Indiana's NewsCenter

Indiana's NewsCenter is the collective brand name of the television and news operations in Fort Wayne, Indiana owned and/or managed by Granite Broadcasting Corporation and Malara Broadcast Group under a local marketing agreement.

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

History

Indiana's NewsCenter, began on March 9, 2005 but not completed until November 29, 2005, is a collective name for newscasts for the Fort Wayne, Indiana area's NBC, ABC, Fox and The CW-affiliated stations all operated or owned by Granite Broadcasting. It was originated from newscasts produced by NBC affiliate WPTA-TV (channel 21), but now provides content for all of the channels listed above.

After NBC affiliate WISE-TV (channel 33) was sold to Granite Broadcasting in March 2005, Granite maintained operations at WPTA through a local marketing agreement (LMA). WISE-TV'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, INC's logo is rotated with the respective station's logo.

"The Networks of Indiana's NewsCenter"

• WPTA, Channel 21, an ABC affiliate owned by Malara and operated by Granite
• WISE-TV, Channel 33, an NBC affiliate owned and operated by Granite.
• Fort Wayne's CW, WPTA's digital subchannel carrying CW programming
• My FOX Fort Wayne, WISE's digital subchannel carrying FOX/MY Network TV programming (starting August 1)
• Pinpoint VIPIR HD Channel, WPTA's third digital subchannel with weather maps, radar, and forecasts.

Affiliates

• WOWO AM 1190, a Federated Media-owned talk radio station that uses some resources
• WDFM-LP, channel 26, a Clear Channel-owned independent station in Defiance, Ohio (in the Toledo DMA) that uses some of Indiana's NewsCenter's weather resources
• WDFM (FM), WZOM, WNDH and WONW -- Clear Channel's Defiance radio cluster that uses some resources (unlike television, Defiance is part of the Fort Wayne radio market)
• WMYD, channel 20, a Granite owned MyNetworkTV affiliate in Detroit, airs a 10PM weeknight newscast produced by Indiana's NewsCenter with WPTA's 6/11PM team in the Fort Wayne studio, with reports from journalists in Detroit

References

External links

• Official Website
• The FortWayneCW.com Website
• "My TV Fort Wayne" website
• press release about WBFW launch