WBTV begins a reading program to aid Carolinians who cannot read or write. The deals closed in early 2008. WBTV begins a new midmorning local live program called "Together.". In 2006, Jefferson-Pilot merged with the Philadelphia-based Lincoln National Corporation. WBTV underwrites the cost of the trip for the Oratorio Singers of Charlotte to sing at the National Christmas Tree Lighting at the White House, at the invitation of President Johnson. At this time, there were only 12 television stations on the air in the United States, four of the being in New York City. He was 42. The partnership was extended to football in 2004; Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial had been the sole producer of ACC football telecasts since 1984. This studio is the home of commercial productions and special live programming. WBTV (channel 3) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Gray Television. Hosted by Alan Ryan. She helps Georgians get ready for their day as the anchor for Channel 2 Action News This Morning from 4:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. Lori has covered . WBTV begins thepopular feature called "On The Square". Due to North Carolina's status as a college basketball hotbed and local teams North Carolina and Duke being mainstays in the tournament, NCAA tournament games are consistently among the highest-rated programs in the market during playoff season. "Doug Mayes was a true professional and outstanding broadcast journalist who inspired . However, WBTV has always been a primary CBS affiliate, owing to WBT radio's long affiliation with the CBS Radio Network. The FCC grants WBTV the first commercial permit in the United States to construct a Digital Television Station. Kamie . Continue with Recommended Cookies, Maureen OBoyle July 14, 1963. Steve Ohnesorge, photographed in 2015 at App . Carol Wonsavage was the inaugural producer for the show. Former Charlotte WBTV Reporters Starting A New Movement For Women Who "Flew The Coop". WBTV airs a number of special Carolina Panthers programs saluting the run to the playoffs for the second time in five years. WBTV News returns to the 6:30pm time slot with the first local 6:30pm news in Charlotte for that time period in a "stand-alone" format. 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. Moving to6 to 7pm a year later. WBTV and Charlotte Memorial Hospital team up for the first "Health Matters" medical show. 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. The article tells Charlotteans television would be on the air before August. WBTV's first "Children's Miracle Network Telethon" is broadcast. By Joe Marusak. The journey starts with Sarah Batista, a single mom and former TV news reporter who left behind a decade-long career in 2013 to follow her "gut . 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. A special "Toast and Roast" is held in the Patterson studio. She Flew the Coop follows four women who left something secure or stable to travel abroad and pursue a dream. After visiting the station and speaking with the staff, the newscast was broadcast from the top of the Charlotte School of Law building located next to the WBTV studios. WBTV viewers raised money for African communities hit hard by the worst drought of the 20th century. Maureen Jeralyn O'Boyle (born July 14, 1963) is an American television reporter and news anchor. The two stations have gone back and forth at first place in most timeslots since then. The station first signed on the air on July 15, 1949. The signal is bounced to the top of the Wilder Building, then to the transmitter tower on Spencer Mountain. Morning Anchor Steve Johnson. In 1970, the media interests were folded into a new subsidiary, Jefferson-Pilot Communications. WBTV's brand new "Sky 3" helicopter returns to daily operation. She has also been WBTV's Consumer reporter who has interviewed well-known figures including the former First Lady Michelle Obama, country music superstar Dolly Parton, CBS News Anchor Charlie Rose, Oprah Winfrey, and country singer/North Carolina native Scotty McCreery among others. WBTV announces that it will begin transmissions of color test patterns in May of this year. WBTV is the first TV station in the World to use a LIVE camera and microwave equipment mounted in a race car. [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. It was fed to other TV stations on the air in the Carolinas region.). [4] According to Charlotte Observer TV critic Mark Washburn, Lincoln Financial decided soon after taking over the former Jefferson-Pilot properties that it would never really be able to integrate them with the rest of the company's assets, and had decided to sell them as soon as possible. Feezor retired in 1977 due to a brain tumor, an illness from which she died in 1978. While WBT, and sister station WLNK were purchased by Braintree, Massachusetts based Greater Media Inc. 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. But he lasted only four months there and was let go in March. As of 2023, she is around 60 years old. That year, Doug Mayes, the station's main anchorman since it began producing daily newscasts in 1952, jumped to WSOC-TV. It is a Christmas tree with tags of the name, sizes and age of needy boys and girls. [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. Jefferson Standard announces WBTV will begin carrying scheduled programs on July 15, 1949. Untitled Document News Anchors Bob Juback Meghan Miller Patsy Kelly Annette Peagler Aaron Rhody Melissa Meyers Manny Martinez Taylor Maresca Nicole Boone Reporters Maya Lockett Claire Purnell Taylo It will also later develop the first totally computerized newsroom in the World for WBTV. Also this month, "Boy Scout Ben" premiers as a voice of conservation of natural resources in a major WBTV/WBT public service campaign. WBTV's Lori Thomas and WBT Radio's Mike Collins begin a TV Radio morning show partnership and simulcast. WBTV premieres a locally produced newsmagazine called "Special Edition.". WBTV also originates another CBS "Person to Person" program with Edward R. Murrow and former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The Jefferson Standard Convocation program brings nationally known speakers to Charlotte. WBTV televises a "Star Salute" from the NC Trade Fair honoring North Carolinians who have gained national prominence. A special journalism scholarship is also announced in C.J. National. WBTV broadcasts a telethon for Char-Wheels. CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Doug Mayes, a Charlotte broadcaster and beloved WBTV anchor, has passed away at the age of 93. In addition to its legacy as the state's first television station, it also benefited from its ties to WBT, one of the most respected radio news operations in the Southeastern United States. WBTV announces a microwave system joining WBTV to sister station WBTW in Florence, SC had been completed. Charles Crutchfield is credited with giving the idea to Billy Graham to "televise" his crusades to reach a wider audience. WBTV begins an undated series based on the original "Spearhead" show. Courtney Cole is an anchor and reporter at WBZ-TV. The N A B adopts "American Values" as a nationwide project. A lot! (He was one of the main news anchors on WBTV till he stepped down from the anchor desk in late 1974. WBTV meteorologist Eric Thomas, who covered the biggest weather stories in Charlotte's history during a 33-year career, told viewers on Wednesday . He then continued filing stories.). WBTV is first in the Carolinas to begin Closed Captioning for the hearing impaired in its newscasts. Top O' the Day ended in 1992, and was replaced by a conventional half-hour noon newscast. This is the highlight of "Fulfillment Week", a week-long celebration if the move to a new building for WBTV. Charles Crutchfield 'invented' "The Briarhoppers" for WBT Radio in 1934. Molly Grantham has been an award-winning anchor and reporter at WBTV Charlotte, N.C., for the past 15 years. Those rights passed to Lincoln Financial after its merger with Jefferson-Pilot in 2006. A project which he founded with the purpose to create and support a positive program among broadcasters to overcome the increasing spiritual and moral decay in the country. Television sets in the WBTV viewing area now stand at 415,313. 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. On July 12, 2010, the simulcast was replaced with This TV. The program is called "Mike McKay's Newscope.". WBTV is the first television station in the Carolinas to begin HOURLY news updates, day and night as "The Carolinians 24 Hour News Source". Underwood, Mike McKay, Lou Heckler, Clara Lowry, Dick Taylor and Jim Patterson. Historically, WBTV has dominated the market west of the Catawba River, a legacy from its nine-year head start.[25]. WBTV in Charlotte said her husband Roger and her family . 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. In addition to Fred and Uncle Jim, viewers were treated to classic episodes of The Little Rascals (Hal Roach's Our Gang) as well as frequent appearances by the local bluegrass band The Br'arhoppers. (Worldwide fears of "Y2K" related problems never materialized.). At high noon, viewers saw the picture of the American flag on the screen and heard the "Star Spangled Banner." [6] With the purchase, WBTV became Raycom's second-largest station by market size, behind the Cleveland, Ohio duopoly of WOIO and WUAB. WBTV is the first television station in the Carolinas to broadcast in stereo sound. 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. On January 1, 2012, WBTV switched the subchannels for This TV and Bounce TV, due to a contractual obligation to carry Bounce TV on the station's second subchannel. 2014 - 2023 Marathi.TV - All Rights Reserved. WBTV News in the evening expands to an hour long program from 5:30 to 6:30om. WBTV announces development of a sister company, Jefferson-Carolina Corporation, a major community antenna television company. WBTV becomes the home of the CBS News Southeast Regional Bureau. WBTV and WBT Radio present a "Salute to Our Heroes" telethon to raise money and awareness for the Mecklenburg county Vietnam Memorial. Morning and midday anchor John Carter formerly served as a North Carolina state senator prior to joining the station. (The teams formation was announced on October 26, 1993 at an NFL owners meeting in Chicago.). WBTV News in a partnership with First Union Bank becomes the first television station in the United States to develop computerized election returns projections. The helicopter lost tail rotor control about 500 feet above farm land and Scott initiated an autorotation to bring the helicopter down in a controlled crash. Also this month, WBTV and area TV set dealers hold a contest for the 100,000th television set purchased in the coverage area. Meet the WBTV News Team! In the evening, WBTV's 6:00pm "Early News" attracts more audience than 53 of the 81 local early evening news programs aired in the top 25 markets. Company President Charles Crutchfield is named Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on "American Values". are in the standing-room only attendance. The show was known at various times as Tiny Town, Whistle Stop, Fred Kirby's Little Rascals and Kirby's Corral. 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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It will bring "cable" television to the Carolinas. WBTV is the first television station in Charlotte to broadcast Live from a helicopter in flight. WBTV also aired both of the Panthers' Super Bowl appearances locally, as CBS had the rights to Super Bowls XXXVIII and 50. Channel 3 did not face a serious challenge by any other news-producing station in the market until 1981. 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. Bonanza Productions NBC's Revolutionsince Jul 2012 Fox 26/WECTTV6 Former TV News Anchor/Producer and Investigative Reporter2008 - 2010. C.J. Her career started at WBOY in Clarksburg, WV and then she went to WFMZ in Allentown, PA less than a year later. Graham is a Christian evangelist whose indoor and outdoor rallies . Mecklenburg County alone has 76,100 TV sets. WBTV begins a letter writing campaign to help free American prisoners-of-war in North Vietnam the project is called "Write Hanoi". By Thoden Janes. It is called "Newstar 3". WBTV conducts a Southeastern television conference for TV industry people to learn how to create and manage a television station. Jefferson Standard Broadcasting breaks ground at a site located west of downtown Charlotte to build a new broadcast home for WBTV and WBT. WBTV is the first television station in the Carolinas to simulcast its audio of the 6:00pm news on a radio station, WBT Radio. (WCSC is the first television station on the air in the state of South Carolina, signing on in 1953. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - With the uncertainty surrounding us amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), its challenging finding the positives in life. (Jefferson Production was later renamed Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions and in 1990 names Jefferson Pilot Sports and Entertainment.). However, if there is one person who knows how to find the good in anything, it is WBTV friend Kristen Hampton, a former WBTV reporter. WBTV (channel 3) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Gray Television.The station's studios are located off Morehead Street, just west of Uptown Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in north-central Gaston County.In addition, WBTV's studios continue to house the operations of its former sister radio stations currently owned . Followed by "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" at 6:30pm. WSOC-TV gained a large lead in ratings for most other news timeslots beginning in 1990. Meet the WBTV News Team! WBTV is first in the United States to broadcast "Extravision." Lori Wilson joined the WSB-TV Channel 2 in 2017. Both occupants, WBTV pilot Chip Tayag and WBTV meteorologist Jason Myers, were pronounced dead at the scene. WBTV launches the first "telethon" in the Carolinas. Over the . Traffic. 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). The WBTV Studios are dedicated to three of the station's most beloved personalities. After the installation of a coaxial cable from AT & T, WBTV carries its first Live network program. A news anchor who " punched out " at WIS TV-10 (NBC - Columbia, S.C.) last fall after only one year at the station has been hired as to anchor the news in her home state of Minnesota. The WeatherNet network is available worldwide on TV stations and the Internet. I'm number 8 of 10 kids- mother of just one. WBTV joins CBS Inc. in support of its application to the FCC for development of "High Definition Television" and an HDTV satellite delivery system. The permanent switchover occurred at 5:55am on June 12, 2009. For many years, WBTV was one of the country's most dominant television stations. The Charlotte television market is ranked 22nd in the United States. He last worked at WBTV News in 1982, but his legacy lives on. Lincoln Financial retained Jefferson-Pilot's broadcasting division, which was renamed Lincoln Financial Media, with WBTV retaining its status as the flagship station.[3]. 32K views, 612 likes, 76 loves, 134 comments, 40 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from WBTV News: GOODBYE LYNDSAY! (He was one of the main news anchors on WBTV till he stepped down from the anchor desk in late 1974. After "Top O' The Day" ends its run the "WBTV News at Noon" begins on this day. WBTV and WJZY return to a partnership for "WBTV News at 10 on WJZY." The name "Sky 3" was chosen in a contest among viewers. (A series of reports aired in July of 1985 showing the results of the fund raising project.). Remembering Jason & Chip. There are now 19,210 television sets in the WBTV viewing area. In 1955, WBT and WBTV moved to a then state-of-the-art facility on a hill atop Morehead Street, where both stations are still based today. WBTV's weather radar was previously shown on its third subchannel, but the subchannel itself was removed prior to the digital transition. 5 TV market in the country, according to the 2020-21 . The first was WBTW in Florence, South Carolina, which was built and signed on in 1954; indeed, the call letters were chosen specifically because "W" is the next letter in the alphabet after "V." The two stations were separately programmed, but shared a microwave system from 1959 onward. "High Q" is later hosted by Jim Patterson and Mike McKay. It is hosted by C.J. It claims to be the first station in the Southern U.S. to air color test patterns and color ID slides. Traffic. Over $86,000 was raised to buy well drilling equipment and install water systems in several African villages. The truck carries three cameras, monitor and replay equipment, cables, lighting and spare parts. At the end of the program, a winner of a new HD - TV is chosen from contest entries. WBTV welcomes CBS newsman Eric Sevareid to Charlotte as guest on "The Spearhead Group". 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. WBTV, the Charlotte Radio Appliance Association, the Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer host a TV preview gathering at the Charlotte Armory for anyone interested in seeing the new thing called "television". Introduction : Maureen O'Boyle is an American news anchor and presenter, most popular for the segment "Stretching Your Dollar," which broadcasts on WBTV News in Charlotte, NC. WBTV had been Charlotte's home station for ACC sporting events since C.D. The FCC informs WBT-TV's Chief Engineer M.J. Minor, that permission is granted to WBT to change the name of its telestation from WBT-TV to WBTV. News Apps. At this time of this year there are 1,004,400 television sets in the Charlotte market. You can watch Fred and Vanessa Ruffes at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. Can't wait to see all the great things you'll do!" WBTV anchor Mary King tweeted, "We may be smiling on the outside, but we're sad on the inside because it's @jsrontv last . 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. WBTV keeps viewers who have battery powered TV's informed with life saving advice and news. Industry: Broadcast Media. 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 becomes the first television station in the World to record and rebroadcast programs on color video tape. Since 2008, WBTV has partnered with its sister stations in South CarolinaWCSC, WIS in Columbia and WMBF-TV in Myrtle Beach and WHNS in Greenvilleto cover stories in South Carolina. Raycom had produced ACC basketball games in partnership with Jefferson-Pilot/Lincoln Financial since 1982. Telegrams arrive from CBS and NBC informing WBTV would soon be getting LIVE programs via a coaxial cable coming from Washington DC.
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