WTEN

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WTEN-TV / WCDC-TV
- WTEN-TV - Albany, New York - WCDC-TV - Adams, Massachusetts
Branding	WTEN/News 10
Slogan	None
Channels	10 (VHF)/19 (UHF) analog, 26/36 (HDTV, UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	Young Broadcasting
Founded	- WTEN - March 26, 1954 (on channel 41 as WROW-TV, moved to channel 10 in 1957) - WCDC - March 26, 1954
Call letters meaning	- WTEN - Channel TEN (10) - WCDC - Derived from WTEN's former calls, WCDA-TV
Former callsigns	- WTEN - WROW-TV (1954-1957) WCDA (1957-1960) - WCDC - WMGT-TV (channel 74) (1954-60)
Former affiliations	- WTEN - CBS (1954-1977, also WCDC) - WCDC - DuMont (secondary, 1954-56)
Transmitter Power	- WTEN - 316.0 kW (analog) 700.0 kW (digital) - WCDC - 447.0 kW (analog) 16.2 kW (digital)
Website	www.wten.com/

WTEN is the ABC affiliate for New York state's Capital District (Albany-Schenectady-Troy.) It is licensed to Albany, with its transmitter located in the Helderberg Mountains outside Albany.

Contents 1 History 2 WCDC 2.1 WCDB 3 Logos 4 Personalities 5 Newscast Titles 6 Newscasts 6.1 Monday-Friday 6.2 Weekends 7 News Music 8 References 9 External links

[edit] History

WTEN first signed on March 26, 1954 as CBS affiliate WROW-TV on UHF channel 41. It was owned by the Hudson Valley Communications Company along with WROW-AM. In 1957 it moved to VHF channel 10 as WCDA and became WTEN a few years later within 1960. Hudson Valley Communications eventually became Capital Cities Communications with WTEN as the flagship station.

In 1968, Capital Cities sold the original three stations of the group (WTEN, WPRO-TV Providence and WJRT Flint, Michigan to Poole Broadcasting. Nine years later, Poole sold WTEN, WJRT, and WPRI (former WPRO-TV) to Knight-Ridder which near-instantly switched WTEN's affiliation with WAST (now WNYT) to become the market's ABC station with the same happening in Providence between WPRI and WTEV (now WLNE). In 1989, Young Broadcasting bought WTEN and sister WKRN in Nashville from Knight-Ridder upon the latter's exit from broadcasting.

WTEN signed on its high-definition service on channel 26 in 2004. WCDC's digital signal on channel 36 signed on nearly 18 months earlier though even though they did not upgrade to high-definition programming until WTEN-DT's signon. In 2005, WTEN launched the Storm Tracker Weather Channel, a 24-hour local weather channel, on WTEN-DT 10.2 and WCDC-DT 19.2.

[edit] WCDC

WTEN operates a satellite station, WCDC, on analog channel 19, broadcasting at 447.0 kW, from atop Mount Greylock in Adams, Massachusetts. WCDC-DT operates on channel 36 at 16.2 kW. WCDC is mentioned only on WTEN's legal ID and in the station's EEO public file report and is a straight simulcast of WTEN. WCDC began broadcasting on March 26, 1954 as WMGT-TV (W Mount Greylock Television [1]) channel 74, on the same date that WROW-TV channel 41 (the predecessor to WTEN) signed on or the first time. The tower location on Mount Greylock helped WCDC serve not only as a major boost to WROW-TV but also as the secondary affiliate of the DuMont network from its launch until that network's demise in 1956.

In 1957, WMGT-TV moved to channel 19, and in 1960 the call letters were changed to the current WCDC-TV. The WCDC call letters were derived from WTEN's former calls, WCDA. The WMGT-TV call sign is now used on the NBC affiliate in Macon, Georgia.

WCDC's signal reliably covers the western half of Massachusetts, southern Vermont, northern Connecticut, and southwestern New Hampshire. It can be considered a rimshot signal into the Springfield, Massachusetts market and is on cable in areas such as Brattleboro, Vermont.

[edit] WCDB

Prior to the move of what was then WCDA to channel 10, a second satellite was operated in WCDB, located on channel 29 in the Montgomery County hamlet of Hagaman. The station signed off the air in 1959 after the move of WCDA to channel 10 rendered it superfluous even though, historically, it did provide some primary CBS coverage to areas near Utica. The WCDB calls would return to the air in 1978 as those of the student-run radio station at the University at Albany.

[edit] Logos

Current WTEN-TV/DT logo

Version of current logo with the ABC logo, discontinued late 2005 or early 2006

[edit] Personalities

Current

• Steve Ammerman (Weekday morning/Noon anchor, anchored weekends 2000-04)
• Nina Bouphasavanh (reporter)
• Steve Caporizzo (Chief Meteorologist and host of the "Pet Connection" series, a longtime segment on early evening newscasts, now primetime specials)
• John Craig (Key nightside reporter/fill-in anchor)
• Tracy Egan (5:30 p.m. anchor and health reporter; veteran of the market with two prior stints at WRGB prior to arriving at WTEN)
• Andy Gregorio (Weekday morning meteorologist, previously also did noon)
• Dori Marlin (Weekday morning anchor/reporter)
• John McLoughlin (Managing Editor and reporter, WTEN's longest tenured talent dating to 1972)
• Jeff Smith (Weekend meteorologist)
• Brian Sinkoff (Sports Director)
• Jeff Stoecker (reporter)
• Elisa Streeter (5:00/6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, latter two since 1997; also is one of WTEN's longest tenured reporters dating to 1988)
• Latricia Thomas (reporter)
• Anya Tucker (Weekend evening anchor)
• Alyssa Van Wie (Weekend morning anchor)
• Katie Virtue (Noon/fill-in meteorologist)

Past

• Jim Brennan (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, 1991-2000; now hosts "New York Week in Review", aired on PBS stations across New York state)
• Greg Floyd (Weekend anchor in the mid 1980's until leaving for WTZA in Kingston, then resurfacing at WXXA and WRGB)
• Bob Gordon (Weatherman during the 1970's, preceded Bob Kovachick)
• John Guaraldi (meteorologist from 1981 until about the mid-90s, now meteorologist at WPLG-TV in Miami)
• Bob Kovachick (Now of WNYT, was chief meteorologist at WTEN from April 1977 until 1986, was the first credentialed meteorologist in the Albany market)
• Walt McClure (key reporter from 1999-2005, now in the same role at WXXA-TV)
• Scott Patterson (reporter from 2001-2005, now weekend anchor at KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska)
• Terry McSweeney (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor from 2000-2006, 5:00 p.m. anchor 2002-2006, presently in California [2])
• Dan Murphy (Sports Director from 1992-2005 and previously weekend sports, now host of "Murphy's Law" on WOFX radio)
• Ed O'Brien (Sports Director from 1986-89, fired upon Young's purchase of the station and went to WRGB where he is now weekday morning anchor)
• Mary Caroline Powers (Co-anchored the noon news for many years with Ralph Vartigian. Worked at WRGB during the 1970's and later worked in public television and as an editor at the Saratogian newspaper)
• Rip Rowan (Sports anchor from 1968-86, later worked for the Albany-Colonie Yankees AA farm team)
• Sharman Sachetti (Former morning anchor - as of 2005 a reporter at WFXT)
• Mai Shiozaki (Former freelance morning anchor - was press secretary for National Organization for Women)
• John Spadafora (Weekend sports anchor from 1992-2005, now heads communications for the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce)
• Ralph Vartigian (Longtime host of the children's program Commander Ralph and later the co-anchor of the noon news)
• Dick Wood (Main anchor from 1973-1991, as of 2006 hosts a jazz show on WABY Moon Radio)
• Herb Starr (reporter, weekend anchor, 1970-1975; communications dir., NY Lt Gov; corporate media advisor. Now a private investor)
• Dick (Hill) McCarthy, (anchor, 1970s, later in communications for New York state. WABY doing sports reports currently)
• Richard Roth, (reporter, early 70s, is a CBS News correspondent based in London)
• Richard Reingold, (reporter, early 70s, was president and general manager of WUSA-TV, Wash, DC)
• Dick Williams, (reporter-weekend anchor, early 70s, hosts FOX 5's Georgia Gang in Atlanta)

[edit] Newscast Titles

• Action News (1970s-1986)
• 10 Eyewitness News (1986-1995)
• News 10 (1995-present) [3]

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Monday-Friday

• News 10 in fhe Morning (5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.)
• News 10 at Noon
• News 10 at 5
• News 10 at 5:30
• News 10 at 6
• News 10 at 11 (11:00 p.m. to 11:35 p.m.)

[edit] Weekends

• News 10 in the Morning (6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.)
• News 10 at 6
• News 10 at 11

[edit] News Music

Package Composer Years Used Other Notes Move Closer to Your World Mayoham Music mid 1970s-ca 1986 Palmer News Package Shelly Palmer Company ca 1986-1990 WTEN 1990 News Theme Unknown 1990-1995 Primetime News Non-Stop Music 1995-present

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WTEN
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WCDC