WAVY 10 Fan

Yesterday was longtime WFLA anchor Gayle Sierens' last day on the job (below is tribute video)

Lot of teases and stuff from January 26, 1994 and April 26, 1995 (the January 26, 1994 set includes an Inside Edition report on the NATPE Convention)

 

April 26, 1995

• WAVY News 10 Promo ("Surprise, You're Rich": focusing on unclaimed money):
  
  
• WAVY News 10 Tease (Les Smith plugs a story related to unseen footage from Jurassic Park {most of the April 26, 1995 footage came before and during a special on the Making of Jurassic Park 10 days before the network premiere on NBC}):
  
  
• Dateline NBC Promo (focusing on developments one week after the Oklahoma City Bombing):
  
  
• WAVY News 10 Tease (Alveta Ewell plugs an update on developments in Oklahoma City one week later):
  
  
• WAVY News 10 Tease (Don Slater with the weather):
  
  
• Partial episode of ABC's Day One (focusing on Timothy McVeigh's ties to the militia movement):
  
  

Saw this retweeted on VARTV's Twitter feed (originally by one of the newer WAVY reporters, Brandi Cummings) but weekend morning meteorologist Jeff Edmondson is out at WAVY

https://twitter.com/BrandiWAVY/status/555825365449732096/photo/1

Put up a bunch of commercials from December 1991 from WTKR

 

First, a 1991 WTKR tease for their News 3 at 11:00 (lead story being tied to the acquittal of William Kennedy Smith in his sexual assault trial)

 

Same newscast, but with soon-to-depart sports anchor Bob Rathbun teasing a story on trades at Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings (a comment from a Raymie Humbert suggests some Television by Design influence in the graphics)

 

Ava Hurdle is retiring after 37 years with WAVY-TV. Her last report was tonight.

 

http://wavy.com/2015/01/07/ava-hurdle-retires-after-37-at-wavy-news/

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but she's the second-longest-serving reporter in the Hampton Roads market, only surpassed by Nate Custer at WTKR (1966-2005).

 

I would think she'd have to be behind Custer in terms of local longevity (with Bruce Rader not far behind). Hope she enjoys her retirement.

 

Also, WVEC's Karen Hopkins is leaving to become Public Information Director for the Norfolk Sheriff's Department

http://veermag.com/2015/01/wvecs-karen-hopkins-resigns/

Richard C. Hottelet, the last surviving member of the WWII-era CBS News correspondents known as "Murrow's Boys", died Wednesday at age 97

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-hottelet-20141218-story.html#page=1

Had to create a new channel after getting a 2nd copyright strike on my main one; but decided to pick up where I left off with my new HRTVFan2 channel

 

1995-ish WAVY News 10 Intro:

 

November 1995 WVEC Promo (13 News Extra; same source as the November 16 ABC World News Now):

Today was longtime WVEC weekend meteorologist Julie Wilcox's last day at the station

https://twitter.com/VARTV/status/536518283567333376

 

Wow... Skip Waters, chief meteorologist at WCTI in Greenville NC passed away suddenly, he was 61.

 

http://www.wcti12.com/news/skip-waters-19532014/29395128

 

Just heard about Skip's passing a few minutes ago on WTIB-FM. Adding my thoughts and prayers for his family and the WCTI staff that must be in total shock right now.

Put some new video up on Wednesday

 

January 25, 1994 NBC Nightly News Promo (Kids Who Kill: part of a series of reports called "America the Violent"):

 

January 25, 1994 Today Show Clip (Bryant Gumbel interviews A.C. Green)

 

November 10, 1988 NBC News at This Hour (Connie Chung; only repeat in this group)

 

March 23, 1992 NBC Nightly News Clip (the main feature being a report on the early stages of Ross Perot's Presidential campaign)

0814btm's channel has been putting up a lot of CBS Evening News broadcasts from the beginning of the Gulf War.

 

This one has the entire first 10 minutes of the January 22, 1991 broadcast (where protesters from the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP crashed the CBS Evening News studio at the top of the newscast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVp0iBHeDQo

WAVY opens the SportsWrap Vault again; this time posting a 1988 sports report by John Castleberry from when Norfolk's Old Dominion University thought they would be reviving their football program (it would be 21 more years before that happened).

 

Longtime anchor of WVEC's morning show Daybreak is leaving the show after 16 years:

 

https://www.facebook.com/WVECLaSalleBlanks/posts/756558484405278

 

He isn't leaving the station, but will be leaving the broadcast next Wednesday, August 6. No word yet on what he will be doing (new 4pm newscast maybe once final Katie episode airs?), or who will replace him in the anchor chair, though it's likely that Sandra Parker, Daybreak's current breaking news and fill-in anchor will take his spot.

 

A tweet on Robert Corbin's VARTV Twitter feed suggests that LaSalle will be a "multi-media journalist"; which I'm guessing will involve a lot of work with the social media sites for WVEC.

From the Sean Mc channel; a couple more news updates

 

December 20, 1982 NBC News Capsule (Bill Scheckner):

 

November 10, 1981 CBS Newsbreak (Bernard Goldberg -- who don't look much different then than now):

From stevations' channel

 

1986 WNYW Channel 5 News Close:

 

1986 WNYW Channel 5 News Update (poor audio):

 

And somewhere, an audio compilation from WAVY-TV that includes part of a Channel 10 Eyewitness News broadcast...from July 22, 1969!!! (just after the Moon landing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlVDj0O4HLM

The Sean Mc channel has had a lot of interesting footage of late including..:

 

March 8, 1981 NBC News Update (Jane Pauley)

 

Christmas Eve 1981 WCKT NewsCenter 7 Update (Steve Rondinaro)

 

Two 1979 WCBS Newsbreakers Promos

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(featuring John Tesh and John Stossel)

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(featuring Meredith Vieira)

 

1981 WCKT Season's Greetings/Happy Hanukkah ID (Lee Webb)

And the revolving door continues at WAVY; with the departure of Anne McNamara yesterday

http://hamptonroads.com/2014/06/wavy-reporteranchor-mcnamara-leaving-station

VARTV reports Art Kohn (who had worked intermittently at WAVY since 1987 and most recently had been military reporter and Sunday morning anchor until around February) left the station (since his station Twitter was last updated on February 25; he may have been gone for a while).

Another 1991 WAVY News 10 tease with Terry Zahn (judging from the reference to defense cuts; I think this was the same day as the speech by the first President Bush I uploaded last week)

 

That would be Bill Greenwood. He was a DC-based correspondent for most of his career at ABC.

 

http://www.televisionnewscenter.org/bios/bio-greenwood.html

 

Thanks for the info.

 

From stevations' channel; part of a (Saturday? Definitely a weekend newscast) WAVY morning newscast from 1996 (a brief snippet of weekend AM meteorologist Brittany Suddith; along with Andy Fox wishing Dennis Castro {a behind-the-scenes guy working as photographer and running the teleprompter} a happy birthday)

 

Are children actually stupid enough to watch the drivel that qualifies as cartoons these days? The cartoons of my youth, Underdog, Yogi Bear, Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, etc. were far more entertaining than the crap you see today. Everything was done better back in the old days, from the story line to the humor to the music!

 

 

Preaching to the choir, there (since I'm 27; I'd probably add the Disney Afternoon-era/1990s Warner Brothers cartoons to that list as well).

 

Elsewhere, longtime WFLA anchor Gayle Sierens announces her retirement effective at the end of May 2015.

http://www.wfla.com/story/25671884/wfla-news-channel-8-anchor-gayle-sierens-to-retire-in-2015

Two more uploads today.

 

First, a partial ABC World News Now (Nov. 16, 1995). Any idea who the anchor opposite Kevin Newman is?

 

Then, an NBC News Special Report from 1991 during President George H.W. Bush's speech on nuclear weapons reduction

It's been an active couple of weeks as far as personnel changes in the Hampton Roads region go; and now WTKR announces Bianca Martinez will be stepping down as an anchor; though she will still be the station's military reporter and will also file special reports.

http://www.vartv.com/pdf/WTKR_2014_05_27.pdf

Larry Printz, the automotive editor for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper (whose column is syndicated via McClatchy-Tribune Syndicate), recently added a role as WVEC's Automotive Editor

http://www.larryprintz.com/about.html

1988 WAVY ID (Come Home to the Best-era)