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Although the weeknight 10 p.m. newscast returned to WGNT on June 29, 2015, the weekend evening newscasts still remain. On July 7, 2014, WGNT debuted a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast featuring former morning anchor Laila Muhammad, Les Smith and chief meteorologist Patrick Rockey. It is the first newscast at that time slot in the Hampton Roads area. [64]
The term "Hampton Roads" is a centuries-old designation that originated when the region was a struggling English outpost nearly four hundred years ago.. The word "Hampton" honors one of the founders of the Virginia Company of London and a great supporter of the colonization of Virginia, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.
"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).
WTKR (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of CBS.It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Portsmouth-licensed WGNT (channel 27), an independent station.
The Hampton Roads Show moved to WAVY at 11 in the morning on September 12, 2011. [32] It is a similar broadcast to one currently seen on sister station WPRI-TV called The Rhode Show . In 2012, WVBT aired The Daily Buzz on weekdays from 6 to 7 a.m. and again from 8 to 9 a.m. Sandwiched in between those two hours is the revised program of WAVY ...
The heat advisory includes southeast Virginia, from South Hampton Roads up to Williamsburg and west to Emporia, and northeastern North Carolina down to Windsor. The heat indices for these areas ...
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.
Granby Street traditionally played the role as the premiere shopping and gathering spot in the Hampton Roads region. Retailers ranged from low-priced variety stores such as Woolworth's [ 2 ] and Grants [ 1 ] to more upscale department stores such as Smith & Welton (1898–1988), Rices Nachmans (1918–1985) and Ames and Brownley (1898–1973 ...