Wear

WEAR is the ABC affiliate for the Pensacola, Florida, Mobile, Alabama, and Fort Walton Beach, Florida viewing area. It is the only major affiliate in the Mobile-Pensacola-Fort Walton Beach market to be broadcast from Pensacola as opposed to Mobile.

Related Topics:
ABC - Pensacola, Florida - Mobile, Alabama - Fort Walton Beach, Florida

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As a Pensacola-based station, their newscasts tend to focus on coverage of the Northwestern Florida area as opposed to WKRG and WPMI, which predominately feature news concerning the southern Alabama area. WEAR is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which prohibited Nightline broadcast in 2004 because the company felt it was near anti-war rhetoric. Prior to July 19th, 2005 Sinclair prohibited WEAR from broadcasting Jimmy Kimmel Live in the late night time slot.

Related Topics:
WKRG - WPMI - Sinclair Broadcast Group - Nightline - 2004 - July 19th - 2005 - Jimmy Kimmel Live

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The WEAR news desk is headed by Bob Solarski, who has been anchor since March 1994 and is also the host and producer of Channel 3 News This Week with Bob Solarski, Sara Baumgartner who co-anchors the 10 PM news, meteorologist Allen Strum, and sports director and anchor Dan Shugart. The news director is Peter Neumann, who worked as news director at WEAR from 1979-1980, returning to WEAR in June of 1984, and has been there since.

Related Topics:
1994 - 1979 - 1980 - 1984

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Another key news anchor is Sue Straughn, who is one of the few black female news anchors in the area. She started at the station in 1972 as a clerk typist and now helms the five o'clock and six o'clock newscasts.

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