WJCL is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Coastal Empire area of Southeastern Georgia and the Lowcountry of Southern South Carolina. Licensed to Savannah, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter south of Bloomingdale, Georgia. Owned by New Vision Television, the station operates Fox affiliate WTGS (owned by Parkin Broadcasting, LLC) through a joint sales agreement (JSA) and the two share studios on Abercorn Extension (GA 204) in Savannah. Syndicated programming on WJCL includes: Extra, Inside Edition, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors.

History

WJCL began broadcasting on July 18, 1970 as an ABC affiliate. Owned by former Savannah mayor Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr. (whose initials provided its call sign), the station marked many "firsts". At that time, it built the tallest tower in the market rising some (150 feet) above sea level. Color film and videotape were introduced to the Savannah market by WJCL. It claims to have been the first station in the area to televise a live event (President Richard Nixon's Savannah visit and ride in a parade on Skidaway Road) as well as broadcasting in stereo.

WJCL-TV and WJCL-FM 96.5 were both run by Lewis Broadcasting's Executive Vice President, J. Fred Pierce, from 1972 until the television station's first sale in 1999. In 1982, WJCL swapped affiliations with WSAV-TV (due to the latter's action) and became an NBC affiliate. However, a mere four years later it returned to ABC in 1986. When Lewis purchased WNOK television and radio stations in Columbia, South Carolina in 1977, he quickly sold off WNOK radio (undisclosed price) and immediately changed the television call sign to WLTX.

In 1982, he purchased WYEA television in Columbus, Georgia from Aflac and changed its calls to WLTZ to follow a similar call letter format used for his station in South Carolina's capitol, Columbia (with "LT" meaning Lewis Television). In the early-1990s, Lewis sold two of his radio stations, WSTZ-FM and WSTZ-AM in Jackson, Mississippi for an undisclosed price. In 1999, Lewis Broadcasting sold WJCL-TV to Grapevine Communications which has since merged with Piedmont Television. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Lewis decided to divest an even larger portion of his media interests and sold four of his combined eight owned and/or previously owned radio and television stations: WJCL-TV, WTGS, WJCL-FM, and WLTX. On May 1, 2007, Lewis broadcasting entered into an agreement with SagamoreHill Broadcasting to sell off its last remaining television station, WLTZ.

In 2001, WJCL partnered with Carleton Public Relations, Inc. to produce the show ABC 22 LawCall. Radio on-air personality Lexie Kaye was hired by Carleton PR as producer of the weekly live, legal call-in show. The show featured Mike Avery as host along with attorneys from the Carter & Tate firm with a weekly guest and various topics. This was the first legal call-in show in the nation to use the "LawCall" name. The show aired until June 2006 on Sunday nights from 11 to 11:30. Since Lewis' sale of the station in 1999, it has been bought twice. WJCL and WTGS were most recently sold to New Vision Television and Parkin Broadcasting respectively.

The station unveiled a new blog-based website in June 2007. On November 2, 2007, the station announced on its website that (with the recent acquisition of WJCL by New Vision Broadcasting) a brand new website was on the way. The revamped website (operated largely in-house with technology borrowed from Broadcast Interactive Media) featured the usual news, weather, and sports along with streaming video. In January 2009, the websites of WJCL and several of its sister stations migrated to the Inergize Digital Network platform (with KOIN in Portland, Oregon being the first station in the New Vision group to feature it). The station is the setting of the second season of the TV Guide Network show which began airing on June 4, 2008. WJCL's broadcasts have been digital-only since February 17, 2009.

News operation

WJCL has never enjoyed as much success as it did under the founding owners. From its start in the early-1970s through the 1990s, the station lagged behind the other big three outlets in news ratings (typical at the time for a UHF competing against two VHF stations in a single market) but was known as the area's leader in commercial video production and local television advertisement sales. It also frequently beat out the area's news leader, WTOC-TV, showing afternoon and prime time programming such as Dr. Phil, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy!. Those syndicated television series now air on WSAV. Through a news share agreement that has been in place since the late-1990s, WJCL produces a prime time newscast every night at 10 for WTGS.

On October 28, 2010, it was announced that the two stations would combine operations with the Savannah Morning News and be relocated to the newspaper's facilities on Chatham Parkway in Savannah. The actual date of consolidation has yet to be named. Unlike most ABC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, this station does not offer newscasts weekdays in the midday hours or weeknights at 5 and 5:30. In addition to its main studios, WJCL operates a South Carolina Bureau on Independence Boulevard (US 278/SC 141) in Hardeeville, South Carolina.

Newscast titles

JCL News (1970s-1980s)

JCL Newswatch 22 (1980s)

TV 22 Action News (1980s-1990s)

News Savannah (1990s-1999)

ABC 22 News (1999-2005)

WJCL, Your Local News Source (2005-2008)

WJCL News (2008-present)

Station slogans

"Real People. Real News." (until 2001)

"Your Local News Source" (2001-2008)

"The Coastal Source" (2008-present)

News team

Anchors

Jessica Kiss - weekday mornings and "Designing with Jessica" segment producer

Casey Jones - weeknights at 6 and 11

Jenifer Andrews - weeknights at 6 and 11

*"Smart Woman" segment producer

Lindsay Housaman - weeknights at 10

Jesse Blanco - weeknights at 10

Ashley Jacobs - weekend anchor

*South Carolina Bureau Chief and military reporter

Nick Paradise - weekday reporter

*consumer reporter

Jennifer Beale - weekend anchor and entertainment reporter

*"Idol Chatter" segment producer

WJCL Future Trak Meteorologists

Jeff Kirk (AMS Seal of Approval) - Chief seen weeknights

Jonathan Myers - weekday mornings

Sports

Frank Sulkowski - Director seen weeknights

*The Frenzy and Gridiron Live host

Allen Kinzly - weekends and sports reporter

Reporters

Renee Kennedy - weekday morning traffic and heard on WRHQ-FM 105.3

Nikki Gaskins - crime and safety

*"Savannah's Most Wanted" and "Child Support Violators" segments producer

Deidre Johnson - education

Photographers

William Hammargren - Chief

Amanda Crane

Herman McCain

Nate Nauert

References

"Channel 22 On The Air Tomorrow," The Savannah Morning News Friday July 17, 1970, p. B1

"Welcome, WJCL-TV," The Savannah Morning News Saturday, July 18, 1970, p. A4

"WJCL Makes Debut," The Savannah Morning News Sunday, July 19, 1970, p. C1

External links

WJCL mobile

ABC

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Dateofbirth	January 05, 1965
Birthplace	Gainesville, Florida
Status	Retired
Import	yes
Position1	Quarterback
Number	1, 8
Height ft	5
Height in	11
Weight lbs	200
Hand	right
College	Georgia Southern
Nfldraftedyear	1987
Nfldraftedround	9
Nfldraftedpick	240
Nfldraftedteam	Los Angeles Rams
Records	Eskimos Records
Cflallstar
Cflwestallstar
Awards	CFL MOP Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy Eddie James Memorial Trophy Grey Cup MVP
Playing years	---
Playing teams	Edmonton EskimosToronto ArgonautsBaltimore StallionsMontreal Alouettes
Collegehof	90125
Cfhof	hamtracy
Cfhofyear	2010

Tracy Ham (born January 5, 1965 in Gainesville, Florida) is a retired Canadian Football League quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, Toronto Argonauts, Baltimore Stallions, and the Montreal Alouettes. He was known for his abilities as a dual threat quarterback. In his college career with Georgia Southern he became the first quarterback to rush for 3,000 yards and pass for 5,000 yards in a career.

Career

After his college days he signed with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1987 serving as the third string quarterback behind Matt Dunigan and Damon Allen and was a member of their Grey Cup winning team that season. With the departure of Dunigan to the BC Lions and injuries to Allen, Ham established himself the their new starting quarterback. He passed for 2840 yards and ran for another 628. In 1989 he won the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award in leading the Eskimos to a 16-2 record, throwing for 4366 yards on 268 completions out of 517 attempts with 30 touchdowns to 18 interceptions. Plus Ham became the first CFL passer to rush for over 1000 yards with 1005 on 125 carries and with 10 touchdowns. Unfortunately for the Eskimos they lost the division final to the 9-9 Saskatchewan Roughriders, who went on to win the Grey Cup.

In 1990 Ham added another 1000 yard rushing season with 1096 and passed for 4286 yards leading the Eskimos to the Grey Cup. However the team was handily beaten by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 55-10. The next year Ham ran for 998 yards and passed for 3862. Ham endured an injury plagued season in 1992 but played well enough to pass for 3655 yards and to run for 655. He moved on to the Toronto Argonauts for 1993 and suffered through a 3-15 record. He threw for only 2147 yards and ran for 605, struggling to adapt to the Run & Shoot offense.

With the CFL expanding into the United States, Ham joined the Baltimore team in 1994. He gained his last plus 4000 yard passing season with 4348 and ran for 613 yards. Ham led the team, not yet named the Stallions, to the Grey Cup, where they were defeated by the Lions. Finally, in 1995, Ham led the Stallions to the only Grey Cup win by a US-based team in a 37-20 defeat of the Calgary Stampeders; he won Grey Cup MVP honours for his efforts. In the regular season he passed for only 3357 yards and ran for 610.

With the demise of the US-based teams, the core of the Stallions franchise was transferred to Montreal where they became the third incarnation of the Alouettes. The team's offence was geared to the running attack, especially when Mike Pringle returned from the NFL midway through the 1996 season. Ham would spend two seasons as the clear-cut starting quarterback, but in 1998 he began to share passing duties with Anthony Calvillo and he retired after the 1999 season.

In his career from 1987 to 1999 Ham accumulated 40,534 passing yards which currently ranks seventh all-time. He threw 4943 times with 2670 completions, 164 interceptions and 284 touchdowns. His 8043 rushing yards presently puts him in tenth all time and second among quarterbacks, behind only Damon Allen. He tallied 1059 carries with 62 touchdowns. In 2007 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and in 2010 into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

External links

http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=90125

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Name	Rick Harris
Names	Rick HarrisBlack Bart
Height	6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight	285 lb (129 kg)
Birth date	June 01, 1948
Birth place	Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
Resides	Weatherford, Texas
Billed	Pampa, Texas
Debut	1975

Rick Harris is a former professional wrestler better known by his ring name , Black Bart. He is the son of the late George "Two Ton" Harris.

Career

Rick Harris started wrestling in 1975. He went through several names, such as Hangman Harris, Ricky Harris and Man Mountain Harris, before settling on the name of Black Bart which was given to him by Dusty Rhodes in 1984. While in the UWF during the time when they would co-promote shows with the NWA. While wrestling in the NWA for Jim Crockett Promotions, he received a sizable push in the midcard, winning the NWA National Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship. He also wrestled in the tournament for the NWA Western States Heritage Championship. Harris Lost in the final match to Barry Windham.

In 1987 Black Bart wrestled in Japan for NJPW and had some matches with Antonio Inoki.

He then went back to Florida Championship Wrestling and teamed with Bobby Jaggers and Tony Anthony while feuding with Dustin Rhodes & Mike Graham and The Nasty Boys.

He then went to the CWA where he feuded with Dutch Mantel.

In 1989, he went to the WWF where he mostly worked as enhancement talent wrestling against Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Tito Santana and Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

After leaving WWF he wrestled for the USWA owned WCCW promotion in Texas where he struck up another feud with Sam Houston.

In 1991 World Championship Wrestling (WCW) created a stable known as "the Desperados" consisting of Dutch Mantell, Black Bart, and Deadeye Dick. The Desperados were packaged with the gimmick of being three bumbling cowboys looking to meet up with Stan Hansen to go to WCW and become a team. Over the course of a few months, they were promoted through a series of vignettes by which they would be beaten up in saloons, searching ghost towns, and riding horses. Hansen reportedly wanted no part of the storyline and left for Japan, never to return to wrestle in North America. Without Hansen, the group were pushed into service as jobbers and were dissolved as a stable before the end of the year.

In 1991, he went to the Global Wrestling Federation where he won the Tag Team Titles 3 times, including once with John Hawk.

Harris wrestled in the independents for the rest of his career and had a short run in WCW as Big Train Bart before retiring in 2002. Harris resurfaced in 2006 wrestling on some independent shows in Texas. Harris has also appeared at many NWA reunion events.

As a trainer, his most famous pupil to date has been Necro Butcher who was featured in the 2008 hit movie The Wrestler. Harris once ran a professional wrestling school at the Dallas Sportatorium.

In wrestling

Finishing moves

*Texas Trash Compactor (Diving leg drop)

Managers

*James J. Dillon

*Skandor Akbar

*Percy Pringle

Championships and accomplishments

Championship Wrestling from Florida

*NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Florida version) (1 time)

*NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Bobby Jaggers (1) and Tony Anthony (1)

*NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Florida version) (3 times) - with Ron Bass

Continental Wrestling Association

*CWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

Global Wrestling Federation

*GWF Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)

*GWF Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Bill Irwin (1), Johnny Mantel (1) and John Hawk (1)

Jim Crockett Promotions

*NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (1 time)

*NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ron Bass

*NWA National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Southeastern Championship Wrestling

*NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

World Class Wrestling Association

*WCWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

ACTS Wrestling Alliance

ACTS Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

:*PWI ranked him #348 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003

Notes

External links

Championship Wrestling posters

Southern Legends (photos)

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Name	Michelle Obama
Image name	Michelle Obama official portrait headshot.jpg
Alt	|imagesize = 225px
Office	First Lady of the United States
Term start	January 20, 2009
Predecessor	Laura Bush
Birth date	January 17, 1964
Birth place	Chicago, Illinois
Birthname	Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
Nationality	American
Party	Democratic
Spouse	Barack Obama (m. 1992)
Children	Malia and Sasha Obama
Residence	Kenwood, Chicago (private)The White House (official)
Alma mater	Princeton University (A.B.)Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Protestant Christian
Signature	Michelle Obama Signatrue.svg

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before returning to Chicago and to work at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University. As the wife of a Senator, and later the First Lady, she has become a fashion icon and role model for women, and a notable advocate for poverty awareness and healthy eating.

Family and education

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois to Fraser Robinson III, The family entertained together by playing games such as Monopoly and by reading. The family attended services at nearby South Shore Methodist Church. The Robinsons used to vacation in a rustic cabin in White Cloud, Michigan. She and her brother, Craig (who is 21 months older), skipped the second grade. By sixth grade, Michelle joined a gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School (later renamed Bouchet Academy). The round trip commute from her South Side home to the Near West Side took three hours. She was a high school classmate of Santita Jackson, the daughter of Jesse Jackson and sister of Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Michelle was inspired to follow her brother to Princeton University; he graduated in 1983. At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." While at Princeton, she got involved with the Third World Center (now known as the Carl A. Fields Center), an academic and cultural group that supported minority students, running their day care center which also included after school tutoring. In July 2008, Obama accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of the 100-year-old black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, which had no active undergraduate chapter at Princeton when she attended. The couple's first date was to the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing. Now Jarrett is one of her husband’s closest advisors. The Obamas' daughters now attend Sidwell Friends School in Washington, after also considering Georgetown Day School. Marian Robinson, Michelle's mother, has moved into the White House to assist with child care.

In 1991, she held public sector positions in the Chicago city government as an Assistant to the Mayor, and as Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Development. In 1993, she became Executive Director for the Chicago office of Public Allies, a non-profit organization encouraging young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies. She worked there nearly four years and set fundraising records for the organization that still stood 12 years after she left.

In 1996, she served as the Associate Dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago, where she developed the University's Community Service Center. by early February 2008 her participation had increased significantly, attending thirty-three events in eight days. She made several campaign appearances with Oprah Winfrey. The View appearance was partly intended to help soften her public image, and it was widely-covered in the press. New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd wrote: }}

On the first night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Craig Robinson introduced his younger sister. Obama said both she and her husband believed "that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, and you do what you say you're going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them." and also to Barbara Bush for her discipline and decorum. She has also sent representatives to schools and advocated public service. Like her predecessors Clinton and Bush, who supported the organic movement by instructing the White House kitchens to buy organic food, Obama has received attention by planting an organic garden and installing bee hives on the South Lawn of the White House, which will supply organic produce and honey to the First Family and for state dinners and other official gatherings. She is notable for her support from military families and some Republicans. There were questions raised in the American and British media regarding protocol when the Obamas met Queen Elizabeth II, She has named the movement "Let's Move!".

See also

Family of Barack Obama

References

Further reading

External links

First Lady Michelle Obama, Whitehouse.gov

"Meet Michelle", biographical entry at BarackObama.com

"Michelle Obama On Love, Family & Politics", interview with Katie Couric of CBS News

Photoessay in Newsweek

Archive at The New York Times

Archive at U.S.News & World Report

archive at Chicago Tribune

"Michelle Obama's plea for education", on TED (conference), May 2009

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