WBOC-TV
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| WBOC-TV | |
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| Salisbury, Maryland | |
| Branding | WBOC 16 Fox 21 Delmarva (WBOC-DT2) |
| Slogan | Delmarva's News Leader |
| Channels | Analog: 16 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS Fox (on digital subchannel 16.2) |
| Owner | Draper Holdings Business Trust (WBOC, Inc.) |
| Founded | July 15, 1954 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Between the Ocean and Chesapeake |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (secondary, 1954-1955) ABC (secondary, 1954-1980) NBC (secondary, 1954-1980) UPN (on WBOC-DT2, 2003-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 4070 kW (analog) 635 kW (digital) |
| Height | 302 m (analog) 279 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 71218 |
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| Website | www.wboc.com www.fox21delmarva.com |
WBOC-TV, channel 16, is a CBS affiliate based in Salisbury, Maryland. WBOC-TV is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust, with its main studios in Salisbury, secondary studios/office facilities in Dover and Milton, Delaware, and transmitter in Laurel, Delaware. The station's signal covers the southern two-thirds of Delaware along with the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia, which make up the region known as the Delmarva Peninsula.
WBOC-TV also carries an affiliation with the Fox Broadcasting Company on its second digital subchannel. This station is branded as Fox 21 Delmarva, and is also available on local cable systems.
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[edit] History
WBOC-TV began operations on July 15, 1954, owned originally by Peninsula Broadcasting, which started Salisbury's WBOC radio (960 AM, now WTGM) in 1940. It is the fourth-oldest television station in Maryland, the first outside Baltimore, and the oldest on the UHF band. As the only television station serving the Delmarva Peninsula, channel 16 carried programming from all four networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont) during its early years. The station also featured local programming consisting of variety shows, talent contests, and children's programs.
In 1961, Peninsula Broadcasting merged with the A.S. Abell Company, which published the Baltimore Sun and owned Baltimore's then-CBS affiliate, WMAR-TV. WBOC-TV also evolved into a primary affiliate of CBS, though it continued to "cherry-pick" the highest-rated ABC and NBC shows either in pattern (on schedule with the rest of the network) or on a tape-delayed basis.
For example, channel 16 regularly carried the Today Show and the Tonight Show from NBC, and Monday Night Football from ABC. Primetime programming consisted of at least one night of all CBS; other evenings with programs from both CBS and ABC; and others with shows from CBS and NBC. Select CBS programs displaced by the scheduling method would air in times outside of primetime. Despite carrying Today (which pre-empted CBS's morning news and Captain Kangaroo), WBOC-TV aired all of CBS's other newscasts, as well as most of CBS's daytime programming and Saturday morning cartoons. The cherry-picking arrangement also affected network sports coverage. However, Delmarva viewers didn't have to worry about missing their favorite shows once cable came to the area. Local cable systems supplemented the area with stations from the Hampton Roads, Baltimore and Philadelphia markets, depending on the location.
In April 1980, WBOC-TV received competition for the first time when WMDT (channel 47) signed on. The new station also took a dual ABC/NBC affiliation, allowing channel 16 to become a full-time CBS station.
Local ownership of channel 16 resumed in November 1980 when local entrepreneur Thomas H. Draper purchased the station. Since Draper took over, local news coverage increased, as well as local advertising revenue which allowed for technical upgrades, such as a new four million watt transmitter tower located near Laurel, Delaware.
[edit] Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed.
| Channel | Programming |
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| 16.1 / 21.1 | main WBOC-TV/CBS programming |
| 16.2 / 21.2 | Fox 21 Delmarva |
[edit] Post-analog shutdown
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009[1], WBOC-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 21. [2] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WBOC's virtual channel as 16.
[edit] Fox 21 Delmarva
In March 2003, WBOC-TV began carrying UPN programming on its digital subchannel 16.2 (or 21.2), known as UPN 21 Total TV. In January 2006, the UPN and WB networks announced they would merge into a single network called the CW. WBOC-TV did not seek the CW affiliation, which instead went to WBD, the cable-only WB affiliate for Delmarva. On May 9, 2006, WBOC-TV announced that UPN 21 would become a Fox affiliate, beginning on August 21, 2006. WBOC-TV produces a newscast for the station, currently known as Fox 21 News at 10.
For viewers unable to receive the digital-only signal, both Salisbury-area cable systems, operated by Comcast and Mediacom, carry Fox 21 Delmarva on channels 5 and 10, respectively.
[edit] Current personalities
- Alice Bavis
- Lisa Bryant
- Bob Burnett-Kurie
- Paul Butler
- Don Elkins, Jr.
- Steve Hammond
- Elizabeth Harrington
- Jimmy Hoppa
- Hallie Jackson
- Weijia Jiang
- Brian Keane
- Dennis Ketterer
- Yianni Kourakis
- Matt Kozar
- Cassandra Kramer
- Kevin Leahy
- Dan Lee
- Jobin Panicker
- Kelley Rouse
- Jeremy Tucker
- Danielle Vollmar
[edit] Notable alumni
- Carrie Aiken
- Kerry Cavanaugh ([1])
- Linda Grasso
- Mark Hubbard
- Jackie Jennings
- Jane Jordan
- Bob Laun
- Melanie Lawson ([2])
- Laura Mazzeo
- Jason Newton ([3])
- Brian Olson ([4])
- Denis Phillips ([5])
- Mike Seidel ([6])
- Lisa Spicer
- Steve Summers
- Scorchy Tawes ([7])
- Amber Theoharis
- Chris Thomas ([8])
- Bruce Vale
- Mick O'Hearn ([9])
- Lisa Scullin ([10])
- George Evanko
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