Joshua Sims today was named sports reporter and anchor for Fox O&O WJZY Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 24), effective June 22. Most recently, Sims worked as a sports anchor/reporter at WTEN […]
Bill Melugin Named WJZY Anchor/Reporter
Fox-owned WJZY Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 24), has added Bill Melugin as evening anchor/reporter. On Feb. 2, Melugin will debut as co-anchor for the station’s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. Most recently, Melugin […]
WJZY Adds Benjamin Hoover To News Staff
Benjamin Hoover has joined the Good Day Carolinas team at Fox-owned WJZY Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 24). Effective Jan. 19, Hoover will serve as digital journalist and anchor alongside Page Crawford, […]
The former news director of WGHP High Point, N.C., will head news operations at Fox Television Stations’ WJZY-WMYT duopoly.
WJZY Creates A Different Morning Show Vibe
WJZY News Director Leaving For KRIV
WJZY Charlotte, N.C., News Director Geoff Roth is leaving the Fox O&O and going back to Fox’s KRIV Houston. Fox-owned WWOR New York station manager Dianne Doctor will help out the Charlotte newsroom while the station looks for a new ND. Doctor will continue in her role as station manager of the New Jersey MNT affil.
Exclusives
WJZY Adding 4:30 A.M. News Broadcast
Movies! Network, a classic movie multicast network, has signed agreements with new affiliates in Charlotte, N.C.; Salt Lake City; Boise, Idaho; Wausau, Wis.; and Victoria, Texas. These five new markets […]
WJZY News Takes Local To A New Level
With its first newscast, My Fox Carolinas News @10, the newly acquired Fox O&O in Charlotte, N.C., has set up five suburban bureaus staffed by reporters that live in those communities. With the newscast’s casual chatty tone and unconventional look (the entire WJZY facility, from its newsroom to lobby, has been built to be used as a set), the broadcast reflects Fox Television Stations President Jack Abernethy’s determination to come up with some new approaches to local news.
Fox Takes Different Tack To Local News In NC
Fox Television Stations is using its newly acquired O&O in Charlotte, N.C., WJZY, to launch its second unconventional newscast. My Fox Carolinas News @10 is informal with no highly stylized set or anchor desk, reflections of Fox Television Stations President Jack Abernethy’s determination to come up with some new approaches to local news.
Geoff Roth To Head News At WJZY-WMYT
The former executive producer at KRIV Houston will take over news leadership at the new Fox duopoly in Charlotte, N.C.
WJZY Switching Affiliation From CW To Fox
The change, set for July 1, follows Fox Television Stations’ purchase of WJZY and WMYT (MNT) from Capitol Broadcasting.
WJZY-WMYT Names Bradshaw Creative Services VP
Fox-owned WJZY (Fox) and WMYT (MNT) Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 25), today named Council Bradshaw vice president of creative services for the duo, effective Tuesday, May 28. Bradshaw has been principal […]
WJZY-WMYT Make Exec Appointments
Jay Abbattista named VP-director of sales while Lynda Grahl is tapped to be VP of finance.
The longtime GM of WGHP Greensboro, N.C., Karen Adams, will take over leadership of WJZY and WMYT once FCC approval comes through on the purchase from Capitol Broadcasting.
The move is a result of Fox’s buying Capitol Broadcasting’s CW and MNT affiliates there, WJZY and WMYT. Jim Babb, EVP-COO of WCCB owner Bahakel Communications, says they were informed of the move Monday morning and are “already exploring various options.”
WBTV 10 P.M. News Switches Stations
The evening newscast produced by Raycom’s Charlotte, N.C.’s CBS affiliate has moved from its current slot on Capitol Broadcasting’s CW affil WJZY to Capitol’s MNT outlet, WMYT.
Starting next Monday, Capitol Broadcasting’s CW affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., will offer the Tribune Broadcasting classic TV diginet on a subchannel. Tribune now claims coverage of more than 50% of the U.S. for the network, thanks mostly to its carriage on 19 Tribune stations.
