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A Memphis Police Department Bomb Unit vehicle is parked near the WMC Action News 5 station in Midtown Memphis on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The station was evacuated due to a bomb threat.
WHBQ-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Imagicomm Communications.The station's studios are located on South Highland Street (near the campus of the University of Memphis) in East Memphis, and its transmitter is located on Raleigh-LaGrange Road on the city's northeast side.
WMC-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WTME-LD (channel 14). The two stations share studios on Union Avenue in midtown Memphis; WMC-TV's transmitter is located in northeast Memphis, near the suburb of Bartlett, Tennessee.
The news product was overhauled in 2003 under the brand Eyewitness News and with new news talent. [73] Even despite the move to a more general-market product, which included 45 minutes of news and an expanded 15-minute sportscast, [74] WLMT's 9 p.m. news continued to beat WPTY's 10 p.m. broadcast and approach WHBQ in the ratings. [75]
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In addition, the station offered the live discussion program Memphis Forum. [14] WPTY was the only independent station in Memphis until April 18, 1983, when TVX Broadcast Group launched WMKW-TV on channel 30. [15] With two independents in town, the stations engaged in competition among themselves, [16] though WPTY led WMKW in the ratings. [17]
Heel wrestlers and managers in the Memphis area like Jimmy Hart would nickname him "Dave Brown the Weather Clown", while others would nickname him "Howdy Doody". Dave Brown and Lance Russell were inducted into the Memphis Wrestling Hall of Fame April 22, 2017. Many YouTube videos are online from the heyday of Dave, Lance and Memphis Wrestling.