WAVY-TV

WAVY-TV
Portsmouth / Norfolk /Newport News / Virginia Beach, Virginia
City of license	Portsmouth, Virginia
Branding	WAVY TV 10 (general) WAVY News 10 (newscasts)
Slogan	10 On Your Side
Channels	Digital: 31 (UHF)Virtual: 10 (PSIP)
Subchannels	10.1 NBC
Owner	LIN TV Corporation (WAVY Broadcasting, LLC)
First air date	September 1, 1957
Call letters' meaning	WAVY and logo are references to Atlantic Oceanor Chesapeake Bay and also sounds like "navy"
Sister station(s)	WVBT
Former channel number(s)	10 (VHF analog, 1957-2009)
Former affiliations	ABC (1957-1959)
Transmitter power	1,000 kW
Height	280 m
Facility ID	71127
Transmitter coordinates	36°49′14″N 76°30′41″W
Website	wavy.com

WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as theNBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area (comprising the cities of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, and Newport News). WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT (channel 43). The two stations share studios and offices in Portsmouth, and WAVY-TV broadcasts from a transmitter in located in Suffolk, Virginia.

Translators

In addition to its main signal, it operates six translators.^[2]

Call letters	Channel	City of license	Transmitter location
WKTD-CD	17	Portsmouth	WAVY - Driver Tower
WITD-CA	23	Chesapeake
WCTX-CA	35	Virginia Beach	Columbus Center Building
WPMC-CA	36	Mappsville	center of community
WBTD-LP	52	Suffolk	WAVY - Driver Tower
WTTD-LP	10	Hampton	Downtown - AT&T Tower

History

WAVY88 — WAVY logo for NBC's "Come Home to the Best" campaign from 1988-89

WAVY-TV, the Hampton Roads area's third-oldest VHF television station, began operations on September 1, 1957. It was originally owned by Tidewater Teleradio along with WAVY radio (1350 AM, now WGPL). The channel originally signed-on as an ABC affiliate but swapped with then-NBC affiliate WVEC-TV in 1959 due to its radio sister's long affiliation with NBC radio. In 1968, it became the second station owned by what was then known as LIN Broadcasting. WAND inDecatur, Illinois was the first owned by the company but was sold-off to a new owner in November 2007. As a result, WAVY-TV became the earliest station acquisition that is still owned by LIN TV through various ownership changes within the company along with one name change.

Shortly after WVBT became the area's WB affiliate in 1995, WAVY began operating that station though a local marketing agreement (LMA). LIN TV came to an affiliation agreement with Fox in November 1995 and WVBT became one of the company's affiliates with the network in August 1998. LIN TV purchased that station out-right in February 2002. WAVY was the first in the market to broadcast a digital signal in 2001. On June 12, 2009 at 9 in the morning, WAVY-TV's digital signal remained on channel 31 when the analog to digital conversion was completed.^[3]

News operation

Wavy tv news — WAVY-TV's news open seen weeknights at 5.

When WVBT made the switch to Fox in 1998, WAVY started producing a nightly 10 o'clock newscast on that station. It was not the market's first prime time show as CBS affiliate WTKRproduced a short-lived newscast on WGNT from 1995 until 1997.^[6] ABC affiliate WVEC-TV also produced a prime time show on WPEN-LP from 1995 until it started LNC 4 (now LNC 5) in 1997.^[7]WVEC continued to produce a 10 o'clock news on that station until January 30, 2009. The 45-minute broadcast on WVBT is followed by theFox 43 Sports Wrap with sports news and highlights.WAVY airs thirty hours of local news a week. It operates its own weather radar, called "Super Doppler 10", at it studios. It was the first in the area to air a local broadcast at 5:30 in the morning (beginning in 1992) and added weeknight 5:00 (in 1989) and 5:30 (in 1994) newscasts.^[4] It is known for being the first Hampton Roads station to use a helicopter to cover local news after introducing "Chopper 10" in 1982. The current Bell 206 Longranger helicopter has been used since 2000.^[5]

On July 21, 2008 at noon, WAVY and WVBT became the first stations in the market and their station group company to produce local newscasts in high definition. This is in contrast to rival WVEC's news being produced in 16:9 digital widescreen which is not true high definition but matches the ratio of HD television screens.^[8] WVBT added an hour-long extension of WAVY's weekday morning news on February 2, 2009. The show airs in an entertainment and lifestyle program format.

Until January 2007, WVBT operated a 24-hour local weather channel on its second digital subchannel. Known on-air as the "WAVY Weather Station", it is now cable exclusive to address E/I requirement concerns although listings on zap2it.com continue to show it as airing over-the-air.^[9] It can be found on Mediacom channel 9, Charter channel 22, and Cox digital channel 227. There are live current conditions, updated forecasts, and a sweep of "Super Doppler 10". According to television listings on WVBT's website, it airs the "Fox AccuWeather Channel" on its second digital subchannel which contradicts zap2it.com and removal of the "WAVY Weather Station".^[10]

News/station presentation

Newscast title	Years used	Slogan
WAVY News	1957–1969
Channel 10/ Area 10/WAVY 10Eyewitness News	1969–1982	"Where You Belong" (mid-late 1970s)
The Daily News	1982–1989	"We've Got You Covered" / "You're Covered" (1980s-1989)
WAVY News 10 (used First News at Five for 5 o'clock show between 1989 and 1993)	1989–present	"Virginia's Leading News Channel" (1989–1994) "10 On Your Side" (1994–present, was solely the name of the station's consumer reporting unit from 1989–1994)

News team

Anchors
	Position	Year Joined
Lori Crouch	Weekend evenings	2005
Alveta Ewell	Weeknights at 6 and 11	1989
Kerri Furey	Weekday mornings, noon & The Hampton Roads Show	1997
Stephanie Harris	Weeknights at 5:30	2000
Nicole Livas	Weeknights at 5, 5:30, and 10 (On WVBT)	2001
Don Roberts	Weekday mornings, noon & The Bottom Line	1989
Tom Schaad	Weeknights at 5, 6, and 11	2007
Melanie Woodrow	Sunday mornings	2007

Reporters
		Year Joined
Katie Collett		2007
Lori Crouch		2005
David Culver	Weekday mornings	2008, on-air 2010
Andy Fox	Investigative	1986
Ava Hurdle		1977
Art Kohn	Photojournalist	1987
John Massey	"Chopper 10"	2000
Jason Marks	General assignment	2006
Cheryl Tan	Weekday morning traffic and The Hampton Roads Show host	2003
Melanie Woodrow	Military and politics	2007

Super Doppler 10 Meteorologists
	Position	Year Joined
Don Slater	Chief meteorologist; weeknights	1981
Jeremy Wheeler	Weekday mornings	2004
Sagay Galindo	Weekends	2010

SportsWrap
	Position	Year Joined
Bruce Rader	Sports Director; weeknights at 6, 10:45, and 11	1979
Chris Reckling	Reporter, weekend anchor at 6 and 11	1993
Ali Lucia	Reporter, fill-in	2011

Former staff

Doug Aronson, reporter from 1991–97, later moved to WVEC.^[11]
Betty Ann Bowser, reporter, co-anchor in the 1960s. Later worked for WTAR-TV during the 1960s and early 1970s, then worked as a correspondent for CBS News (1973–86) as well as PBS's NewsHour (1986–present)
Monique Braxton, reporter 1989-1995. Now at WCAU in Philadelphia.
Rich Brenner, sports anchor in the 1970s. Later sports anchor at WRAL; WTVD and WGHP in Raleigh/Durham, NC before his death in 2012.
Christy Carlo, morning co-anchor from 1996 until 2000. Formerly at Imus in the Morning and MSNBC under birth name Christy Musumeci.
Carolyn Castleberry (née Anderson), was a reporter/morning anchor and later noon/5/5:30 co-anchor at WAVY from 1990 until 2004; most recently a financial reporter at CBN.^[12]
John Castleberry, Carolyn's husband; was a weekend sports anchor during the 1980s until 1993. Later worked at WTKR. Most recently hosted a daily radio show on 102.1 The Game WXTG-FM.^[13]
Barbara Ciara, weekend co-anchor from 1983 until 1988, when she left for WVEC. Now working at WTKR.^[14] Also President of theNational Association of Black Journalists
Patty Culhane, military reporter from 2000 until 2006. Now at Al Jazeera English.
Mike Deeson, weekend anchor, political reporter and talk show host in the 1970s and early '80s. Now the senior reporter for WTSP-TV in Tampa, where he has worked since 1982.^[15]
Don DeIulio, morning traffic reporter from 1989 until 2007.
Lloyd Dobyns, news co-anchor in the 1960s with Vern Jones. Later a correspondent and anchor with NBC News (1969–1986) where he hosted the news magazine Weekend from 1974-1979. Winner of a Peabody Award.^[16]
Chris Francis, sportscaster from 2000 to 2004. Now at WDJT-TV in Milwaukee.
Rhonda Glenn, weather reporter, talk show host and anchor in the 1960s and 1970s. Golf commentator for ABC (1978- ). First full-time national TV network female sportscaster (ESPN, February 6, 1981). Amateur golfer and author of dozens of magazine articles and books on the sport. Manager of Communications for the USGA.
Bob Grip, weekday evening anchor from 1981–84, now at WALA in Mobile.^[17]
Shelley Harrell, also known as Shelley Roupas; anchor/reporter 1996-99. Also, anchor/reporter with KFMB in San Diego 2000-2002.
Carol Hoffman, was a reporter/morning anchor from 1985 until leaving for WVEC in 1996.
Hillary Howard, former weekend meteorologist during the late 1980s, now a talk show host for WTOP-FM in Washington, D.C.
Vern Jones, news co-anchor with Lloyd Dobyns in the 1960s.
Lisa Joyner, formerly at The Best Damn Sports Show Period, currently host of TV Guide Channel's inFANity.^[18]
Bud Kaatz, sports anchor in the 1960s and 1970s. Now with AmerUs Life Insurance Company in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Sandra Kelly, anchor during the late 1970s before moving to WTKR. Now associate rector at Tampa's St. John Episcopal Church.^[19]
Tina Kim, reporter from 2006-2007. Now living in Boston.
Dick Lamb, Hampton Roads radio personality; was at WAVY from 1967-70^[20].
Jim Lawrence, fill-in meteorologist from 1991 until 1995, weekend evening meteorologist from 1995 until 2007, was Chief Meteorologist at WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky.^[21]. Now serving as a fill-in weekend meteorologist for WVEC.
Bill Logan, consumer reporter 1989-1990. Now at WFTS-TV in Tampa.
Mindy Lentz, reporter/weekend anchor from 2001 to 2003.
Irene Maher, weathercaster and health reporter until 1985. Left for WFLA-TV in Tampa.
Mac McManus, "Poop Deck Pappy" during the 1950s and 1960s, later was a weekday morning anchor on weekday morning news/entertainment program "Tidewater Today" until 1989 (died in 2001)
Lowell Melser, reporter until 2004. Now reporter at WBAL-TV in Baltimore.^[22]
Krystle Meachem, reporter/weekend anchor from 1998 to 2001.
Starr Merritt, anchor in the 1960s. Later reported for WVEC.
Pete Michaud, weekend/fill-in sports anchor in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Also called play-by-play for the Hampton Roads Admirals.
Cathy Midkiff Lewis, anchor/reporter from 1981 until 1987. Now host of "HearSay with Cathy Lewis" on WHRV-FM and What Matters onWHRO^[23].
Diana Morgan, anchor-turned-actress, seen in series such as JAG, The Bold and the Beautiful, Babylon 5 and The West Wing and films such as Titanic.
Cheryl Nelson, weekend meteorologist from 2007-2010.
David Nelson, anchor from 2003-2007. Now co-anchor of KWQC's "Quad Cities Today" morning newscast ^[24].
Adam Owens, reporter from 2004-2007. Now reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
Lisa Parker, reporter and weekend anchor until 1996. Now consumer reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago ^[25]
Charles Pugh, anchor/reporter in the 1990s. Served as a weekend anchor and reporter at WJBK-TV in Detroit from 1999 - 2009^[26]. Most recently president of the Detroit City Council^[27]until resigning in 2013
Leanne Rains, co-anchor from 1989 until 1993, later went to WTKR. Now running LeAnne Rains & Co. Media Services.
Thomas Roberts, consumer reporter/weekday afternoon co-anchor during late 1990s, former anchor at CNN Headline News, later a correspondent for The Insider. Currently an anchor with MSNBC.
Derrick Rose, general assignment reporter until 2010, now at WBTV in Charlotte, NC
Joel Rubin, anchor and political reporter from 1976 to 1991, later hosted WVEC's "On the Record" until 2008.^[28]. Has appeared on WAVY in recent years as a guest political commentator.
Jim Smith, meteorologist until the early 1980s (preceded Don Slater). Died in 1995.
Les Smith, weekend co-anchor from 1985 until 1992. 5pm co-anchor from 1992 until 1993 and 5:30, 6pm, and 11pm co-anchor from 1993 until resignation in 2007. Later anchor at WTKR.^[29] and a reporter for News 12 New Jersey.^[24] before returning to WTKR in late 2013.
Cynthia Smoot, anchor/reporter in the 1980s. Now at WTVT in Tampa.
Marny Stanier, weekend meteorologist. Left for The Weather Channel in April 1987.
Greg Starddard, weekend anchor, 5pm anchor, reporter, 1995–1997, left for WBFF FOX-45 Baltimore, now at AAA Mid-Atlantic as a Public and Government Affairs Specialist ^[2]
David Sullivan, Sports anchor, 1972-1976. Left for WXIA Atlanta, later WPXI Pittsburgh,ESPN and WDRB Louisville.
Ed Tillett, weather reporter in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Stan Verrett, now an anchor at ESPN and ESPNEWS, also worked for WVEC.
Rona Williams, reporter from 2000-2005. Now working in Pharmaceutical Sales.
John Wilson, anchor in the 1970s. Now anchor at WTVT in Tampa.^[30]
Kelly Wright, now at Fox News Channel.
Fred Yco, meteorologist from 1998-2003. Was dropped from the WAVY lineup while in the midst of personal legal problems.^[31]
Terry Zahn, joined as reporter and weekend anchor in 1981, became lead anchor in 1984, left in 1993 and joined WVEC in 1994, where he served as lead anchor until his death in 2000.

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