WBBJ-TV
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| WBBJ-TV | |
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| Jackson, Tennessee | |
| City of license | Jackson, Tennessee |
| Branding | ABC 7 (General) ABC 7 Eyewitness News (Newscasts) |
| Slogan | West Tennessee's News Channel, ... Weather Channel, ... Sports Channel |
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| Affiliations | ABC (since 1968) |
| Owner | Bahakel Communications, Ltd. (Tennessee Broadcasting Partners) |
| First air date | March 6, 1955 |
| Call letters’ meaning | We're Bahakel Broadcasting Jackson |
| Former callsigns | WDXI-TV (1955-1968) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 7 (1955-2009) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1955-1968) |
| Transmitter Power | 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 302 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 65204 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 35°38′16″N 88°41′33″W / 35.63778°N 88.6925°W |
| Website | www.wbbjtv.com/ |
WBBJ-TV (channel 7) is the ABC television affiliate located in Jackson, Tennessee. It's owned by Bahakel Communications of Charlotte, North Carolina. Its transmitter is located in Jackson. Offices and studios are located at 346 Muse Street in Jackson.
It started broadcasting on March 6, 1955 as WDXI-TV, a CBS affiliate owned by Aaron Robinson. In 1968, it changed to ABC and a year later was sold to Bahakel and adopted its current call letters WBBJ-TV.
WBBJ-TV has the historical distinction of being the oldest TV station in Tennessee to have had continuous ownership by the same company that put the station on the air. One other Tennessee TV station, WKPT-TV in the Kingsport-Johnson City-Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia market, has the second oldest station license in Tennessee with the same company that launched the station, coincidentally going on the air the same year WBBJ was sold to Bahakel. These two station owners have long surpassed station ownerships in much larger markets in Tennessee.
WBBJ's digital signal broadcasts an HD feed for network programming with SD feeds for all other programming on 7.1, an analog upconverted feed on 7.2 and the local weather radar with NOAA Radio as audio on subchannel 7.3.
WBBJ, like many of the stations that broadcast on Channel 7, features the Circle 7 Logo. (It had done so in the past, then used WJLA's stylized Circle 7 logo for several years, but returned to the full logo in 2003.) On August 1, 2007, WBBJ debuted new graphics, a new logo, new music, and an updated weather set. WBBJ, which had been using Frank Gari's Image News music package since 1999, switched to In-Sink by Nashville, Tennessee-based company 615 Music. Also on this date, the 5:00 pm newscast dropped the "Live at Five" branding and returned to "ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 5:00". Likewise, the 90-minute morning newscast rebranded to "ABC 7 Eyewitness News Good Morning West Tennessee."
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[edit] On-Air Talent
[edit] Current Anchors
- Brandon Artiles - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Good Morning West Tennessee
- Beth Phillips - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Good Morning West Tennessee
- Tom Britt - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Mid-Day, ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 5:00
- Brad Douglass - ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 6:00 & 10:00, also fill-in anchor at 5:00
- Keli McAlister - ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 6:00 & 10:00, also fill-in anchor at 5:00
- Lauren Linney - ABC 7 Eyewitness News (Weekends)
[edit] Weather Anchors
- Gary Pickens - Chief Forecaster
- Mike McEvoy - Meteorologist (Weekday Mornings)
- Nick Austin - Meteorologist (Weekends)
[edit] Sports Anchors
- Reggie Walker - Sports Anchor/Reporter (Weekday)
- Johnathan Huskey - Sports Anchor/Reporter (Weekend)
[edit] Reporters
- Brandon Artiles - Anchor/Reporter
- Lauren Linney - Anchor/Reporter
- Beth Phillips - Anchor/Reporter
- Nick Austin - Reporter and weekend meteorologist
- Jonquil Newland
- Stephanie Ryan
- Pace Kaegi
- Mallory Cooke
[edit] Past Personalities
- Rachel Platt - Reporter
- Emily Jordan - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Mid-Day
- Bart Barker - Sports Anchor
- Anne Pressly (deceased)- General Assignment Reporter (1 month)
- Alison Montoya - Anchor/Reporter
- Ginger Trice - Anchor/Reporter
- Shaun Fossett - Reporter
- Ashley Haddock - Anchor/Reporter
- Jordan Leigh - Reporter
- Ryan Davidson - Weather
- Jennifer Lahmers - Anchor/Reporter
- John Stewart - Sports
- Angela Migliaccio - Anchor/Reporter
- Ravi Kapur - Anchor/Reporter
- Amy Silver - Anchor/Reporter
- Porcha Johnson - Reporter
- Chip Washington - Anchor
- Kara Kostanich - Anchor
- Mickey Goodwin - Anchor/Reporter
- Natasha Ray -Reporter
- Vicki Zamata - News Anchor
- Kimberly Laburda - News Anchor
- Erin Pickens - News Anchor
- Misty Shay Cole - News Anchor
- Noel Glasgow - Sports Anchor
- Jason Marks - Sports Anchor
- Greg Hammond - Sports Anchor
- Courtney Friel - News Anchor
- Katie Garrety - News Anchor
- Keli Fulton - Sports Anchor
- Tiffany Carey - Weather Anchor
- Anjuli Porter - News Anchor
- Eddie Holmes - Meteorologist
- Tommy Stafford - Weather Anchor
- Julie Rhodes - Fill-in Weather Anchor
- Marty Steinmetz - News Anchor
- Christine Kelly - Reporter
- Buddy Pearson - Sports Anchor
- Dave Weatherly - Sports Anchor
- Nick Paranjape - Reporter
- Marlin Williams - Sports Anchor
- Jim Holder - Sports Anchor
- Sharrie Williams - Anchor/Reporter
- Nancy Lubinski - Anchor/Reporter
- Liz Wilson - Anchor/Reporter
- Lew Jetton - Reporter/Weather/Sports
- Ron Nored (deceased) - Reporter
- Pamela Beene - Anchor/Reporter
- John Scofield - Anchor
- Dave O'Brien - Anchor/Reporter/News Director (Jackson's 1st TV news anchor)
- Joe Larkins - Anchor/Reporter
- Jack Church - Sports Anchor
- Bob Jelinek - Weather Anchor/Reporter
- Joe Case - Weather
- Steve Heyman - Sports Anchor
[edit] Logos
 Good Morning West Tennessee Logo (not used on air) |
 MidDay logo (2005 - July 31, 2007) |
 Newscast Logo (2005 - July 31, 2007), used up until newscasts rebranded to ABC 7 Eyewitness News |
[edit] Digital Television
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[edit] External links
- WBBJ-TV Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBBJ
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBBJ-TV
[edit] References
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