WAVY-TV

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WAVY-TV is the NBC affiliate serving the Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News, Virginia television market (DMA). The station is licensed to Portsmouth, and its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10, and its digital signal on UHF channel 31. It is a sister station to the area's Fox affiliate, WVBT.

WAVY-TV began operation on September 1, 1957. It was owned by Tidewater Teleradio along with WAVY radio (AM 1350, now WGPL). Channel 10 took the NBC affiliation from WVEC-TV due to its radio sister's long affiliation with NBC radio. In 1968, it became the second station owned by LIN Broadcasting, who still owns the station today. (WAND in Decatur, Illinois was the very first station owned by LIN, who today retains a one-third interest in and also manages that station.)

WAVY moved into its current studio, built by Armada Hoffler, at 300 Wavy Street in Portsmouth in April 1989. It was previously housed in the Farmer's Market building on Middle Street in downtown Portsmouth.

On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.

Newscasts

WAVY airs 30 hours of local news a week. It also began producing a nightly 10pm newscast for WVBT in 1998. It was the first station in the market to air a 5:30 p.m. newscast (in 1994) and a 5:30 a.m. newscast two years earlier.

WAVY is known for being the first Hampton Roads station to use a helicopter to cover local news. The station introduced "Chopper 10" in 1982. The current Chopper 10, a Bell 206 Longranger, has been used by WAVY since 2000. Other firsts include being the first station in the market to broadcast digitally (starting in 2001).

Former newscast titles include "Area 10 Eyewitness News"/"Channel 10 Eyewitness News" (1969-1982), and "The Daily News" (1982-1989). WAVY's newscasts have been titled "WAVY News 10" since Fall of 1989, months after moving into their Wavy Street studios. At that time, WAVY introduced the current "10" logo.

On-Air Personalities

Anchors

• Alveta Ewell, 6:00 and 11:00
• Andy Fox, Saturday morning
• Kerri Furey, morning and noon
• Stephanie Harris, weekend evening and weekday evening fill-in
• Nicole Livas, 5:00 & 5:30
• David Nelson, 5:00
• Kay Young, Sunday morning
• Don Roberts, mornings and noon

Weather Anchors

• Jon Cash, weekday morning and noon
• Cheryl Nelson, weekend evenings
• Don Slater, weekday evenings
• Jeremy Wheeler, weekend mornings

Sports Anchors

• Ahmed Fareed, fill-in
• Bruce Rader, weekdays
• Chris Reckling, weekend

Reporters

• Katie Collett
• Lori Crouch
• Andy Fox, political
• Ava Hurdle
• Oren Liebermann
• Mary Kay Mallonee
• Jason Marks
• Leon Moore
• Shannon Powell
• Derrick Rose
• Cheryl Tan
• Melanie Woodrow, military
• Kay Young

Chopper 10 pilot

• John Massey

Former on-air personalities

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Terry Zahn and Diana Morgan in 1989.

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Carolyn Castleberry and Les Smith in 2003.

• Betty Anne Bowser, reporter, co-anchor in the 1960s. Later worked for WTAR-TV during the 1960s and early 1970, then worked as a correspondent for CBS News (1973-86) as well as PBS's NewsHour (1986-present)
• Rich Brenner, sports anchor in the 1970s. Sports anchor at WGHP in Greensboro, NC since 1987.
• 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; now a co-host of the CBN produced series, "Living the Life".
• John Castleberry, Carolyn's husband; was a weekend sports anchor during the 1980s. Later worked at WTKR. Now hosts a daily radio show on 102.1 The Game WXTG.
• Barbara Ciara, weekend co-anchor from 1985 until 1988, when she left for WVEC. Now working at WTKR.
• Patty Culhane, military reporter from 2000 until 2006. Now at NBC News.
• 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.
• Don DeIulio, morning traffic reporter from 1989 until 2007. Continues to work for Metro Traffic in Virginia Beach and reports traffic on several local radio stations.
• 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.
• Rhonda Glenn, weather reporter, talk show host and anchor in the 1960s and 70s. Golf commentator for ABC (1978- ). 1st 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, now at WALA in Mobile.
• Shelley Harrell, also known as Shelley Roupas; was with KFMB in San Diego among others.
• Carol Hoffman, was a reporter/morning anchor until she left for WVEC in 1996.
• 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^[1].
• Bud Kaatz, sports anchor in the 1960s and 70s. 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.
• Tina Kim, reporter from 2006-2007. Now living in Boston.
• Dick Lamb, Hampton Roads radio personality; was at WAVY during the 1970s.
• Jim Lawrence, fill-in meteorologist from 1991 until 1995, weekend evening meteorologist from 1995 until 2007, now at WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
• Irene Maher, weathercaster and health reporter until 1985. Now at 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.
• Starr Merritt, anchor in the 1960s. Later reported for WVEC.
• Diana Morgan, anchor-turned-actress, seen in series such as Babylon 5 and The West Wing and films such as Titanic.
• Adam Owens, reporter from 2004-2007. Now reporter at WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
• Leanne Rains, co-anchor until 1993, later went to WTKR. Now running LeAnne Rains & Co. Media Services.
• Thomas Roberts, former anchor at CNN Headline News, now a correspondent for The Insider.
• Joel Rubin, anchor and political reporter during the 1980s, now hosts WVEC's "On the Record" program
• 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. According to VARTV, Smith quit the station on April 24, 2007 after a meeting in the newsroom.
• Cynthia Smoot, anchor/reporter in the 1980s. Now at WTVT in Tampa.
• Marny Stanier, weekend meteorologist. Left for The Weather Channel in 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]
• Stan Verrett, now an anchor at ESPN and ESPNEWS, also worked for WVEC.
• John Wilson, anchor in the 1970s. Now anchor at WTVT in Tampa.
• Kelly Wright, now at Fox News Channel.
• Fred Yco, meteorologist from 1998-2003. Disappeared from the WAVY lineup while in the midst of personal legal problems.
• Terry Zahn, joined as reporter and weekday anchor in 1981, became lead anchor in 1984, left in 1994 for WVEC, where he served as lead anchor until his death in 2000.

Programming produced by WAVY-TV

• WAVY News 10
• Battle of the Brains
• Kid Talk
• The Bottom Line

WAVY also produces several specials throughout the year, including a hurricane special and other 10 On Your Side specials such as phone-in helplines. WAVY also carries the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

External links

• WAVY-TV
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