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At a brief news conference Saturday night, Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson said Nix was at a Sheetz gas station in Colfax around 4 p.m. when he witnessed a crime. Thompson said the officer ...
Greensboro (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr oʊ / ⓘ; [5] local pronunciation / ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [6]
Edward R. Murrow, World War II CBS radio broadcaster and award-winning television journalist; born outside Greensboro [87] Fred "Curly" Neal, basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters [88] Ed Nelson, actor who played Dr. Michael Rossi on Peyton Place, spent last years in Greensboro and died there in 2014 [89]
WRAL-TV began broadcasting on December 15, 1956. Among the first programs aired was the movie Miracle on 34th Street.A. J. Fletcher's Capitol Broadcasting Company, which first licensed WRAL Radio (AM 1240, now WPJL) in 1938, won the TV license in an upset over the much larger Durham Life Insurance Company, then-owners of radio station WPTF.
The following is a list of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group.Sinclair owns or operates 294 television stations across the United States in 89 markets ranging in size from as large as Washington, D.C. to as small as Ottumwa, Iowa/Kirksville, Missouri. [1]
In March 2021, WCOG was purchased by Winston-Salem-Greensboro Broadcasting Company, LLC, and converted back to music. It became its own locally owned station in June 2021 broadcasting oldies. Local news, and CBS News Radio and local information has returned to WCOG. WCOG added an FM translator at 105.3 in December 2021, call sign W287GD ...
WGHP (channel 8) is a television station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, United States, serving the Piedmont Triad region as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on Francis Street (just outside downtown High Point); its transmitter is located in Sophia, North Carolina.
Bitter Blood is composed of various newspaper articles (from the Greensboro News and Record) and personal eyewitness accounts of several homicides in 1984 and 1985. The setting for the majority of the book is Rockingham County and Guilford County in rural North Carolina .