Lots of big hair in the 80's, the old computers and land lines lol. A new tower was activated in September 2009. John Humphries, president and general manager at WYFF News 4, described Waller as a versatile journalist who has served in various roles, including 5 p.m. anchor, consumer reporter, investigative reporter and live, breaking news reporter. The camera system is manufactured by Flir Systems International and the helicopter is maintained by U.S. Helicopters Inc. of Charlotte. Lets Eat at Waynes Lunchbox in Spindale, N.C. Self - Correspondent unknown episodes . Self - Former Church Insider 1 episode Catharyn Campbell . WSPA-TV and WYCW share studios on International Drive (next to the I-26 and I-85 Business/Veterans Parkway interchange) in Spartanburg; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WSPA-TV's spectrum from an antenna on Hogback Mountain in northeastern Greenville County (southwest of Tryon, North Carolina). Dave Jordan. Haley is participating. Alyse Eady - weekdays on Good Day Atlanta (4:30 a.m.,5 a.m and 10 a.m.) Ron Gant - weekdays on Good Day Atlanta (6 and 7 a.m.) Tom Haynes - weekdays at 5 and 11 p.m. Graham could not be reached for comment Monday. In addition to its main signal, WSPA operates a network of 13 translators throughout the mountainous areas of North Carolina. The station shared some resources with WNEG-TV (now WGTA) in Toccoa, Georgia, while that station was co-owned with WSPA beginning in 1995; this included that station receiving the CBS affiliation for northeast Georgia. WSPA Christy Henderson moving back to evenings and Malachi moving back to mornings effective 08/24/2020. It also preempted several of the network's game shows including Tattletales (from January to April 1982 with reruns of Carter Country, and then by The Beverly Hillbillies until September 1982; and again from September 1983 onward, after which it was replaced with the hour-long Breakaway), Body Language (which aired on WSPA from September 1984 to January 1985; but was preempted by Breakaway from June to September 1984; The $100,000 Name That Tune from January to September 1985; and Tic Tac Dough from September 1985 to January 1986), Press Your Luck (which was picked up by the station in 1984 shortly after contestant Michael Larson's record $110,237 win; and dropped in January 1986 after Card Sharks took over the 10:30a.m. slot and replaced Body Language on the schedule; it was replaced with Tic Tac Dough and then by Love Connection from April to September 1986), Card Sharks (which aired on WSPA from 1986 until September 1988, when it was preempted by Wipeout; it returned to the station on March 6, 1989 where it remained until the end of its run), Now You See It (which was preempted by Love Connection from April to July 1989) and the final few months of Family Feud Challenge. Share 0. "But it turns out I cant. "Words do have meaning, words do have power," Wilson continued. Carolyn Smith can be reached at 562-7223 or carolyn.smith@shj.com. WSPA-TV, ch. I felt she was sad that Christy Henderson was moving back to the evenings and she knew that the two were a packaged deal of two beautiful blondes and felt like it wouldn't work if both blonde goddesses wasn't on the morning show together any longer. It is licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina with its transmitter is located on Hogback Mountain southwest of Tryon, North Carolina. It appeared in the Charlotte Observer television listings well into the 1990s. MEDIA CONTACT: Kevin Slagle Vice President, Strategic Communications (916) 813-3947 kslagle@wspa.org. In January 2009, it was dropped from cable carriage in Rock Hill, which is part of the Charlotte market. 0:05. WYCW was the only one of the three stations affected by the merger that could have been legally acquired by Meredith Media General either by maintaining the existing duopoly with WSPA or by forming a new duopoly with WHNS, as its total day viewership ranks below the top-four ratings threshold. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 7.[9]. Broker at Sheelah Clarkson Agency, Owner at Lake Summit Properties//Real Estate Developer, Manager Industrial MRO Sales Eastern Region. WSPA-TV channel 7 is the CBS-affiliated television station for western North Carolina and South Carolina. He also spoke of Graham's ability on the job, describing her as a "dedicated journalist. Diane Lee posted video re: WSPA getting brand new set in September. Janet Spencer can be reached at 562-7222 or janet.spencer@shj.com. Reporter Tim Waller, who has been with WYFF News 4 for 25 years, has announced that he's leaving the station. It was also one of a handful of CBS affiliates that aired Let's Make a Deal at 9:00a.m. instead of the game show's recommended 10:00a.m. or 3:00p.m. timeslot in the Eastern Time Zone, but it swapped timeslots with Your Carolina With Jack & Megan and is now seen at 10:00a.m. From the 1960s through the 1990s, WSPA had preempted several CBS programs; among them were NBA games (during the league's low-rated period, between 1979 and 1981, when CBS showed Finals games on tape delay, although WSPA did carry the 1981 playoffs and NBA Finals), children's programs within the network's Saturday morning lineup including the CBS Children's Film Festival, Muppet Babies (which was preempted by Jack Roper's Kidsizzle from 1991 to 1993), the final season of Pee-Wee's Playhouse and the animated series Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures. On cable in Georgia, WSPA is carried outside the market in most of Rabun County, which is part of the Atlanta market. "It's all in the release. WSPA's over-the-air signal can be received as far north as Blowing Rock, North Carolina (in the Charlotte market), which has line-of-sight to Hogback Mountain despite being approximately 75 miles (121km) away. Tweet 0. The WSPA radio stations were sold off in 1998, but WSPA-TV remained the flagship of the company until it merged with Media General in 2000. Scripps Company in Denver, CO, Good Day Atlanta "Road Warrior"/Entertainment Reporter, Anchor/Reporter/Mr. She is thrilled to be in the Upstate and feels privileged to serve this community. Follow https://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/AnneMaxwellWSPA, Pediatric suicides in Greenville County doubled from, Overdose deaths in Greenville County increased in, Family displaced after storm knocks tree on house, Dozens of emergency housing vouchers available in, American flags burned, bell tower graffitied at Anderson, Federal $300 a week unemployment benefit ends in, Victim shot at Legacy Park complained about suspicious man, Reports show Whitten Center employees fired, disciplined, Greenville County Sheriffs Office using social media, Greenlink and Pendleton Place partnering to connect, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Pamela Graham, an award-winning and popular television personality, will not be returning as WSPA's evening news anchor. Branch Program Director at Pickens County YMCA, Principal at HeartStrong Media, Primary News. Despite how well the signal was picked up prior to the March 2009 tower collapse, WSPA is not carried on cable in Watauga County. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Prior to the March 2009 tower collapse, WSPA's analog and digital signal was picked up as far north as Watauga County, including Boone and Blowing Rock. Sales Management, Selling, Account Management, Budgets, Customer Service, Negotiation, Forecasting, 52165, 52157, 52298, 52DIG 11, 135118, 248156, 248508, 248522, 248523, 248532, 248545, 256DIG 5, 403164. Share 0. "Pam was fired because she was sick, and she was blind-sided by this," said friend Richard Edmund. WSPA serves as master control for Media General's CBS network affiliates. Instead, WBTV from Charlotte and WJHL from Johnson City are carried on Charter Cable in those areas. Owned by Media General, the station is sister to CW affiliate WYCW. Be sure to check other states near Greenville, SC to locate the histories of more service providers. While these statements were made off campus in a non-school related event, we find these comments and the behavior of those involved offensive and extremely disappointing. Currently using temporary one. All rights reserved. "And its painful to hear that language, especially for Black people, Jewish people and gay people. 0:00. Parella Lewis for the win. This is a list of past and present personalities from WAGA, the Fox owned and operated station in Atlanta, Georgia. He also said that WSPA-TV will miss her professionalism, dedication and determination. "There needs to beconsequences. "Everyone at WYFF 4 appreciates Tims great work for our news organization and we wish him great success in his new endeavor.". Affiliation: CBS. 1. 213.211.33.62 Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The account stated in a direct message that it would not reveal the initial source of the videos. On September 16, 2007, WSPA became the first television station in the Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market to begin broadcasting its newscasts to high-definition. AutoCAD, Foundation Design, Concrete, STAAD, Steel Structures, Steel Design, Foundations, Business Development Specialist at ProActive Technology. Sometime in 2009, WSPA Channel 7.2 became a RetroTV affiliate. This arrangement was terminated after the sale of WNEG to the University of Georgia. The Greenville News. WSPA-TV News Anchors and Reporters. Anne Maxwell joined 7 News in May of 2018 and is a Greenville-based reporter for 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts. All rights reserved. She covers community news and can be reached at ashley.dill@shj.com or on Twitter at @ashleydill_shj. The stations also operate a news bureau on Main Street/SC 28 in Anderson. Monae Stevens comes to us from our sister station in Jonesboro, Arkansas. This was especially true when the Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins played at the same time; like most CBS affiliates in South Carolina, WSPA tended to favor the Falcons. I believe this incident will probably affect her (Gracie) a lot in the future and affect her now," Wilson said. He plans to start a media relations company, he said in his post. It appeared in the television listings inserts in the Charlotte Observer well into the 1990s, and frequently aired a number of programs pre-empted by Charlotte's WBTVmostly game shows and cartoons. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WPSA-TV shut down analog transmissions on June 12, 2009,[1] and moved its digital broadcasts back to its previous analog channel number, 7. I'm actually hoping she will end up on the WYFF Morning Show so we can have her, Parella Lewis, and Hannah Ward together. WSPA-TV Anchor. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Asheville, North Carolina -licensed CW owned-and-operated station WYCW (channel 62). Ayla Ferrone is the weekend evening anchor and reporter for WSPA7 in Greenville, SC. WSPA was picked up in 1995 after Atlanta's longtime CBS affiliate, WAGA-TV, became a Fox owned-and-operated station. The station's newscasts have been known over the years as Eyewitness 7 News, 7 Eyewitness News, NewsChannel 7, 7 On Your Side and since January 2016 as 7 News. In 1977, WSPA hired Annette Estes as anchor of its evening newscasts, becoming the station's first female news anchor; Estes left the station in 1987 to become the 6:00 and 11:00p.m. co-anchor (alongside Carl Clark) at WYFF. Blowing Rock is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Boone at the height of the Blue Ridge spine, with a greater line of sight to Hogback Mountain at about 75 miles (121 km) away. Editing, Writing, Photography, Videography, Social Networking, Web Design, Broadcast Journalism, CEO & President at NextGen Supply Chain Integrators. CAROLYN F. SMITH and JANET S. SPENCER Staff Writers. Owned by Media General, the station is sister to CW affiliate WYCW. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! WSPA-TV is the only station in the market that is headquartered in Spartanburg, and in turn tends to focus its local news stories on that city, with a secondary emphasis on Greenville and Asheville. She counts as three different women she is so hott. On Monday, Phil Lane, vice president and general manager of . Reporter. Click to reveal Donna Isbell Walker. The two stations share studios on International Drive in Spartanburg. On WSPA-DT2 and Charter digital cable channel 247 is a 24-hour local weather channel known as "Storm Team 24/7". Man Julie Edwards was a goddess blonde hair babe wasn't she? In North Carolina, WSPA has been carried on numerous cable outlets in the western portion of the Charlotte market including Hickory, Morganton and Lenoir. WSPA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina as an affiliate of CBS. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. However, as soon as Sibila Vargas catched a cold that was unrelated to COVID there was no more leg action segments. Public Relations, Public Speaking, Social Media, Editing, Higher Education, Copywriting, Media Sports/Automotive Writer at GreerToday.com, Associate Editor/Senior Writer at Upstate Game Day, Associate Editor/Senior Writer, Upstate Game Day Youth Sports Magazine, Digital Journalist/Reporter at WSPA-TV News Channel 7, ENPS, Final Cut Pro, Editing, Video, Stories, Storytelling, Non-linear Editing, Avid, Feature Articles. On September 16, 2007, WSPA began producing newscasts in high definition and adopted the new Media General HD graphics. "[4] The deal was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017, and it was completed on January 17.[5]. Anchor - Reporter at WSPA 7News *Spartanburg*Greenville*Asheville*Anderson* 09-23-2020, 04:41 PM Hudley 25 posts, read 46,879 times 1:07. So the past months have been sort of wait-and-see as to when she would return.". Prior to this, channel 7 was the last remaining locally owned television station in the market. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a2e26085dceb342 megan heidlberg age. Prior to the March 2009 tower collapse, WSPA provided grade B coverage as far east as Charlotte. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WSPA previously carried a 24-hour local weather channel on its second digital subchannel, which was branded as "Storm Team 24/7". [citation needed]. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Don't know if they will continue the Greenville studio, but I would only use it for live reports and the morning show as the slit screen set up is a bit awkward. Anchor CarolClarke posted on her Facebook page that she will miss Waller after working together for so many years. Anne has covered stories ranging from the case of accused NSA leaker Reality Winner, to The Masters, to allegations of abuse at the Georgia Department of Corrections. 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WSPA carries the entire CBS network schedule, however it carries only the first half-hour of Face the Nation on Sundays at 10:30a.m. due to its carriage of televised church services from First Baptist Church of Spartanburg at 11:00a.m., the second half-hour is seen instead on WYCW; it also splits the CBS Dream Team lineup into two blocks: the final two hours of the block air on a one-hour delay on Saturdays (due to its weekend morning newscast and CBS Saturday Morning) and the first hour airs on a day-behind basis after its Sunday morning newscast. It was founded by broadcasting pioneer Walter J. 687 likes. Anne graduated Cum Laude from the University of Georgia in May of 2015 with an ABJ in public affairs journalism and a BA in history. 2023 www.goupstate.com. "I believe there was some peer pressure involved in this, and this type of talk and behavior wasn't taught in their home.". Spartanburg teenager, daughter of local news anchor, responds to racist, homophobic videos. Anyone know what happened to Madeleine Hackett from WYFF? In 2009, that subchannel became an affiliate of the Retro Television Network. McCormick is part of the Augusta, Georgia market while Newberry is part of the Columbia market. Graham had been an evening news anchor for WSPA since 1990. On March 1, 2009, WSPA's analog & digital tower at Hogback Mountain in Spartanburg County near the North Carolina/South Carolina border collapsed due to ice and high winds, hitting the main back-up tower as it fell. His departure came after an old Snapchat video began circulating online. Wood also said her family would be working together to learn and grow stronger in their beliefs of equality and inclusion. WSPA produces newscasts for its local sister station WYCW that air in high definition. "Unfortunately, she (Gracie) wasnt wise at the time and her 'so-called friends' used that.". jack roper boxer. Ben Hoover, who arrived at WSPA and anchored weekend evenings when Brown transited to weekend mornings, became a secondary evening anchor succeeding Gordon Dill. In 2016, the station won Emmys for Best Morning and Evening Newscasts (Markets 26-75) and repeated with an Emmy for Best Evening Newscast in 2017. Conclusion. The first video was posted on Wednesday, while the second video was posted Thursday night. "It's hard to anchor the news when you are coughing. On cable in Georgia, WSPA is carried outside the market in most of Rabun County, which is part of the Atlanta market. The Trustoria Directory provides people with all the resources needed to find the right professional for every need. There is one in Columbia as well, with costs of operating the bureau shared between Media General's stations in South Carolina - WSPA, WBTW, and WCBD. A new tower was built, in September 2009. "News Channel 7" and its popular "On Your Side" brand, has the reputation for being the most "aggressive" news operation in the market, when it comes to breaking stories, and breaking news, on-air and online. Syndicated . Self - Reporter unknown episodes Bonnie Boswell . In addition, Alongi has worked as a realtor with Coldwell Banker Caine in Greenville and a news anchor and reporter with WSPA-TV in Spartanburg. Do you have any information on why Julie left? Many Spartanburg residents viewed this as a teachable moment for teens to understand why words and symbols matter. In addition to its main studios, WSPA operates two news bureaus and shares a third with its sister stations. Waller announced on his Facebook page Sunday that March 29 will be his last day. Anne Maxwell joined 7 News in May of 2018 and is a Greenville-based reporter for 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The station won a 2010 Emmy for its breaking news coverage. "He is known for his excellent work on the popular Buyer Beware franchise. This is not the first time a Spartanburg teen has gone viral in a controversial video. WSPA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina as an affiliate of CBS. On March 1, 2009, WSPA's original tower on Hogback Mountain collapsed due to a combination of heavy icing and high winds, hitting the main auxiliary tower as it fell. [citation needed]. 7, is the CBS-affiliated TV station for western North Carolina & South Carolina. Self - Anchor (1982-1992) unknown episodes . And in a telephone interview, Lane, the station's general manager, refused to answer questions about Graham's job status. It is licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina with its transmitter is located on Hogback Mountain southwest of Tryon, North Carolina. In September 1996, WSPA-TV began to produce a nightly half-hour newscast at 10:00p.m. for WHNS through a news share agreement with the stations' then-owner Pappas Telecasting Companies; the news share agreement was terminated in 1999 (two years after WHNS was sold to the Meredith Corporation; it is now owned by Gray Television), when channel 21 launched its own news department that fall.

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