KASA FOX (KASA-2 TV), New Mexico

KASAFOX (KASA-2 TV), NEW MEXICO

KASA-TV is the Fox network affiliate for most of New Mexico. It is licensed to the state capital, Santa Fe and broadcasts on digital channel 27 but is displayed as channel 2, its former analog channel number. It is owned by LIN Media and is a sister station to CBS affiliate KRQE. The two stations share a studio on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque. Syndicated programming on KASA includes: The World's Funniest Moments, The 700 Club, America's Funniest Home Videos, and Extra. Additionally, KASA may air programming as an alternate CBS affiliate when KRQE is airing non-CBS programming. For example, annually KASA will air CBS network coverage of the US Open tennis tournament, while KRQE is airing the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

In addition to the main KASA signal, there are 41 low-powered repeaters that carry its programming throughout New Mexico and parts of Colorado.

Channel 2 signed on as KSAF in 1983 as a locally-owned general entertainment independent station. The station initially ran old movies, westerns, drama shows, and religious programming. In the spring of 1985, channel 2 became known as KNMZ-TV and began running cartoons, old sitcoms and other shows that had previously aired on KNAT-TV (channel 23), which had recently gone dark (it returned the next year as a TBN affiliate).

Channel 2 was sold in 1986 to New Mexico Media Limited License Holdings. The format stayed the same, but in 1989 the station changed call letters to KKTO-TV. Shortly afterwards, the station began to suffer financial problems, and by 1991 channel 2 was running an all-barter lineup of a few classic sitcoms and first run cartoons as well as low budget movie packages.

Debuting on September 16, 2006, KASA airs a one-hour nightly newscast produced by sister station KRQE. Originally titled News 13 on Fox 2, the newscast was renamed KRQE News 13 at 9 on August 8, 2010, the same evening KRQE began broadcasting all newscasts in true high definition. During KASA newscasts, and in cases of breaking news, KASA carries Fox News coverage, as it is a Fox affiliate, rather than the CBS News coverage used by KRQE, a CBS affiliate. Prior to September 16, 2006, KOB-TV produced the newscast, titled Fox 2 News at Nine, for five years.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

KPTV - FOX12 (Portland, Oregon)

KPTV - FOX12 (Portland, Oregon)

KPTV, VHF channel 12, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Portland, Oregon television market, which includes most of the state of Oregon and portions of Southwest Washington. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KPDX (channel 49); KPTV's studios are located in Beaverton and its transmitter is located in Portland, while master control operations for both KPTV and KPDX are located at Meredith's West Coast hub facility at the studios of Phoenix, Arizona sister station KPHO-TV.

KPTV presently broadcasts a total of 50 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 8½ hours on weekdays, and five hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the state of Oregon (KPTV's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption or delay due to sports coverage provided by Fox); in addition, the station produces a half-hour sports wrap-up show called Oregon Sports Final that airs on Sundays at 11 p.m. KPTV is also one of the few Fox affiliates that produces newscasts for another television station in the same market, as it produces 10 hours of local newscasts each week for sister station KPDX.

Throughout its entire history, as a network affiliate and as an independent station, KPTV has always operated a local news department. Future Oregon governor Tom McCall, a longtime journalist before entering politics, joined KPTV in 1955 as a newscaster and political commentator. McCall left KPTV in late 1956 for KGW-TV, where he was a member of the original news team for seven years before leaving to run for Oregon's secretary of state. The station's long-running primetime newscast, known as The 10 O'Clock News, first aired in 1970. KPTV was also one of the first television stations in the country to run a mid-afternoon newscast, as the station aired a 3 p.m. news bulletin from 1974 to 1978. Since then (especially after switching to Fox), KPTV has begun to go head-to-head with competitors KGW, KATU and KOIN by taking on a more news-intensive format, which took years to take effect.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FOX Network News

Fox Television Stations, Inc. is a group of television stations located within the United States which are owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Fox Entertainment Group, part of 21st Century Fox.

FTS also produces the Fox program COPS and oversees the syndicated programming service MyNetworkTV.

WTTG, channel 5, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station located in the capital city of Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, and is part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WDCA (channel 20). The station's studios/office facilities and its transmitter are co-located in the Tenleytown neighborhood on the northwest side of Washington.

The station's signal is rebroadcast on a low-powered translator station, W46BR-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia. (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.). On cable, the station is carried on Xfinity channel 25 in standard definition and on digital channel 213 in high definition.

WNYW, channel 5, is a television station in New York City, New York that serves as the flagship station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and is a sister station to Secaucus, New Jersey-based MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (channel 9).

The station's studio facilities are located at Fox Television Center in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, and its transmitter is located atop the Empire State Building.

KTBC, channel 7, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Austin, Texas. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. Its studios are located in downtown Austin at the corner of 10th and Brazos Streets (a block away from the Texas State Capitol Building), and its transmitter is located on Mount Larson (located separately from most other station transmitters at the nearby West Austin Antenna Farm, KTBC shares this transmitter with its former radio partner KLBJ-FM). The station is carried on channel 2 on most cable providers in the Austin market.

KTTV, channel 11, is a television station in Los Angeles, California that serves as the West Coast flagship station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station KCOP-TV (channel 13). The two stations share studio facilities at the Fox Television Center in West Los Angeles, and KTTV's transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.

The station is available to DirecTV subscribers in the few areas of the Western United States that do not have an over-the-air Fox affiliate.

WTVT, channel 13, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station in Tampa, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of the News Corporation. WTVT's studios are located on West Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa, and its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida.

The station first started broadcasting on April 1, 1955 as a CBS affiliate owned by Tampa Bay radio veteran Walter Tison and his Tampa Television Company. It was the third station in Tampa Bay, behind WSUN-TV (channel 38, frequency now occupied by WTTA) and WFLA-TV (channel 8).

WSVN, channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, USA. WSVN is owned by Sunbeam Television, and has its studio facilities located in North Bay Village and transmitter based in north Miami-Dade County.

Channel 7 began broadcasting on July 29, 1956 as NBC affiliate WCKT. The station was originally owned by Biscayne Television Corporation, a partnership of the Cox and Knight publishing families who owned Miami's two major newspapers: the Miami News and Miami Herald, respectively.

KPTV, VHF channel 12, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Portland, Oregon television market, which includes most of the state of Oregon and portions of Southwest Washington. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KPDX (channel 49); KPTV's studios are located in Beaverton and its transmitter is located in Portland, while master control operations for both KPTV and KPDX are located at Meredith's West Coast hub facility at the studios of Phoenix, Arizona sister station KPHO-TV.

FOX 5 (WTTG) Washington DC

FOX 5 (WTTG) Washington DC

WTTG, channel 5, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station located in the capital city of Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, and is part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WDCA (channel 20). The station's studios/office facilities and its transmitter are co-located in the Tenleytown neighborhood on the northwest side of Washington.

The station's signal is rebroadcast on a low-powered translator station, W46BR-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia. (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.). On cable, the station is carried on Xfinity channel 25 in standard definition and on digital channel 213 in high definition.

WTTG presently broadcasts 45 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with eight hours on weekdays, two hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Washington, D.C. market. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, WTTG's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption or delay due to sports coverage.

WTTG has carried local news programming since shortly after the station launched; for many years, the only news program on the station was a nightly primetime broadcast at 10 p.m. Then on June 25, 1990, channel 5 became the second Fox-owned station and the fourth or fifth Fox affiliate with a weekday morning news program, with the debut of the two-hour Fox 5 Morning News, which replaced a block of cartoons that previously aired during the program's timeslot. In the late 1990s, a noon newscast was added to the schedule.

In 2002, early evening newscasts were brought to the station with the launch of an hour-long newscast at 5 p.m. on weekdays; a half-hour newscast at 6 p.m. on weekends followed soon after. WTTG then launched a half-hour 11 p.m. newscast called NewsEdge (previously titled The Edge until October 2006) on July 31, 2006. Concurrent with the launch of the 11 p.m. broadcast, the station expanded its 6 p.m. broadcast to weekdays. NewsEdge also later expanded to a seven-day-a-week schedule, with the weekend editions of the newscast running for 15 minutes, with the remainder of the timeslot being padded out by the sports highlight program Sports Extra.

On September 4, 2006, WTTG began simulcasting its weekday morning and nightly 10 p.m. newscasts on then-Baltimore sister station WUTB (now owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group partner company Deerfield Media), under the banner of My 24 News. Management at both stations cited the decision to simulcast as a by-product of cross-regional news interests and increasing overlap between the Baltimore and Washington media markets. In October 2006, while WTTG aired Fox Sports' coverage of the 2006 Major League Baseball postseason, the first half-hour of the 10 p.m. newscast was broadcast by sister station WDCA under the title Fox 5 News at Ten: Special Edition; this also occurred in 2007, with the WDCA broadcast of the program being titled My 20 News at 10.

On July 2, 2007, WTTG discontinued its noon newscast and replaced it with an hour-long newscast at 11 a.m., titled Fox 5 News Midday. On September 10, 2007, the station reformatted its 6 p.m. newscast into an early evening edition of NewsEdge; the addition of NewsEdge at 6 p.m. was due in part to the success of its current 11 p.m. counterpart. On January 14, 2009, WTTG and WRC-TV entered into a Local News Service agreement in which the two stations pool video and share news helicopter footage.

On January 30, 2009, starting with its 6 p.m. newscast, WTTG became the third television station in the Washington, D.C. market (behind CBS affiliate WUSA and ABC affiliate WJLA-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On September 14, 2009, WTTG expanded its weekday morning newscast to five hours by adding an additional hour at 9 a.m.; in turn, its hour-long 11 a.m. midday newscast was discontinued. In early 2010, WTTG became the second station in the market (behind WUSA) to expand its weekday morning newscast to 4:30 a.m.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FOX 7 (KTBC) Austin, Texas

FOX 7 (KTBC) Austin, Texas

KTBC, channel 7, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station in Austin, Texas. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. Its studios are located in downtown Austin at the corner of 10th and Brazos Streets (a block away from the Texas State Capitol Building), and its transmitter is located on Mount Larson (located separately from most other station transmitters at the nearby West Austin Antenna Farm, KTBC shares this transmitter with its former radio partner KLBJ-FM). The station is carried on channel 2 on most cable providers in the Austin market.

KTBC signed on the air on November 27, 1952, becoming the first television station in Austin and Central Texas. It was originally owned by the Texas Broadcasting Company (from whom the call letters are taken) which was in turn owned by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, alongside KTBC radio (AM 590, now KLBJ-AM) and FM 93.7, now KLBJ-FM). It carried all four major networks at the time: ABC, CBS, NBC and the now-defunct DuMont Television Network. KTBC was primarily a CBS affiliate until 1995, with roughly 65% of its programming being carried by the station in its early history; NBC and ABC roughly split the remaining coverage in half.

In December 1993, Fox outbid CBS to obtain the broadcast rights to football games from the National Football Conference of the NFL. In 1994, New World Communications signed a long-term affiliation deal with Fox, which was establishing itself as a major network and was looking for more VHF stations. In late 1994, most New World-owned stations (except for two) dropped their longtime "Big Three" affiliations and switched to Fox. On January 19, 1995, New World took over the operation of the Argyle stations through time brokerage agreements. Nearly three months later, New World completed its merger with Argyle.

KTBC presently broadcasts 45½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (8½ hours on weekdays, and an hour-and-a-half each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local newscast output among the Austin market's broadcast television stations.  
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FOX 31 (KDVR) Denver, Colorado

FOX31 COLORADO

KDVR, virtual channel 31 (UHF digital channel 32), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by Local TV (run by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners), KDVR operates CW affiliate KWGN-TV (channel 2) through a local marketing agreement with that station's owner Tribune Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Speer neighborhood (to the immediate south of KMGH-TV's studios), and KDVR's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden.

It operates a satellite station: KFCT (UHF digital channel 21, virtual channel 22.1 via PSIP) in Fort Collins as that area's only full-power station, covering areas of northern Colorado receiving a marginal to non-existent signal from KDVR. Though KFCT operates as its satellite, KDVR limits on-air references to the station to FCC-mandated hourly station identifications during newscasts and other programming.

KDVR first went on the air on August 10, 1983 as the first new commercial television station to sign on in Denver in 30 years, and as the first full-service UHF television station in the state of Colorado.

KDVR presently broadcasts 36½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6½ hours on weekdays, and two hours on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in Colorado. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KDVR's Sunday 5 p.m. newscast is subject to preemption and the Saturday 5 p.m. newscast is subject to delay due to sports coverage.

In 2000, KDVR began making plans to produce a primetime newscast to compete with KWGN's longer-established 9 p.m. newcast; the station built an entirely new "news and technology center" in downtown Denver to house the new news department. KDVR became the last Fox-owned station to date to begin producing local newscasts on July 16, 2000, with the premiere of Fox 31 News at 9 O'Clock. Former KCNC-TV and KUSA-TV sportscaster Ron Zappolo and former WMAQ-TV reporter and Extra host Libby Weaver joined KDVR, and were the lead anchors for the newscast from its inception until Weaver's departure in 2012. KDVR debuted a weekday morning newscast called Good Day Colorado on March 22, 2004, to compete with KWGN's morning newscast (known then as WB2 Morning News). Initially a 2½-hour newscast beginning at 5:30 a.m., Good Day expanded over time into a four-hour block beginning at 5 a.m. In 2005, KDVR began producing a 5 p.m. newscast on Saturdays, which was later followed by a half-hour 5:30 p.m. weekday newscast in September 2008. As of 2008, the primetime newscast has done very well against its competition, while the morning newscast has lagged behind.

Under the local marketing agreement, the news operations of both KDVR and KWGN have changed to benefit both stations as best as possible. While it does hinder both stations, KDVR and KWGN each produce weekday morning newscasts from 5 to 9 a.m. Besides competing with KWGN, the 7-9 a.m. block of the newscast also competes with the KUSA-produced weekday morning newscast on KTVD. KWGN discontinued its 5:30 p.m. news broadcast on January 12, 2009, while KDVR expanded its early evening newscast to a full hour from 5 to 6 p.m. Also, prior to the LMA, both stations had competing hour-long primetime newscasts at 9 p.m. KWGN moved its late evening newscast to 7 p.m. (an unusual timeslot for a network-affiliated station in the Mountain Time Zone) on March 30, 2009 to avoid competition with KDVR's 9 p.m. newscast and scaled back the program to weekdays only, leaving KDVR's only 9 p.m. news competitor also being a KUSA-produced newscast on KTVD. There is a considerable amount of sharing between KDVR and KWGN in regards to news coverage, video footage and the use of reporters; though both outlets maintain their own primary on-air personalities (such as news anchors and meteorologists) that only appear on one station; several KWGN on-air staffers that remained with the station after the LMA was formed joined KDVR's news staff with the consolidation of news departments, with most of KDVR's news staff also appearing on KWGN's newscasts as well. On June 28, 2010, KDVR added a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast named Nightside, which focuses on more hard-hitting stories than the local news programs seen on the other major network affiliates during the same timeslot.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FOX 2 (KTVI) St. Louis, Missouri

FOX MISSOURI

FOX 2 (KTVI) is the Fox-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 (or virtual channel 2.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in the unincorporated community of Sappington. Owned by Local TV (which is owned in turn by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners), KTVI operates CW affiliate KPLR-TV (owned by the Tribune Company) through a local marketing agreement. Both stations share studios at 2250 Ball Drive in Maryland Heights.

KTVI presently broadcasts 59 hours of local newscasts each week (with 10 hours on weekdays and 4½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the second-highest local newscast output among the broadcast television stations in the state of Missouri, falling short of Kansas City sister station WDAF-TV's weekly news total by only a half-hour. As is common with Fox stations that carry early evening newscasts on weekends, KTVI's Sunday 5 p.m. newscast is subject to preemption due to NFL football or NASCAR coverage and the Saturday 6 p.m. newscast is subject to delay due to Major League Baseball or college football coverage. Since 1998, the station's weekday morning newscast (currently titled Fox 2 News in the Morning) has been the highest-rated morning newscast in the St. Louis market.

For much of the time since it affiliated with Fox, KTVI topped KPLR-TV for the highest-rated 9 p.m. newscast in the market. Regular segments featured on KTVI's newscasts include The Jaco Report (in which reporter Charles Jaco gives either an editorial or introduces an investigative piece) and You Paid For It (in which Elliott Davis uncovers city government tax abuse, closing the segment by giving the phone number of the office of that municipality's mayor and the well-known signoff line "Call and speak your mind: after all, you paid for it").

Before Dick Ford retired from the station in December 2005, all four of KTVI's main male anchors (Ford, Tom O'Neal, Dan Gray and John Pertzborn) formerly served as anchors at KSDK. On March 31, 2006, KTVI used the news set that was originally constructed in 1998 for the last time. KTVI's newscasts were produced from a temporary set as a new set and weather center were being construction in the old studio, which debuted on April 10, 2006, along with adopting a new graphic and logo design, and news theme (OSI Music's Fox Affiliate News Theme) that was used by Fox's other owned-and-operated stations and select affiliates, during that evening's 9 p.m. newscast. The old news desk was donated to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with the old weather center donated to the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

In December 2008, KPLR temporarily produced its newscasts from KTVI's now-former Clayton-Tamm/Dogtown studios as KPLR's facility underwent remodeling to accommodate both KPLR and KTVI's newscasts; KTVI broadcast its news programs from a temporary set in January 2009, in order for crews dismantle and move the station's existing news set to KPLR's Maryland Heights facility (the KPLR studios was chosen over the KTVI studios due to KPLR's larger studio facility and the fact that KTVI had broadcast from the Berthold studios for almost 50 years, whereas KPLR moved into its studios in 2003).

On February 15, 2009, KTVI began broadcasting local newscasts in high definition from its new studios in Maryland Heights, accompanied with new HD news graphics. The news set was updated with the addition of several elements to better fit the new graphics package and the change to HD, and removed the city skyline backdrop in favor of a blue background. In January 2010, KTVI expanded its weekday morning newscast to six hours from 4-10 a.m., following the cancellation of the Fox-distributed syndicated talk show The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (despite the expansion, the station kept its midday newscast at 11 a.m.).
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FOX 6 (WITI ) Milwaukee, Wisconsin

FOX MILWAUKEE

WITI, channel 6, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. WITI is owned by Local TV, the broadcasting subsidiary of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, and has studio and office facilities in Brown Deer, Wisconsin (though with a Milwaukee address) and its transmitter based in Shorewood, Wisconsin.

The station began broadcasting on May 21, 1956, and was originally owned by Independent Television, Inc., to whom the channel 6 license was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 11, 1955. The station was originally licensed to the North Shore village of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin on a technicality in order to address short-spacing concerns with Davenport, Iowa station WOC-TV (which also broadcast on channel 6) before the FCC fully finessed spacing among television station signals in different markets.

WITI started out as an independent station; in October 1956, the station affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which provided the station with 52 20th Century Fox films and syndicated programming. Among the programs aired by WITI were The Passerby, Man Without a Gun, and This is Alice.

In early 1994, New World announced a long-term program development and station affiliation deal with the Fox Broadcasting Company, resulting in most of the stations that were part of the New World station group switching their affiliations from one of the Big Three television networks to Fox – including WITI.

WITI presently broadcasts 52 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (8½ hours on weekdays, and five hours on Saturdays and 5½ hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Milwaukee market and the state of Wisconsin in general. The station's morning newscasts usually place a strong first or second in the demographic ratings with WISN and WDJT finishing third or fourth. With the November 2011 ratings book, the Fox 6 Wake Up News beat all its competitors to finish first in the ratings and officially holding that position for two straight years.

Channel 6's news department began with the launch of the station in 1956, its newscast was then known as Milwaukee Newsreel. When WITI became a Fox-owned station in the mid-1990s, the station placed more emphasis on its local newscasts; newscasts expanded to include an additional two hours of its morning newscast in the 7-9 a.m. slot, the 5 p.m. newscast expanded from 30 minutes to one hour on weekdays and an hour-long nightly primetime newscast at 9 p.m. was added. The station is also one of several Fox stations with a newscast in the traditional late news timeslot (in WITI's case, 10 p.m. Central time), in addition to the primetime 9 p.m. newscast, along with one of the few to continue their existing Big Three-era 10 p.m. newscast after the affiliate switch, and one of a handful of Fox stations to run a 10 p.m. (or 11 p.m.) newscast seven nights a week.

On December 3, 2007, the weekday noon newscast moved to 11 a.m. Two days prior on December 1, the Saturday morning edition of Wake-Up News was expanded to two hours beginning at 7 a.m., and the Sunday morning broadcast was also moved to 7 a.m., but remained one hour long. In addition, Gus Gnorski's Saturday morning DIY program Ask Gus, was put on hiatus, with Gnorski's segments merged into the Saturday morning newscast; the program's former studio became the new home of Wake-Up in May 2008. On March 28, 2009, the station suspended its morning and early evening newscasts on weekends; the weekend morning newscasts were briefly replaced by reruns of Ask Gus on April 4 (Gus Gnorski's medically necessitated retirement put an end to the station's plans to revive Ask Gus, with the how-to program ending its 15-year run on November 24, 2007).

On December 5, 2009, WITI became the second station in Milwaukee (behind WTMJ-TV) to begin broadcasting their local newscasts in high definition. WITI is the first and (as of June 28, 2011) only Milwaukee area station to broadcast all locally originated portions of its newscasts, including live field reports in high definition (WTMJ, WDJT and WISN also produce HD newscasts, though WTMJ and WDJT both carry a mix of HD and SD news footage, footage from WTMJ's helicopter is upconverted to widescreen, and most field video shown on WISN's newscasts are broadcast in widescreen SD). In February 2010, WITI extended its weekday morning newscast to 4½ hours, with the start time moved one hour earlier to 4:30 a.m. On April 2, 2011, WITI resumed the Saturday and Sunday morning newscasts after a two-year absence, airing for two hours from 7 to 9 a.m. on both days. Weekend early evening newscasts were subsequently restored at the start of April 2012.

In December 2012, WITI began construction of a new Studio A set designed by FX Group, resulting in the dismantling of the "Milwaukee's Newscenter" set, which had received three refreshes over the course of its 14 years of use. All newscasts and Real Milwaukee then temporarily originated from the in Studio B set that houses the station's morning newscast (WakeUp News). The new Studio A was partially introduced on February 11, 2013, with modifications to the secondary set continuing for a couple of weeks after. A new graphics package and the debut of a new music package ("Extreme" by Stephen Arnold) was introduced on April 22, 2013.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FOX Carolina (WHNS)

FOX CAROLINA

WHNS (known on-air as Fox Carolina) is the Fox affiliate television station for western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. Licensed to Greenville, South Carolina, it is owned by the Meredith Corporation. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF TV channel 21. Its TV studios are located just off Interstate 85 in Greenville, while its transmitter is located atop Slick Rock Mountain, five miles southeast of Brevard, North Carolina. The master control and commercial insertion has been located in the hub facility at Meredith's flagship station WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia since autumn 2009.

The station began airing a 10pm newscast seven nights a week in 1996, produced by WSPA-TV and airing from that station's studios in Spartanburg. It was the first prime-time newscast in the area. Anchors and reporters would appear on both stations, but the newscast had a different identity and graphics from WSPA. In 1999, the station started its own news department. Connie LeGrand, who anchored the 10:00 p.m. newscast during the WSPA-produced era, was hired at WHNS to continue as anchor (she would later leave the station in 2004, and would later rejoin WSPA several years later).

In 2004, the station hired WSPA anchor/reporter Diana Watson, who became co-anchor of the 10:00 p.m. news.

In 2005, WHNS began airing a 4-hour local morning news show, from 5:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m.

On May 14, 2007, Assignment Editor Joe Loy was killed while on assignment. On a local highway, he was filming the aftermath of one accident when another occurred right behind him. He managed to get it on video as a white van, possibly made out-of-control by a red pickup truck, spun towards him. Police are seeking information about the red pickup, a "vehicle of interest".

In 2009, WHNS added a 6:30 p.m. newscast to its schedule.

On February 2, 2011, WHNS began airing its newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen along with a new set and graphics package. Although not truly high definition, the broadcasts are rescanned and upconverted from their native 480i standard definition to the signal's 720p resolution before transmission to match the aspect ratio of HD television screens. WHNS is now the only network affiliated station in this market that has not yet switched to high definition newscasts since WYFF completed its upgrade to HD on April 22, 2012.

Also in 2012, the station ended its 6:30 p.m. newscast, but started an 11:00 p.m. newscast that airs Monday through Friday.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FOX 11 (KTTV) Los Angeles, California

FOX 11 (KTTV) Los Angeles, California

KTTV, channel 11, is a television station in Los Angeles, California that serves as the West Coast flagship station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station KCOP-TV (channel 13). The two stations share studio facilities at the Fox Television Center in West Los Angeles, and KTTV's transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.

The station is available to DirecTV subscribers in the few areas of the Western United States that do not have an over-the-air Fox affiliate.

KTTV presently broadcasts 46½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 8½ hours on weekdays and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); this gives KTTV the second-largest local news output of any television station in the Los Angeles market, behind CW affiliate KTLA's 54 hours of weekly newscasts. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KTTV's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage. KTTV operates a Eurocopter A-Star 350 B-1, branded on-air as "SkyFox HD", to provide aerial coverage of breaking news stories. KTTV previously operated two helicopters; one of them (known as "Sky Fox 2") was destroyed after it crashed at Van Nuys Airport in 2000.

Throughout its history, the station has always operated a news department, partly owing to its former ties to the Los Angeles Times (which has been owned by the Tribune Company, owner of rival KTLA, since 2000). KTTV aired an 8 p.m. newscast from 1984 to 1986; it also briefly moved its 10 p.m. newscast to 11 p.m. in 1986, in order to compete with existing local newscasts in that same timeslot on KABC-TV, KNBC and KCBS-TV; the newscast's format initially was unchanged, but the 8 p.m. edition was later dropped while the 11 p.m. newscast reverted to its previous 10 p.m. slot shortly after News Corporation took over Metromedia in 1986.

In June 1993, the station launched a new morning news program called Good Day L.A., a program that was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which debuted in 1988. On July 14, 2008, KTTV launched a half-hour 10 a.m. newscast, following Good Day L.A., as the station's first midday newscast since the mid-1980s; KTTV is currently the only station in Los Angeles to have a local newscast in that timeslot. KTTV and KCOP began producing its local newscasts in high definition on October 15, 2008. On December 1, 2008, KTTV fully took over production of KCOP's 11 p.m. newscast, which was reduced from an hour to 30 minutes and retitled Fox News at 11, marking the end of a KCOP-produced and branded newscast. The newscast on channel 13 then became anchored by KTTV's 10 p.m. anchors Carlos Amezcua and Christine Devine, as it was considered an extension of the earlier newscast.

On December 8, 2008, KTTV debuted a half-hour midday newscast at noon on weekdays. On April 27, 2009, KTTV introduced Good Day L.A. Today, a recap program airing at 12:30 p.m. weekdays that featured select segments featured on that day's edition of Good Day L.A.;[24] that show has since been replaced by TMZ on TV. On April 12, 2010, the station expanded its weekday morning newscast by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m.. Until September 12, 2011, KTTV was one of only two Fox owned-and-operated stations (the other being Chicago's WFLD) that did not have an early evening newscast on weeknights and/or weekends; this changed when KTTV launched an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast on that date called Studio 11 L.A.  
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FOX 5 (WNYW) New York City, New York

FOX 5 (WNYW) New York City, New York

WNYW, channel 5, is a television station in New York City, New York that serves as the flagship station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and is a sister station to Secaucus, New Jersey-based MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (channel 9). The station's studio facilities are located at Fox Television Center in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, and its transmitter is located atop the Empire State Building.

The station is available to DirecTV subscribers in the few areas of the Eastern United States that do not have an over-the-air Fox affiliate and on Dish Network as part of All American Direct's distant network package; DirecTV also carries WNYW on its Latin American service, and on JetBlue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system. WNYW is also available on cable providers in the Caribbean.

The station traces its history to 1938, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded experimental station W2XVT (whose callsign was later changed to W2XWV in 1944). On May 2, 1944, the station received its commercial license – the third in New York City – on VHF channel 4 as WABD, its callsign named after DuMont's initials. It was one of the few television stations that continued to broadcast during World War II, making it the fourth-oldest continuously broadcasting commercial station in the United States. The station originally broadcast from the DuMont Building on Madison Avenue. On December 17, 1945, WABD moved to channel 5.

Soon after channel 5 received its commercial license, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental coaxial cable hookups between WABD and W3XWT, a DuMont-owned experimental station in Washington, D.C. (now WTTG). These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network, the world's first licensed commercial television network (although NBC was feeding a few programs and special events from their New York station WNBT (now WNBC) to WPTZ Philadelphia (now KYW-TV) and WRGB Schenectady, NY as early as 1940). DuMont began regular network service in 1946 with WABD as the flagship station. On June 14, 1954, WABD and DuMont moved into the $5 million DuMont Tele-Centre at 205 East 67th Street in the Yorkville section of Manhattan's Upper East Side, inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House; channel 5 is still headquartered in that same building as of 2013, which was later renamed the Metromedia Telecenter, and is presently known as the Fox Television Center.  
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FOX 13 (WTVT) Tampa Bay, Florida

FOX13 (WTVT) Tampa Bay, Florida

WTVT, channel 13, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station in Tampa, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of the News Corporation. WTVT's studios are located on West Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa, and its transmitter is located in Riverview, Florida.

The station first started broadcasting on April 1, 1955 as a CBS affiliate owned by Tampa Bay radio veteran Walter Tison and his Tampa Television Company. It was the third station in Tampa Bay, behind WSUN-TV (channel 38, frequency now occupied by WTTA) and WFLA-TV (channel 8). WTVT is also the second-oldest surviving station in the market, behind WFLA. The station's call letters stand for the initials of Walter Tison and his wife, Virginia. Like many other stations located on "unlucky" channel 13, WTVT used a black cat as its mascot for several years.

In December 1993, the Fox Broadcasting Company won the broadcast rights to air games from the NFL's National Football Conference beginning with the NFL's 1994 season, taking the rights from CBS. As a result, Fox sought for more affiliates on the VHF band, and signed a long term deal with New World, switching most of its stations, including WTVT, to Fox. WTVT switched to Fox in December 1994, ending its CBS affiliation after 39 years. This resulted in a three-way affiliation swap that resulted in former Fox affiliate WFTS (channel 28) affiliating with ABC as part of a deal between the station's owner, the E. W. Scripps Company and ABC, while longtime ABC affiliate WTSP (channel 10) became a CBS affiliate.

The switch allowed WTVT to continue broadcasting the majority of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers games, as they were (and still are) part of the NFC. However, largely due to the team's losing record at the time, Buccaneers home games were rarely shown locally. Once the Buccaneers began to build a winning team in the late 1990s, along with a new look and stadium, blackouts decreased and sellouts increased, thus increasing the number of games shown on WTVT. After changing networks, WTVT increased its local news programming to almost 50 hours each week. At one point, WTVT aired more hours of local news than any other station in the country. It chose not to renew the more expensive syndicated programming it had run while a CBS affiliate, running cheaper first-run syndicated talk and reality shows instead.

Fox bought most of the New World stations in 1997, making WTVT a Fox owned-and-operated station. Under Fox ownership, the station added more higher-profile syndicated shows and a few off-network sitcoms to its lineup, and changed its on-air branding to "Fox 13". WTVT is the third station in Tampa Bay to be affiliated with Fox, as WTOG was affiliated with the network first before reverting to an independent station in 1988. However, WTVT still uses "New World Communications of Tampa Bay" as the copyright tag at the end of the station's newscasts.

In June 2009, WTVT interviewed late television pitchman Billy Mays shortly before his death. His interview, which was conducted at the Tampa International Airport, is believed to have been his final appearance on live television.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WSVN Channel 7 Miami, Florida

WSVN Channel 7

WSVN, channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, USA. WSVN is owned by Sunbeam Television, and has its studio facilities located in North Bay Village and transmitter based in north Miami-Dade County.

Channel 7 began broadcasting on July 29, 1956 as NBC affiliate WCKT. The station was originally owned by Biscayne Television Corporation, a partnership of the Cox and Knight publishing families who owned Miami's two major newspapers: the Miami News and Miami Herald, respectively. The same Cox/Knight partnership also owned WCKR radio (610 AM, now WIOD; and 97.3 FM, now WFLC). Nile Trammell, a former NBC president, held a 15 percent interest in WCKT.

Before WCKT signed on, NBC programming had been carried on Fort Lauderdale's WFTL-TV (channel 23) (later known as WGBS-TV after it had been acquired by Storer Broadcasting), which also held a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network. However, WFTL struggled because television sets were not required to have UHF tuning capability. When the Cox/Knight partnership won a construction permit and broadcast license for channel 7, NBC quickly agreed to move its affiliation to WCKT since WCKR had been the longtime Miami affiliate of NBC Radio. Channel 23 became an independent station and eventually went dark, and later came back to the air in 1967 as WAJA-TV, eventually becoming Univision-owned WLTV.
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