Posted: Mar 12, 2020 / 06:37 PM EDT. "My entire Lock Haven University experience did a tremendous job preparing me to get Amy Mearkle - Formerly anchored weekday mornings and noon until 2011, as she now works at, Big John Riley - staff announcer/on-air personality (carried the station from black and white into color; long loved by the community), During the 1950s, the station carried a number of programs from the now-defunct, Blake Russell (Sr. VP, Station Operations), Marc Montoya (Sr. VP, eMedia Sales & Operations), Rick Stolpe (Vp, Director of Engineering). There has been no official word as to why she is already gone from WTAJ? We interviewed our tech expert, Jaime Vazquez, to learn more about accessible smart home devices. Former WSJ/CBS News anchors Scott Pelley, Nancy Grace, and Bob Schieffer discuss how the media works in the new world of video. Updated: Mar 12, 2020 / 06:37 PM EDT. 29th May 1979. Skip to content. WJAC-TV - News Operation - News Team - LiquiSearch Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.Chinese proverb. Worked all shifts. "My internship was also crucial to me getting the job at WTAJ in multiple ways, primarily // ====================================== Channel 10 was one of the strongest stations in the entire country, utilizing over 300,000 watts to serve its coverage area (most of which is a very rugged dissected plateau). You can also try the grid of 16 letters. Granite Broadcasting has since purchased WBNG, and on July 26, 2006, Nexstar Broadcasting Group purchased WTAJ and WLYH for $56 million. In March, we stopped in Altoona. The news industry has always been an aggressive segment of the media, but as with any profession, the more aggressive the industry becomes, the more it ends up being a business. end, it all definitely paid off.". There will always be an audience for any kind of news. Montecito put WTAJ and two of its other stations in the Northeast--WLYH and Binghamton, New York's WBNG-TV--up for sale shortly after it purchased four television stations (KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii; KOIN in Portland, Oregon; KSNT in Topeka, Kansas and KSNW in Wichita, Kansas) from Emmis Communications. and the countless lessons they taught that helped me get to where I am, truly means * Heather Tesch. It was a long and emotional day, but both Mearkle and Donaldson explained how important it was for them to focus on doing their job. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News"