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WTTE "FOX 28" is the Fox television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. The station broadcasts on channel 28 and broadcasts in stereo in the 32nd largest television market in the United States. On most cable television systems in the Columbus area, WTTE is channel 8. WTTE-DT (the digital service of WTTE) operates on channel 36. The station is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, but is operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group through a local marketing agreement with the area's ABC-affiliate, WSYX-TV. However, WTTE is effectively owned by Sinclair due to Cunningham's ownership structure (see below). The station is operated out of WSYX' studio in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. WTTE began operations on June 15, 1985. It was owned by the Commercial Radio Institute, forerunner of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. It became a charter Fox affiliate in 1987. The station began a 10 p.m. newscast in 1995, the second in Central Ohio, after attempt by WWHO produced by WCMH. Former FOX 28 Kids Club hostess Yolanda Harris was one of the original anchors and now serves as the station's primary female anchor. In 1996, Sinclair merged with River City Broadcasting, which owned WSYX. FCC rules at the time did not allow one person to own two stations in a single market. Sinclair kept the longer-established WSYX and sold WTTE to Glencairn, Ltd., owned by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards. However, nearly all of Glencairn's stock was held by the Smith family, founders and owners of Sinclair. In effect, Sinclair still owned WTTE, and now had a duopoly in Columbus in violation of FCC rules. Sinclair and Glencairn further circumvented the rules by moving WTTE's operations to WSYX' studios under an LMA, with WSYX as senior partner. Glencairn owned 10 other stations, all in markets where Sinclair also had a station. By all accounts, Glencairn was a shell corporation with the sole purpose of allowing Sinclair to evade FCC ownership rules. By August of 1999, WTTE's newscast was absorbed into WSYX's news department, which currently produces WTTE's newscasts under the "NewsCenter" brand also used by WSYX. Sinclair was eventually fined $40,000 for its illegal control of Glencairn. The two companies attempted to merge in 2001 after the FCC allowed duopolies. However, the FCC would not allow Sinclair to repurchase WTTE. The FCC does not allow duopolies between two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. Also, the Columbus market, despite its size, has only seven full-power stations--too few to legally permit a duopoly. WTTE thus remained under the banner of Glencairn, which was renamed Cunningham Broadcasting. However, the Smith family still controls nearly all of Cunningham's stock, so Sinclair still effectively has a duopoly in Columbus. In 2006, all Sinclair-owned Fox affiliates including WTTE extended their affiliation contracts until at least March 2012. From 1995-97, WTTE carried a secondary affiliation with UPN. The UPN affiliation was then picked up by WWHO. According to Nielsen Media Research, in the May ratings period in 2007, WTTE-TV FOX 28 was rated the 6th most watched FOX affiliate in the United States in primetime and late news programming. The station remains intensely competitive in the Columbus television market with FOX 28 remaining an extremely strong competator against WBNS-TV and WCMH-TV averaging roughly 300,000 viewers each night during the station's 10pm newscast despite its earlier time slot. WTTE-TV typically wins the demographic viewership battle each and every ratings period in Columbus. The demographic win is a much sought after attribute for television sales associates in the Columbus market for local advertising purposes. External links
Columbus, Ohio Flag Seal Nickname: The Arch City, The Discovery City Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States ..... Click the link for more information. A brand includes a name, logo, slogan, and/or design scheme associated with a product or service. Brand recognition and other reactions are created by the use of the product or service and through the influence of advertising, design, and media commentary. ..... Click the link for more information. A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a political, commercial, religious and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose. Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. ..... Click the link for more information. In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or, equivalently, wavelengths) assigned by a government for the operation of a particular television station or radio station. ..... Click the link for more information. Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television and transports the picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the broadcast signal. ..... Click the link for more information. Cycles per second: 300 MHz to 3 GHz Wavelength: 1 m to 100 mm Ultra high frequency (UHF) designates a range (band) of electromagnetic waves whose frequency is between 300 MHz and 3 GHz, which is 300 MHz to 3,000 MHz. ..... Click the link for more information. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or ..... Click the link for more information. Cycles per second: 300 MHz to 3 GHz Wavelength: 1 m to 100 mm Ultra high frequency (UHF) designates a range (band) of electromagnetic waves whose frequency is between 300 MHz and 3 GHz, which is 300 MHz to 3,000 MHz. ..... Click the link for more information. An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. Broadcast networksIn a radio network or Television network, an affiliate is a radio station or TV station that agrees to carry the broadcasts of, but is not owned by, the network...... Click the link for more information. Fox Broadcasting Company Type Broadcast television network Availability National; also distributed in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and certain other Latin American countries. ..... Click the link for more information. Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate, intellectual property or some other kind of property. It is embodied in an ownership right also referred to as title. ..... Click the link for more information. Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of television stations in the United States. The company currently owns six stations--four affiliated with Fox Broadcasting Company (one of which also carries MyNetworkTV on a digital subchannel), one affiliated with MyNetworkTV and ..... Click the link for more information. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Public (NASDAQ: SBGI ) Founded 1971 Headquarters Hunt Valley, Maryland, USA Key people David D. Smith, Chairman & CEO David B. Amy, CFO Industry Telecommunications Products Television Revenue $715. ..... Click the link for more information. June 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining. Events..... Click the link for more information. 20th century - 21st century 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 1982 1983 1984 - 1985 - 1986 1987 1988 Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ..... Click the link for more information. In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call) is a unique designation for a transmitting station. ..... Click the link for more information. An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. Broadcast networksIn a radio network or Television network, an affiliate is a radio station or TV station that agrees to carry the broadcasts of, but is not owned by, the network...... Click the link for more information. UPN Type Defunct broadcast television network Country United States Availability United States, Canada Founder United Television & Paramount Pictures Owner CBS Corporation ..... Click the link for more information. A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. ..... Click the link for more information. Fox Broadcasting Company Type Broadcast television network Availability National; also distributed in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and certain other Latin American countries. ..... Click the link for more information. Columbus, Ohio Flag Seal Nickname: The Arch City, The Discovery City Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States ..... Click the link for more information. Multichannel television sound, better known as MTS (often still as BTSC, for the Broadcast Television Systems Committee that created it), is the method of encoding three additional channels of audio into an NTSC-format audio carrier. ..... Click the link for more information. cable television into the house.]] Cable television is a system of providing cocoy television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional ..... Click the link for more information. Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of television stations in the United States. The company currently owns six stations--four affiliated with Fox Broadcasting Company (one of which also carries MyNetworkTV on a digital subchannel), one affiliated with MyNetworkTV and ..... Click the link for more information. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Public (NASDAQ: SBGI ) Founded 1971 Headquarters Hunt Valley, Maryland, USA Key people David D. Smith, Chairman & CEO David B. Amy, CFO Industry Telecommunications Products Television Revenue $715. ..... Click the link for more information. In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (or local management agreement, or LMA) is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio station or TV station owned by another licensee. In essence, it is a sort of lease or franchise. ..... Click the link for more information. American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Type Broadcast radio network and television network Country United States Availability ..... Click the link for more information. Grandview Heights, Ohio Seal Motto: Location of Grandview Heights within Franklin County, Ohio Location of Grandview Heights within Ohio Coordinates: Country United States ..... Click the link for more information. June 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining. Events..... Click the link for more information. 20th century - 21st century 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 1982 1983 1984 - 1985 - 1986 1987 1988 Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ..... Click the link for more information. This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia® - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the Wikipedia® encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Since 2000, DIRECTV has been offering its customers in the Columbus DMA access to a local channel package that includes WCMH (NBC), WTTE (FOX), WSYX (ABC) and WBNS (CBS) for $5. DIRECTV customers in the Columbus DMA can subscribe to a local channel package that includes WCMH (NBC), WTTE (FOX), WSYX (ABC) and WBNS (CBS). Prior to that time, he served as General Manager of WPTT, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1984, and assumed the financial and engineering responsibility for Sinclair, including the construction of WTTE, Columbus, Ohio, in 1984. |
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