout the city for LIVE sky views of highway traffic, skyline shots and weather scenes. What brings you the most joy? [27] On January 22, 2014, WBTV began producing a two-hour extension of its weekday morning newscast, airing from 7:009:00a.m. as well as an hour-long prime time newscast at 8:00p.m. for WBTV-DT2. The added space houses Jefferson Productions and expands the WBTV, WBT offices. 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! Raycom had produced ACC basketball games in partnership with Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial since 1982. WBTV returned to a strong position in the late 1990s, culminating in wrestling the #1 spot at noon in 1998 from WSOC-TV. Christine is married to William and they have two children: Daughter, Camryn, son, William III, and pet Yorkie, Georgia II. WBTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. WSOC-TV gained a large lead in ratings for most other news timeslots beginning in 1990. WBTV was originally owned by the Greensboro-based Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, owners of WBT (1110 AM), the city's oldest radio station and the first fully licensed station in the South. By Kevin Eck on Feb. 15, 2023 - 12:59 PM. [CDATA[ The N A B adopts "American Values" as a nationwide project. On November 22, 2022, at 11:57 a.m.,[16] a 1999 Robinson R44 helicopter nicknamed "WBTV Sky3" crashed onto the grass verge of I-77 in south Charlotte. WBTV begins local live television programming from a converted radio studio in the Wilder Building. Seeking a schedule that would allow her to spend more time with her two young boys, she joined the staff of Elevation Church, the fastest-growing church in the city, to work as coordinator for the Blakeney campus. My buddy @JohnCarterWBTV is headed to the other side of 5 oclock with the fabulous @finessebryan & all smiles @AlexGilesNews will be on the desk for your mornings! Christine comes to Atlanta after spending 11 years as morning anchor at WBTV in Charlotte, NC. Video unavailable. As of 2023, she is around 60 years old. Transcontinental television was inaugurated with President Truman's address to the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco. From 2010 onward, the package was branded as the ACC Network. WBTV launches a year-long conservation project for the Carolinas called "Planet Earth". After her return from New York in 2009, Katie began working as the Traffic Producer for Triangle Traffic Network, a radio station out of Raleigh, NC. Channel 36 returned to the air in November 1964 as WCCB (later moving to channel 18 in November 1966), carrying whatever CBS programs that WBTV turned down in order to carry ABC programs. WBTV's Lori Thomas and WBT Radio's Mike Collins begin a TV Radio morning show partnership and simulcast. In 1970, the media interests were folded into a new subsidiary, Jefferson-Pilot Communications. 3 Local TV Group", "Gray Closes On $3.6 Billion Raycom Merger", "Gray Completes Acquisition of Raycom Media and Related Transactions", "Initial investigative report released on WBTV helicopter crash that killed 2 people", "TV meteorologist, pilot die in news helicopter crash", "WBTV helicopter crashes on I-77 South, two killed", "Helicopter crash leaves TV meteorologist and pilot dead in Charlotte, North Carolina", "WBTV mourning the loss of meteorologist Jason Myers, pilot Chip Tayag", "Reaction to fatal WBTV helicopter crash - 2 dead in TV news helicopter crash", "Live Updates: Charlotte meteorologist and pilot from WBTV killed in helicopter crash off Interstate 77", "TV Meteorologist and Pilot Die in Helicopter Crash in North Carolina", "A final day of flying: hovering over uptown, South End and a deadly path along I-77", "Channel 3 Launched TV Era in East Tennessee | Bob Cox's Yesteryear", "Chronology of WBTV WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC", Louisville No. Other notable on-air personalities include Western bureau chief Steve Ohnesorge, who started as a photographer at WBTV in 1975. [23] Jefferson-Pilot management, who only a few years earlier had touted Mayes as part of the station's campaign, "Turn to People You Know," wanted to make its newscasts appeal to a younger audience and made little effort to retain him. It is a Christmas tree with tags of the name, sizes and age of needy boys and girls. The third subchannel resumed operations upon the launch of Bounce TV on September 26, 2011. It is for The United Appeal fund. WBTV broadcasts from Charlotte's first "Springfest." The WeatherNet network is available worldwide on TV stations and the Internet. Molly Grantham has been an award-winning anchor and reporter at WBTV Charlotte, N.C., for the past 15 years. WBTV is only the second television station in the United States to have the antenna setup required for this increase. 40th - 1989. The Charlotte native shared last week that Friday was her last day on WJZY. WBTV becomes the first television station in the World to record and rebroadcast programs on color video tape. Cross joined CBS in 1971, becoming the first Black network sports show anchor. This studio is the home of commercial productions and special live programming. I have a deep understanding of our community and have been fortunate to cover stories from every county within our market and look forward to sharing my insights and experience with viewers each evening, Carter said in the WBTV statement. WBTV's Barbara Stutts begins hosting a daily information and entertainment program called "Barbara". WBTV's helicopter, "Ranger 3" gets a new name, "Sky 3". However, WBTV still shares the Julian Price Place studio with its former radio sisters, and they also retain a news partnership. WBTV and CBS News begin broadcasting "all-night" news and information programming. Lucky for her, six months later she was hired as a traffic reporter for WBTV. However, when Face the Nation was permanently expanded to an hour in 2012, WBTV moved the show to 10:30a.m. WBTV gained a major ratings windfall in 198182, when CBS won the television rights to the NCAA men's basketball tournament. As such, it was Charlotte's only VHF station for eight years, carrying affiliations with all four major networks of the timeCBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont. Doug Mayes begins WBTV's first regularly scheduled news programs as "The Esso Reporter" a ten minute newscast airing at 6:30 pm Monday - Friday. Jonathan Stacey, co-host of WBTV's "QC Morning" show, said Thursday he's leaving the station soon. Celeste Gessner This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. Alex Giles, from left, Mary King, Shevaun Bryan and John Carter are the newscasters affected by the changes at WBTV. WBTV announces development of a sister company, Jefferson-Carolina Corporation, a major community antenna television company. It is called "The Spearhead Group" and is hosted by Alan Newcomb. 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. GREENSBORO On Feb. 22, a judge in federal district court sentenced Clyde Turaine Brand to 120 months in prison, announced United States Atto, WeBuild Concord has purchased the historic Kerr Street Baptist Church at 114 Kerr St., Concord, to develop 15 affordable and workforce housing. @jsrontv is leaving us and on to an exciting adventure in Atlanta! Television sets in the WBTV viewing area now stand at 415,313. Tours of the new building also begin this week. This studio is the home of the cooking set. WBTV conducts a Southeastern television conference for TV industry people to learn how to create and manage a television station. Past Former WBTV Anchors Salary | WBTV News Anchor Dies. // ]]>[/one_third] [one_third_last] //
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