Talk:WATE-TV

Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material

Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:

1. WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
2. As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
3. WP:NLIST tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
4. Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 22:12, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Removed content mentioned above

The following detailed list was removed from this article a few months ago. It may be possible to work much of this content into the station history, but sources are needed. --Orlady (talk) 13:09, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Past on-air staff

• Ken Weathers, weather (left December 2010)
• Bob Becker, weather (left Jan.2 2011)
• Art Miller, reporter (1971-1979), now Manager-Train Operations, San Luis and Rio Grande/Rio Grande Scenic Railroads, Alamosa, CO and widely known as a Railroad Coordinator working in feature film, commercial, music video, and TV movie production.
• Bud Veazey, reporter/photographer, weekend anchor, producer (1966-1976). Retired in 2008 after 42 years in TV news.
• Sonu Wasu, reporter, now with WDTN-TV in Dayton, Ohio
• Clay Thomas, anchor and reporter
• Mary Starr, hostess The Homemaker Show, deceased
• Jim Clayton, host, Star Time
• Cas Walker, former Knoxville mayor and host The Cas Walker Show, deceased
• Margie Ison, weather anchor, retired
• Bob Richards, weather anchor, deceased
• Sam Brown, anchor and reporter, deceased
• Mike Thurman, sports director, deceased
• Calvin Sneed, anchor and reporter, co-host/producer PM Magazine, now Senior News Anchor/Chief Investigative Reporter at WTVC-TV, Chattanooga; Website Manager, the Douglass Alumni Association, Kingsport, TN
• MayCay Beeler, co-host/producer PM Magazine, now airline pilot and parttime air personality, WFMY-TV Greensboro, NC
• Lisa McNeal, reporter
• Paul Sims, reporter, now with RCI Media Training, Atlanta
• Russ Nunley, anchor and reporter, now with Regal Cinemas
• Sandy Webb, reporter, anchor, Assignment Editor, Assistant News Director, deceased
• Bob Gray, anchor and reporter, retired
• Kim Simmons Thomas, weather, noon anchor and reporter
• Ben Garrett, reporter
• Diane May, anchor and reporter
• Leslie Stewart, reporter
• Tracie Finley (Potts), anchor
• Scott Finley, sports anchor/reporter (1986-2000), now at Ethicon, Inc. in Knoxville
• Rick Benjamin, anchor and reporter, now with the Speed Channel, and WBT-AM, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Yvette Martinez, anchor and reporter, now with TDOT
• Scott Blalock, weather, Nationally recognized Federal Climate Consultant
• Bruce Whiteaker, anchor and reporter
• Heather Donald, anchor, now at KRON-TV, San Francisco
• Greg Peterson, sports director 1983-1989, now lead news anchor at WPMI-TV, Mobile, Alabama
• Brennan Robison, anchor and reporter (1998-2003)
• Wanda Williams, reporter and fill-in achor (1998-200), [WJLA-TV, Web Content Editor 2005-2006][Graduate Student in History, Research Tech, National Archives and Records, Presidential Papers, Washington, D.C.]
• Mark Mancuso, weather anchor
• Mike Cihla, anchor, now morning news anchor, WTOC-TV, Savannah, Georgia
• Lance Sandstead, anchor
• Denny (Lloyd) Immel, anchor
• Marie Michellini, weekend weather
• Steve Oglesby, reporter, anchor, assignment editor, newscast producer, news director, marketing and promotion manager
• Jan Petri, reporter
• Tom Buckley, reporter
• Pauletta Jackson, reporter and weekend weather
• Lelan Statom, weather, now noon co-host at WTVF-TV, Nashville
• Paula Tutman, reporter, now at WDIV-TV, Detroit
• Suzanne Stevens, anchor and reporter
• Will McDonald, weekend sports
• Ann Rollins, anchor
• Ann Taylor, anchor, now newscaster at National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
• Anne Holt, reporter, now main news anchor at WKRN-TV, Nashville
• Kent Blackwelder, anchor and reporter (he was later a contestant on Big Brother)
• Pete Gardner, anchor, deceased
• Denise Dillon, anchor, later with CNN Headline News, and now with WAGA-TV, Atlanta
• Michael Pomeranz, anchor
• Debbie Kirby, anchor and reporter
• Jon Vanderford, anchor, now at KOLN-TV, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Tanya O'Rourke, reporter, now noon news anchor, WCPO-TV, Cincinnati
• Gary Weiss, reporter
• Janet Sims, reporter
• Cynthia Varner, reporter
• Lori Golden-Stryer, reporter and anchor
• Russ Hollingsworth, sports
• Karla Winfrey (cousin of Oprah Winfrey), reporter
• Diane Kacmarik, weather, now with Bay News 9, Tampa, Florida
• Jennifer Darwin, reporter
• Rob Wilds, reporter, now producer at WNPT-TV, Nashville
• Sherry Reed, weather
• Steve Jarriel, reporter, son of former ABC News correspondent Tom Jarriel
• Rita Stone, reporter
• Hal Wanzer, anchor, deceased
• Catharyn Campbell, reporter, now at WSMV-TV Nashville, TN
• Amelia Daniels, now with Ackerman PR, Knoxville, TN
• Jeff Lennox, reporter/anchor, now at WESH-TV, Orlando, FL
• Adam Longo, reporter, now at WKMG-TV, Orlando, FL
• Melissa Dipane, reporter, now at WOFL-TV, Orlando, FL
• Whitney Holmes, reporter/weekend anchor

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