Jon Evans
Anchor and Assistant News Director at WECT-TV (Wilmington, NC)
Host and producer at 1on1 Podcast
Anchor and Assistant News Director at WSFX-TV (Wilmington, NC)
Anchor/Assistant News Director for WECT-TV. Edward R. Murrow Award Winner. Podcast host. Husband. Dad. RT/MT does not mean I endorse your tweet!
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6 days ago |
wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Larry the Cable Guy is coming to Wilmington. The award-winning comedy legend will perform on Friday, April 25 at CFCC’s Wilson Center downtown. It’s one of about two dozen shows on the 2025 tour for Dan Whitney, who brought Larry to life about 30 years ago. He says the energy of performing live is still the same now as it was when he first started doing the act in the mid-1990s.
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2 weeks ago |
wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - When college student Brownie Harris laid down on a street in Richmond, Virginia on the night of October 12, 1970, and took a picture of a police car with the word “oink” spray painted on its’ side, he had no idea it would be the genesis of his future career.
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2 weeks ago |
wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Bethany Joy Lenz’s acting career skyrocketed in the years she lived and worked in Wilmington, North Carolina. She had landed the role of Haley James Scott on the WB show One Tree Hill in 2003 at the age of 22, and for the next decade Lenz spent months filming scenes in and around the coastal city as the show’s popularity grew. That made the invitation to be the queen for the 2025 North Carolina Azalea Festival, Wilmington’s largest annual event, even more special.
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Aug 1, 2024 |
wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - It seems hard to believe that more than twenty years have passed since Brad Thor introduced the world to Scot Harvath. Since his first thriller novel, Lions of Lucerne, published in 2002, Thor has taken the former Navy SEAL around the world on missions of national security and espionage, landing many of his books on what has become his second home, the New York Times best seller list.
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Jun 17, 2024 |
wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Jack Carr is a busy guy. Not only is the New York Times bestselling author about to release the seventh thriller featuring his character James Reece called Red Sky Mourning, the former Navy SEAL is also working on another streaming series for Amazon Prime Video. It’s a spinoff of The Terminal List, the successful 2022 series based on Carr’s debut novel, that featured Chris Pratt in the role of Reece.
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