WTVD
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| WTVD | |
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| Durham - Raleigh - Fayetteville, North Carolina |
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| Branding | ABC11 |
| Channels | 11 (VHF) analog, 52 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary 1954-62, primary since 1985) The AccuWeather Channel on DT3 |
| Owner | Disney/ABC |
| Founded | September 2, 1954 |
| Call letters meaning | TV Durham |
| Former affiliations | NBC (primary 1954-1956, secondary 1962-1968) CBS (1956-1985) |
| Website | [1] |
WTVD, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated station of the Walt Disney Company-owned ABC television network, based in Durham, North Carolina. The station serves the areas of Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill (known as the Triangle), the nation's 29th largest television market. WTVD's main studios, offices and newsroom are located in downtown Durham, along with additional studio facilities in both Raleigh and Fayetteville. The station's transmitter is located just off U.S. Highway 70 near Garner, North Carolina.
Veterans of WTVD's staff include musicians John Tesh and John Loudermilk and ESPN sports anchor Stuart Scott, as well as former Good Morning America co-host David Hartman.
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[edit] History
In 1952, two rival companies each applied for a license to build a television station in Durham on the city's newly allotted VHF channel 11 - Herald-Sun Newspapers (publishers of the Durham Morning Herald and the Durham Sun as well as the owners of radio station WDNC) and Floyd Fletcher and Harmon Duncan, the then-owners of WTIK radio. In December of 1953, the two sides agreed to join forces and operate the station under the joint banner Durham Broadcasting Enterprises. Eight months later, on September 2, 1954, WTVD began broadcasting as an NBC affiliate with a black-and-white film of The Star Spangled Banner.
Their initial studios were located in a former tuberculosis sanitorium at 2410 Broad Street, with a transmitter located atop Signal Hill, off NC 157 in northern Durham County. It is the Triangle's oldest surviving television station, having signed on a few months after WNAO-TV, channel 28. On May 22, 1957, Durham Broadcasting Enterprises merged with Albany, New York-based Hudson Valley Communications Company (owners of WCDA-TV (now WTEN in Albany) to form Capital Cities Communications. (This made WTVD the flagship of Capital Cities at the time). Around 1958, WTVD built a 1,500-foot tower at their present transmitter site in Garner to better serve the market. That same year, the station first began broadcasting in color, although it would be until 1966 before the same was true for local programming.
When WRAL-TV signed on and took the NBC affiliation in 1956, WTVD switched its primary affiliation to ABC. When WNAO signed off in 1959 due to financial difficulties, WTVD took on a primary affiliation with CBS and a secondary affiliation with ABC. After WRAL took the ABC affiliation full-time in 1962, WTVD broadcast a limited amount of NBC programming since the area only had two commercial stations at the time. NBC would not return to the Triangle full-time for another six years until 1968, when channel 28 returned to the airwaves as WRDU-TV (now WRDC-TV); however, WTVD carried the most popular CBS and NBC programs, leaving WRDU with the lower-rated shows from both networks, until 1971, when WTVD became an exclusive CBS affiliate.
In 1978, WTVD attempted to expand its broadcast coverage to the Fayetteville area, which had been without a broadcast TV station for nearly two decades. Its studios were relocated to 411 Liberty Street in Downtown Durham on a parcel of land it shares with the Durham County Library, while a new 2,000 foot tower was built at the Garner, North Carolina transmitter site. A fire on March 4, 1979 caused extensive damage to the newly-built studio building, however the newsroom and a number of other key components had been rebuilt within a month. By that time, much of WTVD's operations had returned to normal, although it had resorted to temporary setups during the interim such as holding the newscasts in one of the meeting rooms that survived the aforementioned crisis unscathed.
On August 4, 1985, the station switched affiliations with WRAL and became an ABC station when its parent company, Capital Cities Communications, purchased the ABC network. The merger was finalized on January 3, 1986, making WTVD an official ABC owned-and-operated station (O&O). Before the transition of ownership, Capital Cities wanted to keep WTVD and several other stations under its control and switch the others to ABC as well; the purchase of the network was motivated by WPVI-TV in Philadelphia being Capital Cities' most profitable station. In 1996, WTVD became a Disney entity with Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities. The station was the first O&O of any major network in the Triangle area market, and was also the only one until NBC bought WNCN in the mid-90s. When WNCN was sold to Media General on June 26, 2006, WTVD became the only network O&O again.
[edit] News Operations
WTVD used the NewsChannel format from 1993 until 2000 when it changed over to Eyewitness News, the most commonly used news title on its sister stations.
On June 26, 2006, WTVD debuted a new ten o'clock newscast for WLFL, entitled Eyewitness News at Ten on WB22. This newscast runs directly against the WRAL-produced newscast on WRAZ-TV. No plans have been announced for a morning newscast.
On September 17, 2006, conucurrent with WLFL's official affiliation switch, the newscast changed its name to Eyewitness News at Ten on CW 22.
[edit] Newscasts
Weekdays
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 5 a.m./6 a.m. - 4:55-7:00 a.m. with John Clark, Barbara Gibbs, and Meteorologist Chris Hohmann
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at Noon - Noon-12:30 p.m. with John Clark, Barbara Gibbs, and Meteorologist Chris Hohmann
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 5 - 5:00-5:30 p.m. with Larry Stogner, Tisha Powell, and Meteorologist Joanne Feldman
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 5:30 - 5:30-6:00 p.m. with Steve Daniels, Tisha Powell, Meteorologist Joanne Feldman, and Troubleshooter Diane Wilson
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6:00-6:30 p.m. with Larry Stogner, Angela Hampton, Meteorologist Joanne Feldman, and Sports with Mark Armstrong
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 10 on CW22 - 10:00-10:35 p.m. with Steve Daniels, Tisha Powell, Meteorologist Joanne Feldman, and Sports with Mark Armstrong
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11:00-11:35 p.m. with Steve Daniels, Tisha Powell, Angela Hampton, Meteorologist Joanne Feldman, and Sports with Mark Armstrong
Saturday
- ABC11 Eyewitness News Saturday at 6 a.m./7 a.m. - 6:00-8:00am with Anthony Wilson, Amber Rupinta, and Meteorologist Steve Stewart
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6:00-6:30 p.m. with Fred Shropshire, Shae Crisson, Meteorologist Glenn Willey, and Sports with Joe Mazur
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 10 on CW22 - 10:00-10:35 p.m. with Fred Shropshire , Shae Crisson, Meteorologist Glenn Willey, and Sports with Joe Mazur
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11:00-11:35 p.m. with Fred Shropshire, Shae Crisson, Meteorologist Glenn Willey, and Sports with Joe Mazur
Sunday
- ABC11 Eyewitness News Sunday at 6 a.m./7 a.m. - 6:00-8:00am with Anthony Wilson, Amber Rupinta, and Meteorologist Steve Stewart
- ABC11 Eyewitness News Sunday at 9 a.m. - 9:00-10:00am with Anthony Wilson, Amber Rupinta, and Meteorologist Steve Stewart
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6:00-6:30 p.m. with Fred Shropshire, Shae Crisson, Meteorologist Glenn Willey, and Sports with Joe Mazur
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 10 on CW22 - 10:00-10:35 p.m. with Fred Shropshire, Shae Crisson, Meteorologist Glenn Willey, and Sports with Joe Mazur
- ABC11 Eyewitness News at 11 - 11:00-11:35 p.m. with Fred Shropshire, Shae Crisson, Meteorologist Glenn Willey, and Sports with Joe Mazur
[edit] Personalities
[edit] Present
- Mark Armstrong - weekday sports anchor/Sports Director
- Gilbert Baez - Fayetteville bureau reporter
- Greg Barnes - Fayetteville bureau reporter
- Kate Bolduan - reporter
- John Clark - morning and noon anchor
- Shae Crisson - weekend evening anchor
- Ed Crump - reporter
- Rebecca Hall - reporter
- Steve Daniels - anchor at 5:30, 10 and 11 p.m.
- Tony Debo - veteran sports reporter
- Joanne Feldman - chief meteorologist
- Steve Forgy - morning traffic reporter
- Barbara Gibbs - morning and noon anchor
- Tamara Gibbs - reporter
- Angela Hampton - anchor at 6 and 11 p.m.
- Chris Hohmann - weekday morning meteorologist
- Joe Mazur - weekend sports anchor/reporter
- Tim Nelson - reporter
- Tisha Powell - anchor at 5, 5:30 and 10 p.m./health reporter
- Amber Rupinta - weekend morning anchor
- Fred Shropshire- weekend evening anchor/reporter
- Steve Stewart - weekend morning meteorologist
- Larry Stogner - chief anchor at 5 and 6 p.m.
- Ken Ward - reporter
- Vanessa Welch - reporter
- Glenn Willey - weekend evening meteorologist
- Anthony Wilson - weekend morning anchor/Durham bureau reporter
- Diane Wilson - Troubleshooter at 5 p.m.
[edit] Past
- Fred Blackman - anchor (1960s), later worked for WGHP
- Jason Brewer- meteorologist (?-2006) now at KPRC in Houston, TX
- Dave Boliek - reporter (1981-1997)
- Mike Caplan - weather anchor (1988-1993)
- Ervin Hester - anchor/reporter/host of Reel Perspectives and Prime Time Sunday (1971-1996)
- Denise James - reporter/host of Reflections (1985-1987, now at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia)
- George Mallet - anchor/reporter (1987-1997, now at WTXF-TV in Philadelphia)
- Gary McGrady - meteorologist (1999-2002, now at WTTG in Washington, D.C.)
- Katina Rankin- anchor/reporter (2003-2006) her whereabouts are currently unknown.
- Bill Reh - meteorologist (1984-1997, now at WNCN)
- Frances Scott - anchor/reporter (1999-2005, currently living in Roanoke, Virginia. In 2006, she was featured on commercials for the CrossRoads Ford dealership located in Cary [2])
- Monica Shuman - anchor/reporter (1989-1997)
- Drew Smith - sports anchor (1991-2005)
- Miriam Thomas - anchor/host of Reflections (1982-2001)
- Keith Whitney - reporter (1983-1993, now at WXIA-TV in Atlanta)
[edit] External links
| Broadcast television in the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville market (Nielsen DMA #29) | |||
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WUNC 4 / WUNU 31 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WRAL 5 (CBS) - WTVD 11 (ABC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT3) - WUBX-CA 13/WUBX-LD 31 (Silent?) - WBXU-CA 13 (Silent?) - WNCN 17 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WLFL 22 (The CW) - W24CP 24 (3ABN) - WTNC 26 (TFU) - WRDC 28 (MNTV) - WRAY 30 (Ind) - WACN-LP 34 (DS) - WUVC 40 (UNI) - WHFL-LP 43 (Worship) - WZGS 44 (Telemundo) - W45CN 45 / W45CO 45 / W63CW 63 / W64CN 64 (TBN) - WRPX 47 / WFPX 62 (ION) - WRAZ 50 (Fox) - WWIW-LP 66 (DS) - W67CD 67 (A1) - W68BK 68 (Educational) |
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WECT 6 (NBC, Wilmington) |
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| ABC Network Affiliates in the state of North Carolina | |
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WWAY 3 (Wilmington) - WSOC 9 (Charlotte) - WTVD 11 (Durham) - WCTI 12 (New Bern) - WLOS 13 (Asheville) - WXLV 45 (Winston-Salem) |
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| See also: CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS, CW, MNTV and Other stations in North Carolina | |
