WAKC Alumni Look Back, Decades After TV News Left Town
Youtube On February 28, 1996, WAKC-TV was sold and newscasts immediately ceased, ending four decades of serving Summit County viewers. On the 25th anniversary of the end of WAKC, an encore presentation of a staff reunion from 2016 Twenty-five years ago, Akron lost its only local TV newsroom. After four decades of struggling to compete with Cleveland's TV stations — including fellow ABC affiliate, WEWS — WAKC-TV was bought by Paxson Communications, which quickly dropped its local programming. In 2016, Channel 23 alumni gathered at Akron's Spaghetti Warehouse to look back at what was for ma...
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