WANE-TV
Encyclopedia
WANE-TV is the CBS
-affiliated television station
for Northern Indiana
licensed to Fort Wayne
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 31 (virtual channel
15.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at studios on West State Boulevard in Northwest Fort Wayne/Tower Heights section of the city. The station can also be seen on Comcast
and Frontier FiOS channel 2. There is a high definition feed offered on Comcast digital channel 233 and Frontier FiOS digital channel 502. Syndicated
programming on WANE includes The Dr. Oz Show
, The Rachael Ray Show, Jeopardy!
, Wheel of Fortune
, Inside Edition
, and Judge Judy
among others.
On WANE-DT2, Comcast digital channel 244, and Frontier FiOS digital channel 462 was TheCoolTV
until September 1st, 2011. On WANE-DT3 is a 24-hour local weather service which is currently not offered on any digital cable
systems. Programming consists of a live sweep of "Live Doppler 15 FURY", current forecast conditions, and severe weather updates when warranted.
as WINT-TV and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter in Auburn
. It was Fort Wayne's second television station to launch but was technically licensed to Angola
and had studios in Waterloo
. The station's original owner took advantage of peculiarities in Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) rules to direct the signal to Fort Wayne. Although the city was big enough to support three full network affiliates, the FCC had originally allocated one station WKJG-TV (now WISE-TV
) on UHF channel 33 to the city.
This circumstance attracted the attention of Congress
and led to changes in how broadcast licenses were assigned. The Indiana
Broadcasting Company, owner of WISH-TV
in Indianapolis
, bought WINT in 1956. The new owners changed the call letters to WANE and moved the station's entire operation to Fort Wayne. The analog transmitter remained at its rural Auburn location until 1957. Indiana Broadcasting became known as the Corinthian Broadcasting Company in 1957.
During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network
. Corinthian was purchased by Dun & Bradstreet
in 1970 who in turn sold the station to the Belo Corporation in 1983. However, WANE left Belo two stations over the FCC ownership limit at the time, so the company sold this station and WISH to the LIN TV Corporation. It added the -TV suffix to its call sign on April 25, 1979. From September 1990 until September 1999, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune aired on NBC
affiliate WISE-TV. In 1999, WANE-TV bought the usage rights of those shows from that station.
On September 15, 2008, WANE announced LIN TV and Time Warner Cable
and Bright House Networks
had not been able to reach an agreement for carriage of this station on those cable providers. LIN TV was seeking compensation for carriage as other cable networks receive. The company reached agreements with all television service providers in the Fort Wayne area except Time Warner
and Bright House. The current agreement with those providers expired October 2, 2008. At 12:35 in the morning on October 3, LIN TV-owned stations were removed from Time Warner and Bright House. it would not be until October 29 when WANE-TV was restored to Time Warner Cable in Northwest Ohio
. However, it did not reappear on Bright House Networks systems in Grant County, Indiana
.
After the launch of UPN
on January 16, 1995, WFFT (then a Fox affiliate) picked up a secondary affiliation with the fledgling network and aired programming such as Star Trek: Voyager
, Dilbert, and Nowhere Man
. However, WANE-TV eventually picked up the affiliation full-time as some point after launching a new second digital subchannel
. WANE-DT2 also featured newscast repeats from the main channel and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
basketball games. In 2006, UPN was dropped after the network merged with The WB (seen locally on WPTA
-operated cable-only
outlet "WBFW") to form The CW.
, WISE-TV's news department was promptly folded and combined with ABC
affiliate WPTA. There was initially a significant decrease in ratings and WANE-TV was the market's leader for several years after according to Nielsen Media Research
since it was the only other local news operation in the area. This was most easily attributed to continued viewer resentment towards WPTA and Granite for the elimination of WISE-TV's news department and arguably its identity and history. However, WPTA management said the changes were part of a longer-term plan that would need up to five years to take hold with viewers.
Eventually, those changes started to take hold and ratings began to drastically improve. In the November 2007 sweeps period, WANE-TV and WPTA were nearly neck-and-neck in Fort Wayne with this station continuing to show a slight lead. Meteorologist Greg Shoup was quickly hired by WANE-TV and became the weekday morning and noon meteorologist on this station. On May 18, 2009, WPTA and WISE-TV became the first two outlets in Fort Wayne to upgrade newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen
. Although not truly high definition, the aspect ratio matches those of HD television screens.
Broadcasts on WANE-TV remain in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition and it is unknown when there would be an upgrade completed. Currently, WPTA and WISE-TV co-produces local news that are essentially the same in terms of coverage and format. WANE-TV's news department has won several awards including the Jack R. Howard Award in 1998 for reporting on drug abuse, the Peabody Award
in 1999 for reporting on organ donation, and the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2003 for flooding and sports coverage. Unlike most CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone
, WANE-TV does not air local news on weeknights at 5:30 but does offer the area's only weekend morning show. It operates a Doppler
weather radar
known as "Live Doppler 15 FURY" at its facility.
Live Doppler 15 FURY Storm Team
Sports team
Reporters
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Northern Indiana
Northern Indiana
Northern Indiana is the region of Indiana including 26 counties bordering parts of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. The area is generally sub-classified into other regions. The northwest is economically and culturally intertwined with Chicago, and is considered part of the Chicago metropolitan area...
licensed to Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 31 (virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
15.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at studios on West State Boulevard in Northwest Fort Wayne/Tower Heights section of the city. The station can also be seen on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
and Frontier FiOS channel 2. There is a high definition feed offered on Comcast digital channel 233 and Frontier FiOS digital channel 502. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on WANE includes The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
, The Rachael Ray Show, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
, Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
, Inside Edition
Inside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
, and Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
among others.
Digital programming
WANE's digital signal on UHF 31 is multiplexed.On WANE-DT2, Comcast digital channel 244, and Frontier FiOS digital channel 462 was TheCoolTV
TheCoolTV
THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the...
until September 1st, 2011. On WANE-DT3 is a 24-hour local weather service which is currently not offered on any digital cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
systems. Programming consists of a live sweep of "Live Doppler 15 FURY", current forecast conditions, and severe weather updates when warranted.
| Channel | Video | Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1 | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
WANE-HD | Main WANE-TV programming / CBS |
| 15.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | WANE-SD | was TheCoolTV TheCoolTV THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the... , currently vacant |
| 15.3 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | WANE-WX | 24-hour local weather |
History
The station signed-on September 26, 19541954 in television
The year 1954 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1954.-Events:*January 1 – NBC broadcasts the Rose Parade in NTSC color on 21 stations.*January 3 – RAI launched in Italy....
as WINT-TV and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter in Auburn
Auburn, Indiana
Auburn is a city in DeKalb County, Indiana, United States. The population was 13,086 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1836 by Wesley Park , the city is the county seat of DeKalb County. Auburn is also known as Home of the Classics.-Geography:...
. It was Fort Wayne's second television station to launch but was technically licensed to Angola
Angola, Indiana
Angola is a city in Pleasant Township, Steuben County, Indiana, United States. The population was 8,612 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Steuben County . Angola was founded by Thomas Gale and Cornelius Gilmore. Angola is home to Trine University...
and had studios in Waterloo
Waterloo, Indiana
Waterloo is a town in Grant and Smithfield townships, DeKalb County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,242 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Waterloo is located at ....
. The station's original owner took advantage of peculiarities in Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) rules to direct the signal to Fort Wayne. Although the city was big enough to support three full network affiliates, the FCC had originally allocated one station WKJG-TV (now WISE-TV
WISE-TV
WISE-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Northeastern Indiana licensed to Fort Wayne. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 18 from a transmitter at its studios on Butler Road in Northwest Fort Wayne. The station can also be seen on Frontier FiOS channel 4 and...
) on UHF channel 33 to the city.
This circumstance attracted the attention of Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....
and led to changes in how broadcast licenses were assigned. The Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
Broadcasting Company, owner of WISH-TV
WISH-TV
WISH-TV, virtual channel 8, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Indiana licensed to Indianapolis. Owned by the LIN TV Corporation, WISH-TV is part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WNDY-TV and the two share studios on North Meridian Street at the north end of Indianapolis'...
in Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
, bought WINT in 1956. The new owners changed the call letters to WANE and moved the station's entire operation to Fort Wayne. The analog transmitter remained at its rural Auburn location until 1957. Indiana Broadcasting became known as the Corinthian Broadcasting Company in 1957.
During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network
NTA Film Network
The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956. The network was not a full-time television network like CBS, NBC, or ABC. Rather, it operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios...
. Corinthian was purchased by Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet is a Fortune 500 public company headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA that provides information on businesses and corporations for use in credit decisions, B2B marketing and supply chain management...
in 1970 who in turn sold the station to the Belo Corporation in 1983. However, WANE left Belo two stations over the FCC ownership limit at the time, so the company sold this station and WISH to the LIN TV Corporation. It added the -TV suffix to its call sign on April 25, 1979. From September 1990 until September 1999, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune aired on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate WISE-TV. In 1999, WANE-TV bought the usage rights of those shows from that station.
On September 15, 2008, WANE announced LIN TV and Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
and Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks is a cable television company, the seventh largest cable operator and the sixth largest traditional multiple system operator in the United States owned by Advance/Newhouse, headquartered in Syracuse, New York...
had not been able to reach an agreement for carriage of this station on those cable providers. LIN TV was seeking compensation for carriage as other cable networks receive. The company reached agreements with all television service providers in the Fort Wayne area except Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
and Bright House. The current agreement with those providers expired October 2, 2008. At 12:35 in the morning on October 3, LIN TV-owned stations were removed from Time Warner and Bright House. it would not be until October 29 when WANE-TV was restored to Time Warner Cable in Northwest Ohio
Northwest Ohio
Northwest or northwestern Ohio consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the US state of Ohio. This area borders Lake Erie, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana. Some areas in northwestern Ohio are also considered the Black Swamp area. The Toledo metropolitan area is also part...
. However, it did not reappear on Bright House Networks systems in Grant County, Indiana
Grant County, Indiana
Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 70,061. The county seat is Marion. Important paleontological discoveries dating from the Pliocene epoch have been made at Pipe Creek Sinkhole in Grant County.-Geography:According to the 2010...
.
After the launch of UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
on January 16, 1995, WFFT (then a Fox affiliate) picked up a secondary affiliation with the fledgling network and aired programming such as Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...
, Dilbert, and Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man (TV series)
Nowhere Man is an American television series that aired from 1995 to 1996 starring Bruce Greenwood. Created by Lawrence Hertzog, the series aired Monday nights on UPN. Despite critical acclaim, including TV Guides label of "The season's coolest hit," the show was cancelled after only one...
. However, WANE-TV eventually picked up the affiliation full-time as some point after launching a new second digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
. WANE-DT2 also featured newscast repeats from the main channel and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne is the largest university in northern Indiana, United States, offering more than 200 Indiana University and Purdue University degrees and certificates. Since 1968, IPFW has conferred nearly 8,800 master’s degrees, 27,000 bachelor’s degrees, more...
basketball games. In 2006, UPN was dropped after the network merged with The WB (seen locally on WPTA
WPTA
WPTA is the ABC-affiliated television station for Northeastern Indiana licensed to Fort Wayne. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter at its studios on Butler Road. The station can also be seen on Comcast and Frontier FiOS channel 7...
-operated cable-only
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
outlet "WBFW") to form The CW.
News operation
After being taken over by the Granite Broadcasting CorporationGranite Broadcasting Corporation
Granite Broadcasting Corporation, founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988 , is a broadcasting holding company which owns or operates 14 television stations in the United States, largely centered in the midwest with a cluster in New York state...
, WISE-TV's news department was promptly folded and combined with ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate WPTA. There was initially a significant decrease in ratings and WANE-TV was the market's leader for several years after according to Nielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research
Nielsen Media Research is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre films and newspapers...
since it was the only other local news operation in the area. This was most easily attributed to continued viewer resentment towards WPTA and Granite for the elimination of WISE-TV's news department and arguably its identity and history. However, WPTA management said the changes were part of a longer-term plan that would need up to five years to take hold with viewers.
Eventually, those changes started to take hold and ratings began to drastically improve. In the November 2007 sweeps period, WANE-TV and WPTA were nearly neck-and-neck in Fort Wayne with this station continuing to show a slight lead. Meteorologist Greg Shoup was quickly hired by WANE-TV and became the weekday morning and noon meteorologist on this station. On May 18, 2009, WPTA and WISE-TV became the first two outlets in Fort Wayne to upgrade newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
. Although not truly high definition, the aspect ratio matches those of HD television screens.
Broadcasts on WANE-TV remain in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition and it is unknown when there would be an upgrade completed. Currently, WPTA and WISE-TV co-produces local news that are essentially the same in terms of coverage and format. WANE-TV's news department has won several awards including the Jack R. Howard Award in 1998 for reporting on drug abuse, the Peabody Award
Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...
in 1999 for reporting on organ donation, and the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2003 for flooding and sports coverage. Unlike most CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
, WANE-TV does not air local news on weeknights at 5:30 but does offer the area's only weekend morning show. It operates a Doppler
Pulse-doppler radar
Pulse-Doppler is a 4D radar system capable of detecting both target 3D location as well as measuring radial velocity . It uses the Doppler effect to avoid overloading computers and operators as well as to reduce power consumption...
weather radar
Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...
known as "Live Doppler 15 FURY" at its facility.
Newscast titles
- Action NewsAction NewsAction News is a local television newscast format in the United States. It was conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at WFIL-TV by then-news director Mel Kampmann in 1970 as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format used on rival station KYW-TV...
(early-1980s) - News 15 (1980s-1992)
- NewsChannel 15 (1992–present)
Station slogans
- "We Know Fort Wayne" (1992–1997)
- "Coverage You Can Count On" (1997–present)
News team
Anchors- Drew Blair - weekend mornings; also weeknight reporter
- Terra Brantley - weekday mornings and noon
- Heather Herron - weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Pat Hoffmann - weekday mornings and noon
- Alyssa Ivanson - weekend evenings; also health reporter
- Mark Mellinger - weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also Focus 15 host
Live Doppler 15 FURY Storm Team
- Johnathon Conder - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Greg Shoup (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Seal of Approval) - weekday mornings and noon - Nicholas Ferreri - weekend mornings
- Lee Ann Okuly - weekend evenings
Sports team
- Glenn Marini - sports directorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
; weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m., also Inside The Zone host - Ross Kinsey - sports anchor; weekend evenings
Reporters
- Don Austin - videojournalist
- Elizabeth Fields - videojournalist
- Tina Harris - weekday morning traffic reporter
- Rod Hissong - videojournalist; also photojournalist and fill-in sports anchor
- Megan Reust - videojournalist
- Randy Spieth - videojournalist
- Adam Widener - videojournalist