most well known local television personalities. He punctuated his weather discussions with comments about gardening, cooking, and hunting and fishing. During his channel 4 career, Hall also hosted Land and Lakes, an outdoors show focusing on local hunting and fishing adventures. Hall retired in 2005, and later died on December 23, 2011. Rudy Kalis began anchoring the morning newscasts in 2014 after working in the sports department for 40 years. He was the second sportscaster in Nashville to move to anchoring the morning news in the past year. He retired in November 2017, after 43 years with channel 4. Longtime anchor Demetria Kalodimos was let go after her contract expired at the end of 2017. Notable former on-air staff Charlie Chase – (1970s; now host for the Crook and Chase television show and countdown) Huell Howser – (1970s; died January 7, 2013) Demetria Kalodimos – anchor (worked with station from 1984 to 2017) Sondra Locke – (1960s; died November 3, 2018) Carol Marin – investigative reporter/anchor (1976–1978; later with WMAQ-TV in Chicago as the station's political editor) Dan Miller – anchor (died April 8, 2009) Robin Roberts – sports anchor/reporter (1986–1988; now anchor of Good Morning America) Pat Sajak – weather reporter (1970s; now host of the syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune) John Tesh – (musician; former anchor of Entertainment Tonight) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WSMV-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 4. Translators Out-of-market coverage South-central Kentucky For its first 50 years on the air, WSMV was the default NBC affiliate for the Bowling Green media market in south-central Kentucky, since it did not have an NBC affiliate of its own when Arbitron first assigned Bowling Green in its own media market in 1977 following the success and growth of that area's ABC affiliate (and now sister station) WBKO, which, until 1989, was the only commercial television station in the Bowling Green area at the time. WSMV had a historical monopoly in providing NBC programming for that area from its September 1950 inception