The top story graphic and headline this morning (4/8) on delmarvanow.com (Salisbury Daily Times) may have given some readers the impression that the Eastern Shore would be experiencing the solar eclipse in totality.
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Showing posts with label Local Media. Show all posts
Monday, April 8, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
A breath of fresh (local public radio) air!
(Coastal Point)
“These exciting additions show our commitment to developing strong and interesting local programming and to working with students and helping to train the journalists, producers and media personalities of the future..”
(View news story:)
Friday, March 8, 2024
Remembering "Oldies But Goodies" radio host-
George Edward Bloxom, known as "G.E" on the radio passed away on March 1st. In years past he had hosted the popular "Oldies But Goodies" show Saturday nights on Pocomoke's AM-540 radio station, taking listener requests and playing music favorites from the 50's and 60's. George was 76.
View obituary:
George “GE” Bloxom - Eastern Shore Post
Friday, January 26, 2024
Friday, December 15, 2023
TV feature "Travels With Charlie" comes to an end.
(WBOC)
(View Travels With Charlie interview that aired 12/15/23)
Travels With Charlie: The Final Travels (Part 2 of 2) | Travels With Charlie | wboc.com
DELMARVA - After three decades, WBOC’s Charles Paparella is starting a new adventure as he enters a retirement sure to be plentiful with even more stories to tell. Today we take a look back at Charlie’s incredible career at WBOC and how he became one of the most well-known faces and voices on the Delmarva Peninsula.
A Delmarva native through-and-through, Charlie is originally from Somerset County and attended Crisfield High School. He then attended the University of Maryland Eastern Shore before pursuing an array of interests and undertakings, including music, cabinet making, research, and muskrat trapping (according to Charlie).
Finally, Charlie found himself in a career as a television news photographer. The rest, as they say, is history.
Charlie began at WBOC as a photographer under the tutelage of the great Scorchy Tawes. Scorchy’s love of the Peninsula, its people, and their stories clearly made a lasting impression on Charlie, who would carry on that legacy after Scorchy’s retirement. Today, Charlie is just as well-known and well-loved on Delmarva as his legendary mentor and friend.
The very first Travels with Charlie aired in August of 2002. Over two decades and about 8,000 Travels with Charlie stories later, he has cemented himself as Delmarva’s most recognizable minstrel.
“You couldn’t ask for a more bountiful harvest of stories and people than this peninsula,” Charlie told Steve Hammond as the two looked back on their 30-year career together at WBOC.
“I was very lucky with the people I got to talk to and the places I got to go.”
Charlie says Travels never would have happened without the support of his wife and soulmate Becky, though. Riding with him on his many Travels, Becky was his partner not only in life, but also in storytelling.
“It was never just mine,” Charlie says. “It was always ours.”
Few cultural institutions on Delmarva would be unfamiliar with the pleasant voice and affable attitude of Charles Paparella. Travels with Charlie saw him frequenting The Mar-Va Theater, the Berlin Peach Festival, the Mount Hermon Plow Days, the Camden Avenue Farmers Market, among many, many others. Music and performing arts have especially been common focuses in Travels.
“The arts always need a bump,” Charlie says. “People don’t understand how important those things are.”
Charlie says he also has a special appreciation for Delmarva’s many churches and religious institutions.
“The people in the churches are so wonderful,” he says.
Charlie’s skills as a photographer never dulled in his thirty years with WBOC, and it seems there is nothing small enough to evade his keen eye. From crabgrass to caterpillars, dung beetles to solitary dandelions, Charlie can find poetry in things most of us would never have noticed. The miniscule has obviously never carried any less importance or inspiration than the grand with Charlie.
That fascination with nature, philosophy, and the universe at large ensured that Travels with Charlie has always been as educational as it was poetic. Few can strike that balance like Charlie does.
The first part of the Final Travels with Charlie aired on WBOC on December 13th, and you can watch it here. Travels With Charlie: The Final Travels (Part 1 of 2) | Travels With Charlie | wboc.com
WBOC and all of us at Draper Media wish Charlie continued safe travels. Thank you for all the stories, the music, the laughs, and the memories, Charles Paparella.
(Updated: comment). Say it isn't so!
Have you heard?
It's true. After a long career at WBOC-TV Charles Paparella is retiring.
Viewers, of course, know Charlie for his long-time running "Travels With Charlie" features on the evening news.
Here's Charlies's bio that's posted on the WBOC website. We're sure Charlie wrote at least 100% of it.
Video Journalist
Charles Paparella is a photographer, writer, and editor.
The winding road that led him to WBOC began (for our purposes) in olde Somerset County, Maryland, in the charming hamlet of Marion Station.
Charlie attended Crisfield High School where he was actually elected president of the student government in his senior year. (This was due to a cleverly humorous campaign, and nothing more. He was a funny candidate but a terrible president.)
He attended the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he received a record number of parking citations and the school record for dropped courses.
Charlie continued his education at the Mark Twain School of Doing Interesting Things and worked (very diligently) at being a musician; printer's devil; plant propagator, muskrat trapper; cabinet-maker; dish-washer; ride-operator; aide-de-camp; accounting clerk; research analyst; computer programmer; news photographer; web-weasel; until finally settling down as a television news photographer, which he remains to this posting.
Charlie produces a segment called Travels with Charlie, which you will recall is a novel by John Steinbeck. (In the book, Steinbeck does the traveling, and Charley is a dog. Our Charlie doesn't like comparisons, but feels he could hold his own against any dog, although we'd have to see the dog, to be sure.)
Part 2 airs Friday (12/15) on the WBOC-TV 6pm news.
Best wishes Charlie
and
THANK YOU!
- Anonymous said...
I heard that Charlie was not planning to retire. Is that true?
tkforPPE says:
A former co-worker of Charlie's tells The Pocomoke Public Eye that WBOC chose not to renew Charlie's working agreement with the station.
Monday, July 17, 2023
WMDT forecaster moves west
Longtime WMDT meteorologist Ulises Garcia (left) is now forecasting the weather at WAND-TV, an NBC affiliate serving central Ilinois from Decatur. His position at WMDT is being filled by meteorologist Jake Grant (right).
Monday, December 19, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
New weather faces on local TV
Rich Wirdzek is the new chief meteorologist at WMDT, replacing Daniel Johnson who left the station in late winter. Wirdzek's TV weather experience includes Dayton, Ohio. He most recently worked in the Washington, D.C. area as a freelance broadcast and digital meteorologist.
Meteorologist John Conway is the latest addition to the weather staff at WBOC. He previously covered weather in central Mississippi and in South Dakota.
Monday, February 7, 2022
Local TV meteorologist moves on
WMDT Chief Meteorologist Daniel Johnson has left the Eastern Shore for a job as weekend meteorologist in Louisville, Kentucky at CBS affiliate WLKY.
Meteorologist Geoff Fox is filling in at WMDT working from his home studio in southern California where he forecasts full time for "Nebraska News Channel."
(Reader comment)
BarryB said...Greg Fishel has been out of a job for a few years now. Maybe they can bring him back.
Pocomoke Public Eye said:
Greg Fishel was a long-time meteorologist at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC who began his career at WMDT in 1980.
Friday, November 26, 2021
Remembering former Salisbury newspaper journalist
If you're 55+ you might recall this byline in the Salisbury Daily Times from the 1960's into the 1990's...
Mel joined the newspaper staff as a young man in a position that might be described as cub reporter and he rose through the ranks over the years to become Managing Editor. Mel unexpectedly passed away recently at his home in Florida.
View news article from The Salisbury Independent newspaper:
Late Salisbury Editor Mel Toadvine remembered as mentor, family man | Bay to Bay News
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Where's Heidi?
You haven't seen WBOC meteorologist Heidi Weroasta recently because she has moved to Bismarck, North Dakota. She has family there and is working at a TV station in Bismarck. She had worked at another station there previously.
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Expanded Newspaper Coverage For Pocomoke And Snow Hill
The Bayside Gazette newspaper is changing its news coverage from primarily the coastal area to include all of Worcester County.
Read more:
https://baysideoc.com/bayside-gazette-expands-mainland-coverage/
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