EASTERN SHORE, Va. — WTKR News 3 and WESR Eastern Shore Radio are teaming up to strengthen local news coverage of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Through this news-gathering partnership, WTKR and WESR, which operates the website ShoreDailyNews.com, will share resources to ensure audiences have access to the most important and up-to-date information impacting their communities.
“I’d like to thank our friends at WESR for joining us on this new journey,” said WTKR/WGNT Vice President and General Manager Adam Chase. “This partnership embodies our dedication to serving and engaging with every corner of our vibrant community.”
Charles Russell, the owner of WESR, is looking forward to the partnership.
"We welcome the opportunity to partner and share resources with one of the heritage television stations WTKR, Channel 3,” he said. “It is exciting to have the opportunity to expand and improve our news coverage with such a quality news organization."
WTKR News 3 is the CBS affiliate based in Norfolk, Va., and is a part of Scripps Media. The station — Hampton Roads’ first — was founded in 1950 as WTAR-TV.
WESR Radio was founded in 1958 and is locally owned and operated by the Russell family.
About Scripps
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As the nation’s fourth-largest local TV broadcaster, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Grit, Laff and Court TV Mystery. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”
