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PHOTOS: Scenes from ABC11 WTVD's past

Sunday, May 11, 2014
Early news team standing outside the studio with 16mm black & white film and snapshot cameras.
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Engineers with camera equipment (probably 1950s)
Ernie Greup and early NASCAR racers in the studio, ca. 1950s.
Peggy Mann show on location with the Army in the 1950s.
Standing in the back: Station co-founders Harmon Duncan and Floyd Fletcher
UNC basketball coach Frank McGuire and WTVD sports announcer Ernie Gruep.
Duke coach with Ernie Greup
Ernie Greup with Dave Garroway, first host of NBC's "Today"
Peggy Mann and guest.
Cooking on the Peggy Mann show.
Camera card/promo for Peggy Mann.
A scene from "At Home with Peggy Mann" (Mann is on the first row, far left)
1974 election coverage. L-R: News Director Frank Thompson, reporter Max Powell, reporter Bob Carlson.
Weatherman Skip Carpenter, news director/anchor Alan Jones, and sports anchor Don Shea ca. 1975
The station's first live van, ca. 1977.
The station's current Durham studio under construction, ca. 1977.
The station's current Durham studio under construction, ca. 1977.
An old camera card.
Production assistant Bob Gunter.
Shooting a Durham Bulls game ca. 1978
Camera card
Photographer Brandon Rice (now Assistant Director of Broadcast Technologies) and an assistant with the station's first ENG camera.
A fire gutted the WTVD studio in the 1970s.
A fire gutted the WTVD studio in the 1970s.
Engineers and production assistants for Lou Rawls' Parade of Stars telethon.
Larry Stogner with co-anchor Miriam Thomas and sports anchor Ron Savage at the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
Larry Stogner filming a documentary on Silicon Valley ca. 1980.
Larry Stogner with Peter Jennings.
WTVD's first helicopter.
Larry Stogner, news operations manager Elizabeth Plyler, and photographer Chris Hart in Denver as Obama accepted the Democratic Party nomination in 2008.
Larry Stogner interviews President Obama at the White House.
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Early news team standing outside the studio with 16mm black & white film and snapshot cameras.
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