NORFOLK, Va. — Your smartphone is probably in your hand right now. You’re likely even using it to read this article. It holds all our information, allows us unlimited searches and watch events unfold live — but that wasn't always the case.

During WTKR’s 75-year history, the technological changes have been significant.

This story starts in April 1950, when WTAR-TV Channel 4 went on air as the first TV station in southeastern Virginia .

Inside the state-of-the-art facility in downtown Norfolk on Boush Street was a newsroom and dedicated TV studio, outfitted with hot, incandescent lighting and large, heavy film cameras.

"These processes were huge, you would think you had a landing pad for an airplane, but this processor you would process and process and it would take like two hours in th

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