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WVEC-TV
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| WVEC-TV | |
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| Hampton/Norfolk, Virginia | |
| Branding | WVEC-TV 13/13News |
| Slogan | The Spirit of Hampton Roads |
| Channels | Analog: 13 (VHF) Digital: 41 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary until 1957) |
| Owner | Belo Corp. |
| Founded | September 19, 1953 |
| Call letters meaning | We Value Every Customer |
| Former channel number(s) | 15 (1953-1959) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1953-57) |
| Website | www.wvec.com |
WVEC-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, which includes Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, and the surrounding area. It is licensed to Hampton, with its main studio in downtown Norfolk. Its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. The station broadcasts on channel 13, and is owned by the Belo Corporation.
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The station began operations on September 19, 1953, on UHF channel 15 as a primary NBC affiliate[1]; it also shared ABC programming with WTAR-TV (now WTKR). It was owned originally by Hampton businessman Tom Chisman along with WVEC radio (1490 AM, now WLRT; and 101.3 FM, now WWDE-FM). It became an exclusive ABC affiliate in 1957, when WAVY-TV signed on and took the NBC affiliation due to its radio sister's long affiliation with NBC radio. Two years later[2], it moved to its current location on channel 13.
In 1980, Chisman sold the station to Corinthian Broadcasting[3], a unit of Dun & Bradstreet. It was the last locally owned and operated "Big Three" station in Hampton Roads. Four years later, Dun sold Corinthian to Belo, which owns the Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV in its home city.
In the late 80s, WVEC 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 "Sprit of Texas" campaign). WVEC originally dropped it in 1996 and replaced it with another popular slogan, "Working for You", and then "13 Means News" in 1998, amended in 2001 as "13 Means Local News" - which went along with the musical signature of their new music package "Convergence" by Stephen Arnold Music. But, "The Spirit of Hampton Roads" would finally return in 2003 on New Years Eve, and it has been used ever since.
In 1997, WVEC (along with The Virginian-Pilot and Cox Communications) launched LNC5, a 24-hour local news channel, featuring repeats of WVEC newscasts and a 10:00 PM newscast. It is carried by Cox Communications on channel 5 within Hampton Roads.
In 1978, WVEC hired ABC News correspondent Jim Kincaid as its main news anchor[4]. Kincaid's signature became his "Jim's notes," short commentaries which ended the station's nightly newscasts. Compilations of these essays were published in several books authored by Kincaid, including "Notes from Elam," referring to the small town in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where he owns a farm. During the Vietnam War, Kincaid was a war correspondent for ABC. He returned to Vietnam in 1994 and reported from the same locations he had covered in the 1960s, producing an award-winning documentary and series of news stories. Kincaid retired from WVEC in 1997.
Another well known news anchor for WVEC was Terry Zahn, who was hired from WAVY-TV in 1994[5]. Zahn was very active with the American Cancer Society and helped establish the Relay for Life in the area. He produced two videos about Relay for Life which were distributed nationally, and served as chairman of the local Relay, which at the time was the largest in the U.S. Zahn was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1997 and died in January 2000[5]. Each year, the American Cancer Society presents the Terry Zahn Award to a supporter of the Relay for Life.
Barbara Ciara was the 5pm and 11pm co-anchor from 1988 until 2000 when she left for cross-town WTKR.
- David Alan, 5:30, 6, 10, and 11pm
- Lasalle Blanks, morning and noon
- Vanessa Coria, weekend evenings; weekday morning lifestyles reporter
- Sula Kim, weekend mornings
- Regina Mobley, 5, 6 and 11pm
- Sandra Parker, 5 and 10pm
- Janet Roach, morning and noon
- Kathryn Barrett, Medical Editor
- Andria Borba
- Wayne Carter, Investigative Reporter
- Brian Farrell
- Joe Flanagan
- Mike Gooding, Military Reporter
- Carl Leimer
- Lindsey Roberts, Investigative Reporter
- Kristina Rohall
- Velma Scaife, Peninsula Bureau Chief
- Shannon Sims
- Patrick Terpstra
- Benita Adams, traffic
- Jeff Lawson: Chief Meteorologist
- Craig Moeller: Weekday Mornings
- Evan Stewart: Weekend Evenings
- Julie Wilcox: Weekend Mornings
- Scott Cash, sports director
- Brian Smith, weekend sports anchor/photographer
- Pete Pochkowski, sports producer/photographer, fill-in anchor
- Kathy Barnstorff, weekend anchor from 1983-1989, reporter until 1998. Now media relations specialist at NASA.
- Judith Baroody, reporter and anchor in the 1970s. Now the Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile[6]
- Natasha Barrett, reporter from 2003-2006. Now reporter at WJLA-TV in Washington, DC.[7]
- Millie Bass, reporter in the 1970s.
- Rhonda Bentley, morning and noon weathercaster in the 1990s.
- Tony Burden, news anchor and news director in the 1970s
- Chris Castleman, weathercaster until 1994. Now at KAIT in Jonesboro, AR.
- Jessica Chang, reporter from 2004-2005. Now reporter for San Diego cable channel 4SD's San Diego Insider newsmagazine.[8]
- Thomas P. Chisman, WVEC's founder.
- Barbara Ciara, worked there for two stints, first in the early 1980s until leaving for WAVY in 1985; returned in late 1988 and stayed until 2000, now at WTKR.[9] Is also President of the National Association of Black Journalists
- Simeon Coxe, reporter specializing in off-beat stories in the 1970s and 80s. Lead singer for the 1960s and 1990s Silver Apples.
- Mark Craft, reporter and contributing correspondent to "Focus" newsmagazine. Now director, external communications, at Duke Energy.
- Lori Crouch, reporter, now at WAVY.
- Harry Doggett, news anchor in the 1960s
- Jim Dyer, weekend anchor in the 1970s
- Alveta Ewell, anchor until the late 1980s, now at WAVY-TV.
- Brad Face, anchor, reporter and sports director from 1975-1984. Now CEO of The Face Companies
- Joe Foulkes, meteorologist during the 1970s and 1980s (died in 1993)
- Jane Gardner, anchor from 1981-1990. Moved to WTKR-TV as anchor from 1990-1998. Now retired.
- Dale Gauding, investigative reporter from 1998 to 2003, previously at WTKR.
- Dr. Duane Harding, meteorologist from 1986 until 1990, later worked for WTKR until 1996.
- Bonita (Billingsley) Harris, weekend anchor and reporter until 2003.
- Brian Hatchett, reporter in the 1970s
- Carol Hoffman, came from WAVY in 1996, morning anchor for a time during the late 1990s.
- Carlton Houston, weekend anchor from 1998 to 2004.
- Karen Jones, weekend weathercaster in the early 90s to 1997, still appears occasionally as a fill-in.
- Jane Jordan, Hampton reporter in the 1970s
- Steve Kearns, reporter from 1998 to 2003.
- Jim Kincaid, hired from ABC News in 1978, served as anchor from 1978-96[10], retired in 1997.
- Nesita Kwan, weekend anchor and reporter from 1990 until 1992. Now health reporter at WMAQ-TV in Chicago.
- Ron Leaverton, Peninsula reporter in the 1970s
- Mike Lewis, anchor/reporter until the mid-1990s. Now lead co-anchor at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- Cynthia Lima, anchor from 1984 until 1996.
- Starr Merritt, reporter in the 1970s
- Chris Miller, reporter in the 1970s
- Jackie Miller, talk show host in the 1970s
- John Miller, news anchor and news director in the 1970s and 80s, morning and noon anchor in the 1990s. Elected Virginia state senator in November 2007[11]
- Dan Molina, reporter and talk show host in the 1970s. Later a correspondent and Chicago bureau chief for NBC News. Now part of the management team of Shelton & Caudle, a public relations firm in Texas.[12]
- Priscilla Monti, reporter until the late 1990s.
- Hank Plante, reporter in the 1970s and 80s. A reporter for KPIX in San Francisco since 1986. A national Emmy and Peabody Award winner.[13]
- Jude Redfield, weekend meteorologist until 2002. Now meteorologist at WTHR in Indianapolis.
- Danielle Roach, LNC sports reporter ("Varsity Buzz") until May 2004, when she was killed in a car accident.
- Lee Sausley, anchor. Now lead co-anchor at KRIS-TV in Corpus Christi, Texas.
- Brittany Suddith, morning anchor until January 2002. Worked as a development officer for the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk. Now works for the Mary Kay Cosmetics Company.
- Stan Verrett, now an anchor at ESPN and ESPNEWS, also worked for rival WAVY.
- Terry Zahn, hired from WAVY in 1994, served as anchor until death from bone cancer in January 2000.
- Albert Zipp, anchor/reporter. Now lead co-anchor at WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
- TeleScope (1950s)
- 13 News (-Present)
- On the Record
- Dialogue
- The Spirit of Hampton Roads (1980s-1996, 2004-Present)
- Working for You (1996)
- 13 Listens (1996-1997)
- 13 Means News (1998-2000)
- 13 Means Local News (2000-2003)
- ^ http://www.wvec.com/tv/history.html
- ^ http://www.wvec.com/tv/history2.html
- ^ http://www.wvec.com/tv/history5.html
- ^ http://www.wvec.com/tv/history6.html
- ^ a b http://www.wvec.com/tv/history7a.html
- ^ http://www.embajadaeeuu.cl/OpenDocs/asp/pagDefault.asp?boton=Doc26&argInstanciaId=26&argCarpetaId=68&argTreeNodosAbiertos=(0)&argTreeNodoSel=68&argTreeNodoActual=68&argRegistroId=334#anchorInicioPagina
- ^ http://news.wjla.com/talent/natashabarrett.html
- ^ http://www.4sd.com/team/team_jessica.php
- ^ http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=130682
- ^ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960522/05220048.htm
- ^ http://johnmillerforsenate.com/index.cfm
- ^ http://www.shelton-caudle.com/sc-mg-dan.asp
- ^ http://cbs5.com/bios/local_bio_287155916.html
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WUND 2 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WTKR 3 (CBS) - WGBS-LP 7 (Ind) - WAVY 10 (NBC) - WVEC 13 (ABC) - WHRO 15 (PBS) - WYSJ-CA 19 (ShopNBC) - WHRE 21 (TBN) - W25CS 25 (Religious) - WGNT 27 (The CW) - WTVZ 33 (MNTV) - WVBT 43 (Fox) - WPXV 49 (ION) |
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WHSV 3 (Harrisonburg) - TV3 Winchester 3 (WHSV-DT3) (Winchester/Harrisonburg) - WRIC 8 (Petersburg) - WSET 13 (Lynchburg) - WVEC 13 (Hampton) - WVAW-LP 16 (Charlottesville) |
| See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Virginia |