WMC 5pm news clips 1/7/92 Purvis' Debut

[Mantanhattan]

JANICE BROACH comes in at 6:40 on this clip and looks absolutely gorgeous.

I didn't remember her hair color being black at one time.

Easily the most beautiful tv news reporter any Memphis tv station ever had.

Thanks so much for posting this!

[NewsRetiree]

That's been her name since she started at WLBT in Jackson, Miss.

[kyle1081]

Was WMC the station that asked her to change her name?

[myronfalwell]

Their news set has very similar elements to then-sister stations WEWS-TV and WPTV-TV from that same era. Interesting.

[99830459]

Mearl, will you be mine!?

[steven2be2003]

you all should see her on fox 13 memphis..she's a hot milf..gotta love her

[ImakeTrax]

Mearl held it DOWN on her first day there. I have the HUGEST crush on her to this day. I wonder how many people actually called in on that INSTAPOLL? LOL I was in the 7th grade. I actually used Homework Hotline that year for Trig. My sister was born 6 days later! Janice Broach is naturally a BRUNETTE! Greeley Klye, OMG! Couldn't forget him. THIS IS HOW YOU FREEZE TIME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Classic post NewsRetiree!!!

[larrydc36]

mearl purvis is tha best i didnt no she were at channel five lol she can go anywere an do GOOD

[btccfan2002]

HAHA Greeley Kyle is my Broadcast Journalism professor at the University of Missouri - he's awesome! Love seeing the old-school news reports with his Coke-bottle glasses!

[hkfreak]

Mearl fit right in immdeiately, as I can tell here.

[bigvoice313]

I did not know WMC was owned by Scripps (owner of ABC affiliate WXYZ/Detroit) before it was sold to Ellis and Raycom.

[wakka922201]

Carol Chumney looked almost like Janet Reno back then! She looks nothing like this now. How time changes people. Joe Birch is a class act, still working there now. And yes, Dave Brown's been the meteorologist and still works there. He's really good.

[geminidude34]

Use to see Mearl Purivs when she worked for the NBC affilate in Nashville, TN. She was smoking hot back in the late '80's. Wonder what she looks like now?

[jazover]

She's back on Memphis TV... WHBQ (FOX) channel 13

[ddmillr1]

...and she looks great she comes in Banana Republic where i work from time to time

[WWJD85]

i didn 't know wrestling anchor Dave brown was a meteorologist

[TomasTigre]

I love that you would have to call and pay 50 cents for a poll in those days before the internet and texting.

[hkfreak]

Plus, a friggin' homework hotline! Will yelling cosines into a receiver get you your tangents? Haha...

[dgendvil]

I know Kim Hindrew was working at Nightside at the time & came back to WMC. Is she still around or not?