Like other past and present Channel 2 anchors, including Fred Graham, John Seigenthaler, and Bob Mueller, Galin is a talented journalist. When she's not on TV, Sagay is a marathon runner, part-time Zumba instructor, a mom and a military spouse. Her estimated net worth is $856,785. She is an anchor and therefore she has accumulated a decent amount of wealth over the years she has worked. Loggins also reported that the Channel 4 anchor earned $226,000 in 1996, seven times as much as her husband. Meteorologist Spencer Denton has covered everything from major tornado outbreaks to blizzards across the south. [Information and history from newschannel5.com]. District Attorney General Glenn Funk announced the move Friday in a statement. She anchors the 4, 5, and 10 PM weeknight newscast. Before that she worked at local stations in Louisiana and Virginia. news fromtheir first "news set" at the new location. They didnt. Brendan Cullerton joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in March 2022 as a multimedia journalist after spending four years covering state, local, and federal politics for the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee. She is a regular speaker and emcee at events throughout the Mid-South. [56] WTVF's main channel is also carried on cable systems in Fentress County (Jamestown), as well as on Spirit Broadband Cable channel 5 for that provider's customers in Cumberland County, Tennessee (including Crossville and Fairfield Glade), which is in the Knoxville media market. It's important toAdamto give back to those who have given so much to us all. The next evening, Galin was gone. Let Me Help You ask us, we consult the experts Making Ends Meet Find. Erin Thomas is a meteorologist on the Action News 5 First Alert Weather team. He undeniably had a special spark about him. It was approved by the two companies' shareholders on March 11, 2015,[11] and it closed on April 1. David Ade returned to the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in July 2021 as a multimedia journalist. Kym Clark joined Action News 5 more than 30 years ago. By: Chris Davis Posted at 7:08 PM, Apr 16, 2021 and last. As a result, WTVF and KLAS remained owned by Landmark. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way, Donate to the Salvation Army Red Kettle Challenge, Storm 5 Alert: Several waves of storms though Friday afternoon (3.1.23). She is a graduate of MIZZOU and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Learn more about our anchors, reporters and meteorologists at NewsChannel 5 The station also has a policy of broadcasting uninterrupted, wall-to-wall severe weather coverage when a tornado warning is issued for any part of the station's primary coverage area. For more than five decades, WTVF had a decades-long monopoly in providing CBS programming to certain counties in south-central Kentucky as that area was originally part of the Nashville market until Bowling Green was collapsed into its own market area in 1978; even then, CBS was still not locally available in that area until February 1, 2007, when Bowling Green NBC affiliate WNKY launched a new second digital subchannel to serve as that area's own CBS affiliate. All other CBS Sports programming is featured on the station, including their signature broadcasts of college basketball. [7][8][9] With the transaction's completion, WTVF became the largest Journal-owned station by market size (displacing flagship WTMJ-TV, which became the second largest). ", Ervin's start at the station was humble. The first locally produced network television program, "The Boots Randolph Show" on ABC, The Tennessean, though, can hardly be blamed for taking the bait. To comment or complain about the media, leave a message for Henry at the Scene (244-7989, ext. By all accounts, Ervin was meticulous and a perfectionist. The new set was built in a separate studio from its existing news set minimizing disruptions of news operations. hired the first female feature reporter in the Nashville area, Ruth Ann Leach.1974WLAC-TV [22] Beginning January 1987, when Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions began syndicating those games, WSMV began serving as the package's primary Nashville-area rights-holder until WUXP-TV won the local rights for the rest of that package's run. After almost two years at Channel 2, it was clear the anchors low-key delivery didnt fit the stations tightly scripted, caffeinated broadcast style. Countless children could be saved by this law dedicated to honoring the legacy of a child who continues to have an impact on me and the entire community. Adams investigation revealed Andrew was negligently and inappropriately left in the care of his mentally ill father who took his life. In 1998, WTVF became the primary home station for the Tennessee Titans, then still known as the Oilers starting with that season, when the rights to air road games of the National Football League's American Football Conference moved to CBS from NBC. Whatever the reasons for his departure, sources said that Galin was bound to leave, sooner or later. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. On September 24, 2020, a consortium made up of Scripps and Berkshire Hathaway announced the proposed purchase of Ion Media. I said 'no Tom, what?' was videotaped at Channel 5 studios.1969On June 15th, CBS Television bought "Hee Haw", a summer replacement Veterans issues are also very important toAdamand hes invested time serving on the board of directors for Alpha Omega Veterans Services in Memphis. Joyce Peterson is a second-generation TV journalist. was the first Nashville television station to use radar in its weather presentation. 1973WLAC-TV Priscilla Huff is the Managing Editor for the Washington, DC Bureau. In 1975, the call letters were changed to WTVF-TV. In April 2014, the station celebrated the show's 30th anniversary by airing pieces of old episodes within the past 30 years of the show's run for a few weeks. She stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in(Approx 1.65 m). As WLAC-TV, the station helped launch the career of a young African-American reporter and local Nashvillian named Oprah Winfrey by making her a regular news anchor in the early 1970s. Carrie has also worked at WAVE 3 News, an NBC-owned and operated television station in Louisville, Kentucky. While there, she anchored the WNEM TV5 News at 5, 5:30, 6, and 11 PM. [5][6] The FCC approved the sale on October 22, and it was consummated on December 6. Caresse Jackman is a national consumer investigative reporter with a focus on exposing scams and digging into consumer concerns. [17], From September 2017 to May 2019, WTVF also produced the syndicated daily talk show Pickler & Ben, featuring country artist Kellie Pickler and comedian Ben Aaron. Heggen posted on Facebook he last day at . February 23 - March 1, 2023 (Vol. Jon Decker is the White House Correspondent and Senior National Editor for Gray Television and has been a member of the White House Press Corps since 1995. Chris Clark was one of Nashville's most popular, most-respected and longest-tenured news anchors for many years before he finally retired. Chris Clark Funk's previous communications director, Dorinda Carter, has been promoted to chief of staff. More like this. Since it was not the policy of the Archive to record local newscasts alongside network ones and this occurrence was quite accidental, this may well be the only preserved, full-length Nashville television news broadcast prior to the late 1970s (when videocassette recorders became widely marketed to the public), other than local cut-ins to network election coverage and two 1973 special broadcasts of Today (on WSM-TV). was the first television station to provide statewide live election coverage during a state election.1966WLAC-TV Meteorologist Brittney Bryant is a born and raised Memphian. [3][4] Although the sale of The Weather Channel and some other assets was eventually completed, Landmark (which changed its name from Landmark Communications to Landmark Media Enterprises in September 2008) took most of its other properties off the market in October 2008. Since then, News Channel 5+ is being broadcast on digital channel 5.2. In the 1970s, Nashville's top two TV stations had a lot in common. Chris Clark recalled a story where Ervin obsessed for 20 minutes over the color of a graphic in the newscast with only about 10 minutes before they went live. Louis" anchor Dan Buck left broadcasting in March to become chief executive officer of St. Patrick Center, a nonprofit agency that provides services to the homeless. On July 6, 2009, the station filed an application to operate a low-powered digital translator on UHF channel 50, broadcasting at 100 kW, to serve viewers that could not receive the VHF signal. It immediately took the CBS affiliation from WSIX-TV (channel 8, eventually WKRN-TV on channel 2) because WLAC (AM) had been Nashville's CBS Radio affiliate since 1928. The station signed on with the first full-height Alumni from NewsChannel 5 have many fond memories of their former colleague. She attended Louisville University and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Broadcast journalism in 2000. The Emmy Award-winning news anchor has traveled the world for WMC, filing stories from the People's Republic of China, the Vatican Museums in Italy and the 1996 Atlanta Games. All rights reserved. With WLAC-TV, Nashville became one of the smallest cities in the United States to have three fully separate network-affiliated commercial television stations. In 1998, WTVF-TV hired investigative reporter Phil Williams, who had previously been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize while working at The Tennessean[33] and a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award while working for WKRN-TV. She is an American Emmy-award-winning journalist currently working at WTVF News channel in Nashville, Tennessee as a news anchor and reporter. Since February 22, 2014, WTVF's weekend morning newscast started at 5, lasting from 59 on Saturday mornings and 58 on Sunday mornings. the original TV weathermen. Since CBS Saturday Morning does not run on the main channel, it runs instead on WTVF-DT2 on a one-hour delay, from 8 to 10 a.m. CT. CBS Overnight News is also run almost in its entirety during each weekday morning, usually from 1:35 to 3:30a.m., since the main channel airs certain syndicated programming, and does not join the overnight news program until 2:37a.m. Before moving to NashvilleAdamwas an anchor with NewsChannel 5's sister station KMGH in Denver, Colorado. She is currently working at WTVF News channel in Nashville, Tennessee as a news anchor and reporter. In 1975, American General sold channel 5 to the Hobby family of Houston (owners of KPRC-AM-TV and the now-defunct Houston Post), who changed the station's call letters to the current WTVF on December 1. 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