WTEN

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WTEN / WCDC-TV
WTEN: Albany/Schenectady/Troy, New York WCDC: Adams, Massachusetts
Branding	News 10
Slogan	The News Station
Channels	WTEN: 10 (VHF) WCDC: 19 (UHF) analog, WTEN: 26 (UHF) WCDC: 36 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	Young Broadcasting
Founded	WTEN: March 26, 1954 (on channel 41, moved to channel 10 in 1957) WCDC: March 26, 1954 (on channel 74, moved to channel 19 in 1957)
Call letters meaning	WTEN: channel TEN (10) WCDC: derived from WTEN's former calls, WCDA
Former callsigns	WTEN: WROW-TV (1954-57) WCDA (1957-60) WCDC: WMGT-TV (1954-60)
Former affiliations	WTEN: CBS (1954-1977) WCDC: DuMont (secondary, 1954-1956) CBS (1954-1977)
Transmitter Power	WTEN: 316.0 kW (analog) 700.0 kW (digital) WCDC: 447.0 kW (analog) 16.2 kW (digital)
Website	wten.com

WTEN is the ABC television affiliate based in Albany, New York. Licensed to Albany, the station serves the Albany/Schenectady / Troy market (commonly known as the Capital District). WTEN broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10 and its digital signal on UHF channel 26 from a transmitter located at the Helderberg Mountains tower farm in New Scotland, New York. WRGB, WNYA, WXXA, and WCWN also have their transmitters located at this site. WTEN is known on-air as "News 10".

WTEN operates a full-time satellite, WCDC-TV, which is licensed to Adams, Massachusetts. WCDC broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 19 and its digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter located on Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts. There is no on-air reference to WCDC but the station is mentioned on WTEN's legal ID and in the station's EEO public file report. It does not have a separate Web site. Master control and operations of WCDC are located at WTEN's studios on Northern Blvd. in Albany. WCDC's signal reliably covers the western half of Massachusetts, Southern Vermont, Northern Connecticut, and Southwestern New Hampshire. WCDC, along with WNYA, can be considered rimshot signals into the Springfield, Massachusetts television market. On Time Warner cable, WCDC is located on channel 10.

Contents 1 History 1.1 WTEN 1.2 WCDC 1.3 WCDB 2 Newscasts 2.1 Newscast Titles 3 Current staff 4 Past staff 5 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] WTEN

WTEN began broadcasting on March 26, 1954 known then as WROW-TV. The station was affiliated with CBS and broadcasted on channel 41. It was owned by the Hudson Valley Communications Company along with WROW-AM. In 1957, it moved to channel 10 and had its call letters changed to WCDA-TV. The calls were changed again to the current WTEN around 1960. Hudson Valley Communications eventually became Capital Cities Communications with WTEN becoming its flagship station.

In 1968, Capital Cities sold the original three stations of the group (WTEN, WPRO-TV in Providence, Rhode Island and WJRT Flint, Michigan to Poole Broadcasting. Nine years later, Poole sold WTEN, WJRT, and WPRO (now known as WPRI-TV) to Knight-Ridder. This transaction switched WTEN's affiliation with WAST (now WNYT) to become the market's ABC station with the same happening in Providence between WPRI and WTEV (now WLNE). In 1989, Young Broadcasting bought WTEN and its sister station WKRN in Nashville from Knight-Ridder upon the latter's exit from broadcasting.

WTEN signed on its digital signal in 2004 and began offering high-definition service. WTEN's digital signal can also be seen on Time Warner digital cable channel 1810.

[edit] WCDC

WCDC began broadcasting on March 26, 1954 known then as WMGT-TV (Mount Greylock Television [1]) and on channel 74. WMGT began broadcasting on the same date that WROW (the predecessor to WTEN) signed on for the first time. The tower location on Mount Greylock helped WCDC serve not only as a major boost to WROW but also as the market's secondary affiliate of the DuMont network from its launch until the network's demise in 1956.

In 1957, WMGT moved to channel 19, and in 1960 the call letters were changed to the current WCDC-TV. The WCDC call letters were derived from WTEN's former calls, WCDA. The WMGT-TV call sign is now used on the NBC affiliate in Macon, Georgia.

WCDC's digital signal signed on nearly 18 months before WTEN's did, though they did not upgrade to high-definition programming until WTEN-DT signed on. WCDC's digital signal in not currently offered on Time Warner digital cable systems in Adams.

[edit] WCDB

Prior to WCDA's move to channel 10, a second satellite was operated by WCDA located on channel 29 in the Montgomery County town of Hagaman. The station, with the call letters of WCDB, signed off the air in 1959 after the WCDA move rendered it superfluous even though it did provide some primary CBS coverage to Utica. The WCDB calls would return to the air in 1978 and serve the student-run radio station at the University at Albany.

[edit] Newscasts

In 2005, WTEN launched a 24-hour local weather channel on new digital subchannels of WTEN and WCDC. The weather channel is known as the Storm Tracker Weather Channel and can also be see in Albany on Time Warner digital cable channel 554. However, the channel is not seen on Time Warner digital cable systems in Adams. [2] The weather channel can also be seen via live video on WTEN's website. WTEN's weather radar is known as "Storm Tracker 10".

Weekdays

• News 10 at 5 AM (5 to 5:30 AM)
• News 10 at 5:30 AM (5:30 to 6 AM)
• News 10 at 6 AM (6 to 7 AM)
• News 10 at Noon (12 to 12:30 PM)
• News 10 at 5 (5 to 5:30 PM)
• News 10 at 5:30 (5:30 to 6 PM)
• News 10 at 6 (6 to 6:30 PM)
• News 10 at 11 (11 to 11:35 PM)

Weekends

• News 10 at 6 AM (6 to 7 AM)
• News 10 at 7 AM (7 to 8 AM)
• News 10 at 6 (6 to 6:30 PM)
• News 10 at 11 (11 to 11:35 PM)

[edit] Newscast Titles

• Action News (1970s-1986)
• 10 Eyewitness News (1986-1995)
• News 10 (1995-present) [3]

[edit] Current staff

• Steve Ammerman (5:00/6:00/11:00pm anchor as of March 2007; former weekday mornings and noon anchor)
• Nina Bouphasavanh (reporter)
• Steve Caporizzo (Chief Meteorologist and host of the "Pet Connection" series, a longtime segment on early evening newscasts, now primetime specials)
• John Craig (Key nightside reporter)
• Eric Egan (reporter; no relation to Tracy Egan)
• Tracy Egan (5:30 p.m. anchor; veteran of the market with two prior stints at WRGB prior to arriving at WTEN)
• Demetra Ganias (reporter and fill-in anchor)
• Andy Gregorio (Weekday morning meteorologist, previously also did noon)
• Dori Marlin (Weekday morning anchor/reporter)
• John McLoughlin (Managing Editor and reporter, WTEN's longest tenured talent dating to 1972)
• Jamie Seh (Weekend sports anchor)
• Brian Sinkoff (Sports Director)
• Jeff Stoecker (reporter)
• Elisa Streeter (5:00/6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, latter two since 1997; also is one of WTEN's longest tenured reporters dating to 1988)
• Latricia Thomas (reporter)
• Anya Tucker (Weekend evening anchor)
• Alyssa Van Wie (Weekend morning anchor)
• Katie Virtue (Weekend meteorologist)

[edit] Past staff

• Jim Brennan (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, 1991-2000; now hosts "New York Week in Review", aired on PBS stations across New York state)
• Greg Floyd (Weekend anchor in the mid 1980's until leaving for WTZA in Kingston, then resurfacing at WXXA and WRGB)
• Bob Gordon (Weatherman during the 1970's, preceded Bob Kovachick)
• John Guaraldi (meteorologist from 1981 until about the mid-90s, now meteorologist at WPLG-TV in Miami)
• Bob Kovachick (Now of WNYT, was chief meteorologist at WTEN from April 1977 until 1986, was the first credentialed meteorologist in the Albany market)
• Walt McClure (key reporter from 1999-2005, now in the same role at WXXA-TV)
• Scott Patterson (reporter from 2001-2005, now weekend anchor at KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska)
• Terry McSweeney (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor from 2000-2006, 5:00 p.m. anchor 2002-2006, presently in California [4])
• Dan Murphy (Sports Director from 1992-2005 and previously weekend sports, now host of "Murphy's Law" on WOFX radio)
• Ed O'Brien (Sports Director from 1986-89, fired upon Young's purchase of the station and went to WRGB where he is now weekday morning anchor)
• Mary Caroline Powers (Co-anchored the noon news for many years with Ralph Vartigian. Worked at WRGB during the 1970's and later worked in public television and as an editor at The Saratogian newspaper)
• Rip Rowan (Sports anchor from 1968-86, later worked for the Albany-Colonie Yankees AA farm team)
• Sharman Sachetti (Former morning anchor - as of 2005 a reporter at WFXT)
• Mai Shiozaki (Former freelance morning anchor - was press secretary for National Organization for Women)
• Jeff Smith (Weekend meteorologist 2004-January 2007, now weekend mornings at WABC-TV)
• John Spadafora (Weekend sports anchor from 1992-2005, now heads communications for the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce)
• Ralph Vartigian (Longtime host of the children's program Commander Ralph and later the co-anchor of the noon news)
• Dick Wood (Main anchor from 1973-1991, as of 2006 hosts a jazz show on WABY Moon Radio)
• Herb Starr (reporter, weekend anchor, 1970-1975; communications dir., NY Lt Gov; corporate media advisor. Now a private investor)
• Dick (Hill) McCarthy, (anchor, 1970s, later in communications for New York state. WABY doing sports reports currently)
• Richard Roth, (reporter, early 70s, is a CBS News correspondent based in London)
• Richard Reingold, (reporter, early 70s, was president and general manager of WUSA-TV, Wash, DC)
• Dick Williams, (reporter-weekend anchor, early 70s, hosts FOX 5's Georgia Gang in Atlanta)

[edit] External Links

• WTEN & WCDC Website
• ABC Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WTEN
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WCDC

Preceded by WCDA	WTEN 1960-present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by WMGT	WCDC 1960-present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Coordinates: 42° 38' 12" N 73° 59' 45" W

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Broadcast television in the Albany / Schenectady / Troy market (Nielsen DMA #56)

Local television stations WVBK-CA 2 (RSN) - WRGB 6 (CBS, MNTV via WNYA on DT2) - WNCE-CA 8 (A1) - WTEN 10 / WCDC 19 (ABC) - WNYT 13 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WNYA-CA 15 / WNYA 51 (MNTV) - WMHT 17 (PBS) - WXXA 23 (FOX) - WVBG-LP 25 (RSN) - WNGN-LP 35 / WNGX-LP 42 (FamilyNet) - WCWN 45 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - W52DF 52 / WTBY 54 (TBN) - WYPX 55 (ION) - W58CX 58 (3ABN)
Local cable television channels TW3 - TWTV7 - Capital News 9
Defunct television channels WEDG 4 (UPN) - WCDB 29 (CBS)
See also Broadcast television in the New York City and Syracuse markets and for radio stations in the area see Albany AM and Albany FM.