WSEE-TV

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WSEE-TV
Erie, Pennsylvania
Branding	CBS 35 CBS 35 Newswatch
Slogan	Everybody's Watching NEWSWATCH: Clear and To The Point!
Channels	35 (UHF) analog, 16 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS The CW
Owner	Lilly Broadcasting of PA
Founded	April 24, 1954
Call letters meaning	SEE, The Eye Network (nickname of CBS)
Website	www.cbs35erie.tv/

WSEE-TV is the CBS-TV affiliate based in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. Owned by Lilly Broadcasting with its studio located at 1220 Peach St. in downtown Erie, the station's signal covers Erie, Warren and Crawford counties in Pennsylvania. It also reaches Jamestown, New York, Ashtabula, Ohio, north to London, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario, and south to Clarion, Pennsylvania. It can also be seen on C-Band satellite (primarily for Caribbean and Latin American viewers) via Primetime 24 and digitally on Dish Network (exclusively for Erie market viewers). WSEE is under an LMA (Local Marketing Agreement) with NBC affiliate WICU-TV which is owned by SJL of Pennsylvania, Inc., of which Lilly Broadcasting holds family ties to.

WSEE and WICU operate a local CW cable station, WBEP.

WSEE's transmitter is located on Peach Street in Summit Township.

Contents 1 History 2 Primetime 24 3 Current Newscasts 4 Personalities 4.1 Current 4.2 Former 5 External link

[edit] History

WSEE began broadcasting in 1954 as a CBS affiliate, sharing ABC with WICU-TV.

In 1966, WSEE dropped its partial ABC affiliation when WJET-TV signed on in Erie.

WSEE added a secondary affiliation in 1995, airing UPN content on weekends

In the early 21st Century, WSEE and WICU entered into a marketing agreement, where the two stations share advertising.

In 2006, WSEE moved its UPN station to a digial subchannel. That same year, UPN and WB became The CW.

WSEE's Web site received a major overhaul in 2007 with the addition of streaming video and a new Web site.

According to WSEE insiders the station is in the midst of a major technological overhaul. This overhaul will coincide with the premier of WSEE-Digital Channel 16 in September 2007.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Primetime 24

WSEE has been part of the Primetime 24 lineup since the late-1990s, when it replaced Raleigh's WRAL-TV due to that station's regular preemptions of CBS programming. The Primetime 24 service provides American network TV service to C-Band viewers in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in rural parts of the US where local signals are not available. WSEE's PT24 feed varies from the local Erie feed, in which local commercials are replaced with ads directed towards the Caribbean (especially direct response ads). Also, WSEE's local newscasts are replaced with infomercials, though there's a pre-taped, brief Caribbean weather forecast by WSEE's weather staff (often in tropical garb) at 11PM ET.

[edit] Current Newscasts

WSEE currently offers two-and-a-half hours of news on weekdays. On weekends, the channel offers one or two evening reports on Saturday and a Sunday evening report.

• Mornings Live - weekdays from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. - Raychel Vendetti and Ray Petelin
• Newswatch at Noon - weekdays at noon - Raychel Vendetti and Ray Petelin
• Newswatch at 6 - weekdays from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. - Pat VanZandt, Scott Bremner, Joey Stevens and Gary Drapcho
• Newswatch at 11 - weeknights at 11 - Pat VanZandt, Joey Stevens and Gary Drapcho

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current

Scott Bremner - reporter/anchor (1982-Present)

Kelly Curran - meteorologist, weekday reporting (2005-Present)

Gary Drapcho - sports (1983-Present)

Ray Petelin - meteorologist (2004-Present)

Joey Stevens - meteorologist (1999-Present)

Jennifer Taylor - reporter/weekend anchor (2005-Present)

Raychel Vendetti - anchor (2002-Present)

Carol Wilson - reporter (1992-Present)

Pat Van Zandt - anchor (2001-Present)

K.C. Kantz - sports (2006-Present)

Kelly Gaughan - host of "Newswatch Insider" (2005-Present)

[edit] Former

Stu Boyer - sports (1978-1985), now at WGRZ-TV Buffalo, NY

Jim Dewart - weathercaster (1974-1984), now retired

Tim Earl - meteorologist (1982-1995)

Carol Pella - reporter (1973-2004), retired

Dana Elderkin - anchor (1974), now a college professor

Bill Schubert - meteorologist (1995-2004), now at WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio/Wheeling, W.Va.; was one of the first meteorologists on air at The Weather Channel

Don Shriver - anchor (1998-2006), retired

John Stehr - anchor/reporter (1979-1980), now primary anchor at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana

Lisa Zompa - anchor/reporter (1988-2005), now working as director of development for Erie City Mission

Leila Feinstein - reporter (1999-2000), now an anchor at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, California

Jennifer Boresz - reporter (2005-2006), now a reporter at WTOL-TV Toledo, Ohio

Kim Thomas - reporter (2005-2006), now a reporter at WJET-TV Erie

Dave Price - reporter (1997), now serves as weather anchor for The Early Show on CBS

Drew Sugars - anchor (1995-1998) - now anchor at KCOY in Santa Maria, CA

Nerissa Sugars - anchor (1995-1998) - now lead anchor at KCOY in Santa Maria, CA

John Meyer - sports (2004-2005), now a sports reporter at KCCI-TV Des Moines, Iowa

[edit] External link

• WSEE.tv
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WSEE