On WSPA-DT2 and Charter digital cable channel 247 is a 24-hour local weather channel known as "Storm Team 24/7". The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WPSA-TV shut down analog transmissions on June 12, 2009,[1] and moved its digital broadcasts back to its previous analog channel number, 7. Past programming preemptions and deferrals, Learn how and when to remove this template message, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, "Media General Acquiring Meredith For 2.4 Billion", "TV Station Mega Merger: Media General Sets $2.4 Billion Acquisition of Meredith Corp", "Nexstar Agrees to Buy Media General for $4.6B", "Nexstar Broadcasting Group Completes Acquisition of Media General Creating Nexstar Media Group, The Nation's Second Largest Television Broadcaster", http://www.wspa.com/news/wspa-tv-channel-7-signal-upgrade/1087423036, "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WSPA-TV&oldid=1125019881, This page was last edited on 1 December 2022, at 19:51. 1. "The coughing spells were horrible," he said. WSPA's digital signal was restored using a digital subchannel of sister station WYCW (channel 62); while the station received a replacement antenna on March 4, it was without its analog signal for one week after the accident. Meet the Team - WSFA The camera system is manufactured by Flir Systems International and the helicopter is maintained by U.S. Helicopters Inc. of Charlotte. "It's hard to anchor the news when you are coughing. This was especially true when the Atlanta Falcons and Washington Redskins played at the same time; like most CBS affiliates in South Carolina, WSPA tended to favor the Falcons. Its time to try something else.". 1 talking about this. Waller announced on his Facebook page Sunday that March 29 will be his last day. Jack Roper, who is the anchor of Channel 7 News and a former reporter for ABC News, is currently 63 years old. Anchor CarolClarke posted on her Facebook page that she will miss Waller after working together for so many years. Ayla Ferrone is the weekend evening anchor and reporter for WSPA7 in Greenville, SC. The Herald-Journal will not postthe videos on our site due to their racist and homophobic language. Self - Reporter unknown episodes Bonnie Boswell . The WSPA radio stations were sold off in 1998, but WSPA-TV remained the flagship of the company until it merged with Media General in 2000. The 2 stations share studios on International Drive in Spartanburg. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Asheville, North Carolinalicensed CW owned-and-operated station WYCW (channel 62). Anchor - Reporter at WSPA 7News *Spartanburg*Greenville*Asheville*Anderson* Edmund is a former employee of WSPA and is no longer with the company. In fact, WSPA's signal often comes in better than the two CBS affiliates both available on cable, Charlotte's WBTV (even though Watauga County is part of the Charlotte market) and WJHL-TV in Johnson City, Tennessee. Sometime in 2009, WSPA Channel 7.2 became a RetroTV affiliate. The Georgia native is a graduate of the University of Alabama where she earned a bachelor's degree in . She would love to hear from you! I felt she was sad that Christy Henderson was moving back to the evenings and she knew that the two were a packaged deal of two beautiful blondes and felt like it wouldn't work if both blonde goddesses wasn't on the morning show together any longer. Anne Maxwell joined 7 News in May of 2018 and is a Greenville-based reporter for 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts. Scripps Company in Denver, CO, Good Day Atlanta "Road Warrior"/Entertainment Reporter, Anchor/Reporter/Mr. He also spoke of Graham's ability on the job, describing her as a "dedicated journalist. Currently using temporary one. former wspa reporters - HAZ Rental Center It has always been a CBS affiliate. But a friend and former co-worker of Graham's said the station let her go last week while Graham was continuing treatment for whooping cough, which has kept her off the air since February. Upstate activist Bruce Wilson, of Black Lives Matter and Fighting Injustice Together, said that hespoke with Amy Wood and her husband, Mike Wood, a Spartanburg County magistrate judge, Wednesday evening. Both videos were . The station's newscasts have been known over the years as Eyewitness 7 News, 7 Eyewitness News, NewsChannel 7, 7 On Your Side and since January 2016 as 7 News. On March 1, 2009, WSPA's original tower on Hogback Mountain collapsed due to a combination of heavy icing and high winds, hitting the main auxiliary tower as it fell. In September 1996, WSPA-TV began to produce a nightly half-hour newscast at 10:00p.m. for WHNS through a news share agreement with the stations' then-owner Pappas Telecasting Companies; the news share agreement was terminated in 1999 (two years after WHNS was sold to the Meredith Corporation; it is now owned by Gray Television), when channel 21 launched its own news department that fall. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Asheville, North Carolina -licensed CW owned-and-operated station WYCW (channel 62). "[4] The deal was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017, and it was completed on January 17.[5]. 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Brown and his company, Spartan Radiocasting, alongside WSPA radio (950 AM, now WOLI at 910 AM; and 98.9 FM). The station first signed on the air on April 29, 1956. Dave Jordan. 0:05. Share 1. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. That newscast was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award for Best Newscast. Kelci O'Donnell. [7] WSPA dropped MeTV on April 1, 2018; it is now carried by WYFF (channel 4). 1:38. Parella Lewis for the win. She also served as a fill in anchor and producer and a one-woman investigative unit. Professional Background CheckInformation on professionals, their work history and resumes. Jeannie Putnam; November 7, 2021; . Nexstar maintains a Capitol bureau in Columbia, covering state government issues for the company's South Carolina stations (WSPA, WBTW in FlorenceMyrtle Beach and WCBD in Charleston). In regards to disappearing news personalities, anchor Julie Edwards has left. WSPA carries the entire CBS network schedule, however it carries only the first half-hour of Face the Nation on Sundays at 10:30a.m. due to its carriage of televised church services from First Baptist Church of Spartanburg at 11:00a.m., the second half-hour is seen instead on WYCW; it also splits the CBS Dream Team lineup into two blocks: the final two hours of the block air on a one-hour delay on Saturdays (due to its weekend morning newscast and CBS Saturday Morning) and the first hour airs on a day-behind basis after its Sunday morning newscast. Reporter. "Words do have meaning, words do have power," Wilson continued. Since WSPA and WHNS were among the four highest-rated stations in the market in total day viewership, the merged company would have been required to sell either WSPA or WHNS to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as recent changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations that restrict sharing agreements. 09-23-2020, 04:41 PM Hudley 25 posts, read 46,879 times Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a2e26085dceb342 Total. MEDIA CONTACT: Kevin Slagle Vice President, Strategic Communications (916) 813-3947 kslagle@wspa.org. [2][3] That sale was canceled on January 27, 2016, in favor of a sale of Media General to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, and WSPA and WYCW became part of "Nexstar Media Group. He also said that WSPA-TV will miss her professionalism, dedication and determination. Reporter Tim Waller, who has been with WYFF News 4 for 25 years, has announced that he's leaving the station. Graham won't return to WSPA - Spartanburg Herald Journal The radio stations were sold off in 1998, but WSPA-TV remained the flagship of the company until it merged with Media General in 2000. That would be a treat and Geoff Hart would be in heaven!!!! Her investigative reporting exposing how Georgia Power shareholders and financiers have made more than $1 billion in profit from a nuclear power plant that is billions of dollars over budget and still under construction has been honored by the Georgia Associated Press.