A very good group of people at the station. And an EXCELLENT staff. I forget the name of the news director, but he really turned around the news operation, when channel 3 had been the long time leader. And newsroom and studio in an old produce warehouse in Portsmouth!
About the abortion story ... I knew Bishop John Gimenez of Rock Church for years when he first opened a home for young people who were addicted to drugs. My mother volunteered with them to paint that home before it opened. I waited on them at the restaurant as a 2nd job nearby in the 1980s when he, his wife and friends came in after church services on Sundays. Very kind to me. A street is named after him in Va. Beach. R.I.P.
Old-school computer graphics? Check. Electronic theme? Terry (subbing for Bob Grip) and Diana? Check. Now-retro logo? Moustaches on Don and Bruce? Double-check! Tidewater? Big old check! I remember this era quite well. Back then, they spelled out W-A-V-Y instead of saying WAVY on-air. I am so old!
The 1983 World Series wound up pitting the Baltimore Orioles against the Philadelphia Phillies. Wonder if Diana made a couple bucks on that bet with Bruce.
Tragic murder of a child at Norfolk General Hospital. Parenthetically, the sports focused on last title before the local Orioles franchise was eventually ruined by the poisonous Lord Peter Angeloser.
