Leaders from Graham, Tegna, Cox and Gray told a TVNewsCheck webinar last week that station projects with a strong local value proposition — and a deeper collaboration between the newsroom and creative services — can yield remarkable audience engagement.
WSOC’s ‘Get Real’ Project Tackles The Thorniest Issues Head On
Cox-owned WSOC in Charlotte, N.C., dives headlong into homeless, mental health and race in an ever-evolving reporting project that has challenged both its newsroom and its audience. It’s had a transformative effect on both. Read the full report here and/or watch the video above.
WSOC’s ‘Get Real’ Project Takes On Charlotte’s Tough Issues
Cox-owned WSOC in Charlotte, N.C., began an initiative to address issues that “might not be easy and they might not be the happiest, but it is the right thing to do,” says Deirdre Conley, the station’s creative services director.
CMG adds Telemundo affiliates in Jacksonville, Fla., and Seattle and also renews its contract with the Hispanic network in Charlotte, N.C.
Exclusives
WAXN, WSOC, WJZY, WBTV and WCNC are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology.
Cox’s ABC-Telemundo affiliate WSOC Charlotte, N.C., wanted to return to first place at 5 p.m. How it did that was to create new loyalists among viewers by developing five key themes.
WSOC Adds Damany Lewis As Weekday Anchor
WCNC Reporter Glenn Counts Moves To WSOC
WSOC Adding Telemundo Subchannel
The Cox-owned ABC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., will launch a Spanish subchannel this summer carrying programming from the Telemundo network. Telemundo Charlotte will air on ch. 9.2. Laff, the comedy diginet currently at that dial position, will move to ch. 64.4 of co-owned independent WAXN.
WSOC Meteorologist Ahrens Arrested For Assault
WSOC Charlotte Shares Latest Promos
WSOC Anchor Natalie Pasquarella Joining WNBC
Cox To Carry Laff Diginet In Seven Markets
Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Charlotte and Dayton are the latest additions to the Katz Broadcasting network that debuts on April 15.
WSOC Names Michelle Harper GSM
Cox Media Group moves her from its independent WAXN Charlotte, N.C., to its ABC affiliate in the market. She succeeds Paul Briggs, who became VP-GM of CMG’s WHBQ Memphis late last year.
WSOC Adds Anchor-Reporter Stephanie Maxwell
New News Promos From Five Markets
WSOC Anchor Running For Congress
Longtime WSOC Charlotte, N.C., reporter and anchor Vince Coakley said Tuesday he’s running for the 12th Congressional District seat left vacant by Mel Watt’s resignation to take a federal appointment. The first Republican to announce for the race, the 48-year-old Coakley joins a number of Democrats who have said they’ll seek the office.
Charlotte Media Diverge On Social Strategy
In Charlotte, N.C., media players are prepping for September’s Democratic National Convention and bulking up their social and mobile offerings. While The Charlotte Observer is the market’s top player, three TV sites — WCNC.com, WSOCtv.com and WBTV.com — are scrapping for prominence in a city where players differ sharply on how to use social media to drive traffic.
KDFW Reporter Peter Daut Leaves For WSOC
Former WSOC Reporter Ken Ward Dies At 44
No one was taken hostage or injured after a woman put a gun to her head in the lobby of Cox Media’s ABC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., last evening.
