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The donated snacks and drink will fill USO Snack Packs for deploying troops and Rack Pack for single Marines and sailors when they arrive at Camp Lejeune. “The WCTI-TV community is the military community,” says Allison Aldridge, WCTI’s GM.

WCTI, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate in New Bern, North Carolina, continued its 30-year tradition of the Share Your Christmas Food Drive to help food insecure families in eastern North Carolina.

Five days. Five cities. One mission. To help feed hungry families in eastern North Carolina.

At the Promax Station Summit last week in Las Vegas, attendees filled the room for the session Zero Budget Magic, to see how imagination, and little more, is the only currency allowed in spots submitted from stations across the country. Here are all 40 of them.

Lyle Schulze was once general manager of WCTI in New Bern, N.C. He emailed me to comment on how WCTI survived Hurricane Florence.  “They are to all be commended for their perseverance and courage to continue to deliver life-saving information to the viewers of eastern North Carolina.”

With its building flooded out, Sinclair’s WCTI in New Bern, N.C., had to get creative to bring its viewers news coverage of Hurricane Florence. Facebook carried the load for a few days, and then when it got back on the air, producing newscasts from locations all over town kept viewers in the know. “We have a lot of young people here and I’m impressed by how well they’re taking it and how well they’re doing. They know they have a task,” said Sean Finn, WCTI’s creative services director.

Sinclair will hold a relief effort, Stand Strong for the Carolinas, all day today encouraging viewers to help those struggling to rebuild. As part of the push, Sinclair will match the first $100,000 of the funds raised nationally.