WAVY-TV

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WAVY-TV
Portsmouth, Virginia
Branding	WAVY TV 10/WAVY News 10
Slogan	10 On Your Side
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 31 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	LIN TV
Founded	September 1, 1957
Call letters meaning	The word "Wavy," possible reference to the nearby Atlantic Ocean
Former affiliations	None
Website	www.wavy.com

WAVY-TV is the NBC affiliate serving the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Virginia television market (DMA). The station is licensed to Portsmouth, and its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10, and its digital signal on UHF channel 31. It is a sister station to the area's Fox affiliate, WVBT.

WAVY-TV began operation on September 1, 1957. It was owned by Tidewater Teleradio along with WAVY radio (AM 1350, now WGPL). Channel 10 took the NBC affiliation from WVEC-TV due to its radio sister's long affiliation with NBC radio. In 1968, it became the second station owned by LIN Broadcasting, who still owns the station today. (WAND in Decatur, Illinois was the very first station owned by LIN, who today retains a one-third interest in and also manages that station.) It is the only area station that has never changed its affiliation.

WAVY moved into its current studio at 300 Wavy Street in Portsmouth in April 1989. They were previously housed in the Farmer's Market building on Middle Street in downtown Portsmouth.

Contents 1 Newscasts 1.1 Current On-Air Personalities 1.1.1 Anchors 1.1.2 Weather Anchors 1.1.3 Sports Anchors 1.1.4 Reporters 1.1.5 Chopper 10 pilot 1.1.6 Notable former on-air personalities 2 Other programming produced by WAVY-TV 3 External links

[edit] Newscasts

WAVY airs 30 hours of local news a week. It also began producing a nightly 10pm newscast for WVBT in 1998.

WAVY is known for being the first Hampton Roads station to use a helicopter to cover local news. The station introduced "Chopper 10" in 1982. The current Chopper 10, a Bell 206 Longranger, has been used by WAVY since 2000.

Former newscast titles include "Area 10 Eyewitness News"/"Channel 10 Eyewitness News" (1969-1982), and "The Daily News" (1982-1989). WAVY's newscasts have been titled "WAVY News 10" since Fall of 1989, months after moving into their Wavy Street studios. At that time, WAVY introduced the current "10" logo.

• Weekdays
  • WAVY News 10 at Sunrise 5:00-6:00am
  • WAVY News 10 Today 6:00-7:00am
  • WAVY News 10 Midday 12:00-1:00pm
  • WAVY News 10 at 5 5:00-5:30pm
  • WAVY News 10 at 5:30 5:30-6:00pm
  • WAVY News 10 at 6 6:00-6:30pm
  • WAVY News 10 at 11 11:00-11:35pm
• Weekends
  • WAVY News 10 at Sunrise 6:00-7:00am
  • WAVY News 10 Today 7:00-8:00am
  • WAVY News 10 at 6 6:00-6:30pm (Saturday), 6:00-7:00pm (Sunday)
  • WAVY News 10 at 11 11:00-11:30pm

[edit] Current On-Air Personalities

[edit] Anchors

• Alveta Ewell, 6:00 and 11:00
• Andy Fox, Saturday morning
• Kerri Furey, morning and noon
• Stephanie Harris, weekend evening and weekday evening fill-in
• Nicole Livas 5:00 & 5:30
• David Nelson 5:00
• Adam Owens, Sunday morning
• Don Roberts, mornings and noon
• Les Smith, 5:30, 6:00 and 11:00

[edit] Weather Anchors

• Jon Cash, weekday morning and noon
• Cheryl Nelson, weekend evenings
• Don Slater, weekday evenings
• Jeremy Wheeler, weekend mornings

[edit] Sports Anchors

• Ahmed Fareed, fill-in
• Bruce Rader, weekdays
• Chris Reckling, weekend

[edit] Reporters

• Lori Crouch
• Don DeIulio
• Andy Fox, political
• Ava Hurdle
• Tina Kim
• Mary Kay Mallonee
• Jason Marks
• Leon Moore
• Shannon Powell
• Derrick Rose
• Cheryl Tan
• Melanie Woodrow, military
• Kay Young

[edit] Chopper 10 pilot

• John Massey

[edit] Notable former on-air personalities

• Christy Carlo, morning co-anchor from 1996 until 2000. formerly at Imus in the Morning and MSNBC under birth name Christy Musumeci.
• Carolyn Castleberry, was a reporter/morning anchor and later noon/5/5:30 co-anchor at WAVY from 1990 until 2004; now a co-host of the CBN produced series, "Living the Life."
• John Castleberry, Carolyn's husband; was a weekend sports anchor during the 1980s. Later worked at WTKR. Now hosts a daily radio show on 102.1 The Game WXTG.
• Barbara Ciara, weekend anchor from 1985 until 1988, when she left for WVEC. Now working at WTKR.
• Bob Grip, now at WALA in Mobile.
• Shelley Harrell, also known as Shelley Roupas; was with KFMB in San Diego among others.
• Lisa Joyner, formerly at The Best Damn Sports Show Period, currently host of TV Guide Channel's inFANity^[1].
• Dick Lamb, Hampton Roads radio personality; was at WAVY during the 1970s.
• Jim Lawrence, fill-in meteorologist from 1991 until 1995, weekend evening meteorologist from 1995 until 2007, now at WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
• Diana Morgan, anchor-turned-actress, seen in series such as Babylon 5 and The West Wing and films such as Titanic.
• Leanne Rains, co-anchor until 1993, later went to WTKR.
• Thomas Roberts, now an anchor at CNN Headline News.
• Stan Verrett, now an anchor at ESPN and ESPNEWS, also worked for WVEC.
• Kelly Wright, now at Fox News Channel.
• Terry Zahn, was WAVY's lead anchor; left in 1994 for rival WVEC, where he served as lead anchor until his death in 2000.

[edit] Other programming produced by WAVY-TV

• Battle of the Brains
• Kid Talk
• The Bottom Line

WAVY also produces several specials throughout the year, including a hurricane special and other 10 On Your Side specials such as phone-in helplines. WAVY also carries the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

[edit] External links

• WAVY-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WAVY-TV

NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Virginia
WCYB 5 (Bristol) - WAVY 10 (Norfolk) - WSLS 10 (Roanoke / Lynchburg) - WWBT 12 (Richmond) - WVIR 29 (Charlottesville)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS, and Other stations in Virginia