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WRIC-TV is the ABC affiliate for the Richmond, Virginia television market. It is owned by Young Broadcasting. The station is licensed to nearby Petersburg, while its studios are just off the Powhite Parkway extension (State Route 76) on Arboretum Place in western Chesterfield County (unincorporated Richmond). It broadcasts its analog signal on channel 8 from a transmitter that is located nearby.
Digital television
The station's digital channel:
| Channel | Programming |
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| 8.1 / 22.1 | main WRIC-TV/ABC programming |
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion is completed on February 17, 2009, WRIC-TV digital broadcasts will remain on channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will continue to display WRIC-TV's virtual channel as 8.
History
The station began operation in 1955 as WXEX-TV, an NBC affiliate. It was originally licensed to Petersburg, and was owned by Thomas Tinsley, operating as Petersburg Television. During the 50s. 60s ,70s, and early 80s, WXEX had an AM sister station , WLEE-AM, who maintained a separate location in Richmond on West Broad St. The TV station's transmitter was located in the Bermuda Hundred area of eastern Chesterfield County, and the station reached not only Petersburg, but Richmond as well, albeit with a weaker signal than the two stations licensed to Richmond at the time. Within a year, the FCC collapsed Petersburg and Richmond into a single market. The main studios were located in Petersburg. At first, a Richmond sales office was co-located with sister station WLEE-AM on W. Broad St; later, satellite studios were established just off Midlothian Turnpike in Bon Air, Virginia, a suburb of Richmond.
The station had been an NBC affiliate for many years, but switched to ABC in 1965 and has been with that network ever since. In 1968 the station (along with sister station WLEE-AM) was sold to Nationwide Communications
In 1969, a fire destroyed its original Petersburg studios. For a few weeks, the station had to broadcast from its transmitter, then set up temporary offices and studios in a vacated store in Petersburg. The station later moved in a brand new facility on Crater Road that it named Blandford Manor.
In 1981 Nationwide sold off sister station WLEE-AM.
WXEX's call letters were changed in 1990 to WRIC, and the station moved its studios to the current location in The Arboretum Office Park in Chesterfield County. However, it is still licensed to Petersburg; unlike the other stations in the market, it identifies as "Petersburg/Richmond." In 1993 the station was sold to Young Broadcasting.
Current personalities
Anchors
- Juan Conde - Weekdays 6 and 11 p.m.
- Christina Feerick - Weekdays 4:30, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Amy Lacey - Weekday Morning Anchor
- A.J. Lagoe - Weekday Noon Anchor
- Gwen Williams - Weekend Mornings
- Morgan Dean - Weekend Evenings
Reporters
- Morgan Dean
- Rochelle Dean
- Jason Guy
- Kerri O'Brien
- Kim Schumacher
- Chelsea Washington
- Nate Eaton
Weather
- John Bernier - Chief Meteorologist
- Matt DiNardo
- Paul Milliken
- Jason Myers
Sports
- Dax Gray
- Phil Orban - Weekend Anchor
- Chip Tarkenton - Sports Director/Weekday Anchor
Assignment Editors
- Mike Vrabel - Managing Editor
- Jacqui Sweigart - Weekday Editor
- Katelyn Sherwood - Weekend Editor
Former Personalities
- Ric Barrick - Meteorologist
- Anita Blanton- Morning Anchor/Reporter
- Gretchen Carlson - Reporter/Anchor
- Craig Civale - Reporter
- Bruce Cunningham - Sports Director
- Derrick Dennis - Reporter
- Matt Lauer - host of "PM Magazine" in the 1980s.
- Doug Luzader - Reporter
- Mara MacDonald - Reporter
- Pam Magee - Reporter, News Director
- Laura Main - Reporter/Anchor
- Chesley McNeil - Weather/Mr. Outside
- Carole Meekins - Anchor
- Frank Robertson - Anchor
- Rucks Russell - Reporter
- Cheryl Tan - Weekend Anchor
- Ric Young - Anchor
- Rich Landrum - News Reporter and co-host of "Dialing for Dollars". Much better known in later years as the host for the nationally syndicated TV show, "World Wide Wrestling".
- Barbara Trear - (better known to the staff as "BJ", short for Barbara Jeane)Co-host of "Dialing for Dollars" & Special Events Reporter. Better known now throughout Maryland, DC & Northern Virginia, for her jazz band, "The BJ Doyle Trio".
- Tracy Butler - Meteorologist
Trivia
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- In the late 1960s, a weatherman at the station named Hugh Allen was arrested and convicted of murder.
- The station had a very popular show in the seventies that reached almost cult status in Richmond called "Shock Theater" , a horror movie show that was hosted by station employee Bill Bowman , as a character called "The Bowman Body" that became very popular in the Richmond market.
- A fake WRIC newscast is seen in the 2001 film Hannibal, with reporter Ric Young playing himself. The film was shot on location in Richmond.
- The station received some unwanted publicity in 1989 when former evening news anchor Steve Coleman got into an argument with a news producer and his co-anchor , Lisa Schaffner, tried to intervene and was pushed by Coleman, crashing into a desk and a computer. Coleman was suspended and later fired.
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