View Post ShopTalk Blake Hanson Joins WSOC From WDSU By Merrill Knox on Jun. 13, 2014 - 3:44 PM After two years at WDSU, Blake Hanson is leaving New Orleans for Charlotte. He announced the news on Twitter: PERSONAL NEWS: Sad to leave @WDSU but excited to join the amazing team at @wsoctv next month, the #1 station in Charlott ...
View Post ShopTalk North Carolina Law Enforcement Enlists WSOC Chopper in Manhunt By Merrill Knox on Mar. 14, 2014 - 11:31 AM WSOC‘s helicopter was enlisted for help finding a man suspected of killing of his father, stepmother and a U.S. Forest Service officer in Burke County, N.C., the Charlotte Observer reports: Hickory-based reporter Dave Faher ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk Nate Stewart Out at WSOC By Kevin Eck on Jan. 16, 2014 - 9:42 AM TVSpy has confirmed reporter Nate Stewart is no longer with WSOC, the Charlotte, NC, ABC affiliate. A station spokesperson wouldn’t comment on why he left, but said Stewart’s last day was Wednesday. Stewart started at ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk VIDEO: WSOC Reporter Nearly Hit By Bus During Live Shot By Merrill Knox on Nov. 11, 2013 - 11:39 AM WSOC reporter Dave Faherty had to jump out of the way to avoid getting hit by a bus during a recent live shot (video after the jump). During his coverage Billy Graham‘s 95th birthday party for the ABC Charlotte affiliate, a ...
View Post Anchors | CBS Affiliates | ShopTalk Charlotte Anchor to Make Comeback at 91 By Kevin Eck on Sep. 27, 2013 - 11:48 AM Sixty one years after launching the WBTV news, 91-year-old Doug Mayes will take another turn as anchor for the Charlotte, NC, CBS affiliate. Mayes will sit in for the vacationing Paul Cameron on tonight’s 11pm news. Accordin ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | Reporting | ShopTalk With Don Griffin Set to Retire, Jason Stoogenke Named WSOC Consumer Reporter By Merrill Knox on Aug. 22, 2013 - 11:05 AM After more than 30 years at WSOC, Don Griffin (left) is set to retire in September. Jason Stoogenke (right) will take his place as the Charlotte ABC affiliate’s consumer reporter. “Viewers will miss his sincere, no non ...
View Post CBS Affiliates | Reporting | ShopTalk Kristy Etheridge Says Goodbye to WBTV By Merrill Knox on Feb. 22, 2013 - 9:50 AM Kristy Etheridge, a general assignment reporter at WBTV, is leaving the Charlotte CBS affiliate. She is joining the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which is headquartered in Charlotte. Etheridge began her television career ...
View Post ABC Affiliates | ShopTalk | Viral VIDEO: Charlotte Police Chase Man Over WSOC’s Front Lawn By Merrill Knox on Jan. 3, 2013 - 1:45 PM CMGd Video Player A police chase took place Thursday morning right near WSOC, the ABC affiliate in Charlotte (watch above). WSOC’s footage of the chase, which at one point went over the station’s front lawn, was shot o ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz John Humphries Named General Manager at WGAL By Merrill Knox on Nov. 30, 2012 - 11:20 AM John Humphries has been named president and general manager at WGAL, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Lancaster, Pa. Humphries comes from WYFF, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Greenville, S.C., where he has been director of sales s ...
NBC Affiliates | News Directors | Top 10 Michael Goldrick Named VP of News at WRC By Merrill Knox on Oct. 19, 2012 - 11:50 AM Michael Goldrick is joining WRC, the NBC O&O in Washington, DC as vice president of news. Since 2009, Goldrick has been news director at WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh. At WRC, he steps into the role that has been vacan ...