WDBJ Roanoke

Gray Television’s CBS affiliate WDBJ Roanoke, Va., is introducing a new local program, Here @ Home, at 3 p.m. on Sept. 12 that will be hosted by Natalie Faunce, Kate […]

WDBJ Roanoke, Va., Senior Reporter Joe Dashiell received the Associated Press’ Robert Gallimore Distinguished Service Award at the AP Awards Luncheon at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West […]

Gray Television’s CBS affiliate WDBJ Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va. (DMA 68), is adding an additional half-hour newscast each weekday at 5:30 p.m. beginning April 1. “The additional half-hour creates a market-exclusive seamless […]

Every weeknight at 10, WDBJ, Gray’s ABC affiliate in Roanoke, Va., offers the public a chance to interact, ask questions and talk about the weather with its chief meteorologist, Brent Watts via Facebook.

Gray-owned CBS affiliate WDBJ leads among Roanoke, Va.’s local media on social according to data from Shareablee. Paul Greeley looks at how Facebook Live plays a key role in its strategy, particularly as a tool in its weather and breaking news coverage.

In the immediate aftermath of the on-air killings of Alison Parker and Adam Ward in Roanoke, Va., TV stations were concerned about copycat crimes. Some stations stepped up security for crews in the field. But there have not been systemic changes in the 12 months since the murders.

Layoffs are underway at Gray-owned CBS affiliate WDBJ Roanoke, Va.

He joins the Gray CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Va., from WFLA Tampa, Fla., where he’s been executive producer since 2011.

Kelly Zuber, who has spent 34 years working in the news department at CBS affiliate WDBJ Roanoke, Va., is retiring from her job as news director on May 6. Zuber, 57, said that she is taking early retirement in part because the recent change in station ownership made it a good time to make a career move. Gray Television bought WDBJ earlier this year from Schurz Communications, which had owned the station since 1969.

Gray installs the broadcast veteran to oversee its CBS affiliate in Roanoke-Lynchburg, Va. He succeeds Jeffrey Marks who moved up to a Gray corporate position.

Jeffrey Marks, the president-GM of CBS affiliate WDBJ Roanoke, Va., who guided the station through the shock, mourning and recovery that followed the on-air killings of two employees last year, will leave Roanoke’s top-rated TV station for a role with its new owner, Gray Television, as director of talent development.

The August murders of two Virginia journalists shocked the country, in part because viewers saw the shootings happen on live television. What viewers couldn’t see was the extraordinary response at the TV station WDBJ, from the editing room where a friend of one of the victims spotted the killer on videotape to the meeting room where the whole staff recited the Lord’s Prayer together.

Jeffrey Marks, president-GM of WDBJ Roanoke, Va., says that while representing the station to the world after two of his journalists were gunned down was tough, “I think 99% of reporters on stories like these do show compassion.” But, he added, holding up a mike to one side of the story and then the other side of the story doesn’t suffice. “We have to work diligently to provide history and perspective.”

NAB, RTDNA and NATAS are accepting online and offline contributions to support the families of the two WDBJ Roanoke, Va., journalists killed in August. Those wishing to contribute to the Alison & Adam Memorial Fund can do so at http://www.nab.org/donate.

Adam Ward, the 27-year-old cameraman for WDBJ Roanoke, Va., who was murdered last week was remembered today at a commemoration at Salem High School. Salem High School Principal Scott Habeeb said Ward “loved life and he was truly kind to people.” Habeeb was the offensive line coach when Ward played middle school football, was one of his teachers as a high school freshman and was an assistant principal for Ward’s final three years of high school.

RTDNA the NAB and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences hav joined forces to launch a memorial fund to support the families of the victims in Wednesday’s shooting of a Roanoke, Va., news crew. The three organizations will contribute to and accept donations from broadcasters for the fund on behalf of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Donations will be accepted through Nov. 1, and $40,000 has already been pledged.

The live TV ambush murders of a reporter and photographer at WDBJ Roanoke, Va., have devastated the family-owned firm that owns the station. The respect that Mishiwaka, Ind.-based Schurz Communications commands in the close-knit world of broadcasters has prompted an outpouring of support from station owners around the country.

Every TV newscaster in America had to do his or her job Wednesday, but it wasn’t easy. Most of us didn’t know Alison Parker or Adam Ward. But we all know someone like them.

BBC reporters Franz Strasser and Tara McKelvey encountered a big obstacle in their coverage of a double slaying of journalists at a Virginia mall. The two reporters were covering the manhunt of the suspected shooter when they were ordered to delete footage by the Virginia State Police.

The news became personal for the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Va., when reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were fatally shot during a live broadcast Wednesday morning, forcing co-workers to balance the stunning tragedy with professionalism. Their grief was evident during the newscasts that followed, but so was their restraint.

The former TV journalist who police say shot and killed WDBJ Roanoke photographer Adam Ward and reporter Alison Parker died this afternoon after shooting himself following a police chase. Parker and Ward were on the air interviewing a woman when Vester Lee Flanagan II fired about 15 shots. Their interview subject, Vicki Gardner, was in stable condition later Wednesday after surgery for her wounds. Flanagan had been fired by WDBJ in 2013.

The two groups have come to the defense of Schurz Communications-owned WDBJ Roanoke, Va., that is facing a record broadcast indecency fine — $325,000 — by the FCC.