detail_page_enabled: true, [60], In 2008, WTVQ launched a subchannel carrying MyNetworkTV, replacing the low-power WBLU-LP, whose poor signal hampered its reach; this became an acute issue when MyNetworkTV became the new broadcast home of WWE's Smackdown!. map: false, Congress, the White House itself andmore than half of, WASHINGTON (AP) TheSupreme Courtis about to hear arguments over President Joe Bidensstudent debt relief plan, which impacts millions of borrowers who could see their loans wiped away or reduced. }. [2] However, on January 27, 1967, Kentucky Central Life announced that it would purchase existing station WKYT-TV (channel 27) from Taft Broadcasting for $2.5 million, signaling its exit from the channel 62 hearing. Anchor, FOX 56 News at 6:30 p.m. & 10 p.m., Managing Editor. Temperatures will peak a few degrees, It felt more like mid to late May instead of late February on Wednesday across Central and Eastern Kentucky with record high temperatures shattered by early afternoon. Senate Bill 28, sponsored by Sen. Mike Wilson (R-Bowling Green), lets winery owners distribute, FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Senate has passed a measure giving parents a pathway to challenge school instructional materials they consider unfit for children. detail_page_enabled: true, We'll just leave it at that. Boyd was born in Elizabethtown and raised in nearby Vine Grove. Prior to that she was a sideline, Chris Bolton is the latest edition to the ABC 36 family. Tom has more than 25-years experience in broadcast journalism. Kaitlyn comes to us from Joplin, Missouri, where she worked as an MMJ and Fill in Anchor for KOAM News/Fox 14 for over a year and, Lyssa joined the ABC 36 team in 2017 as Co-Host on Midday Kentucky, but she has been a part of the extended ABC 36 family for years as the wife of Doug High, ABC 36 Anchor! We live, work and play right here in Central Kentucky. . When you see news happening, share it! submission: { [15] WBLG radio was not affected by this sale and was subsequently sold the following summer to North Carolina-based Village Communications. Shamrock's president and CEO, Bruce F. Johnson, vowed to "demonstrate that the way things were done here in the past is not the way Shamrock operates". text: "Promote your event", Alyssa became a morning meteorologist in May 2017. George Newi, ABC senior vice president for affiliate relations[51], The closest WTVQ came to losing its affiliation came in late 1988, when upstart Fox affiliate WDKY-TV (channel 56), on air since 1986, approached ABC about becoming the new Lexington affiliate. Canada announced a similar ban. [60][61][62] By the time of this acquisition, WTVQ had fallen to fourth place in Lexington, behind WDKY, in revenue. [39] Channel 36 beamed to life for the first time in Lexington at 2:18p.m. with a test pattern. Prior to making the move to Lexington, Boyd worked in Washington, D.C., as a national correspondent for RT America. The university says it's now offering a 15 percent tuition discount for its evening and online course offerings to all first responders in, FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) -- A bill that would ban seven countries from buying land in Kentucky is heading to the House. [57][82] The station shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 36, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). Famous 300-year-old bur oak was saved from development. partner_name: "ABC36NEWS", The shipment was heading to an, FRANKFORT, Ky (WTVQ)- Lawmakers in the Kentucky House of Representatives in Frankfort passed controversial House Bill 470 Thursday, which is related to the LGBTQ community. Im coming home, Piecoro said Wednesday afternoon. element: "#evvnt-calendar-widget", Now, that number sits at almost 250,000. FOX 56 News (WDKY) in Lexington covers news, sports, weather, and traffic for central Kentucky including Frankfort, Georgetown, Paris, Nicholasville, Richmond . The move marks a bit of a homecoming for Paxton, who was born in Elizabethtown and raised in nearbyVine Grove! Officers were sent to the hospital at 10:50 p.m., according to Lexington police. WLEX-18 evening anchors, 1993 TAGS: Mindy Shannon | Tom Kenny | TV | TV anchors | TV news | WLEX | WLEX-TV | WTVQ | WTVQ-TV New anchor Marvin Bartlett, 1990 TAGS: Fox 56 | Marvin Bartlett | TV anchors | TV news | WLEX | WLEX-TV WTVQ-TV broadcasters, 1993 TAGS: television | TV | TV anchors | WTVQ | WTVQ-TV [12] By the station's eighth week on the air, it had already managed to capture a 30% share of the prime time audience in the market according to a station-commissioned American Research Bureau survey, putting it on par with the other two local stations. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays Flexible recording/high energy electrode catheter with. Reckitt, a U.K.-based consumer health and nutrition, EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) Federal environmental regulators on Tuesday took charge of the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical burn and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the bill. We are your neighbors. WTVQ-TV ABC 36 - Lexington, KY News Anchor "Good Morning Kentucky" and ABC36 News at Noon since Dec 2009 High Impact Productions / Witnessing History LLC Executive Producer / Director since Jun 2007 Skills: Broadcast, Video Production, Video, Television, Media Relations, Documentaries, Editing, Crisis. May 18, 2022 6:00 AM. Covering news, weather & sports for Central Kentucky. [50] With WKYT turning them down, ABC then turned its sights to WLEX-TV about the possibility of them leaving NBC to join ABC. virtual: false, submission: { One big factor in his accepting the new position, Piecoro says, was that WTVQ will allow him to continue to work on the UK football radio network, as well as to call games for the SEC Network and its streaming service. He was part of the original management team that brought professional baseball back to the Bluegrass after a nearly 50-year absence. widget: true, [74], In the 2000s and 2010s, the station fell back to a distant third place in local news ratings. Dont Borrow From the Bank Borrow From Yourself, 3 Smart Ways To Help You Find Cash In Your Home, Jerry Claibornes 9-3, Hall of Fame Bowl championship team, The end of the road: Kentucky falls 80-71 to Tennessee in SEC Tournament quarterfinals. She graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 2018 with a degree in journalism. He was an NAIA All-American kicker for the Tigers, Dillon Gaudet joins the ABC 36 storm team as the Meteorologist on our Good Morning Kentucky, Good Day Kentucky, and News at Noon shows. [10] WBLG-TV originally branded as "The ENTERTAINMENT Channel62 WBLG-TV". } Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 299-0411; Experience in sales, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and AP Style. [66] It offered the least early evening news of the Lexington stations, and its news staff of 22 compared unfavorably to the 35 and 40 of its competitors. [44] General manager Bill Service noted that the reruns ABC had previously been programming in the timeslot fared better locally than Nightline was. Tom has seven other Emmy nominations to his credit for investigative and feature reporting. Nicole Neuman joined the Gray Television Washington News Bureau in June 2021. number: 3, It included a news anchor who walked into the newsroom and threw his hat onto a coat rack to begin the evening's newscast. Prior to joining WTVQ-TV, Tom was Vice-President of the Houston Astros Minor League baseball team in Lexington. TV journalist and Elizabethtown, Kentucky, native Paxton Boyd will take the desk. Lexington KY News Asbury University to cohost measles vaccine after resident tests positive Lexington's Joe Bologna's celebrates 50 years News / 18 hours ago Living with less: How Kentuckians are surviving without News / 22 hours ago Up next Measles vaccine clinic being held in Jessamine Co. Local / 31 mins ago }, Have a story? While in D.C., he covered some of the most impactful stories in the United States as well as focused on international politics and foreign policy. 6940 Man O' War Blvd. Channel 36 has brought veteran weatherman T.G. Channel 36 would need to be moved from Portsmouth, Ohio, into Lexington; channel 55 would be re-located from Glasgow, Kentucky, to Portsmouth to fill the void, then the soon-to-be-discarded channel 62 allocation would be moved from Lexington to Glasgow. Joce is a national investigative reporter focused on accountability reporting on the The, Once you send that photo, you can't take it back, goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring the reality that many teens send explicit images of themselves under duress, or without understanding, The White House is giving U.S. federal agencies 30 days todelete popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTokfrom all government-issued mobile devices amid growing concerns about security. }); Windstorm knocked it down. But some rain, Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ): Good Saturday everyone, for a day that started out with some rain showers - we ended on a pretty nice note with temperatures in the, It was a much colder Friday across Central and Eastern Kentucky as afternoon highs dropped back to around average for late February, topping out in the 40s. [6] Approval for the rezoning came on November 10, 1967, despite objection from two local residents who lived near the proposed location. [27] The deal had been held up as Buckley and three other company principals were being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for defrauding and misleading investors. [57], In 2004, WTVQ, along with Media General ABC affiliates WJBF and WMBB, preempted an uncut Veteran's Day broadcast of the 1998 movie Saving Private Ryan, citing uncertainty over whether the film's obscenities would cause FCC repercussions in light of new commission policy. [15], On May 7, 1973, it was announced that WBLG-TV would be sold to New Orleans-based Starr Broadcasting Group, Inc. at a price exceeding $2 million. TV Schedule; Where To Find FOX 56; Our History; Work for FOX 56; Subscribe to Newsletters; . We celebrate community and we tell your stories. With the exception of most of the 1990s, the station's local newscasts have generally rated third out of the four main TV newsrooms in Lexington. Justice says, NEW YORK (AP) - Sunday studio estimates say the gonzo R-rated horror comedy Cocaine Bear sniffed up $23.1 million in its opening weekend, while Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania shrank unusually quickly in, NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week By The Associated Press CLAIM: A photo shows birds that dropped dead in Kentucky following the Ohio train derailment, and a video shows birds in northern Indiana that, FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) -- A recent Mason-Dixon poll regarding anti-transgender measures shows 71 percent of registered Kentucky voters oppose a law that would allow the state to overrule parents' decisions to obtain certain, FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) -- Lofton's Law bill, honoring an 18-year-old who died from alcohol toxicity in October 2021, easily passed the Senate Thursday., FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) -- A bill that cleared the Senate would allow small farm Kentucky winery owners to sell and deliver their own products to retailers. We live, work and play right here in Central Kentucky. Jim Caldwell Morning Meteorologist Lexington, KY current today tonight 56 F C Partly Cloudy Pressure 28.27 in Wind SE 17 MPH Dew Point 52 Feels Like 56 Sunrise 7:07 AM Sunset 6:33 PM. Lexington, KY 40509. The FCC gave the station one year from June 4 to make the move. Windstorm knocked it down. Mobile App | WEATHER App | WTVQ Email Sign Up, Power outage and roof damage cancel departures and arrivals at Bluegrass Airport, Roads become deadly, hazardous during Friday's severe weather, 2 weather-related deaths reported from strong Ky. storms, Southern Middle School to move to remote learning March 6-10 after fire, Thousands of Kentuckians without power as storms head east. A weak, After a nice February weekend across Central and Eastern Kentucky we saw a dreary President's Day as a frontal boundary and a wave of low pressure cruised through the, function evvntDiscoveryInit() { Bill would ban 7 countries from buying land in Ky. Donation from Kentucky Castle to God's Pantry will provide nearly 31,000 meals. element: "#evvnt-calendar-widget", ABC 36 News @ 11 11:00pm Jimmy Kimmel Live! Famous 300-year-old bur oak was saved from development. "[51] For his station's part, WTVQ acting general manager Jerry Fox seemed to shrug off WDKY's ploy, saying that he did not "blame them" and adding that if his station was an independent he would "do whatever I could to survive". Jordan is a Kentucky native born, Since 2002, Piecoro has been the radio color analyst for UK Football on the UK Sports Network, a role he will return to this fall. KSP welcomed 103 new cadets -- and credited the recent $15,000 salary increase for sworn, THACKER, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia Gov. Tom Kenny, the main news anchor and managing editor at ABC 36, was on air for the last time Friday. evvnt_require("evvnt/discovery_plugin").init({ Before coming to central Kentucky, he spent six years at WKYTs sister station, WSAZ in Huntington, WV. Garry Hill stopped at Clark's Pump-N-Shop on Paris Pike, FRANKFORT, Ky (WTVQ)- Lawmakers in the Kentucky House of Representatives in Frankfort passed controversial House Bill 470 Thursday, which is related to the LGBTQ community. [77], On February 17, 2020, the station debuted the afternoon talk show The Lee and Hayley Show, featuring former WLEX-TV personalities Lee Cruse and Hayley Harmon. Around 2:30 p.m., about 76,000 people were without power. evvnt_require("evvnt/discovery_plugin").init({ I am not bitter or angry and I have nothing but great things to say about ABC 36 and the great people there, he said. Download the ABC 36 News App on your smart phone or tablet device to receive breaking news and weather push notifications the minute it happens. news36@wtvq.com ABC 36 | Lexington KY [32] Faulconer worked at WKYT for exactly two days in February before returning to WTVQ and resuming his usual weeknight weather duties. Daniel Heffner is a Special Projects Producer for NBC12. LEXINGTON, Ky. ABC 36 News Director Miranda Combs announced a new main anchor for WTVQ ABC 36. The station noted that channel 62 suffered from technical interference and signal quality issues due to its higher position on the dial. My first several years were spent working in radio news and since 2003 I've worked at WKYT. We have lost a second person due to, LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) -- Southern Middle School will move to remote learning next week after a fire damaged the building Thursday evening. }. Jeremy joined the WKYT News team in July 2021 following graduation from the Broadcast Journalism program at the University of Maryland. map: false, We have lost a second person due to, LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) -- Southern Middle School will move to remote learning next week after a fire damaged the building Thursday evening. Hes kind of been my guide through all of this.. The $11 million purchase came after the improvements under Shamrock, particularly in the area of news, had pushed the station into a position of second-place contention and improved its reputation. It's part of Feeding Kentucky's annual Hunger, FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) -- A new bill proposed in the House would enforce tougher penalties for people under 21 who drink and drive. The first such step came when the present WTVQ-TV call letters were adopted on December 20, 1973. [55] Media General purchased Park Acquisitions and its properties (including WTVQ) in January 1997. category_id: null, The station fired its news director in April 1981,[65] only to do so again in January 1982. After morning rainfall exits, we'll be tracking a bit of a, Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ): Good Thursday evening weather friends, we have had a pretty good day across central and eastern Kentucky with temperatures near 60 under a partly sunny sky., After record breaking warmth on Wednesday showers and thunderstorms moved through the region overnight. She first joined the ABC 36 family. Bill would ban 7 countries from buying land in Ky. 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Longtime TV journalist Miranda Combs will take the post. } It has been a privilege that I never took for granted and I took that responsibility very seriously to keep the community informed and serve in any way that I could, and be involved in the community as much as I could.. During a luncheon, the Kentucky Castle handed a, function evvntDiscoveryInit() { [9] Lexington's then-Mayor Charles Wylie was on hand with White and daughter Barbara to throw the switch that brought the station on the air. Priscilla Huff is the Managing Editor for the Washington, DC Bureau. Sports has been the one constant of my life and being able to share moments with student-athletes and tell their stories along the way. White already owned local radio station WBLG (1300 AM) and would act as the entity's new president and general manager. detail_page_enabled: true, Access Your Home's Equity Before It's Too Late! Chad Hedrick joined WKYT in February 2021. Multiple fire, LOUISVILLE, Ky. 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