WDTV
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| WDTV | |
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| Weston/Clarksburg, West Virginia | |
| Branding | 5 News |
| Channels | Analog: 5 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS The AccuWeather Channel (DT2) |
| Owner | Withers Broadcasting Company |
| First air date | June 1960[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | reference to the previous calls of KDKA-TV |
| Sister station(s) | WVFX |
| Former callsigns | WJPB-TV (1960-c.1964) |
| Former affiliations | Secondary: ABC |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 10 kW (digital) |
| Height | 268 m (analog) 248 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 70592 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.wdtv.com |
WDTV is a television station located in Bridgeport and Weston, West Virginia, United States and is owned by Withers Broadcasting. It is the CBS affiliate for the television Designated Market Area (DMA) of "Weston-Clarksburg, West Virginia". Also included in this DMA is Fairmont, West Virginia. Fairmont is technically the DMA's largest city, because Morgantown, though only 20 miles north of Fairmont and having the largest population of any city in the North-Central West Virginia geographic area, is part of the Pittsburgh DMA. Despite this technicality, the station is still able to sell commercials to Morgantown businesses. WDTV's studios are located in Bridgeport, West Virginia.
The station signed on the air as WJPB-TV on March 17, 1954. It was the first television station in the market and operated on UHF channel 35, licensed to Fairmont. As the only station in the market, it was able to carry programming from all four networks. The UHF signal was not nearly strong enough to reach the entire market, which is a very rugged dissected plateau. This, combined with the fact that UHF converters were very expensive, led the station to shut down on February 28, 1955.
On December 30, 1959, WJPB-TV was awarded a construction permit for VHF channel 5 in Weston, and signed on in June 1960. Around 1964 the station changed its calls to WDTV. The WDTV calls had previously resided on what is now KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh from 1949 to 1954 and were reportedly chosen "in honor" of that station.
Today the station is a primary CBS affiliate, while carrying select sports events--usually if WVU is playing--from ABC, who does not have a station in the market. Weston viewers can receive the full ABC schedule from WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh and WCHS-TV in Charleston. The market is one of the few left in the country that doesn't have three stations because the intended third station, Parkersburg's WTAP-TV, did not have a signal strong enough to reach Clarksburg and Weston.
It operates its digital signal on channel 6. One digital channel presents a simulcast of WDTV, while the other broadcasts "Accu-Weather" Forecasts. This channel used to broadcast UPN programming until September of 2006. To note, the new CW Network is seen and broadcast on a digital channel of cross-town FOX station WVFX.
Since the summer of 2005, WDTV's news department and commercial production went completely digital using ENG cameras with firewire harddisk technology. Using nine Apple Mac G5s, the video is edited directly from the removable HDD units and saved to a central Apple Mac XServe which is used to play the video during live news programs.
WDTV was also the first station in West Virginia (and quite possibly the east coast) to exchange audio and video files using high speed FTP servers, via MPEG2, MP3 and Quicktime compression formats.
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[edit] Personalities
[edit] Anchor/Producers
- Scott Snider (5, 5:30 and 6 P.M.)
- Alyssa Massetti (5:30, 6, and 11 P.M.)
- Carrie Jones (6 A.M. and Noon)
[edit] Anchor/Reporters
- Amanda Pavlik (anchors weekends at 6 and 11 P.M.)
- Nate Smail (anchors 6 A.M. and Noon)
- Jeff Bowers (anchors 11 P.M.)
[edit] Reporters
- Julia Pizzonia
- Darrah Wilcox
- Steve Butera
- Katelyn Sykes
- Brad Bowden
[edit] Weather
- Nathan Rohrbough - chief meteorologist
- Whitney Kent - morning weather anchor
- Alex Snyder - weekend meteorologist
[edit] Sports
- Joe Brocato - sports director
- Sam Lordi - sports anchor/reporter
[edit] Former Personalities
[edit] Past Anchors
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[edit] Past Weather Anchors
- John Carlin - Now at WSLS
- Mark Loudin -Now at Ohio University
- Brandon Butcher - Now at WSHM
- Jason Parrish - Now at WBOY
- James Canterbury - Now at WTOL
- Bob Metcalfe - Now at WROC-TV
[edit] Past Sports Anchors
- Dave Stingo - Now at WBOY
- Dan Potash - Now at Fox Sports Pittsburgh
- Sean Pragano - Now at Speed Channel
- Jason Knapp - Now at CSTV
- Brian Sinkoff- Now at WTEN
- Jeff Radcliffe- Now at KPTM
- Dave Weekley - Now at The Charleston Gazette
- Kurt Dusterberg
[edit] Past Reporters
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[edit] News/Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- TV-5 News (1965-1974)
- Newsroom 5 (1974-1981)
- NewsCentral 5 (1981-1985)
- News 5 Alive (1985-1994)
- News 5 (1994-1998)
- NewsChannel 5 (1998-present)
[edit] External links
- Station Website of WDTV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WDTV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WDTV-TV
[edit] References
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