Hurricane Hugo strikes the Carolina coastline and moves inland while retaining its Hurricane force winds to batter Charlotte and the Western Piedmont of NC and the Upstate section of SC. [28] The morning newscast ended in spring 2018, and the 8 p.m. newscast ended on August 17, 2018. (The event lasts three days.). WBTV's Mike McKay begins hosting a local news magazine program weekdays at 5:30pm. Prior to WBTV, Christine was an anchor/reporter at KLTV in Texas and WABG in Mississippi. It claims to have been the first station in the country to develop computerized election return projections, to broadcast CBS' ExtraVision teletext service, and to produce a local newscast for a PBS member station (WTVI, channel 42). Following the 2005 retirement of longtime WSOC anchorman Bill Walker, WBTV began billing lead anchorman Paul Cameron as "The Voice of Experience." By this time all local live programs are presented in color on WBTV. Here's what that means for viewers", "SVTV Stations - the things you care that others won't", FCC WBTV-Tower's Antenna Structure Registration, Drawings of Jefferson Pilot Comm. Ill miss seeing you! he told his fellow WBTV evening team members Shevaun Bryan, Molly Grantham and Jamie Boll. When it debuted, WBTV was the 13th television station in the United States[2] and the first in the Carolinas; it is the oldest television station located between Richmond and Atlanta. Watch Live; Latest Video; News; First Alert Weather; Calendar; WBTV Investigates; On Your Side Tonight; QC Life; Sports; WBTV News. Mathematically speaking, from December 1949 to July 1964 there have been 188 homes a DAY getting a television set. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. WBTV, in cooperation with Duke Power begins displaying an electric light bulb symbol in the corner of the TV screen to alert Carolina viewers of an energy crisis situation. Lincoln Financial retained Jefferson-Pilot's broadcasting division, which was renamed Lincoln Financial Media, with WBTV retaining its status as the flagship station.[3]. WBTV begins televising its first regularly scheduled local live color program. It is the second time that WBTV has had a sister station in the Florence/Myrtle Beach market; as mentioned above, Jefferson-Pilot was the founding owner of WBTW from 1954 to 1968. 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! WBTV's parents company buys WRVA-TV in Richmond, VA. Studios here until 1955"). WBTV's "QC . As a family they play and watch lots of sports, and love rooting for the Dawgs during college football season! WBTV also airs any Panthers games carried on CBS' NFL package. These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels. Alex Giles, from left, Mary King, Shevaun Bryan and John Carter are the newscasters affected by the changes at WBTV. Most all of the staff is on duty in the entire JPC chain of TV and Radio stations. After the installation of a coaxial cable from AT & T, WBTV carries its first Live network program. 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. Man died Wednesday. Phil Agresta, Nelson Benton and Earl Wells are in charge of the broadcast. She was also a student-athlete playing on UGAs womens volleyball team. The journey starts withSarah Batista, a single mom and former TV news reporter who left behind a decade-long career in 2013 to follow her gut and launch her own video/film production company, Stories to Inspire. You can still hear BroFro in the morning here in syndication, and it continues to feature a good deal of local commentary. WBTV broadcasts a telethon for Char-Wheels. WBTV acquires a second and more advanced video tape recorder. Christine Sperow joined Fox 5 News in March 2020. SC. WBTV carries President Eisenhower's address from Freedom Park in Charlotte commemorating the 179th anniversary of the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. WBTV carried the Live telecast via coaxial cable of General Eisenhower's report in the state of the Atlantic Pact nation's defenses. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WBTV had previously carried a standard-definition simulcast of the station's main channel on its second digital subchannel. WBTV's parent company begins "The Jefferson Standard Foundation" to add financial support to many area community organizations. Christine comes to Atlanta after spending 11 years as morning anchor at WBTV in Charlotte, NC. If you give your opinion, label it as a commentary. You can cancel at any time. She was also the weather . .. News Anchor. WBTV's brand new "Sky 3" helicopter returns to daily operation. WBTV expands "the Early Report" at 6:00 pm to a full 30 minutes. 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! Both occupants, WBTV pilot Chip Tayag and WBTV meteorologist Jason Myers, were pronounced dead at the scene. The quintessential anchorman, Tom Ellis got behind the Channel 4 news desk and was soon joined . Also this month, WBTV and area TV set dealers hold a contest for the 100,000th television set purchased in the coverage area. WBTV announces the formation of Jefferson Productions, a division of the Broadcasting Company to specialize in commercial production and program syndication. A teletext news and information service. [6] With the purchase, WBTV became Raycom's second-largest station by market size, behind the Cleveland, Ohio duopoly of WOIO and WUAB. 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). Final Nielsen ratings for the year of 1963 show WBTV programming winning a majority of viewers in 18 of 20 times slots. The partnership was extended to football in 2004; Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial had been the sole producer of ACC football telecasts since 1984. Two years later, after KPIX-TV in San Francisco became a CBS owned-and-operated station (due to owner Westinghouse Electric Corporation's merger with CBS), WBTV became the second longest-tenured affiliate that was not owned by the network, behind only Washington's WUSA. And it was the nation's biggest news event of the last decade-9/11-that served as an ominous backdrop for the . It is a Christmas tree with tags of the name, sizes and age of needy boys and girls. Traffic. There are still only about 30 HDTV stations on the air in the United States. WBTV begins local sponsorship of "The Jefferson Awards." WBTV introduces to Charlotte and the Carolinas the most advanced weather radar system available. You can watch Fred and Vanessa Ruffes at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. wbtv.com, The Ace & TJ Show built a loyal following in the mornings on KISS 95.1 FM for thirteen years. WBTV viewers raised money for African communities hit hard by the worst drought of the 20th century. WBTV reunited members of WBT Radio's "Briarhoppers" for a television reunion show. WBTV and WBT personalities auction thousands of dollars of donated merchandise to Carolina viewers. [34] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 3. A genuine nice guy in a business where egos can run to the outsize, Knowles was known for his. In 1970, the media interests were folded into a new subsidiary, Jefferson-Pilot Communications. Viewers are encouraged to turn off all power to unnecessary lights and appliances when the symbol is used. WBTV announces that it will begin transmissions of color test patterns in May of this year. "The Carolina Camera" premieres on WBTV News. WBTV welcomes CBS newsman Eric Sevareid to Charlotte as guest on "The Spearhead Group". In the 7:00am hour weekday mornings, Arthur Smith's "Carolina Calling" program tops all shows in viewers airing at that time in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Washington, Seattle, Baltimore and others. A drug-free party for high school seniors in the WBTV viewing area. 30th - 1979. WBTV's parent company forms Jefferson Data Systems. The name "Sky 3" was chosen in a contest among viewers. "WBTV's Story Lady" premieres with Jackie Torrence. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. 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. [CDATA[ What was your worst fear? Followed by "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" at 6:30pm. WBTV favored the Redskins while WSPA favored the Falcons, in tandem with most CBS affiliates in their respective states. He proudly served in the Navy in World War II and last week these students went all out to express their gratitude in honor of Veterans Day. The FCC grants WBTV the first commercial permit in the United States to construct a Digital Television Station. 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. 20th - 1969. She Flew the Coop followsfour women who left something secure or stable to travel abroad and pursue a dream. General Manager Charles H. Crutchfield was notified that the FCC had granted WBT a permit to construct a television station. (WCSC is the first television station on the air in the state of South Carolina, signing on in 1953. WBTV and Charlotte Memorial Hospital team up for the first "Health Matters" medical show. WBTV keeps viewers who have battery powered TV's informed with life saving advice and news. This was especially true if the Washington Redskins and Atlanta Falcons played at the same time. 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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. Jefferson Standard Broadcasting breaks ground at a site located west of downtown Charlotte to build a new broadcast home for WBTV and WBT. The equipment manufactures gave priority to the bigger cities.) WBTV is only the second television station in the United States to have the antenna setup required for this increase. WBTV broadcasts the first "Lou Rawls Parade of Stars for UNCF". SEPTEMBER 1952. WBTV premieres its own locally produced pop-music videos program. But in May, after not being able to agree on contract terms with the station, Ace & TJ signed off Charlotte radio. WBTW in Florence, SC is sold. You turn on the local news station or radio show one day and your favorite personality has seemingly vanished as if he were never there in the first place. For its first five years, the show aired at 12:00p.m., preempting The Young and the Restless. WBTV begins sponsorship of "Project Graduation". In addition, WBTV's studios continue to house the operations of its former sister radio stations currently owned by Urban One: WBT-AM/FM and WLNK, as well as WFNZ, which was previously owned by CBS Radio prior to its acquisition by Beasley Broadcast Group in 2014, followed by Entercom (now known as Audacy) in late 2017 and then Urban One in 2020 under a local marketing agreement.[1]. [31] On April 1, 2012, This TV was dropped and the third subchannel was once again removed to make room for WBTV's mobile DTV service, but was brought back on October 8, 2014, with the Grit network. It was completely installed and ready for on-air use in just 2 hours and 56 minutes. He revealed his pending departure on WBTV's early morning news program. Jefferson Standard had purchased WBT from CBS in 1947. January 10, 2021. WBTV is the first television station in the Carolinas to simulcast its audio of the 6:00pm news on a radio station, WBT Radio. The first television station in the Carolinas, and among the first few in the southeastern United States to do so. WBTV's new 2,000 foot tall tower begins transmitting at 5:53pm. Within a few months, WBTV's late-evening newscast lost the lead at 11 p.m. to channel 9, and it would not regain first place in that timeslot until 2004. Former Channel 9 meteorologist Melissa Greer Polsky died Friday morning after a six-month-long battle with cancer. For most of its first 30 years on the air, WBTV's newscasts dominated the Nielsen ratings in the Charlotte market. This Charlotte Inventor Is Now Making Watches Out of Recycled Airplanes. [17], Witnesses to the crash claim the helicopter was visibly faltering, and in a steeply-banked spiral as it came down. The helicopter uses aviation fuel, rather than jet fuel. By Mark Joyella on Oct. 19, 2015 - 10:22 AM. 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He was 42. WBTV-DT broadcasts the first nationally televised HDTV program, the launch of the Space Shuttle with John Glenn returning to space. [32] On January 1, 2020, Circle, a country music and lifestyle channel was launched and added as a fourth subchannel at 3.3, moving Grit to subchannel 3.4.[33]. In August, Childers was named co-anchor of FOXs weekend show, Americas News Headquarters. WBTV begins a public services fund raising drive called "Water for Africa". It is a Robinson R44 Raven II. WBTV inaugurates regular LIVE field news coverage with a fully portable microwave and relay point on the NCNB tower in downtown Charlotte. It will help thousands of Carolinians find jobs with special programming and "job fairs" located in the viewing region's shopping malls. Lately, the job of a poll worker has become more polarizing but for some that is not swaying their desire to serve. Channel 3 did not face a serious challenge by any other news-producing station in the market until 1981. WBTV had been Charlotte's home station for ACC sporting events since C.D. The day has come. This studio is the home of commercial productions and special live programming. Molly Grantham has been an award-winning anchor and reporter at WBTV Charlotte, N.C., for the past 15 years. 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. After "Top O' The Day" ends its run the "WBTV News at Noon" begins on this day. That station actually dates back to a ham radio station that started in late 1920. Other former GMA stars who visited their old TV home included David Hartman, 80, who co-hosted the first show under its existing name in 1975, Joan Lunden, 65, his co-anchor in the '80s, and Josh . 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