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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).
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).
Virginian jurisdictions most commonly associated with the Hampton Roads metropolitan area The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or closely associated with the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. Chesapeake James Anderson – Carolina Panthers linebacker and 88th overall pick in the 2006 NFL draft Ed Beard (1939–2023) – professional football player for the San ...
Richard Leibner, a celebrated talent agent who represented some of the best-known anchors in TV news, first at a firm he helped build and then for UTA, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He ...
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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 ...
WAVY airs thirty hours of local news a week. It operates its own weather radar, called "Super Doppler 10", at its studios.It was the first in the area to air a local morning broadcast at 5:30 a.m., beginning in 1992, and added weeknight newscasts at 5 p.m. in 1989 and 5:30 p.m. in 1994. [32]
The blooms this week are likely a result of recent rainy weather that washed more polluted runoff into bodies of water, as well as hot, still weather that primed conditions for the algae to grow ...