Information about Wbbj
| WBBJ-TV | |
|---|---|
| Jackson, Tennessee | |
| Branding | ABC 7 (General), ABC 7 Eyewitness News (Newscasts) |
| Slogan | West Tennessee's News Channel, ... Weather Channel, ... Sports Channel |
| Channels | Analog: 7 (VHF) Digital: 43 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Bahakel Communications, Ltd. |
| Founded | March 5 1955 |
| Call letters meaning | W Bahakel Broadcasting Jackson |
| Former callsigns | WDXI-TV (1955-69) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1955-68) |
| Website | www.wbbjtv.com |
WBBJ-TV (channel 7) is the ABC television affiliate located in Jackson, Tennessee. It is owned by Bahakel Communications of Charlotte, North Carolina. Its transmitter is located in Jackson. Located at 346 Muse Street in Jackson, the station is owned by Bahakel Communications, Ltd.
It started broadcasting on March 5, 1955 as WDXI-TV, a CBS affiliate owned by Aaron Robinson. In 1968, it changed to ABC, and a year later was sold to Bahakel and adopted its current call letters.
WBBJ-TV has the historical distinction of being the oldest TV station in Tennessee to have had continuous ownership by the same company that put the station on the air. One other Tennessee TV station, WKPT-TV in the Kingsport-Johnson City-Bristol, Virginia market, has the second oldest station license in Tennessee with the same company that launched the station, coincidentally going on the air the same year WBBJ was sold to Bahakel. These two station owners have long surpassed station ownerships in much larger markets in Tennessee.
Once WBBJ began broadcasting digitally, the station has broadcasted a HD feed for national programming with SD newscasts on 7.1, a SD feed on subchannel 7.2, and a radar loop with the local NOAA Radio as audio on subchannel 7.3.
WBBJ, like many of the stations that broadcast on Channel 7, features the Circle 7 Logo. (It had done so in the past, then used WJLA's stylized Circle 7 logo for several years, but returned to the full logo in 2003.) On August 1, 2007, WBBJ debuted new graphics, a new logo, new music, and an updated weather set. WBBJ, which had been using Frank Gari's Image News music package since 1999, switched to In-Sink by Nashville, Tennessee-based company 615 Music. Also on this date, the 5:00 pm newscast dropped the "Live at Five" branding and returned to "ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 5:00". Likewise, the 90-minute morning newscast rebranded to "ABC 7 Eyewitness News Good Morning West Tennessee."
Station Management
- Jerry Moore - General Manager
- Brad Grantham - News Director
On-Air Talent
Current Anchors
- Brandon Artiles - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Good Morning West Tennessee
- Ginger Trice - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Good Morning West Tennessee
- Tom Britt - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Mid-Day, ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 5:00
- Emily Jordan - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Mid-Day
- Brad Douglass - ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 6:00 & 10:00
- Mickey Goodwin - ABC 7 Eyewitness News at 6:00 & 10:00
- Ashley Haddock - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Weekend
- Shaun Fossett - ABC 7 Eyewitness News Weekend
Weather Anchors
- Gary Pickens - Chief Forecaster
- Nick Austin - Meteorologist (Weekday mornings)
- Mike McEvoy - Meteorologist (Weekends)
Sports Anchors
- Reggie Walker - Sports Anchor/Reporter (Weekday)
- Lauren Linney - Sports Anchor/Reporter (Weekend)
- Jonathan Huskey - Sports Reporter (Fifth Quarter)
Reporters
- Brandon Artiles - Anchor/Reporter
- Shaun Fossett - Anchor/Reporter
- Ashley Haddock - Anchor/Reporter
- Meredith Hill
- Jordan Leigh
- Alison Montoya
- Jackie Rivard
- Ginger Trice - Anchor/Reporter, Gibson County Bureau Chief
Past Personalities
- Natasha Ray -Reporter
- Porcha Johnson - Reporter
- John Stewart - Sports Anchor
- Jennifer Lahmers - Anchor/Reporter
- Ryan D. Davidson - Meteorologist
- Chip Washington - Weekend Anchor
- Ravi Kapur - Anchor/Reporter
- Lew Jetton - Meteorologist, Sports
- Michaelene Tetteh - Sports Anchor
- Jenna McKee - Reporter
- Kara Kostanich - News Anchor
- Angela Migliaccio - News Anchor
- Cody Alcorn - News Anchor
- Charles Vance - News Anchor
- Melody Mendez - News Anchor
- Bart Barker - Sports Anchor
- Keata Nicholson - News Anchor
- Dave Mecham - News Anchor
- Amy Silver - News Anchor
- Vicki Zamata - News Anchor
- Kimberly Laburda - News Anchor
- Erin Pickens - News Anchor
- Misty Shay Cole - News Anchor
- Noel Glasgow - Sports Anchor
- Jason Marks - Sports Anchor
- Greg Hammond - Sports Anchor
- Courtney Friel - News Anchor
- Katie Garrety - News Anchor
- Keli Fulton - Sports Anchor
- Tiffany Carey - Weather Anchor
- Anjuli Porter - News Anchor
- Eddie Holmes - Meteorologist
- Tommy Stafford - Weather Anchor
- Julie Rhodes - Fill-in Weather Anchor
- Marty Steinmetz - News Anchor
- Christine Kelly - Reporter
- Nick Paranjape - Reporter
- Marlin Williams - Sports Anchor
- Jim Holder - Sports Anchor
- Sharrie Williams - Anchor/Reporter
- Nancy Lubinski - Anchor/Reporter
- Liz Wilson - Anchor/Reporter
Other Past Staff
- Chris Adams - Commercial Production/Commercial Photog
- Frank Beard - Director
- Aaron Bedenbaugh - Production Manager/Commercial Production
- Charles Carter - Production/Audio/Photog
- Ty Conner - Production/Director
- Brenda Dewberry - Production Manager
- Allison Elliott - Production
- John Elmer - Commercial Production/Commercial Photog
- Bob Fay - NSM
- Brent Green - Production/Director
- Diane Harper - Sales
- Jan Hetzler - Office/Sales
- Melanie Holt - Sales
- Anne Jensen - Sales
- Marie Law - Sales
- Anna Major - Office/Sales
- Kirby Matthews - Commercial Production/Commercial Photog
- Anthony Matrisciano - Promotions/Programming
- Brian Qualls - Commercial Production/Commercial Photog
- Kelly Redd - Production/Director
- Sandra Robinson - Office
- Rachel Waddey - Production
- Peaches Waller - Sales
- Nikki Wells - Production/Director
- Jennifer West - Sales
- Michael Willie - Sales
Logos
){kind=small} Good Morning West Tennessee Logo (not used on air) | ) MidDay logo (2005 - July 31, 2007) | ){kind=logo} Newscast Logo (2005 - July 31, 2007) |
External links
| Broadcast television in the Jackson, Tennessee market (Nielsen DMA #174)''' | |
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| WBBJ 7 (ABC) - WLJT 11 (PBS) - WJKT 16 (Fox) - WJTE-LP 19 (FamilyNet) - W35AH 35 (TBN) | |
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Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location : WREG 3 (CBS)- WMC 5 (NBC)-WHBQ 13 (Fox) : WSMV 4 (NBC)- WTVF 5 (CBS) |
| '''Bahakel Communications |
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| Radio Stations: KFMW | KILO | KOKZ | KWLO | KXEL | KWLO | WDEF-AM | WDEF-FM | WDOD | WDOD-FM |
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Bahakel Communications is a communications company, owning radio and television stations in the United States. The company was founded in 1965 by Cy Bahakel when he put WCCB in Charlotte, North Carolina on the air and was controlled by Bahakel (and, in later years, his children)
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