View Post Anchors | NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk WXII Announces Anchor Changes On-Air By Kevin Eck on Jan. 6, 2015 - 10:13 AM If viewers of WXII were surprised to see Kenny Beck co-anchoring the morning news alongside Kimberly Van Scoy, their confusion was soon cleared up after Van Scoy explained the anchor changes at the Winston-Salem N.C. NBC affiliate ...
View Post NBC Affiliates | Reporting | ShopTalk WXII Reporter Splits His Pants During Live Shot By Kevin Eck on Jun. 19, 2014 - 2:43 PM WXII traffic reporter Chris Lea lived an “everyone’s greatest fear” moment. He split his pants. As an added bonus he did it on live TV. Lea was a guest on a segment called Lanie’s Backyard Barbecue during t ...
View Post ShopTalk | Weather Meteorologist Austin Caviness Leaving WXII By Merrill Knox on Apr. 22, 2014 - 10:26 AM Austin Caviness is leaving WXII to become the pastor at Salem Fork Christian Church in Dobson, the Triad Business Journal reports. Caviness has been a meteorologist at the Winston-Salem NBC affiliate since 1997. “All of us at WX ...
View Post Sports | Weather How Did NBC Affiliates Balance the Storm and the Olympics? By Merrill Knox on Feb. 13, 2014 - 11:13 AM A massive winter storm made its way up the East Coast Wednesday night, presenting a challenge for NBC affiliates forced to balance covering the storm with NBC’s primetime coverage of the Sochi Olympics. The NBC owned station ...
View Post ShopTalk | Top 10 Rob Wu Joins KRIV From WXII By Merrill Knox on Feb. 7, 2014 - 2:12 PM Rob Wu has joined KRIV, the Fox owned station in Houston, Mike McGuff reports. Wu comes to Houston from Winston-Salem, where he has been a general assignment reporter at WXII, the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate. Prior to that, he work ...
View Post Reporting | ShopTalk Bill Burr Joins WCIV in Charleston By Merrill Knox on Nov. 12, 2013 - 11:06 AM Bill Burr is joining WCIV, the ABC affiliate in Charleston, S.C., as a general assignment reporter. The Moultrie News reports he will appear on the 6 and 7 p.m. weekday newscasts. “We are thrilled to have Bill join the ABC N ...
View Post ShopTalk Ericka Miller Joins KEYE From WXII By Merrill Knox on Oct. 16, 2013 - 3:50 PM Ericka Miller has joined Austin CBS affiliate KEYE as the weekend anchor, Houston media blogger Mike McGuff reports. Miller most recently worked at WXII, the NBC affiliate in Winston-Salem, as a weekend news and sports anchor. She ...
View Post ShopTalk Former WXII GM Rennie Corley Dies at 75 By Merrill Knox on Jul. 2, 2013 - 9:32 AM Rennie Corley, a former general manager of WXII, has died. He was 75. Corley was general manager of the Winston-Salem NBC affiliate from 1979 to 1999. He worked in television for more than four decades. He was also a member of 40 ...
View Post ShopTalk WXII GM Hank Price: ‘We live in a new golden age of over-the-air television’ By Merrill Knox on Apr. 1, 2013 - 10:22 AM Last week, former NBC News correspondent Ed Rabel excoriated local news, saying the industry is “populated by bubble-heads and glib, young, sometimes pretty know-nothings.” WXII president and general manager Hank Price ...
View Post ShopTalk Former WTHR and WXII Reporter Jane Harrington-Smith Dies By Merrill Knox on Feb. 21, 2013 - 11:52 AM Jane Harrington-Smith, a former reporter for WXII in Greensboro and WTHR in Indianapolis, has died of heart failure, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. She was 62. Harrington-Smith was the first black female reporter at WXII, ...