WBAL-TV, channel 11, is an
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
-affiliated television station in
Baltimore, MarylandBaltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding...
. It is the flagship of Hearst Television, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Hearst CorporationHearst Communications, Inc. is a privately-held American-based media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower in New York City, USA. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media...
, which also owns sister radio stations
WBALWBAL is a news-talk radio station located in Baltimore, Maryland. It broadcasts on 1090 kHz and is a clear channel station on the AM band with 50 kW of power. It has the highest signal strength of any radio station in Maryland and its directional nighttime signal reaches as far as Nova Scotia...
(1090 AM) and WIYY (97.9 FM). The three stations share a studio and office facility on Television Hill in the
WoodberryWoodberry is a neighbourhood located in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. A largely residential, middle-class area, Woodberry is a historic community bordered on the north by Cold Spring Lane, on the south by Druid Hill Park, on the west by Greenspring Avenue, and on the east by...
section of Baltimore, near the transmitting tower WBAL-TV shares with WIYY and four other Baltimore television stations.
History
WBAL-TV began operations on March 11, 1948 from its original studios on North Charles Street in
Downtown BaltimoreDowntown Baltimore is the section of Baltimore traditionally bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the west, Mt. Royal Avenue to the north, President Street to the east and the Inner Harbor area to the south. It consists of four neighborhoods: Westside, City Centre, Inner Harbor, and...
. It was owned by Hearst Corporation along with WBAL radio and two newspapers, the
Baltimore News-Post and the
Baltimore American (which later merged as the
Baltimore News-AmericanThe Baltimore News-American was a Baltimore, Maryland, broadsheet newspaper with a continuous lineage of more than two hundred years of Baltimore newspapers. Its final edition was published on May 27, 1986.-History:...
before shutting down in 1986). It is one of two Hearst-owned stations to have been built from the ground up by the company (the other being Pittsburgh's
WTAE-TVWTAE-TV is the ABC affiliate serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and serving as a ABC affiliate for the Wheeling/Steubenville and Clarksburg/Weston, West Virginia market areas. Its transmitter is located in Buena Vista, Pennsylvania and its studios are located in the Pittsburgh suburb of...
), and the oldest to be continuosly owned by Hearst through their various television subsidiaries through the years.
At its launch, WBAL-TV was an NBC affiliate. Early programming include
Musical Almanac,
Look and Cook, and
Know Baltimore, along with news and sports productions. In the 1950s, the station introduced
Romper RoomRomper Room was a children's television series which ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as at various times in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom...
, Baltimore's first live morning variety show. This show eventually became a nationally franchised program. Another long-running show of the 1950s was the weekday
Quiz Club, co-hosted by local personalities Brent Gunts and Jay Grayson.
Baltimore SunThe Baltimore Sun is the U.S. state of Maryland’s largest general circulation daily newspaper and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries. The Sun was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer Arunah Shepherdson Abell and two associates. The Abell family...
columnist Jacques Kelly described it at the time of Grayson's death in June, 2000, as "pure 1950s live television ... executed on a low budget ... the genial hosts ... ruled the 1 p.m. airwaves".
WBAL-TV produced several local
bowling Bowling is a Sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called pins or to get close to a target ball. There are many forms of bowling, with one of the most recent being ten-pin bowling and the earliest dating back to ancient...
shows in the 1960s and early 1970s, including
Strikes and Spares,
Pinbusters,
Duckpins for Dollars,
Bowling for DollarsBowling for Dollars was a television game show on which people could play the sport of bowling to win cash and sometimes prizes based on how well they bowled....
, and
Spare Time. The station even went as far as building bowling alleys at its studios. It also launched several children's entertainment shows during this period, such as
Rhea and Sunshine,
Pete the Pirate,
P.W. Doodle,
Heads Up, and the teen-oriented
Kirby Scott Show.
WBAL-TV's first stint as an NBC affiliate ended on August 30, 1981, when the station swapped affiliations with
WMAR-TVWMAR-TV channel 2 is the ABC affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland, owned by the broadcasting division of the E.W. Scripps Company. WMAR-TV's studios and offices are located on York Road in the unincorporated community of Towson , north of the Baltimore City border, and its transmitter is on...
(channel 2), then owned by the
Baltimore Sun, and became a
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
affiliate. CBS was not pleased with WMAR-TV's frequent pre-emptions and low news ratings. As a CBS affiliate, however, channel 11 pre-empted an hour of the network's daytime schedule everyday, as well as half of its Saturday cartoon lineup. Channel 11 also did not run CBS's late night programming. Baltimore viewers who wanted to see the entire CBS line-up could do so through
WDVM-TV/WUSAWUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network...
in
Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
, which was available over-the-air in most of the Baltimore area and pre-empted little network programming.
In 1994, the E.W. Scripps Company, the present owners of WMAR-TV, negotiated with ABC to affiliate with its Baltimore station as part of a multi-station deal. In response, CBS and
Westinghouse BroadcastingThe Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication....
formed a partnership, resulting in the CBS affiliation moving from WBAL-TV to Westinghouse's
WJZ-TVWJZ-TV, channel 13, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Baltimore, Maryland. WJZ-TV's studios and offices are located on Television Hill in the Woodberry section of Baltimore, adjacent to the transmission tower it shares with four other Baltimore...
(channel 13), Baltimore's longtime
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American 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. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
affiliate. Largely by default, channel 11 rejoined the NBC network on January 2, 1995, and has remained the market's NBC affiliate since then.
In August, 2005, WBAL-TV launched a 24-hour local weather channel,
WBAL-TV 11 Insta-Weather Plus, broadcast over-the-air on digital channel 11-2 and by cable in much of Maryland on Comcast channel 208.
The station was a prominent feature in the movie
DinerDiner is a 1982 comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon, Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of "Baltimore films". Diner is the first film Levinson directed...
, set in Baltimore. One of the character's girlfriends works there, and another character watches
College BowlCollege Bowl was a format of college-level quizbowl run and operated by College Bowl Company, Incorporated. It had a format similar to the current NAQT format. College Bowl first aired on US radio stations in 1953, and aired on US television from 1959 to 1970...
, an NBC program aired on WBAL-TV.
WBAL-TV lent meteorologist Sandra Shaw to Hearst-Argyle sister station WDSU-TV in New Orleans on September 1, 2008, to assist with the Louisiana station's coverage of Hurricane Gustav.
WBAL only carries the first three hours of NBC's Today Show on weekdays.
WBAL-DT
WBAL-DT broadcasts on digital channel 11.
Digital channels>
| Channel |
Name |
Programming |
| 11.1 |
WBAL-DT |
main WBAL-TV/NBC programming |
| 11.2 |
WBAL-DT2 |
WBAL Plus |
Analog-to-Digital Conversion
WBAL-TV shut down its analog signal, over
VHFVHF is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...
channel 11, on June 12, 2009 , as part of the
DTV transition in the United StatesThe DTV transition in the United States is the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
. The station had been broadcasting its pre-transition digital signal over
UHFUltra high frequency designates a range of electromagnetic waves with frequencies between 300 MHz and 3 GHz . Also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...
channel 59, but returned to channel 11 for its post-transition operations. Several
VHFVHF is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...
digital stations received permission for a power increase later that month after stations experienced signal problems as a result of changing their digital channel from
UHFUltra high frequency designates a range of electromagnetic waves with frequencies between 300 MHz and 3 GHz . Also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...
to VHF. WBAL-DT chose to test its equipment before making a commitment.
WBAL Plus
WBAL Plus is WBAL’s digital sub-channel. It is broadcast over the air on WBAL 11.2, on Comcast digital channel 208, and Verizon FiOS channel 460. Programming on WBAL Plus consists of WBAL 11 Insta-Weather Plus, news casts, and other special programming.
History
WBAL Plus originally carried
NBC Weather PlusNBC Weather Plus was a 24-hour, commercially-sponsored, weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the NBC network. It debuted on November 15, 2004 and shut down on December 31, 2008...
until it dissolved at the end of 2008. After that WBAL continued to broadcast 11 Insta-Weather Plus, which was the same as
NBC Weather PlusNBC Weather Plus was a 24-hour, commercially-sponsored, weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the NBC network. It debuted on November 15, 2004 and shut down on December 31, 2008...
except without the national feed. In April of 2009 WBAL 11 Insta-Weather Plus changed to WBAL Plus. Currently WBAL Plus still carries WBAL 11 Insta-Weather Plus, except with other special programming.
Newscasts
For many years, WBAL-TV had waged a spirited battle for first place in the ratings with WJZ-TV. For example, In 1974, WBAL introduced the
Action 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 , in 1970 as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format used on rival station KYW-TV...
format to Baltimore. Characterized by short, usually 90 second, news "packages" and upbeat introductory news themes, Baltimore's Action News briefly replaced Channel 13 as the number one news station in Baltimore during the mid-seventies. The architect of the success was news director
Ron KershawRon Kershaw was an American television news executive responsible for some of the television news innovations that we take for granted today.Considered somewhat a genius, Kershaw was the news director in several large cities across the United States including New York, Chicago and...
, who had come to Baltimore from Texas and was considered somewhat ahead of his time. He brought in talented anchors like
Sue SimmonsSusan "Sue" Simmons has been the lead female news anchor at WNBC television in New York City since 1980.-Background:Simmons grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem; her father is John Simmons, a renowned jazz bassist whose compatriots included Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, John Coltrane,...
and
Spencer ChristianSpencer Christian is an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998. He currently is the weather forecaster for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Christian is also the author of several children's...
and streamlined the news operation. Kershaw later brought other innovations to WNBC-TV in
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and
WBBM-TVWBBM-TV digital channel 12 is the CBS owned and operated television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located within the CBS 2 Broadcast Center located in The Loop at 22 W Washington Street. The facilities are part of the development at 108 North State Street...
in
ChicagoChicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
as news director at those stations. Since the late 1980s, it has been branded
News 11,
WBAL-TV 11 News, or just simply
11 News.
From the early 1960s through the 1970s, WBAL-TV was the ratings leader in Baltimore. WJZ-TV took the lead in the 1970s and held it for 30 years, but WBAL-TV was a strong runner-up for most of that time. In recent years, WBAL-TV's newscasts placed first at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.; however, preliminary ratings data taken since the debut of
The Jay Leno ShowThe Jay Leno Show is an American prime time television talk show created by and starring Jay Leno, which premiered on September 14, 2009 on NBC following the May 29, 2009 conclusion of Leno's tenure as host of The Tonight Show.-Overview:...
showed that WBAL fell precipitously from a two-way battle for first to a distant second behind WJZ although the official November
Nielsen RatingsNielsen ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
sweeps period has not yet begun.
On January 3rd, 2009, WBAL-TV became the second station in Baltimore (behind WBFF-TV) to launch local news in
high definitionHigh-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems...
.
Personalities
- Kate Amara
- Marianne Banister
- Mindy Basara
- Sarah Caldwell
- Mellisa Carlson
- Kerry Cavanaugh
- David Collins
- John Collins
- Kim Dacey
- Rod Daniels
- Jennifer Franciotti
- Pete Gilbert
- Donna Hamilton
- Sally Kidd
- Laurie Kinney
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|
Lowell Melser
Jayne Miller
Traci Mitchell
Jim Nichols
Lisa Robinson
Rob Roblin
Gerry Sandusky
Sandra Shaw
John Sherman
Darrielle Snipes
Barry Simms
Stan Stovall
Tom Tasselmyer
Roy Taylor
Tim Tooten
Deborah Weiner |
Former personalities
- Curt Anderson
Curtis Stovall Anderson is an American politician, lawyer and former broadcast journalist. Anderson was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1983, is the chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation, and past chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. After serving 12...
, now in the Maryland General AssemblyThe Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is a bicameral body. The upper chamber, the Maryland State Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber, the Maryland House of Delegates, has 141 representatives...
- Sade Baderinwa
Folasade Olayinka Baderinwa, known professionally as Sade Baderinwa is currently an Emmy Award-winning news anchor at New York's WABC Channel 7. She co-anchors the weekday 5 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News alongside Diana Williams, and frequently fills in for colleague Liz Cho on the 11 p.m....
, now with WABC-TVWABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its highly successful version of the Eyewitness News format and for its morning show Live with Regis and Kelly,...
in New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
- Vince Bagli
- Ric Barrick, now with WTVR-TV
WTVR-TV is a CBS television affiliate based in Richmond, Virginia owned by Local TV, the broadcasting arm of Oak Hill Capital Partners. It broadcasts on digital PSIP subchannel 6.1 on actual digital channel 25, and its studios and tower are located on West Broad Street in downtown Richmond...
in Richmond, VirginiaRichmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
- Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown is an American television news reporter, currently an anchor and political pundit for CNN and a former co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today...
, now at CNNCable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is an U.S. cable news network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States...
- Spencer Christian
Spencer Christian is an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998. He currently is the weather forecaster for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Christian is also the author of several children's...
, now with KGO-TVKGO-TV, channel 7, based in San Francisco, California, is an owned-and-operated television station of The Walt Disney Company subsidiary ABC...
in San Francisco
- Carol Costello
Carol Costello is a CNN correspondent assigned to The Situation Room, working out of the network's Washington, DC bureau. In the past, she has reported on a variety of fitness issues during "The Bod Squad" reports shown throughout CNN programs...
, now at CNN
- Rhea Feiken, weather forecaster with her puppet "J.P." in the 1960s
- Marilyn Getas, now with KION-TV
KION-TV is a full-power television station in Salinas, California, broadcasting on digital channel 32 as a CBS affiliate. The stations continues to use UHF channel 46 as its virtual channel through the use of PSIP. KION-TV shows local news, weather, and sports programming, as well as syndicated...
in Salinas, CaliforniaSalinas is the county seat and the largest municipality of Monterey County, California. Salinas is located east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River, at an elevation of about 52 feet above sea level. The most current estimate from the California Department of Finance sets the 2006...
- Vernon Glenn, now with KRON-TV
KRON-TV, channel 4, is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to San Francisco, the station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 38. The station's transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco. The station is the flagship of Young Broadcasting...
in San Francisco, CaliforniaSan Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the eighth most densely populated city in the U.S. and is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San...
- Jay Grayson, co-host of the weekday Quiz Club in the 1950s
- Brent Gunts, on-air personality in the 1950s who became the station's vice president and general manager for 14 years, until 1973
- Mike Hambrick
- Al Herndon, pioneering 1950s weatherman who wore a gas station attendant's uniform while delivering the forecast
- Rolf Hertsgaard, evening news anchorman for 15 years in the 1950s–1960s
- Joe Krebs, now with WRC-TV
WRC-TV channel 4 is the NBC owned and operated television station in Washington, D.C.. The station broadcasts on digital channel 48. Its studios and transmitter are located at 4001 Nebraska Avenue NW, in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, D.C....
in Washington, D.C.
- Norm Lewis, now with WMAR-TV
- Vicki Mabrey
Vicki Mabrey is currently an ABC News Nightline correspondent. Mabrey was formerly a CBS News 60 Minutes II correspondent.Mabrey has received four Emmy awards: two in 1997 for her reporting on the death of Princess Diana, and two in 1996 for her coverage of the Atlanta Olympic bombing and the crash...
, now with ABC NewsABC News is a division of American television network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin.-Current programs:* America This Morning* Good Morning America* Good Morning America Weekend Edition...
- Carolyn McEnrue, now with KLST
KLST is the CBS affiliate serving San Angelo, Texas, in the United States. It is owned by the Irving, TX based Nexstar Broadcasting Group. KLST was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting in 2004 from the Jewell Television Corporation....
in San Angelo, TexasSan Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas, United States, in West Central Texas. As of 2009 according to an estimate published by the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total population of 91,880....
- Rudy Miller
- Jim Mustard, 1968–1990
- Tony Pann, now at WUSA-TV
WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network...
- Royal Parker
Royal Pollokoff , better known by the stage name Royal Parker, is an American television personality. In a broadcasting career spanning the 1940s–1990s, he appeared in various roles, becoming a staple on television screens in the Baltimore, Maryland, area.-Early years:Born in Baltimore,...
, 1962–mid-1990s
- Lisa Salters
Alisia Salters is a journalist and former collegiate women's basketball player. She has been a reporter for ESPN and ESPN on ABC since 2000. Previously, she covered the O.J. Simpson murder case for ABC and worked at WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland....
, now with ESPNESPN is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
- Sue Simmons
Susan "Sue" Simmons has been the lead female news anchor at WNBC television in New York City since 1980.-Background:Simmons grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem; her father is John Simmons, a renowned jazz bassist whose compatriots included Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, John Coltrane,...
, now with WNBC-TV in New York City
- Ron Smith
Ron Smith is an American talk radio show host on WBAL in Baltimore, Maryland. His show airs weekdays from 3 to 6 pm ET.During the 1970s, he was an anchor on WBAL-TV....
, now with WBAL radio
- Noel Tucker, now with KGMB-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital of and the most populous census-designated place in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and the county are consolidated, known as the City and County of Honolulu, and the city and...
- Mark Viviano, now with WJZ-TV
- Julius Westheimer
Julius Westheimer was a financial advisor from Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for his radio and television work, having dispensed financial advice on WBAL Radio, WYPR, WMAR, WBAL-TV and PBS' Wall $treet Week, and in columns in the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Evening Sun, and Daily Record...
- Kristin Marshall, now at KCRA-TV
KCRA is a television station broadcasting on channel 3 in Sacramento, California. KCRA-TV is owned by Hearst Television, and has been an affiliate of the NBC Television Network since its inception...
Sacramento, CA
Newscast Titles
- Action News 11 (1974–1985)
- News 11 (1985-1991)
- WBAL-TV 11 News (1991-1995)
- 11 News (1995-present)
Station Slogans
- Hello, Baltimore (1978-1985; used during period station used Frank Gari's "Hello News
Hello News is a television news music package and image campaign. Written and composed by Frank Gari initially for WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Hello News theme package first became available in the fall of 1977, and by the 1980s it had become one of the most widely used and recognized news...
")
- Reach for the Stars on WBAL (1981-1982; tagged with Frank Gari's "Hello News" campaign when the station was about to switch to CBS)
- We'll Take You There (1981-1982; used image campaign by Frank Gari
Frank Gari is a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs where he was a performer are Princess, Utopia and Lullaby Of Love, all of which hit the U.S. Top 40. He co-wrote with Roger McGuinn the song Beach Ball for Bobby Darin...
)
- On Your Side (1985-1991)
- You Can Feel It On 11 (1988-1989; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- Your 24-Hour News Station (1991-1993)
- Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1995-present)
Awards and achievements
WBAL-TV has boasted many television firsts, including:
- the first Baltimore television station to broadcast in color;
- the first station in Maryland (and the eighth in the world) to acquire a videotape cartridge machine;
- the first station in Baltimore to acquire a mobile satellite news-gathering system (dubbed "NEWSTAR 11");
- the first Baltimore station to hire an African-American news anchor and an African-American news director.
In addition, WBAL-TV became the first Baltimore TV station to win a
Peabody AwardThe George Foster Peabody Awards are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. First awarded in 1941 for programs from the previous year, they are one of the oldest honors in electronic media...
for local news coverage (and the first Baltimore television station to win the award in any category in more than fifty years). WBAL's "11 News" was also awarded as one of the top three Best Television Newscasts by the National Headliners Association, alongside
WFAA-TVWFAA is a duPont-Columbia Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning ABC television affiliate serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the top ten media markets in North America. The station is the flagship of Belo Corporation and the largest ABC affiliate not owned and operated by the network...
in Dallas, and sister station
WCVB-TVWCVB-TV is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts...
in
BostonBoston is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England"...
.
Other awards include:
- regional Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered...
Awards, the George Polk Award and the American Bar AssociationThe American Bar Association , founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation...
Gavel Award - for excellence in reporting and journalism;
- Outstanding television news operation in Baltimore (by the Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
and United Press InternationalUnited Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising...
)
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