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Pearson's career started in Louisville while working for Brown Forman Distiller in public relations and Louisville Times as a reporter before joining WHAS-TV as an anchor and reporter. [2] After moving to Atlanta in 1975, Pearson worked at WSB-TV for 37 years [ 1 ] and was the first female and first African-American to anchor the daily evening ...
It was the first television station in Kentucky to use newsreel film to gather footage for stories. From the late 1970s until 1991, as a CBS affiliate, the station's newscasts were titled Action 11 News. In 1991, its news branding was changed to Kentuckiana's News Channel, WHAS 11. In 1999, the station rebranded its newscasts as WHAS 11 News.
Melissa Forsythe, who worked as a television news anchor and reporter on Louisville stations for nearly two decades, has died at age 71, according to Doug Profitt, a former coworker who now ...
Lachlan McLean is a news anchor for Spectrum News 1, a 24-hour cable news network serving the state of Kentucky. He has been the primary 5:00pm anchor since the network debuted in November 2018. He formerly hosted "The Midday Rush" sports talk radio show on ESPN680 . The show aired from March 2016 to August 2020 from 10:00am-12:00n ET.
On July 9, 1990, WAVE debuted the first 5 p.m. newscast in the Louisville market; titled FirstNews, it was anchored by veteran broadcaster Jackie Hays, who went on to become the longest-serving female anchor in the station's history (before WAVE, Hays anchored at then-NBC affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia; that station is currently a CBS O&O).
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This coverage was aired live in the Louisville market and sent to NBC as a kinescope newsreel recording for national broadcast. This broadcast was the first time Zoomar lenses were used on a broadcast TV sports show. On May 3, 1952, the first national television coverage of the Kentucky Derby took place, aired from then-CBS affiliate WHAS-TV. [36]
Similarly, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, with his signature eyeglasses and classic dark suits, and Fox News’ Bret Baier, often in a navy suit with a red tie, project styles that communicate reliability ...