Bill Walker

Bill Walker, who has anchored television news longer than anyone else on the air in Charlotte, retired from daily anchoring on WSOC-TV on June 8, 2005.

Prior to his final broadcast as anchor, "Eyewitness News" and viewers paid tribute to Walker for his 37-year career with WSOC-TV, Charlotte’s local news leader.

A North Carolina native, Bill graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. degree, double-majoring in Radio-Television and Political Science.

He joined WSOC in 1968 as a radio news anchor and then he moved into television. Bill has won numerous national and regional awards during his career at WSOC-TV. He received an Emmy in 1998 for Best Newscast. The Scripps Howard Foundation honored Bill in 1995 with its National Award for Journalistic Excellence for Carolina Crime Solutions, a WSOC-TV project to help people living in high-crime neighborhoods. Bill also won a first place award from the Atlanta Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for Carolina Crime Solutions. In 1994, the mid-South Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Nashville, Tennessee, honored him with its Silver Circle Award, a special "Emmy" for his career accomplishments in broadcasting.

Some of the highlights of Bill's career include a personal interview with President Gerald Ford in the Oval office, covering North Carolina's 400th anniversary with live broadcasts from England, reporting on the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and traveling to Egypt for a documentary on Ramses the Great.

Bill began his career in journalism by delivering the afternoon newspaper in his hometown of Fountain, NC. Throughout his career, Bill always looked forward to "delivering" the news every day.

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