WCTI Fills Snack Packs For Troops On The Move
WCTI Food Drive Yields 158,000 Meals For 5 Cities
Former WCTI GM Praises Staff’s Florence Coverage
How Flooded WCTI Covered Florence
With its building flooded out, Sinclair’s WCTI New Bern, N.C., had to get creative to bring its viewers news coverage of Hurricane Florence. Facebook carried the load for a few days, and then when it got back on the air, producing newscasts from locations all over town kept viewers in the know. “We have a lot of young people here and I’m impressed by how well they’re taking it and how well they’re doing. They know they have a task,” said Sean Finn, WCTI’s creative services director.
Flooded WCTI Does Newscasts From Field
WCTI Greenville, N.C.’s newsroom and studio are still not operational after it flooded during Hurricane Florence. But that hasn’t stopped the staff of the Sinclair ABC affiliate from putting on a newscast every night.
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WCTI Evacuates Studio Over Florence
Rising water forced a North Carolina TV station to evacuate its newsroom in the middle of Hurricane Florence coverage. Hours before the storm made landfall Friday, workers at Sinclair’s ABC affiliate WCTI had to abandon their studio.
Sinclair Names GMs In Greensboro, New Bern
Matt Bowman is tapped to lead WCTI and WYDO in New Bern-Greenville-Jacksonville, N.C. He will be succeeded at WXLV-WMYV Greensboro-Winston Salem, N.C., by those stations’ Sales Director Allison Aldridge.
WCTI Ups Anchor Anna Bulszewicz To EP
WCTI Leads Greenville, N.C., Social Media
Bonten-owned ABC affiliate WCTI holds a solid lead of local media competition among Greenville, N.C., media on social, according to data from Shareablee over the last six months. Gray’s NBC affil WITN, meanwhile, captured the highest number of fans/followers on social.
Donnie S. Cox Named WCTI Chief Meteorologist
Bonten Media Group’s ABC affiliate WCTI Greenville-New Bern-Washington, N.C. (DMA 99), has named Donnie S. Cox chief meteorologist. He succeeds Skip Waters who died suddenly on Oct. 28, 2014, after […]
WCTI Meteorologist Skip Waters Dies At 61
The former news director of WETM Elmira, N.Y., Scott Nichols, will head up news operations at WCTI New Bern, WFXI Morehead City and WYDO Greenville.
Bonten, TWC In Retrans Showdowns
The broadcasters says it hasn’t been able to agree to terms with Time Warner Cable for carriage of WCTI and WFXI-WYDO, as the Dec. 31 deadline nears.
Bonten Media’s ABC affiliate will debut the new broadcast on Aug. 15. Brian North and Jaime McCutcheon will anchor.
Bonten Media’s Fox affiliate WCTI Greenville-New Bern-Washington, N.C. (DMA 101) announced that Valentina Wilson has joined veteran anchor Wes Goforth as primary anchor at 6 and 11 p.m. Wilson has […]
WCTI AND WFXI-WYDO will air a two-hour tornado recovery and relief special on April 21.
