Celebrating 75 years! Today is a big day for WTKR, as we commemorate decades of hard work dedicated to informing the people of Hampton Roads.
On April 2, 1950, the first television station in southeastern Virginia went on the air — back then it was WTAR.
Veteran journalist Nate Custer, who joined WTAR in 1966 and stayed for 39 years, remembers when he started: “We covered stories with a 16 millimeter black and white film and it was a big deal when we even went to color film.”…