Way To Go, Charlie!

I should have written this a month ago--- I'll blame the holidays for keeping me away from the keyboard. Recently, WRDW-TV recognized an employee for a record that is nothing short of amazing. Charles Moody has been working here for 50 years.


When Charlie first started working here Eisenhower was President. America was in a space race with the Soviets. Teenagers named Lennon and McCartney were just getting acquainted in Liverpool. It was 1957 and a young man in Augusta was just beginning his career in local television.

50 years in television and all of it at the same station. Just think of the changes Charles Moody has seen.... from black and white...to color... to high definition.
To mark the milestone, the station's general manager, John Ray gave Charlie a very old Polaroid camera- probably one of the ones Charles used to use at the station, and a new flat screen TV to take home with him. And when Charlie begins his 51st year with us in 2008, he'll be walking into the same old studio that now bears his name.

Charlie Moody and I have worked many Masters and Telethons and other special events together over the years. That's him in the photo, running the camera at Augusta National. He's the kind of pro you hope you get to work with at least once in every career. How lucky we are that he decided to spend his whole career... here with us.

Richard Rogers
News 12