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Patterson and Lemon continued to anchor the newscasts together until Lemon left for WEVI in 1978. At that time, [[Ted Shields]] became the weekend anchor, and then a year later in 1980, co-anchor on the weekday evening newscasts with Patterson. Shields continued as the lead anchor until his retirement on May 21, 2015.<ref name=Shields_retires>{{cite news |title=Ted Shields longtime WHOO anchor, to retire|date=January  23, 2015}}</ref> This era marked the start of dominance for the WHOO news programs that lasted until well into the 1980s. In 1980, weekend co-anchor [[Patrice Rafferty]] left WHOO to become an entrepreneur (and founded WHOO's eventual owner [[ATE Media Corporation]] in October 1982). Laura Bakula and Patricia Edwards left WHOO in 1979 and 1983, respectively, for WFAZ in Fort Wayne.
 
Patterson and Lemon continued to anchor the newscasts together until Lemon left for WEVI in 1978. At that time, [[Ted Shields]] became the weekend anchor, and then a year later in 1980, co-anchor on the weekday evening newscasts with Patterson. Shields continued as the lead anchor until his retirement on May 21, 2015.<ref name=Shields_retires>{{cite news |title=Ted Shields longtime WHOO anchor, to retire|date=January  23, 2015}}</ref> This era marked the start of dominance for the WHOO news programs that lasted until well into the 1980s. In 1980, weekend co-anchor [[Patrice Rafferty]] left WHOO to become an entrepreneur (and founded WHOO's eventual owner [[ATE Media Corporation]] in October 1982). Laura Bakula and Patricia Edwards left WHOO in 1979 and 1983, respectively, for WFAZ in Fort Wayne.
  
===The first Ted, Karly, Bill, and Dan era (1984-1990)===
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===The first Ted and Karly era (1984-1990)===
  
 
The WHOO news department underwent two major changes in 1984. Previously, the 5–6 p.m. slot was occupied by syndicated programming, was replaced by a new program was named ''Five PM Indiana''. The broadcast was originally hosted by Patrice Rafferty, and added many elements, such as interviews, movie reviews, health reports, and some cooking segments. Added to the mix were news updates from Ted Shields.  
 
The WHOO news department underwent two major changes in 1984. Previously, the 5–6 p.m. slot was occupied by syndicated programming, was replaced by a new program was named ''Five PM Indiana''. The broadcast was originally hosted by Patrice Rafferty, and added many elements, such as interviews, movie reviews, health reports, and some cooking segments. Added to the mix were news updates from Ted Shields.  
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After ATE Media acquired WHOO, Patrice Rafferty personally decided to make major changes at WHOO's news department. Rafferty felt the news team did not have enough female anchors. Rafferty realized that, since there was only a weekday half-hour morning news broadcasts were anchored by Ellen Evans, the noon broadcast was anchored by meteorologist Bryan Moore, and the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. nightly newscasts were anchored by Ted Shields and Mike Aikins on weeknights and the weekends anchored by Rick Cortos and Hugh Allen. Rafftery decided upon becoming the owner of WHOO, she decided to pair Shields with an up-and-coming anchor from WTHL Terre Haute named [[Karly Ryder]].
 
After ATE Media acquired WHOO, Patrice Rafferty personally decided to make major changes at WHOO's news department. Rafferty felt the news team did not have enough female anchors. Rafferty realized that, since there was only a weekday half-hour morning news broadcasts were anchored by Ellen Evans, the noon broadcast was anchored by meteorologist Bryan Moore, and the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. nightly newscasts were anchored by Ted Shields and Mike Aikins on weeknights and the weekends anchored by Rick Cortos and Hugh Allen. Rafftery decided upon becoming the owner of WHOO, she decided to pair Shields with an up-and-coming anchor from WTHL Terre Haute named [[Karly Ryder]].
  
Rafferty recalls when she left and acquired WHOO as a station owner, the market have had female anchors teamed already, but in the then male-dominated world of Indianapolis television news, this was a first at WHOO while WMRI already had a male-female anchor team. Rafferty recelled, "In some sort of symbolic synchronicity, I remember when I paired Karly and Ted in Indy and [[Marshall Davidson|Marshall]] and Patricia (Edwards) in Fort Wayne, I knew I'd be sending someone to the noon news and a commentary gig, the ultimate case of new gender diversity dislodging the old boys' network." Rafferty then moved Mike Aikins from the weeknight newscasts to the noon newscast with Ellen Evans to make room for the Shileds-Ryder anchor team effective beginning July 2, 1984. Karly Ryder became the first woman to co-anchor the station's main weeknight evening newscasts (and continues to do so to this day).  
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Rafferty recalls when she left and acquired WHOO as a station owner, the market have had female anchors teamed already, but in the then male-dominated world of Indianapolis television news, this was a first at WHOO while WMRI already had a male-female anchor team. Rafferty recelled, "In some sort of symbolic synchronicity, I remember when I paired Karly and Ted at WMRI and [[Marshall Davidson|Marshall]] and Patricia (Edwards), I knew I'd be sending someone to the noon news and a commentary gig, the ultimate case of new gender diversity dislodging the old boys' network." Rafferty then moved Mike Aikins from the weeknight newscasts to the noon newscast with Ellen Evans to make room for the Shileds-Ryder anchor team effective beginning July 2, 1984. Karly Ryder became the first woman to co-anchor the station's main weeknight evening newscasts (and continues to do so to this day).  
  
 
Rafferty wanted both Shields and Ryder to get to know each other. So Rafferty personally handed Shields a phone number for the then 33-year-old Ryder, who had happened to be invited to Rafferty's upcoming wedding, with a suggestion to telephone her.  
 
Rafferty wanted both Shields and Ryder to get to know each other. So Rafferty personally handed Shields a phone number for the then 33-year-old Ryder, who had happened to be invited to Rafferty's upcoming wedding, with a suggestion to telephone her.  
  
According to Shields, "I remember the first phone call from Karly back on the 4th of July in 1983, we stayed on the phone for nearly six hours, just chat-chat-chatting. We bonded right there the day [[Glenn Swaringen|Glenn]] and Patrice got married. There was just something since that wedding there that let me know: Karly is a great person."
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According to Shields, "I remember the first phone call from Karly back on the 4th of July in 1983, we stayed on the phone for nearly six hours, just chat-chat-chatting. We bonded right there the day [[Glenn Swarigen|Glenn]] and Patrice got married. There was just something since that wedding there that let me know: Karly is a great person."
  
 
From about 1983 until February 1990, the station kept the ''Eyewitness News'' name for its newscasts out of posterity, resulting in rather long station announcements made by [[wikipedia:Ernie Anderson|Ernie Anderson]] (for example, "First in Indiana, WHOO-FTV 24. Live from Indiana's NewsChannel, this is ''Eyewitness News 24''"). During this era, it dropped the "Move Closer to Your World" theme to newscast composer [[wikipedia:Frank Gari|Frank Gari]]'s "Hello News" package from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 1997, which included an imaging song individualized to each market's city; in this case "Hello Indy" or "Hello Indiana", which remains well-remembered to the present day, and was cited as one of the factors in driving viewers to the station in the late 80's and allowing it to be competitive.  
 
From about 1983 until February 1990, the station kept the ''Eyewitness News'' name for its newscasts out of posterity, resulting in rather long station announcements made by [[wikipedia:Ernie Anderson|Ernie Anderson]] (for example, "First in Indiana, WHOO-FTV 24. Live from Indiana's NewsChannel, this is ''Eyewitness News 24''"). During this era, it dropped the "Move Closer to Your World" theme to newscast composer [[wikipedia:Frank Gari|Frank Gari]]'s "Hello News" package from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1992 to 1997, which included an imaging song individualized to each market's city; in this case "Hello Indy" or "Hello Indiana", which remains well-remembered to the present day, and was cited as one of the factors in driving viewers to the station in the late 80's and allowing it to be competitive.  
  
 
The station's morning news program, the first in Indianapolis, debuted in 1984. ''Indiana Sunrise'' (the program's title from 1984 to 1990 and now known as ''ABC 24 News This Morning'') initially started at 6 a.m. ET, before moving up to 5:30&nbsp;a.m. in 1992 and at 5 a.m. in 1998; it currently starts at 4:30 a.m. since 2007. (WHOO's morning show predated by two years the next competitor, [[WEVI-FTV|WEVI]], which did not debut its morning newscast, ''NewsCenter 4 This Morning'' (now ''News 4 in the Morning''), until 1986. [[WIND-FTV|WIND]] (then on channel 62) followed suit with ''Daybreak'' in 1989 and [[WIFX-FTV|WIFX]] with ''Fox 11 Good Day Indiana'' (now ''CBS 11 Morning News'') in 1990).
 
The station's morning news program, the first in Indianapolis, debuted in 1984. ''Indiana Sunrise'' (the program's title from 1984 to 1990 and now known as ''ABC 24 News This Morning'') initially started at 6 a.m. ET, before moving up to 5:30&nbsp;a.m. in 1992 and at 5 a.m. in 1998; it currently starts at 4:30 a.m. since 2007. (WHOO's morning show predated by two years the next competitor, [[WEVI-FTV|WEVI]], which did not debut its morning newscast, ''NewsCenter 4 This Morning'' (now ''News 4 in the Morning''), until 1986. [[WIND-FTV|WIND]] (then on channel 62) followed suit with ''Daybreak'' in 1989 and [[WIFX-FTV|WIFX]] with ''Fox 11 Good Day Indiana'' (now ''CBS 11 Morning News'') in 1990).
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