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"The Spirit of Hampton Roads", 1987. In the late 1980s, WVEC-TV introduced its most well-known promotional campaign, "The Spirit of Hampton Roads" – a campaign which has been customized and used by several other Belo Corporation stations (most notably the originator, WFAA-TV's "Spirit of Texas" campaign and the extremely successful "Spirit of Louisiana" from New Orleans' WWL-TV).
The station spent decades dominating local news ratings in Hampton Roads. In 1974, it drew more news viewers than WAVY and WVEC combined; it had the largest news staff of the three stations in town and the highest pay for news department employees, leading Mike Smith of its newspaper sister, The Virginian-Pilot, to call it the "news Goliath" of ...
Terry Alan Zahn (April 27, 1946 – January 25, 2000) was a television reporter and anchorman in Hampton Roads, Virginia, from 1981 until his death in 2000 from multiple myeloma (a type of blood cancer).
During his tenure, Hughes had served as a reporter, news anchor and for a short time news director. Hughes was the inspiration for the creation of "WSHS-TV," a news-like TV club at local Smithfield High School founded in 1991 by two senior school students. He was often referred to as the "Walter Cronkite of Hampton Roads." [4] [5]
WAVY-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of NBC.It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Virginia Beach–licensed dual Fox affiliate/CW owned-and-operated station WVBT (channel 43).
School divisions in Hampton Roads have begun announcing early dismissals for Thursday with a winter storm watch issued for Hampton Roads. Newport News, Hampton, York County and Williamsburg-James ...
Harmful algae is blooming around Hampton Roads waterways, threatening recreation and marine life Katherine Hafner, The Virginian-Pilot August 27, 2021 at 10:59 AM
I noticed recently WAVY-TV and WTVZ-TV have just had a logo section added. I wonder when we will be able to access this for WVEC and the other Hampton Roads stations. WAVY 10WAVY 10 00:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC) Maybe they could switch to a version of the logo with the "Spirit of Hampton Roads" tag. WAVY 10 13:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)