Sponsored Content. Joe L. Langston January 1, 1932 - June 21, 2014 IN THE CARE OF Ridout's Valley Chapel Joe Leonard Langston, Sr., age 82, of Birmingham, passed away at his home on Friday, June 20, 2014. He graduated from the University in 1954. WBRC was the first Birmingham station to use a microwave-transmitting live news truck for newsgathering in 1978. The coffee giant is raising its prices. The second best result is Joe Judy Langston age 60s in Aurora, IL in the Tomcat 4th Ward neighborhood. KFMB, the CBS station in San Diego, debuted an updated news set, which the station described as a major renovation, with a new look and more tec Bri Eggers is joining Boston NBC affiliateWHDH. Langston was president of the Alabama Associated Press Broadcasters Association and on the board of directors of the Birmingham Press Club and University of Alabama School of Communication Alumni Association. Click a location below to find Joe more easily. "Without missing a beat, Joe said, 'Go get another pot of water' and I did and he said, 'Pour it slowly over my jacket' and he made it the same color as his water specks were. (AL.com file photo) JOE LANGSTON Joe Langston joined the staff of WBRC-TV/Channel 6 in 1963,. Fiddler, guitarist and vocalist Eddie Burns was invited to bring his musical group to serve as The Morning Show's house band and act as the program's bandleader; however, within a few months, station management offered Burns his own morning program on channel 6. In 1969, former WSGN radio anchor Bill Bolen joined WBRC to replace Harry Mabry as the station's main news anchor; Bolen would remain a fixture at channel 6 (eventually becoming anchor of the station's weekday morning newscast in 1990) for 42 years until his retirement in 2010. An urban legend regarding the ABC affiliation agreement suggested that the switch was partly motivated by CBS' plans to air Who Speaks For Birmingham?, a controversial CBS Reports documentary focusing on desegregation at Birmingham City Schools that later led to journalist Howard K. Smith's resignation from CBS News after he quoted an anti-desegregation statement by political scientist Edmund Burke in the closing narration, viewed by network president Bill Paley as editorializing his views in support of school integration; however, the special aired on May 18 of that year, two months after the ABC agreement was signed. [3] WBRC-TV originally operated from WBRC radio's facilities on 19th Street and 2nd Avenue, near downtown Birmingham, which originally only housed business and master control operations; the station originally relied mainly on network and film content for much of the programming it broadcast. Officials say the boaters had been drinking, so pinpointing exactly where Franklin went under has been challenging. The following year, he went to work at Jacksonville State University as an instructor in the Ayers Chair in the college's school of communication. TV Guide, Northern Alabama edition--cover, cast of "Mission Impossible": Greg Morris, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, Lynda Day George NOTE: Listings are through 6 p.m. Main Menu. Chandler remembered Langston being relaxed and approachable during his years at Jacksonville State. The group's affiliation deal with Fox also gave New World a chance to solve its ownership problem by reaching an agreement with Citicasters to sell WBRC and WGHP directly to the network's owned-and-operated station group, Fox Television Stations. Check resumes and CV, arrest records, social media profiles, places of employment, public records, skilled experts, photos and videos, business records and work history . We used to play jokes on one another, do silly things. There are plenty of things in this world that step out of the abyss and scare the hell out of you like Bozo the Clown. The concurrent move of the ABC affiliation to W58CK and its satellites also led to the CBS affiliation for the Anniston-Gadsden market to move to WNAL-TV (channel 44, now Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXH-TV), which along with WTTO and its Tuscaloosa satellite WDBB (channel 17) lost its Fox affiliation to WBRC. Langston started at Birminghams WBRC in 1963 as the first reporter/anchor hired at the station. Get TVSpy delivered straight to your inbox, Veteran Birmingham Anchor Joe Langston Dies. WBRC Fox 6 Chief Meteorologist JP Dice discusses his decision to leave Fox 6 and his plan for the future. Joe Langston - anchor (1955-1981 and 1983-1987; retired) Andrea Lindenburg - weekend anchor, later weekday evening anchor (1993-2004; now at WVTM-TV) Harry Mabry - anchor (1960s-1970s; deceased) Brandy Malone - general traffic reporter (2005-2008; last at WZTV in Nashville) Linda Mays - daybreak and noon anchor (1988-1996; now at WBMA/WCFT/WJSU) Throughout his career Langston earned every major award from The Associated Press and United Press International. This also marked a significant turnaround for channel 6's relationship with the network, as during the later 1950s, the amount of ABC programming on WBRC had been dramatically reduced from about 50% of its schedule to only a very limited selection of shows, seemingly headed toward an exclusive CBS affiliation by 1960; even still, WBRC retained some of CBS' higher-rated soap operas on its daytime schedule until about 1968, when those programs moved to either WAPI-TV or WBMG. We are also following a developing story in east Alabama. He graduated and soon after went on to join the army. We used to play jokes on one another, do silly things. WBRC is a Raycom sister station to WSFA, and is located in Birmingham.. According to al.com, he was best known as the stations anchor, working with Mike Royer, Herb Winches, Pat Gray among others. Birmingham-area television legend Joe Langston is being remembered this week, not only for his work in the anchor chair, but also what he did afterwards in the front of a classroom. Call for Action Langston of Live Oak, Florida and his brother Dr. James H. Langston of Fort Walton Beach. WBRC (channel 6) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Resides in Kingsland, GA. That's up more than 30 cents from a month ago. Joe joined the staff of WBRC-TV in Birmingham in 1963. New World formally filed an application with the FCC to transfer WBRC to the trust on October 12, 1994, one month after it filed transferred WGHP on September 9; the FCC approved the transfer on April 3, 1995. New England One reports, she will join the station as weekend evening meteorologist. Langston died at his home Saturday. Eggers wrote on her facebook page, I am moving to Boston at the beginning of October! In lieu of flowers, his family suggests giving donations to Mountain Brook Baptist Church. Joe Langston, whose voice was a signature of Alabama broadcasting news for three decades, died early today. Veteran WBRC anchor Joe Langston died Saturday. [33] On October 26, 2009, WBRC became the second television station in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston market (after WVTM-TV) and the third station in Alabama to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the news set and the graphics were also redesigned as part of the transition. Joe Langston. Children's Television Series in Alabama. Share Your News Tip. During the 1970s, ABC aired cartoons from Hanna-Barbera, whose studios were acquired by Taft in 1967. Meanwhile, WBRC-TV had become one of ABC's strongest affiliates, a position it retained for the next quarter-century. [6] This was very unusual for a market with only two commercial stations; usually, one or both stations carried ABC as a secondary affiliation, since that network would not be on anything resembling an equal footing with CBS and NBC until the 1970s. [32], The station would not begin producing half-hour evening newscasts until 1979, eleven years after ABC expanded its national evening newscast to 30 minutes. Your entry has exceeded the maximum character limit. This is the big time,'" Royer recalled. He was named news director in 1969. "My heart breaks to report that my friend, mentor and the most solid broadcaster I've ever known, Joe Langston passed away early this morning," Royer wrote on Facebook. The building, like many of those built by Storer to serve as studios for its broadcast properties, resembled an antebellum mansion. These were locally produced commercial television programming intended for the child audience with unique hosts and themes. He also appeared on the Tom York Morning Show. Also known as Joseph L Langston, Joseph Langsto, J L Langston. That fuel started smaller explosions throughout the city. While in TV, Langston received every major award from the Associated Press and United Press International Broadcasters Associations. ABC had very few full-time affiliates south of Washington, D.C. at the time, but now it had the full benefit of one of the South's strongest signals, best antenna locations and largest coverage areas. During his years in television, he received every major award from the Associated Press and United Press International Broadcasters Association. Langston started at Birmingham's WBRC in 1963 as the first reporter/anchor hired at the station. On average, a Starbucks drink will cost between 5 and 20 cents more. In 1969 Langston was promoted to "Director of News and Editorial Policy" for the station. Joe was born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1954. According to al.com, he was best known as t An error has occurred, please try again later. An Army veteran, he started his career while at the university of Alabama. Her son, M. D. Smith III, who worked at the radio stations in advertising sales and was later promoted to program director and vice president, ran the television station as its operations manager. Karen Church Out at WBRC After 17 Years By Mark Joyella on Dec. 29, 2015 - 3:28 PM "I paved the way for people who are now becoming my replacements, which I don't appreciate." 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Its newscasts were also among the highest-rated local news programs in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s; WBRC had won practically every news timeslot for many years, with WAPI-TV/WVTM-TV coming in at a distant second until the mid-2000s; CBS affiliate WBMG/WIAT was not a factor for either station for most of its history (to the point where it did not even air any newscasts at three different periods between the early 1980s and February 1998). This site is provided as a service of SCI Shared Resources, LLC. Preemptions and out-of-pattern scheduling of some ABC programs would continue in later years; for example, WBRC aired All My Children on a one-day delay from its 1970 debut until it became a Fox station, and preempted the soap opera Loving throughout its 1986 to 1994 run. Hathcock also recalls Langston's work as a fundraiser for the school. Following graduation, he joined the Army and served two years in Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, NC. Joe was born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1954. Joseph Leonard Langston (born January 1, 1932 in Brownsville, Tuscaloosa County; died June 21, 2014 in Vestavia Hills) was a long-time news director for WBRC-TV. 1 network nationwide by the late 1970s, because of WBRC's status as central Alabama's dominant station. At that time, WBRC phased out its longstanding "Channel 6" brand and began branding itself as "Fox 6", becoming one of three Fox stations affected by the affiliation deal between the network and New World to adopt Fox's standardized station branding conventions prior to the group's 1996 merger with Fox Television Stations (WGHP and WJBK in Detroit, which became a sister station to WBRC as a result of the New World merger, were the only others to comply with the network's branding techniques; the remaining ten stations did not incorporate network branding until after the merger was finalized). Joe Langston was promoted to Director of News and Editorial Policy in 1969. Here's something else affecting your wallet: the situation in Iraq is not helping with gas prices here at home. BREAKING: legendary @WBRCnews broadcaster Pat Gray has died. It also has three bureaus: Decatur, Sand Mountain After New World merged with Fox in 1997, WBRC was reunited with four of its sister stations from the Storer era: WJBK, WAGA-TV in Atlanta, WJW in Cleveland and WITI in Milwaukee . Joseph Leonard Langston (born January 1, 1932 in Brownsville, Tuscaloosa County; died June 21, 2014 in Vestavia Hills) was a long-time news director for WBRC-TV. During the years Langston worked, his voice could be heard by callers navigating the school's voicemail system. Service areas (0) Professional Information Broker address: Langston-Shaw Realty Group 308 W Tabernacle Street Saint George, UT 84770 Cell phone: (435) 625-1654 Websites "He was the best newsman I ever knew, always a stickler for using the right words. The following is a list of local children's television shows in the United States. That series, Country Boy Eddie, which was aimed at rural Alabama viewers, featured local country, bluegrass and Southern Gospel music artists during its 36-year run from 1957 until December 31, 1993. Joe Langston joined WBRC in 1963. Local children's television series were locally produced television shows intended for the child audience with unique hosts and programming. He began his broadcasting career in 1950 while a student at the University of Alabama. He had a great sense of humor.". Langston was hired as the station's first anchor-reporter during the pivotal civil rights year of 1963 and retired from regular newsroom work in 1987. In 2009, WBRC became a founding member station of the Raycom News Network, a service created to allow the sharing of news resources among the four Raycom-owned television stations that serve Alabama including NBC affiliate WSFA in Montgomery, NBC affiliate WAFF in Huntsville and ABC affiliate WTVM in Columbus, Georgia (the latter of which includes a portion of eastern Alabama in its service area) which combined, cover almost half of Alabama's population. This email address is already subscribed to the selected list(s). He graduated from the University in 1954. [12][13] Under the arrangement, New World owned the licenses of both stations, while Citicasters continued to control their operations under outsourcing agreements. Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley report to prison, Rescue teams will be back in the water in three hours searching for a Talladega man, keep your umbrella handy for scattered showers today. In May 2014, WBRC added an additional subchannel on virtual channel 6.3, which served as a charter affiliate of the male-oriented multicast network, Grit. Joe was an active member and Deacon at Mountain Brook Baptist Church. Longtime Buffalo meteorologist Andy Parker is switching stations, returning to ABC affiliate WKBW after 11 years at NBC affiliate WGRZ. Hanna's first husband, M. D. Smith, had bought WBRC radio from Bell in 1928. This type of programming began in the late 1940s and continued into the late 1970s; some shows continued into the 1990s. After it suffered significant structural damage due to an ice storm that affected the Southeastern U.S. in the winter of 1985, the station's original transmitter tower was replaced in 1986, with a new tower on Red Mountain 3 miles (4.8km) east of the original tower's location. Channel 6 could make a plausible claim to be not only the most-watched station in the Birmingham market but in the entire state of Alabama, thanks in part to unusually weak competition. The station became exclusively affiliated with ABC on September 7, 1961; on that date, channel 13 (by then known as WAPI-TV) assumed rights to CBS and NBC programming, although WBRC continued to occasionally carry certain CBS shows that WAPI chose not to carry through 1965. Stay Connected. He was inducted into the Alabama Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2009. Veteran WBRC anchor Joe Langston died Saturday. Lived In Ocala FL, Flagstaff AZ, Greenville SC, Spartanburg SC. Smith III, who read wire copies of local news headlines over a slide of the station's logo. In 1966, WBRC-TV began broadcasting local programming in color, after the station purchased two color cameras; among the first local programs to be produced in color was the Alabama Crimson Tide football coaches' program, The Bear Bryant Show (originated from CBS affiliate WCOV-TV (now also a Fox affiliate) in Montgomery, the first television station in the state to begin color broadcasts), which aired on WBRC until 1970, when it moved to WAPI-TV. On February 19, 1953, WBRC-TV moved to channel 6 as part of a frequency realignment ordered by the FCC, resulting from the Sixth Report and Order issued the year prior in 1952. Longtime WBRC news anchor Joe Langston passed away early Saturday morning. All rights reserved. "You got to know him and you got to love the guy," he said. . The four stations also comprise the Raycom Weather Network and the Raycom Alabama Weather Blog, where meteorologists from all four stations post forecasts and storm reports, and which provide live feeds from cameras and Doppler weather radar systems that each of the stations operate (the only Raycom-owned station in Alabama that did not participate in the arrangement was fellow Fox affiliate WDFX-TV in Dothan, whose news programming was produced by WSFA under a news share agreement and is no longer a sister station to those other stations). All rights reserved. Former FOX6 News anchor Bill Bolen worked with Langston and continued their friendship into retirement. Joe Langston joined WBRC in 1963. The FCC later granted WBRC to reclaim the top level of the tower for its main antenna, improving its digital coverage area (the former main antenna remains in use as an auxiliary antenna). Langston's longtime friend Mike Royer spoke at the service at Mountain Brook Baptist Church. transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", "Storer options fifth TV as two others reach limit", "COMPANY NEWS; GREAT AMERICAN SELLING FOUR TELEVISION STATIONS", "Times Mirror sells stations, part 1. Instead, Bowen accidentally splattered Langston's jacket with water. For example, according to local legends, the station initially turned down Bewitched, not because it was concerned about witchcraft, but because it concerned a mixed marriage (between a witch and a mortal); there were fears that Bewitched would encourage what some segregationists referred to as "cross-breeding"; channel 6 would not clear Bewitched until 1967 (although, according to the October 15, 1965, issue of The Birmingham News, Bewitched was shown airing at its in-pattern time of Thursdays at 8:00p.m. (Central) on WBRC). We are thrilled to have Andy Parker co Those set-builders have been busy this week, havent they? A family member confirmed Gray died Monday, according to an announcement from WBRC. 44 people named Joe Langston found in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston-Brazoria and 12 other cities. [18][19][20][21] On January 6, 2009, Local TV announced that it would trade WBRC to Raycom Media in exchange for acquiring CBS affiliate WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia from that group. For a time, it incorporated the ABC circle logo inside its own "6" logo (just as it had done with the CBS eye in the 1950s). The subchannel became affiliated with Bounce TV on September 26, 2011, as part of the network's affiliation agreement with WBRC owner Raycom Media.[30]. Following graduation, he joined the Army and served two years in Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, NC. Tim Hollis documented about 1,400 local children's shows in a 2002 book called Hi There, Boys and Girls! Langston still did some occasional off-camera assignments during those years. WBRC-TV (06-21-14)Long-Time WBRC-TV Anchor, Joe Langston, DiesBy WBRC-TV Anchor Janet Hall---(Editor Judson Garner) AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy. While it may have been out of place in most of Storer's other markets (many of which were located outside of the Southern United States), it was a perfect fit for Birmingham. Editor Phone: 301-773-0058. Funeral held for Birmingham broadcast legend Joe Langston, Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley report to prison. Includes Address (5) Phone (2) See Results. I An error has occurred, please try again later. Following graduation, he joined the army and served two years in Special Ops at Fort Bragg, North Carolina before returning to Tuscaloosa as Student Manager of WNPT. View contact information: phones, addresses, emails and networks. On July 14, 2009, the station eliminated its Saturday evening 5:00p.m. newscast due to budget cutbacks at the station spurred by the economic downturn. After retiring she returned to Birmingham, the Magic City, where she is fondly remembered as a trailblazing pioneer for women in broadcasting. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50. He was also a member of the Alabama Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. Thanks for watching Fox6 Good Day Alabama from 4:30 to 9 each week day morning. Station management declined ABC's insistence that WBRC expand its 6:00p.m. newscast to match the length of the ABC Evening News; however, the 15-minute local newscast beat The Huntley-Brinkley Report on WAPI-TV/WVTM and the CBS Evening News on WBMG in the ratings. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. 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