Felicia stands at the height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx 1.74 m). In June 2011, WTHR began offering newscast segments for free streaming on the Roku digital video player. Before coming to Indianapolis, she co-hosted "The Jam," a morning talk show,fora Chicago CW affiliate. "There comes a point in your life when family is the most important thing," Diaz said during Tuesday's telecast. "I feel this is an incredibly harmful policy that doesnt add anything other than punitive measures.". Parents are fighting back after a California high school eliminated honors English classes, ostensibly to foster racial equity, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. This is based on the fact that the branding was originally synonymous with most ABC owned-and-operated stations, as well as stations owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (or Group W) that were later acquired by CBS. [6], WLWI was one of four Crosley stations that made up the WLW Television Network. Carlos Diaz, who grew up in Greenwood before landing high-profile jobs at news network HLN and celebrity interview show "Extra," now has an anchor job in Indianapolis. It would make WTHR and WALV-CD sister stations to ABC affiliate WHAS-TV in adjacent Louisville and would also result in Tegna owning its first station in Indiana since its predecessor company, Gannett, sold off Fort Wayne's WPTA to the now-defunct Pulitzer, Inc. in May 1983. Lawrence will join 13News as a weekday evening anchor, alongside Scott Swan and Anne Marie Tiernon. Continuing to criminalize people for being in poverty, for struggling, has never gotten anyone out of poverty and never will, said Bryan Bubba Fish, who sits on the citys homeless advisory committee. [41] "Charity Caught on Camera",[42] a report on corruption at a local nonprofit, and "Dangerous Exposure",[43] a report on how lax agency oversight allowed companies to leak poison into groundwater in residential areas, won the station two Peabody awards in 2016. Emma's sister, Elena Frigola, told the outlet that in the past, honors English students chose their own research topics for which they gathered their own sources. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. The following year, Crosley and Fairbanks reached a deal in which Crosley traded WLWA to Fairbanks in return for being allowed to keep WLWI; both stations became sister stations in 2019 when the now-WXIA-TV owner Tegna acquired channel 13. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Lawrence, whose first day on air was Feb. 8, has nearly 10 years of experience in TV. With more than 170,000 people living in tents and cars and sleeping outdoors on sidewalks and under highway overpasses, California is the epicenter of the nations homeless crisis, yet few, if any, communities have been able to make a significant dent in the number of unsheltered residents living within their borders. McCutcheon earned a bachelors degree in broadcast journalism and leadership in 2004 from Franklin College. Prior to arriving at NewsChannel 5, Hill served as Anchor of "Eyewitness News Sunrise," with WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, IN. To have the opportunity to be myself as a young Black woman on television, to wear my hair in its natural curls, to be able to have the personality that I have, and to be able to do that in a position, hasn't always existed.". McCutcheon "Today I. Before, she worked as a host at WCIU in Chicago from May 2017 to 2021. [citation needed], In late 1974, Avco Broadcasting Corporation (which Crosley Broadcasting was renamed in 1968) announced it was exiting the broadcasting business in an effort to raise cash. INDIANAPOLIS WTHR is thrilled to announce the addition of Felicia Lawrence to the 13News family! In 1999, the station's Eyewitness News broadcasts surged past then-dominant WISH in several key timeslots, finishing in first place for the first time in its history. Channel 13 and its sister stations in Ohio, interconnected via microwave link, shared common programming such as The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club, The Bob Braun Show, The Paul Dixon Show, Midwestern Hayride, The Phil Donahue Show, and Cincinnati Reds baseball game telecasts, and had similar on-air branding which reflected their connection to each other. [31], On May 27, 2021, IMS lifted the local blackout for the Indianapolis 500 for WTHR as all 135,000 tickets were sold. Proponents of the Culver City ordinance say the city must stay in lockstep with surrounding communities to prevent more unhoused people from taking up residence on its streets. "I was like, thisis an opportunity not only at this legacy station, but also Indianapolis is a really cool city, a nice midsize city that's on its way. 13News Anchor / Reporter - @GinaGlaros. Get the iOS Weather app. Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Just prior to joining Channel 11, she spent three years as an anchor and reporter at WTHR in Indianapolis. The gorgeous journalist joined the Fox affiliate back in 2016, and now she will soon leave her job on the channel. Her career as a News anchor is her primary source of income. 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Originally from Chicago, she attended North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU, where she studied journalism and mass communication. [25], On June 11, 2019, Dispatch announced it would sell its broadcasting assets, including WTHR and WALV-CD, to Tegna Inc. for $535 million in cash. Felicia Lawrence is an American Journalist and TV Personality. By signing up to the Blaze News newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from Blaze Media that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. If you have not registered, please sign up for a free account now. Elena is now an eleventh-grader. Join us for an evening of networking designed especially for real estate professionals. This type of ordinance, criticized as turning unhoused residents into criminals, has been tried before in other communities with little success. [ Me-TV Adds Denver And Indianapolis Affiliates]. Morehead is not listed as a team member at WTHR's website, and a search enginelink to her biography page at the WTHR website brings up a 404 error when clicked. Welcome ladies, glad to have you here in our city. If you have not registered, please sign up for a free account now. The station debuted a weekday morning newscast titled Sunrise in September 1985; this was followed by the addition of two-hour weekend morning newscasts in 1993 (which were later retitled under the Weekend Sunrise banner), becoming the first station in the Indianapolis market to expand its morning newscasts to Saturdays and Sundays. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. And it's getting bigger and there's just a lot that's happening here, and I want it to be a part of it.". Lawrence is thrilled to be coming to Indianapolis from Chicago:"From the Windy City to the Circle City!" Call IndyStar courts reporter Johnny Magdaleno at 317-273-3188 or email him at jmagdaleno@gannett.com. Please enable JavaScript to view this content. These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels. The Wolfe family, owners of the Columbus Dispatch and WBNS-AM-FM-TV in Columbus, bought WLWI from Avco in August 1975; the Wolfes changed the station's call letters to WTHR on January 29, 1976. Diaz will succeed WTHR-13 "Sunrise" anchor Ben Hill, who announced plans Tuesday to accept a new TV job in Nashville, Tennessee. WTHR's newscasts surged to second place in 1996 after it hired former CBS News correspondent John Stehr as anchor of its evening newscasts around the same time that WRTV saw its ratings plummet following a botched format change. But the push to clean up the most obvious signs of homelessness has not addressed what many experts say is the root cause of the crisis: a shortage of affordable housing. "Thats where I get the most joy, actually interacting with people. Like Bradley, Lindsey was not aware of the new ordinance and does not have a backup plan should he be asked to relocate. Fire broke out just before 2:30 a.m. at the Indy Town Apartments on the 21st Street just east of Arlington Avenue. Alyssa Raymond left the station in October to take a job in Pittsburgh. 1:57 Emmy award-winning news anchor Andrea Morehead is suing the parent company of WTHR-TV Channel 13 after alleging that employees at the news station harassed and discriminated against. Management made it "cumbersome" for Morehead to request workplace and scheduleadjustmentsat times whenthe side effects of cancer treatmentbecame debilitating, Kinnard alleges. Contact her atrfradette@indystar.comor follow her on Twitter at @Rachel_Fradette. "Getting the truth out there and truly being somebody who respects all opinions in this polarized world," Diaz said. One of the other competitors, WIBC owner Richard Fairbanks, then sued to force new license hearings. Bass told NBCs Meet the Press in December that her plan to move homeless people into rooms immediately will not address everybody, but it is going to address, hopefully, a significant number. She said people would not be forced to move, but sanitation crews would stand by to clean up areas after people have left. Here was a post on her Facebook from November 25: WTHR General Manager Michael Brouder told IndyStar he cannot comment on pending litigation. Culver City is not the only Golden State high school that has recently faced controversy over eliminating honors classes. When presented with these requests her bosses would ask for additional medical documentation from doctors and share the details of her cancer diagnosis with other employees, which was information she didn't intend to share, according to the complaint. Brooks is a Georgia native who spent the past four years as a reporter and morning anchor for the Alabama News Network in Mongomery. Get the iOS app. "But she creates those real human, huge emphasis on human, emotional moments, I mean, different different walks of life that I think everybody can relate to.".