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Dolly Parton has long stood as one of the most influential figures in American music and popular culture, and at 80, her presence remains as commanding as ever.
Her career has spanned decades, her voice has become instantly recognizable, and her public image has remained remarkably consistent through changing eras.
Yet behind the sparkle, humor, and legendary stage costumes lies a deeply human story of love, grief, resilience, and endurance.
Her career has spanned decades, her voice has become instantly recognizable, and her public image has remained remarkably consistent through changing eras.
Yet behind the sparkle, humor, and legendary stage costumes lies a deeply human story of love, grief, resilience, and endurance.
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00:00Dolly Parton built an image of strength for the world, but losing Carl Dean changed something
00:05behind closed doors. Stay with me as we look at the private moments after his passing,
00:11the health concerns that followed, and the reason those closest to Dolly say this loss was different
00:16from anything before. Carl Dean died on a Monday, and Dolly announced it herself.
00:22Carl Dean, husband of Dolly Parton, passed away March 3 in Nashville at the age of 82.
00:27The statement read, and it said he'd be laid to rest in a private ceremony,
00:31with immediate family attending. No cause of death was given, he was 82.
00:37Dolly was 79 at the time, and the two of them had built a life together that outlasted almost
00:42every marriage in Hollywood or Nashville. She didn't put out some long, sprawling statement.
00:48She kept it simple. Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love
00:55we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy. That was it, that was Dolly,
01:01in the rawest moment of her life, still choosing plain words over anything dramatic. Her family
01:06asked for privacy right away. The statement noted that he was survived by his siblings,
01:12Sandra and Donnie, and that the family had asked for respect during a difficult time.
01:17That's who Carl was his whole life, a name people barely knew, right up to the very end.
01:22And here's the thing about Carl Dean, most people outside the diehard Dolly fans didn't even know
01:27what he looked like. He wasn't a guy who showed up to award shows or red carpets. He was an
01:33asphalt
01:33contractor from Nashville, and by every account, he liked it that way. Despite being together from
01:39the start of her storied career, Carl rarely shared the spotlight with his wife. And photos of the two
01:44of them out in public were rare. Even though Dolly talked about him all the time in interviews.
01:49That's actually part of why his death hit so hard. This wasn't some public figure whose passing came
01:56with decades of documented history. This was a private man who quietly held together the personal
02:02side of one of the most famous women alive. And then he was gone, and all Dolly had was memory.
02:07Three days after the announcement, she went further. On her Instagram, she said she was grateful for
02:13everyone reaching out. She thanked people for the messages, cards, and flowers sent to pay respects
02:18for the loss of her beloved husband Carl. She said she couldn't reach out personally to every single
02:23person, but that it had meant the world to her. And then she said something that told you exactly
02:29where her head was. That Carl was in God's arms now, and she was okay with that. She added she'd
02:35always
02:35love him. That I'm okay with that, line mattered. It wasn't denial, and it wasn't putting on a brave
02:41face for cameras. It was a woman who'd spent nearly six decades married to somebody. Choosing to frame
02:48his death through her faith, instead of letting it flatten her in public. And then, four days after
02:53he died, she did something nobody expected quite so fast. She released a song. It's called If You
02:59Hadn't Been There, and it dropped less than a week after Carl passed. Following Carl's passing,
03:04Dolly honored his memory with the ballad, released March 7, 2025. And it was built entirely around
03:10what he meant to her life. In the lyrics she sings that she wouldn't be here if he hadn't been
03:15there.
03:16That line right at the center of the song. She introduced it on Instagram, with a message that
03:21read almost like a vow renewed after death. She wrote that she fell in love with Carl Dean when she
03:26was
03:2618 years old. That the two of them spent 60 precious and meaningful years together. And that like all
03:33great love stories, theirs would never really end. They'd live on in memory and in song. She called
03:39him the star of her life story and dedicated the song to him. Think about the timeline here. Most
03:45people when they lose a spouse of six decades, take weeks or months before they can even talk about it
03:50publicly. Let alone write and release new music about it. Dolly did it in days. That tells you
03:56something about how she processes grief. She doesn't bury it, she sings it out. The outpouring
04:02from the industry came fast too. Down in the comments of her posts, you had messages from artists
04:07like Laini Wilson. From Andy Cohen from Diplo. From bands like The Head and The Heart. The comment
04:13section filled with messages of love for Parton from stars across genres. Country music is a small world.
04:20And even people who never knew Carl, personally understood exactly what Dolly had just lost.
04:26Her own family spoke up too. Her younger sister, Stella Parton, posted on social media on behalf
04:32of the whole family. She wrote that on behalf of Dolly, their family and Carl's family, they
04:37appreciated everyone's prayers at this time. It was a short message, but it confirmed something
04:43important. This wasn't just Dolly's loss, it rippled through an entire extended family. That had
04:48absorbed Carl as one of their own for 60 years. Even while he stayed almost totally invisible to the
04:54public. So that's the moment the world found out. A quiet death, a plain spoken statement, a song
05:01written in grief days later. And a family circling the wagons around a woman, who suddenly had to face
05:06fame, without the one person, who never wanted any part of it. What came next was the hard part,
05:12actually getting back up in front of people. To understand what Dolly lost, you have to go back to
05:17where it started. Because the story of how they met is almost stranger than fiction. For two people
05:23who ended up together for six decades. She just arrived in Nashville. Carl met Dolly in 1964.
05:30Outside the wishy-washy laundromat on the day, she moved to the city at age 18. She was fresh off
05:35the
05:36bus, a teenager chasing a music career. And he was a 21-year-old asphalt worker, who happened to be
05:42standing outside a laundromat when she walked by. Dolly's told the story of that meeting more than
05:47once over the years. And one detail always stands out to her. That he actually looked at her face
05:53while they talked. Which she said was rare for men meeting her at the time. She said he seemed
05:58genuinely interested in finding out who she was, and what she was about. There's a detail from that
06:04day that Dolly loves to bring up, the car radio. She told Billboard that they had the car radio on.
06:10She didn't remember exactly what was playing, but it was loud, and it was rock and roll.
06:15That small moment, two kids sitting by a car with music blasting, turned into 60 years. They didn't
06:21rush it, at least not by much. Two years after that laundromat meeting, they got married. The
06:26wedding happened on Memorial Day, May 30, 1966, in a small ceremony in Ringgold, Georgia. No big
06:33Nashville affair, no press, nothing that screamed future country music icon. Just two young people
06:39getting married quietly in Georgia. That set the tone for the entire marriage, private,
06:44low-key, completely out of step, with the fame that was about to swallow Dolly whole.
06:49Because right around that same period, Dolly's career actually started taking off. She married
06:54Carl Wright as she was breaking into the charts. Her breakthrough single, Dumb Blonde, landed not long
07:00after the wedding. From that point on, her life became stadiums, television appearances,
07:05movie sets, and eventually a theme park with her name on it. Carl's life stayed an asphalt
07:11business in Nashville. That contrast is honestly what makes this such a striking story.
07:16While Dolly's career soared toward international stardom, Carl chose something completely different.
07:21He embraced a private life, working as a businessman who owned his own paving company. Finding his joy in
07:28things like road trips in the RV, and just spending time with her. He never chased any of what she
07:33had,
07:34he didn't want it. That's why the rumors started, for years because he was so rarely seen. People
07:39online and in tabloids openly speculated that Carl Dean wasn't even a real person. That Dolly had
07:46invented a husband as some kind of cover story. She had to shoot this down publicly more than once.
07:52In one interview she gave in 2020, she addressed it directly, saying a lot of people believed that over
07:58the years. Simply because he didn't want to be in the spotlight at all. It's a strange thing to have
08:03to prove your spouse exists. But that's how deep his privacy ran. And it wasn't just tabloid rumors,
08:09his absence from public life was almost total. Before he died, his last public appearance,
08:14where he was actually photographed, happened back in December 2019, when he visited a post office near
08:20the couple's Brentwood, Tennessee estate with an assistant. At the time that photo was taken,
08:26he hadn't been photographed in public in almost 40 years. Let that sink in. 40 years without a
08:33camera catching him out in the world. That's not shyness. That's a man who built an entire second
08:38life, specifically designed to stay out of frame. She's talked about why that worked for the two of
08:44them. Just months before he passed, in a December 2024 podcast appearance, Dolly opened up about his
08:51nature. She described him as a homebody, and said that worked well for the two of them,
08:56even joking about their astrological signs being compatible. She said he loved to go places if
09:02they had a trip planned, if they were driving cross-country. But he had zero interest in being
09:07paraded around as Dolly Parton's husband. There's another piece of this that country fans have known for
09:13years. Carl's fingerprints are all over her music, even though he stayed silent about it publicly.
09:19Dolly has said outright that his music taste, shaped one of her more recent rock-inspired records.
09:25She told Good Morning America in 2023, that most of the songs on that album she chose because of
09:31Carl. Because she knew they were good songs, since he knows good music. And going back further,
09:36he's long been cited as the inspiration, behind one of her most iconic songs. The story of jealousy
09:42and heartbreak that became, Jeline. Born out of an early scare in their marriage. Their marriage
09:48crossed the half-century mark in style. In 2016, on their 50th wedding anniversary,
09:54they renewed their vows in Nashville. A quiet nod to the fact that 50 years earlier,
09:59two kids from a Georgia ceremony had actually made it work. Against every odd that comes with
10:04one half of a couple becoming a global superstar. But there was a dark turn nobody outside the family
10:10knew about until after his death. Carl had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease back in 2019.
10:17That diagnosis explains a lot about why Dolly scaled back certain things in the years leading
10:22up to his death. And why she's talked in recent years about wanting more time at home rather than on
10:28tour. She was quietly caring for a husband whose mind was slipping. All while the public still only knew
10:33him as the mysterious man who never showed up to anything. So by the time March 2025 arrived,
10:40this wasn't a sudden shock hitting a healthy man. It was the end of a slow decline that Dolly had
10:45been
10:45living through largely behind closed doors. The same way Carl had lived his entire adult life.
10:51Quietly, privately, away from any cameras. And it meant that when he finally did pass,
10:57Dolly wasn't just losing a husband. She was losing the one person who'd known her before any of the fame.
11:03The Whigs, the rhinestones. The one man who saw her as an 18-year-old outside a laundromat
11:09and just wanted to know who she was. The world didn't have to wait long to see how Dolly would
11:14handle grief in public. Because less than two weeks after Carl died, she showed up.
11:19It happened at Dollywood. The theme park was opening its 40th season. And Dolly showed up in person for
11:26the celebration. Her first public appearance since her husband's death. Sitting down with a local outlet
11:31before the event. And what she said set the tone for everything that would follow over the coming
11:36year. She told them she was doing better than she thought she would. She said she'd been with him
11:4260 years. So she was going to have to relearn some of the things they used to do together. But
11:47she'd
11:47keep him always close. That phrase, relearn some of the things we've done, is about as honest a
11:53description of early widowhood as you'll hear from anybody, famous or not. Then at the actual event,
11:59in front of a crowd, she went further. She told the attendees that of course, she'd always love
12:04him. And she'd miss him. But she wanted everyone to know she'd always love them too. She thanked
12:10people for everything that had happened over the last several years. Thanked them for the flowers and
12:15cards, and well wishes over the loss of Carl. And then she explained why she'd chosen to show up at
12:21all. Instead of staying home to grieve privately. She said he would want her to be working today.
12:26And that she expected to be working. That line right there is basically Dolly's entire philosophy
12:32on loss. Work as tribute. Show up because the person you lost would have wanted you standing
12:37on your feet. Not sitting in the dark. For a while, that's exactly what it looked like.
12:43She kept working on projects behind the scenes throughout the rest of 2025. Records, a Broadway-bound
12:49musical adaptation of her life story. And a planned return to the stage in Las Vegas.
12:54Her first residency in over three decades. Announced back in the summer, it was billed as a giant
13:01moment. Dolly returning to live performance after not touring since 2016. Set for a run of shows at
13:07the Coliseum at Caesars Palace in December. But then come September, the first crack showed. She had to
13:13cancel an appearance at Dollywood because of a kidney stone infection. With doctors advising that travel
13:19was too risky for her at that point. It seemed minor at the time. Kidney stones happen. People get
13:25infections. Nobody was raising alarms yet. Then later that same month, the Vegas news dropped.
13:32Parton had been forced to postpone her Las Vegas residency. Originally scheduled for December,
13:38moving the whole run to September 2026. She put out a statement herself. And it's worth hearing in her
13:44own words because of how she chose to explain it. She said she wanted fans and the public to hear
13:50directly from her. That she'd need to postpone the concerts. That she'd been dealing with health
13:55challenges. And her doctors told her she needed a few procedures. She joked it must be time for her
14:01hundred thousand mile checkup. And made sure everyone knew it wasn't the usual visit to her plastic
14:06surgeon. She was careful even in that statement to protect her audience's expectations. She said she wasn't
14:13going to be able to rehearse. And put together the show she wanted people to see. The show they
14:18deserved. She said people pay good money to see her perform. And she wanted to be at her absolute
14:24best for them. She promised she'd keep working on projects from home in Nashville. She just needed
14:30time to get, in her words, show ready. And then she added the line that mattered most to fans, worried
14:36this was the beginning of the end. She said not to worry about her quitting the business. Because God
14:41hadn't said anything about stopping yet. But that she believed he was telling her to slow down right
14:46now. So she could be ready for more big adventures. That framing slowing down, not stopping, became her
14:53mantra through the rest of the year. But the cancellations kept piling up. In November, she missed the
14:59Dollywood Hall of Fame induction. She also missed the Academy Governor's Awards. An event where she was set
15:05to receive a humanitarian honor from the Academy itself. One of the biggest honors of her career.
15:11She missed both, citing doctor's orders to take it easy. By the time her 80th birthday rolled around
15:17in January, the pattern was impossible to ignore. The Grand Ole Opry had planned a massive tribute night
15:23in her honor. Stacked with performers like Lainey Wilson, Vince Gill, and Rhonda Vincent. Built around her
15:29career, and specifically her 1980s hits. And Dolly wasn't there. She confirmed she'd skip her own
15:36birthday celebration. She recorded a video message instead, which the Opry shared for fans. In it,
15:43she said how much it meant to her. That everyone was coming together again, to celebrate her birthday.
15:48And reflected that some of her favorite memories, happened right there on that stage. She never specified
15:54exactly what was keeping her home. Just that she wished she could be there in person. And that
16:00she'd be sending her love, so everyone could have the best night ever. Fans noticed something bigger
16:05going on. This wasn't one canceled event. It was a pattern of her sitting out important occasions.
16:12One after another, over several months, with virtual appearances slowly becoming the new normal.
16:17Instead of showing up in the flesh. For a woman who'd once joked, she wanted to drop dead on stage
16:22in the
16:23middle of a song. Rather than ever slow down, this looked like the first real signal. That her ninth
16:28decade was going to look different from everyone before it. Even so, she wasn't going to let the
16:34milestone pass, without addressing the rumors head on. She posted a video reassuring people directly,
16:40saying she knew lately. Everybody thought she was sicker than she actually was. And asking her fans
16:45point blank whether she looked sick to them. It was vintage Dolly, using humor to push back against the
16:51panic. Even while admitting something real was going on underneath it. Turning 80 didn't slow the
16:57story down. If anything, the months right after her birthday, made clear that something more than a
17:02passing kidney infection was going on. In March, Dollywood opened for its 2026 season. And there was
17:09real uncertainty about whether Dollywood even show up for opening day. After everything that had
17:14happened over the winter, she did show up, and what she said that day connected everything together.
17:20In a way she hadn't fully spelled out before. Standing at the keynote address, she told the
17:25crowd she hadn't been touring. As everybody knew, and that she'd had a few little health issues.
17:30That she and her team were taking good care of. Then she went further than she had in any previous
17:36statement. Tying the physical toll directly to her husband's death. She said she'd gotten worn down and
17:41worn out, grieving over Carl. And dealing with a lot of other little things going on. She said she'd
17:47needed to build herself back up spiritually, emotionally, and physically. But that all was
17:52good now, and it hadn't slowed her down. That's the clearest link she've ever drawn in public.
17:58That losing Carl didn't just break her heart, it wore down her body. Grief isn't abstract when you're
18:0380 years old, and you've just lost the person. You built an entire adult life around. It shows up in
18:10the immune system, in energy levels, in how much a person can physically withstand. And that's exactly
18:16what kept happening. Her sister Freda had mentioned back in October. That Dolly was under the weather.
18:21A small detail that in hindsight, was an early sign of what was coming. Through the following months,
18:27reporting kept circling around the same two systems. Her immune system and her digestive system. As the
18:34route of ongoing complications, on top of the kidney stone issue from months earlier. By May,
18:40the Vegas residency that had already been pushed once, from December all the way to September,
18:45got pushed again. This time cancelled outright, rather than rescheduled to a new date. She
18:50addressed it herself on Instagram, and true to form, she wrapped hard news in a joke. She said she had
18:56good news and bad news. The good news, she said, was that she was responding really well to meds and
19:02treatments, and improving every day. The bad news was that it would take her a little while longer,
19:07before she felt ready. For stage performance level, because the medication was making her,
19:12in her words, a little swimmy-headed. She turned even that into a punchline,
19:16joking that she couldn't very well be dizzy. While carrying banjos and guitars around in five-inch heels.
19:22And she made clear she'd absolutely still be wearing the heels, once she was back. She listed off the
19:28rhinestones, the big hair, everything that makes a Dolly Parton show what it is. And said none of
19:33that works if she can't trust her own balance on stage. She was careful, again, not to let this
19:38read as retirement. She confirmed she was still working on recordings. Still preparing for the
19:44opening of a museum and hotel project in Nashville. And still reworking her Broadway musical,
19:49set to open that fall or winter in New York. Her focus, she explained, had shifted entirely to
19:55projects she could do sitting down, working from home, rather than anything requiring her to
20:00perform live in heels. Under stage lights for two hours at a stretch. She gave a bit more specificity
20:07on the underlying cause too. Describing it as her immune system, and her digestive system getting,
20:13in her words, all out of whack over the past couple of years. On top of the kidney stones that
20:18had first
20:19surfaced back in September. None of it added up to a single named diagnosis, released to the public.
20:25She's kept the specifics private. The same instinct for privacy that defined Carl's entire life. Now
20:31showing up in how she handles her own health. What's striking is how consistent her explanation
20:37has stayed across every single cancellation. Whether it was Dollywood in September,
20:42the Vegas postponement in the fall. The missed governor's awards in November,
20:46the skipped Opry birthday tribute in January. Or the residency cancellation, altogether in May.
20:52Every time two threads run through it. An unspecified but real physical ailment. And grief over Carl
20:59sitting right underneath it, wearing her down. In ways she's been unusually candid, about for someone
21:04who spent 60 years. Protecting her private life, the way Carl did his. By the time she gave her Dollywood
21:11address that spring. Reporters covering her described her appearance as marking a rare public outing.
21:17After months of cancellations, it was one of maybe two or three times over an entirety. That she'd stood
21:22in front of a crowd at all. For a woman whose entire career had been built on a work ethic
21:27so
21:28relentless. She used to joke about dying mid-performance, rather than ever stopping. That kind of scarcity,
21:34said more than any statement could. So here's where things actually stand. Dolly Parton is 80 years old.
21:40She's lost the man she spent almost 60 years with. And the last year of her life has been a
21:45visible
21:46negotiation between grief, an aging body, and a work ethic she's clearly not ready to abandon.
21:52She hasn't disappeared, that's the important thing. Every cancellation has come with a promise
21:57attached, a rescheduled date. A project still in motion, a museum and hotel opening in Nashville.
22:03A Broadway musical about her own life heading to New York, she's still writing. She's still planning,
22:09she told fans directly that she has no interest in quitting. And every statement she's put out over
22:15the past year has repeated some version of that same line. What's changed is the shape of her
22:20presence. Instead of six nights on a Vegas stage in rhinestones and five-inch heels, her public
22:25appearances now come in short videos posted from home. In keynote addresses, she sits through,
22:31rather than performs at. In birthday tributes, she watches from a distance, instead of attending in
22:37person. One report covering her situation, put it simply. She's transitioning from an active
22:42performer into someone, curating her own legacy from a step back. Rather than living it out night
22:48after night on stage. She's been blunt about the toll grief took on her physically. More blunt than
22:54she's ever been about her personal life before. Losing Carl didn't just leave a hole in her calendar,
23:00or her house. By her own account, it wore her down to the point where her immune system,
23:04and her digestive system started failing her. Layered on top of kidney stones, and whatever
23:10procedures she's declined to name specifically. She's tied all of it back to the same root cause
23:15every single time she's explained it. Grieving a man she spent almost six decades beside. And yet this
23:21humor never left. Even explaining why she couldn't do a Vegas residency, she was joking about swimmy
23:27heads and five-inch heels and rhinestone outfits. Even explaining why she'd miss her own 80th birthday party.
23:34She was thanking the Opry for putting it together, and promising to send her love
23:38from wherever she was. That's consistent with everything she said in the days right after
23:43Carl died too. Grief delivered without ever losing her sense of humor. Loss processed out loud instead
23:49of hidden away. The marriage itself remains the through line for all of it. Two teenagers who met
23:55outside a laundromat in 1964. Married two years later, in a small ceremony nobody outside their families
24:02attended. And then spent the next 59 years mostly keeping their relationship out of the public eye
24:08entirely. Even as one of them became one of the most recognizable entertainers on the planet. Carl
24:14Dean never wanted the spotlight, and he never got it right up until his death. And even then the family
24:20kept the ceremony private, just as he would have wanted. What Dolly's shown since is that she's built her
24:26recovery the same way she built that marriage. Quietly on her own terms, protecting the parts
24:31she doesn't want to share. While still finding ways to keep working, keep creating, keep showing up when
24:37she can. She wrote a song about Carl within days of losing him. She showed up to Dollywood two weeks
24:42later because she said he'd want her working. She's postponed shows, missed award ceremonies, skipped her own
24:49birthday party. And through every single one of those moments, she's kept saying the same thing in
24:54different words. Not gone, just slower, still here, still working toward whatever comes next.
24:59That's Dolly Parton at 80. Not the woman she was when she met Carl outside that laundromat.
25:05Not the woman she was performing sold-out tour in her 40s. But a woman who lost the love of
25:10her life
25:10this year. And has spent the months since figuring out, in full public view, what the rest of her life
25:16is going to look like, without him standing quietly in the background, the way he always did.
25:21Dolly Parton's husband Carl Dean dead at 82, TMZ. Remembering Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's beloved
25:28husband, dollyparton.com. Dolly Parton's husband Carl Dean dies at 82, a BC News. Dolly Parton says
25:36Carl Dean, her husband of 60 years has died, CBS News. Dolly Parton thanks well-wishers as she honors
25:42late husband Carl Dean, CNN. Dolly Parton's husband Carl Dean was last seen in public more than five years
25:49before his death, AOL Parade. Dolly Parton's husband Carl Dean dies at 82, AOL ABC News.
25:56Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years who inspired, Jeline, dies at 82, AOL AP.
26:03Dolly Parton's beloved husband of almost 60 years has died, AOL.
26:07Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years, dies at 82, Yahoo Billboard. Dolly Parton is
26:14doing better than I thought, two weeks after her husband's death, Fox News. Dolly Parton pays tribute
26:19to late husband Carl Dean in first public appearance since his death, AOL People. Dolly Parton's sister
26:25Stella reacts to brother-in-law Carl Dean's death, AOL. Dolly Parton makes first appearance after husband
26:31Carl Dean's death, AOL USA Today. Dolly Parton health update, why the queen of country is skipping her own
26:3880th birthday bash, Inside the Magic. Dolly Parton's health, updates on her immune and digestive system
26:44issues, Hollywood life. Today is Dolly Parton day, as legendary performer turns 80, live now from Fox.
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27:03skip another event, as health mystery rages on Yahoo. Dolly Parton can't attend her Opry birthday show,
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27:28cancels Las Vegas residency, and gives health update, NBC News. Dolly Parton postpones 2025,
27:35Las Vegas residency to next year due to health challenges, Goodreads slash Billboard. Dolly Parton
27:41postpones Vegas residency due to health challenges, Billboard Canada. Dolly Parton health update,
27:47after months away from public appearances, Hollywood Reporter. 191, Dolly Parton on health,
27:53grief, and new projects. WSB TV.