Indiana's NewsCenter (Fort Wayne)

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Header as seen on the website, displaying all of the stations current logos.

Indiana's NewsCenter, began on March 9, 2005 but not completed until November 29, 2005, is a collective name for news for the Fort Wayne, Indiana area's NBC, ABC, My Network TV and The CW stations all operated or owned by Granite Broadcasting. It was originated from WPTA-TV's (21Alive) newscasts but now provides content for all of the channels listed above. After WISE-TV (Fort Wayne's NBC affiliate) was sold to Granite Broadcasting in March 2005, Granite maintained operations at WPTA through a local marketing agreement (LMA). WISE-TV (NBC 33)'s newscasts are now very similar to WPTA's newscasts and generally have the same anchors and reporting staff. Slow changes to WPTA were made and now a multi-channel format is in place called Indiana's NewsCenter. Now all of the newscasts on these channels have the same look, except one anchor (Linda Jackson)from the original WISE-TV that still currently appears only on WISE-TV. To make clearer which channel each newscast is on, The NewsCenter logo is rotated with the respective station's logo.

Granite and Malara run a very similar operation with their Duluth, Minnesota stations under the moniker Northland's NewsCenter.

1 WPTA (ABC-21Alive)
2 WISE-TV (NBC 33)
3 MyTV Fort Wayne (MyNetworkTV)
4 Fort Wayne CW (WBFW)
5 References
6 External links

[edit] WPTA (ABC-21Alive)

WPTA was the first station under the ownership of Granite Broadcasting Corporation. On March 9, 2005, Granite sold WPTA to Malara Broadcast Group of Sarasota, Florida, but is still operated by Granite (now owns WISE-TV).

The original website www.wpta.com now redirect to www.indianasnewscenter.com.

See WPTA for more detailed information

[edit] WISE-TV (NBC 33)

WISE-TV is owned by Granite Broadcasting. When Granite bought WISE-TV and sold WPTA to Malara, all on-air talent except news anchor Linda Jackson were fired, while all other news staff is from WPTA-TV. According to The Indiana State News Center and Discussion (which is not to be confused with this article) Kent Horman and Mary Collins have (in a way) since returned to NBC 33.^{[citation needed]}

See WISE-TV for more detailed information

[edit] MyTV Fort Wayne (MyNetworkTV)

My TV Fort Wayne is The My Network TV affiliate for Fort Wayne, Indiana, operated by Granite Broadcasting. The station is carried on various cable systems throughout the Fort Wayne area, and broadcast on WISE-TV's DT2 digital subchannel.

[edit] Fort Wayne CW (WBFW)

Fort Wayne CW (formerly called "Fort Wayne's WB") is the Fort Wayne, Indiana area's affiliate for The CW (formerly The WB) which broadcasts on WPTA's digital subchannel 21-2, Comcast cable (channel 19) and Verizon FiOS (channel 6). Most of the programming comes from The CW Plus, a group of cable-only CW affiliates with imaginary call signs (e.g. "WBFW") in markets smaller than #100 that share programming, carried locally on a HDTV/digital subchannel of WPTA. WBFW was owned by WPTA before WPTA was operated under a LMA with WISE-TV.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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Broadcast TV stations: WPTA 21 (ABC) · WISE 33 (NBC) Digital subchannels: WISE-DT2 "My TV Fort Wayne" (MyNetworkTV) · WPTA-DT2 "Fort Wayne CW" (The CW) · WISE-DT3 (NBC Weather Plus) Affiliates: WDFM 26 (Ind) Website: www.indianasnewscenter.com