WAVY 10 Fan

WTKR set to add a weeknight sports anchor for the first time in about 7-8 years this summer with the hiring of KEYE's Adam Winkler

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Maybe the station's expecting to have something they hadn't had for nearly a quarter-century prior to pulling the plug on the sports report: stability (and perhaps WTKR is planning to highlight Winkler's youth compared to veteran sports anchors Bruce Rader at WAVY and WVEC's Scott Cash).

From NewsActive3's channel; here's an upload (in 2 parts) of the Christmas 1981 edition of ABC World News Tonight (with Frank Reynolds apparently anchoring solo)

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Stumbled across this WXIA 11 Alive Newsroom from June 21, 1981 (the day Wayne Williams was arrested for the Atlanta child murders)

Anyone know what the opening theme is? Doesn't sound like Hello News (listed as first being used on 11 Alive in 1980)

 

For those of you playing the YouTube game for many years, you may remember me as "MilwaukeeTVMadman." I got suspended in 2010 or thereabout from a series of terribly executed copyright takedowns. With no recourse, I decided to shelf the entire hobby for years. I recently picked everything back up with a lot of new materials, with more constantly being uncovered.

 

I was wondering exactly what happened to that channel. Glad to see you're back to displaying classic Milwaukee footage.

Back to the future at WTKR? (Haven't seen anything elsewhere other than VARTV)

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From radioman1968's channel; a video tribute of sorts to late Atlanta anchor Chuck Moore featuring clips from his time at WAGA

I'm hoping that they do not remove/retire/buyout David Alan, Regina Mobley, Jeff Lawson, and Scott Cash from WVEC. They are the most recognizable news team in Hampton Roads, but they also meet the requirements for TEGNA's "50 years older, 15 years of work" requirement to be brought-out.

 

If this happens, WVEC's ratings are screwed.

I agree with hoping they don't get pushed out in a future buyout; but then again it's no doubt much more difficult to push out your entire weeknight news team (at the same time, anyway) than two people who, though veterans of the station and still rather visible (Joe Flanagan as weekend morning anchor in addition to the "Joe's Job" segment; Velma Scaife being the longtime reporter covering the Lower Virginia Peninsula {primarily Hampton and Newport News}) weren't the top talent on the station.

WVEC releases the official retirement announcements for Joe Flanagan and Velma Scaife

http://vartv.com/pdf/WVEC_2016_04_15.pdf (Flanagan)

http://vartv.com/pdf/WVEC2_2016_04_15.pdf (Scaife)

Big shakeup coming at WVEC?

VARTV is reporting longtime WVEC reporters Joe Flanagan and Velma Scaife have accepted an early retirement package from Tegna (Flanagan's been at the station for 32 years; Scaife for 30)

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More WVEC footage I put up (one from 1999; the rest from May 1995).

First, the 1999 WVEC "Thirteen Means News" ID

A 1995 "Spirit of Hampton Roads" ID; though instead of a snippet of the jingle being played or sung we hear a choir harmonizing

WVEC's Crime Line promo

Finally; a WVEC School Spirit promo for a rerun of the 1988 NBC mini-series "(Gore Vidal's) Lincoln"

Former 60 Minutes executive editor Phil Scheffler died today at 85

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-phil-scheffler-dies-at-85/

WTKR brings in Rachael Cardin from Greenville, NC's WITN

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Former WVEC anchor/news director John Miller (who had been serving in the Virginia state Senate since 2008) passed away today

http://wavy.com/2016/04/04/sen-john-miller-of-newport-news-passes-away/

WAVY added another classic newscast from their archives; this time a May 22, 1986 edition of the Daily News focusing on an A-6 crash at the Oceana Naval air station in Virginia Beach (also the first clip I've seen of CBS News reporter Byron Pitts when he worked at the station)

From pannoni5's channel; here's the April 6, 1978 edition of ABC Evening News (video aspect ratio is somewhat on the narrow side)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnWW8iudf-c

Same user, different channel (pannoni4). This one is the ABC Evening News from July 14, 1977 covering the NYC blackout

Also on pannoni4's channel; the entire extended edition of WABC's 11:00 Eyewitness News

Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg died yesterday

http://deadline.com/2016/03/eric-engberg-dead-cbs-news-bill-oreilly-1201727479/

Found this August 20, 1986 WTKR News 3 clip (from just before the Discover the Land of the 3 period). Clearly a transitional period (still using the Serifa typeface and early-1980s 3; but toward the end we see the Discover-era mural of the Norfolk skyline behind Ed Hughes)

WTKR's supposed to be getting a new set soon

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Uploaded a couple of early 1991 WTKR promos

Okay, hearing the bumper/close music in the clear proves to me that WAVY 1982 = Tuesday2. As if KGTV just so happening to use it at the same time wasn't enough evidence...

The bumpers/close are definitely Tuesday2 (apparently there were some cuts different from the NMSA copy); but not 100% certain one way or the other with the intro.

Another newscast from WAVY-TV's archive; this time from October 4, 1983

WTKR adding Merris Badcock and Brian Hill (different Brian Hill from the one that worked there in the late 1980s) to their news team

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And Sam Champion is back on Monday for the week.

I decided to flip to GMA today and was surprised to see Sam Champion there. Apparently now I know why.

Here's what might be the earliest clip with the current WAVY logo I've found; a spot for a First News at 5:00 story titled "Lights, Camera, Hampton Roads" that aired following a 15th anniversary celebration of SNL (most of which was taped over; this was another "end of the tape" clip)

Another WAVY one from August 18, 1989 (shortly before WAVY dropped the Gold 10 for the current logo)

Noticed around the 2:20 mark that the Chyron under Leanne Rains' name read "WAVY News 10"; so it looks like the station was phasing out the Daily News branding around this time (still used the Daily News in the intro)