Manage Settings Dr. George Heaton of Myers Park Baptist Church has the program. Christine Sperow joined Fox 5 News in March 2020. WBTV begins a public service project called "WBTV On the Job". WBTV's weather radar was previously shown on its third subchannel, but the subchannel itself was removed prior to the digital transition. 10th - 1959. tabindex="0" title=Explore this page aria-label="Show more">. The signal is bounced to the top of the Wilder Building, then to the transmitter tower on Spencer Mountain. Tours of the new building also begin this week. 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. // ]]>[/one_third_last]. WBTV announces that it will begin transmissions of color test patterns in May of this year. He then continued filing stories.). WBTV's first "Children's Miracle Network Telethon" is broadcast. 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. Most ACC games that were not televised by WBTV aired on either WJZY (channel 46) or WMYT-TV (channel 55). Jefferson Standard files an application with the FCC for a television station to be called WBT-TV. Industry: Broadcast Media. 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. WBTV's new building is dedicated on the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. 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). "Top O' The Day" is the idea of Executive Producer Pat Lee. WBTV upgraded to ATSC 3.0 on July 7, 2021. ("Baby Aid" concluded with over one million dollars raised and six tractor-trailer loads of baby supplies donated.). Filmed programs ran from 6:30 pm to sign-off. Channel 36 went dark in March 1955, and DuMont shut down roughly a year later in August 1956. She anchors FOX 5 News at 4p and co-anchors FOX 5 News Edge at 11 with anchor Tom Haynes. 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. WBTV is first in the Carolinas to begin Closed Captioning for the hearing impaired in its newscasts. 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Lately, the job of a poll worker has become more polarizing but for some that is not swaying their desire to serve. WBTV and CBS News begin broadcasting "all-night" news and information programming. News Apps. It is the first building in the USA specifically built for color telecasting. At the time, the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company also had a 16.5% interest in the Greensboro News Company, licensee of WFMY-TV, which signed on from Greensboro two months after WBTV. It starred Frederic March and Janet Gaynor. Please subscribe to keep reading. You can still hear BroFro in the morning here in syndication, and it continues to feature a good deal of local commentary. The station's studios are located off Morehead Street, just west of Uptown Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in north-central Gaston County. // ]]>[/one_third] [one_third_last] // Curve Appeal Jeans Marshalls, How To Create A Skyblock World, High Point University > Family Weekend 2022, Andrew Frankel 3 Sons, Articles F