In September 2010, WLEX became the first station in Lexington to have an on-the-air 4:00 p.m. In 1997, TIME magazine printed Tom's picture as a winner in their "Winners and Losers" as a possible replacement for the fired Marv Albert at NBC. Eye color. In the high wind, most of that 375-foot tower blew over, parallel to the building, north toward the IBM (now Lexmark) road. ), Harris Exciter (transmitter), 2/85 ($62,809) They got married on December 15, 1996. As he entered, the door caught his arm, throwing the gun from his hand. This history has been an interest of mine since I started at WLEX in 1971, and I have collected a variety of stories that might otherwise be lost in the years to come. WLEX's studios are located on Russell Cave Road (KY 353) in Lexington, and its transmitter is located six miles (10 km) east of downtown Lexington near Hamburg Pavilion on competitor WTVQ-DT's tower. Nunn had even built a new brick building for the television station on the north side of Christian Road, a stone’s throw from the original Channel 27 tower (now Clear Channel) near Sam’s Club. UK lost 81-79.) Switcher, Grass Valley 300 - 2A, 8/94 ($18,000 used) Nancy Cox-Kenny – anchor; Notable former on-air staff. Gay Library" at Transylvania. commercial station (October, 1978) Video Tape, RCA TR-4, 1965 ($66,160)
It was co-owned with WLEX radio (1300 AM, now WLXG) and carried programming from all four networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and DuMont). Cindy Martin was a font operator who had worked at WLEX only a few months, and there was some problem she absolutely HAD to tell me about. February 2, 1959, Bob emceed a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, at the Surf Ballroom. Macauley was able to leap over and through the debris, then he ran through the technical area and out the back door. Video Tape, (4) VPR-6, 1986 ($251,418 total) Interestingly, in relating the story to me, neither Robertson nor Adanack ever mentioned the sound. Leigh Searcy is from Versailles, Kentucky and is a News Reporter for LEX 18 news at noon, 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. Leigh was a Reporter for WLWT in Cincinnati for five years. In seasons when some areas require cooling and others heating, the heat is effectively moved as needed. Yes, Phil did continue to work at WLEX. In the middle sixties, he had been the overnight DJ on WLS Radio in Chicago, but resigned from WLS along with Dick Bionde, who was nationally known at the time, in a protest over too many commercials.
There are no guns allowed at WLEX except for security and policemen. I found engineers Tony Michalski and Jim Brady (later WTVQ Director of Engineering) in the tape room, and told them to come immediately. Jim's wife May, living in the WLEX cottage by the Quonset hut, was terrified of storms and saw the station as a safe place, and on that windy afternoon Jim had intended to bring her to the station for safety. With the month's outage and the low power, several WLEX employees were laid off (the remainder were kept busy building new sets for the studio), and many advertisers abandoned the station. Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WLEX-TV&oldid=980613217, Television stations in Lexington, Kentucky, Television channels and stations established in 1955, E. W. Scripps Company television stations, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from December 2008, All articles needing additional references, Articles to be expanded from October 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 13:35.
As time passed, the people who remembered left WLEX, and the newer people had not been told about it. (The trainer's, that is. In 1979 a radio shop owner who rented space on our tower came to me with a problem. The couple has two children, a son and a daughter. 's son), forwarded to WLEX by Ralph Gabbard of WKYT.
On September 24, 2020, a consortium made up of Scripps and Berkshire Hathaway announced the proposed purchase of Ion Media. Thus began the policy of not allowing wild animals in the building. Wayne returned part time in the early seventies, required by Harry Barfield to wear his old reddish brown toupee despite his gray hair. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39. the United States and likely the world (November 15, 1962) Jessica Moore – reporter (now at WCBS-TV) Out-of-market coverage.
Wazoo Sports would be replaced by MeTV.[4][5]. Copyright (c) 2020, Scott Wills Broadcasting, LLC 404-386-7313. News Director David Cromwell found an old silent 16 mm camera and saved the day. First television broadcast of University of Kentucky basketball Gibbs slugged the door with his fist and ran! Video Tape, DVCPro, (3) AJ-LT85 Laptop ($23,760 each) by Dave Powell, Chief Engineer. She joined LEX 18 in July 1992. He became agitated, then stood up and put his paws on the trainer's shoulders, knocking off his glasses.
In just over an hour, a wind would take her life. Mr. Billy's on-air style was very down-home Kentucky, but local viewers loved it. General Manager Earl Boyles was in his office about twenty feet away from the receptionist's desk (in what was later a Conference Room), and said the noise was "tremendous." Live Truck (Ford, Wolf Coach), 1991 ($120,000) After only one year, however, new owners switched channel 27 to primary ABC affiliation, leaving WLEX to pick up a secondary CBS affiliation once again. Film Chain, RCA TK-26, 1962 ($39,332)
[6] The sale was completed on May 1, 2019. Billy lost to cancer May 3, 1977, his funeral in Georgetown attended by Adolph Rupp and former Governor Happy Chandler. General Manager Earl Boyles estimated the damage at $300,000 to $400,000. Spotplayer, Grass Valley XP1044, 6/00 ($138,783), Studio Camera (Monochrome), GPL, 1955 ($21,840) Harry asked anchor Mike MacNamara what that sound was. Any company has employees who leave under less than pleasant circumstances, but although there are interesting anecdotes in these departures, they must be left out as a matter of course. Live Truck (GMC, Wolf Coach), 8/94 ($75,000) Gay almost blushed and said the best thing he had ever done for Transy was to get W.T. Because the cameras were sixty- to ninety-day delivery and the SONY equipment (except the BVU-50's) was off-the-shelf, the tape equipment was to be shipped later. The building alone cost five million dollars, plus several million for equipment.