Terre Haute

Ken Bolinger, a master control operator who was recently fired by WTWO in Terre Haute, IN, was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly opened fire at the station around 4 a.m. Saturday.

Bolinger, 24, was taken into custody Saturday afternoon after police responded to reports of gunfire at the station. According to his Facebook page, Bolinger, who goes by his middle name Trey, worked as master control operator at WTWO from June 21, 2011 to March 26, 2012.

He was apparently terminated from his job for bringing a gun to work. Read more

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It just wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without someone proposing on-air. In this case, that someone was a WTWO production assistant named Zach, who popped the question to his girlfriend during the Terre Haute NBC-affiliate’s late newscast on Tuesday.

Mission Broadcasting’s WFXW will debut new call letters and an expanded newscast as the station undergoes a switch from the Fox affiliate to the ABC affiliate in Terre Haute on September 1.

The station, which is operated by Nexstar Broadcasting under a shared services agreement with WTWO, the market NBC affiliate, will be rebranded as WAWV. The planned changes in the programming lineup include an additional broadcast at 5 p.m., which will be anchored by Tom McClanahan. ABC’s primetime lineup will also displace the station’s 10 p.m. newscast, which WAWV plans to make available to viewers streaming on the web. According to the station, this will be the first online newscast in Terre Haute.

The station’s Fox affiliation was dropped in June after Nexstar and Fox failed to come to an agreement over the programming fees Fox is demanding from its affiliates; shortly thereafter, Nexstar announced the station would become an ABC affiliate. Terre Haute has not had an ABC affiliate for more than 16 years. The Terre Haute station becomes the second Nexstar-operated station, after KOZL in Springfield, MO, that will undergo a rebranding effort after losing its Fox affiliation.