WHAS-TV
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WHAS-TV channel 11 is the ABC
affiliated television station in Louisville, Kentucky
. Owned by Belo Corporation
, the station's transmitter is located in Floyd County, Indiana
, near the community of Floyds Knobs
. Syndicated programming on WHAS includes Entertainment Tonight
and Oprah
.
in Cincinnati.
It was owned by the Bingham family, publishers of the The Courier-Journal
newspaper, along with WHAS-AM
, Louisville's oldest radio station. Family patriarch Barry Bingham, Sr.
handed over control to his son, Barry, Jr. in 1971. A 15-year family dispute culminated in a decision to split up the family's media holdings. WHAS-TV was sold to The Providence Journal Company
in 1986, while WHAS-AM went to Clear Channel Communications
and the Courier-Journal went to Gannett. The Journal Company merged with Belo in 1997.
The station originally was a primary CBS
affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation, owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS Radio. When WLKY-TV
signed on in 1961, WHAS-TV became a sole CBS affiliate.
In September 1990, WHAS-TV swapped affiliations with WLKY-TV
and became an ABC affiliate. At the time of the exchange, ABC was the #1 rated network, with CBS a distant third in the midpoint of the Laurence Tisch
era of the network's history. WLKY has since made strong strides in the market as cable penetration allowed WLKY's traditional UHF disadvantage to fade, and other factors allowed the station to strengthen its news operation and compete with WHAS's newscasts evenly. WHAS has seen some struggles over the years within seasons where ABC's schedule is weak, while WLKY's ties to CBS have boosted that station through most of the 2000s. With ABC's current schedule, both stations usually exchange top rankings in the news ratings race.
At some point in 2011, WHAS took over the operations of The CW affiliate WBKI-TV
through a local marketing agreement
(LMA). It is expected that WBKI will move its operations into the WHAS facility in the near future.
In 2011, after spending decades on the station, WHAS dropped Live With Regis and Kelly
in favor of a new local morning show called "Great Day Live!".
rather than ABC's default 720p
format.
, a highly successful local telethon benefiting children's charities throughout Kentucky and southern Indiana
. It also originated one of the nation's longest-running public service programs, Moral Side of the News, featuring a local interfaith clergy panel discussing the week's events in the light of faith. The panel also administers the annual grants from the Crusade for Children telethon.
in 1952. When the Derby moved to ABC in 1975 (local affiliate WLKY), Churchill Downs
included a provision in the contract requiring ABC to allow WHAS to continue showing the Derby. The provision became moot when WHAS joined ABC several years later. However, after the Triple Crown races moved to NBC
in the 1990s, WHAS-TV lost the rights to WAVE
, the local NBC affiliate, though in 2006 regained the rights to the Belmont Stakes
which has moved back to ABC. WHAS also simulcast the 2006 Breeders' Cup from Churchill Downs that aired on ESPN
. With the departure of the Belmont to NBC in 2011 though, WHAS will no longer broadcast any Triple Crown horse racing.
Currently, WHAS is the flagship station
for local broadcasts of Louisville Cardinals basketball. Sponsors include Kroger
and Louisville Jewish Hospital.
In October 2009 WHAS launched the Wazoo Sports Network
, a regional sports network
devoted to high school and minor league athletics and sports from the University of Louisville
and University of Kentucky
, over its 11.3 digital subchannel
, along with Lexington's WLEX. The network had previously been online-only before launching its subchannel service.
In the late 1970s, WHAS-TV displaced long-dominant WAVE-TV
and became the news ratings leader in Louisville. It held the lead through the early 21st century, often by a wide margin. While it still leads WAVE and WLKY in most time slots, its dominance is not nearly as absolute as it once was. In recent years, it has lost the 11 p.m. lead to WLKY. In the May 2006 ratings period, WHAS placed 4th at 11:00 behind Sex and the City
re-runs on local Fox affiliate WDRB
, but by May 2007 it had regained the runner-up spot behind WLKY. http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20070529-1208.html
As a CBS affiliate in the late 1970s until 1991, its newscasts were titled "Action 11 News" In 1991, its news branding was changed to "Kentuckiana's News Channel, WHAS-11." Most recently in the late 1990s, the station began using "WHAS 11 News" to brand its news product. Since 1991, WHAS has been using versions of Frank Gari's
"Newschannel" music package.
On January 2, 2006, WHAS began producing a 10:00pm newscast on WBKI-TV
. On Monday, August 24, 2009, WHAS became the second station (behind WAVE-TV) in Louisville to broadcast its local news in widescreen. Unlike WAVE (and eventually WDRB), the WHAS newscasts are actually aired in 16:9
widescreen standard definition
. The WBKI broadcast is currently presented in standard definition 4:3 due to that station not having an HD master control facility. With the LMA between WHAS and WBKI now in place, WBKI's newscast presentations may be upgraded to widescreen.
First Alert StormTeam
WHAS 11 Sports team
WHAS 11 Reporters
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...
affiliated television station in Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
. Owned by Belo Corporation
Belo
Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...
, the station's transmitter is located in Floyd County, Indiana
Floyd County, Indiana
Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 74,578. The county seat is New Albany. Floyd County is the county with the second smallest land area in the entire state...
, near the community of Floyds Knobs
Floyds Knobs, Indiana
Floyds Knobs is a small unincorporated town in Lafayette Township, Floyd County, Indiana. Historically a farming community on the outskirts of New Albany, it has since become a bedroom community for Louisville, Kentucky, containing subdivisions, farms, small shopping centers and churches, and...
. Syndicated programming on WHAS includes Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...
and Oprah
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
.
History
The station began broadcasting on March 27, 1950 on channel 9 as Kentucky's second television station. It moved to its current location of channel 11 on February 7, 1953, after an increase in effective radiated power caused interference with WCPO-TVWCPO-TV
WCPO-TV, virtual channel 9 , is an ABC-affiliated television station in Cincinnati, Ohio. WCPO's studio is located in the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, just outside of Eden Park. Its transmitter is located along Symmes Street, just south of East McMillan Street in Cincinnati.The station...
in Cincinnati.
It was owned by the Bingham family, publishers of the The Courier-Journal
The Courier-Journal
The Courier-Journal, locally called "The C-J", is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single largest in Kentucky.- Origins :The...
newspaper, along with WHAS-AM
WHAS (AM)
WHAS, known by the on air branding as "84 WHAS", is an AM radio station broadcasting in Louisville, Kentucky. It is a 50,000 Watt clear channel radio station assigned to frequency 840 kHz. With clear channel status, its nighttime signal can be heard in most of the continental U.S...
, Louisville's oldest radio station. Family patriarch Barry Bingham, Sr.
Barry Bingham, Sr.
George Barry Bingham, Sr., CBE, was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century....
handed over control to his son, Barry, Jr. in 1971. A 15-year family dispute culminated in a decision to split up the family's media holdings. WHAS-TV was sold to The Providence Journal Company
The Providence Journal
The Providence Journal, nicknamed the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island and is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island. The newspaper, first published in 1829 and the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the United States, was purchased...
in 1986, while WHAS-AM went to Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
and the Courier-Journal went to Gannett. The Journal Company merged with Belo in 1997.
The station originally was a primary CBS
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...
affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation, owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with CBS Radio. When WLKY-TV
WLKY-TV
WLKY-TV is a television station located in Louisville, Kentucky USA, and serves the Louisville area and southeastern Indiana. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and is an affiliate of the CBS television network. WLKY's transmitter is located north of Louisville in Floyds Knobs,...
signed on in 1961, WHAS-TV became a sole CBS affiliate.
In September 1990, WHAS-TV swapped affiliations with WLKY-TV
WLKY-TV
WLKY-TV is a television station located in Louisville, Kentucky USA, and serves the Louisville area and southeastern Indiana. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and is an affiliate of the CBS television network. WLKY's transmitter is located north of Louisville in Floyds Knobs,...
and became an ABC affiliate. At the time of the exchange, ABC was the #1 rated network, with CBS a distant third in the midpoint of the Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Alan "Larry" Tisch was an American businessman, Wall Street investor and self-made billionaire. He was the CEO of CBS television network from 1986 to 1995...
era of the network's history. WLKY has since made strong strides in the market as cable penetration allowed WLKY's traditional UHF disadvantage to fade, and other factors allowed the station to strengthen its news operation and compete with WHAS's newscasts evenly. WHAS has seen some struggles over the years within seasons where ABC's schedule is weak, while WLKY's ties to CBS have boosted that station through most of the 2000s. With ABC's current schedule, both stations usually exchange top rankings in the news ratings race.
At some point in 2011, WHAS took over the operations of The CW affiliate WBKI-TV
WBKI-TV
WBKI-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for the Kentuckiana area of North-Central Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Licensed to Campbellsville, Kentucky, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter in Raywick, Kentucky...
through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA). It is expected that WBKI will move its operations into the WHAS facility in the near future.
In 2011, after spending decades on the station, WHAS dropped Live With Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
in favor of a new local morning show called "Great Day Live!".
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:| Subchannel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 11.1 | Main WHAS programming / ABC |
| 11.2 | Accuweather / WHAS StormTeam Weather |
| 11.3 | Wazoo Sports (high school athletics) |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WHAS-TV shut down analog transmissions on June 12, 2009, and moved its digital broadcasts back to its previous analog channel number, 11. Like most Belo ABC stations, WHAS's main signal is transmitted in 1080i1080i
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...
rather than ABC's default 720p
720p
720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...
format.
Special programming
The station annually broadcasts the WHAS Crusade for ChildrenWHAS Crusade for Children
The WHAS Crusade for Children is an annual telethon broadcast by WHAS-TV and WHAS Radio in Louisville, Kentucky. The telethon benefits a wide range of children's charities throughout Kentucky and southern Indiana....
, a highly successful local telethon benefiting children's charities throughout Kentucky and southern 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...
. It also originated one of the nation's longest-running public service programs, Moral Side of the News, featuring a local interfaith clergy panel discussing the week's events in the light of faith. The panel also administers the annual grants from the Crusade for Children telethon.
Sports
WHAS-TV originated the first television broadcast of the Kentucky DerbyKentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...
in 1952. When the Derby moved to ABC in 1975 (local affiliate WLKY), Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs, located in Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually. It officially opened in 1875, and held the first Kentucky Derby and the first Kentucky Oaks in the same year. Churchill Downs...
included a provision in the contract requiring ABC to allow WHAS to continue showing the Derby. The provision became moot when WHAS joined ABC several years later. However, after the Triple Crown races moved to 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...
in the 1990s, WHAS-TV lost the rights to WAVE
WAVE (TV)
WAVE aka "WAVE 3" is the NBC television station in Louisville, Kentucky. Owned by Raycom Media, the station broadcasts from its main studio in downtown Louisville...
, the local NBC affiliate, though in 2006 regained the rights to the Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...
which has moved back to ABC. WHAS also simulcast the 2006 Breeders' Cup from Churchill Downs that aired on ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
. With the departure of the Belmont to NBC in 2011 though, WHAS will no longer broadcast any Triple Crown horse racing.
Currently, WHAS is the flagship station
Flagship station
In broadcasting, a flagship is the broadcast which originates a television network, or a particular radio show or TV show, primarily in the United States and Canada. This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication, but generally not backhauls...
for local broadcasts of Louisville Cardinals basketball. Sponsors include Kroger
Kroger
The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...
and Louisville Jewish Hospital.
In October 2009 WHAS launched the Wazoo Sports Network
Wazoo Sports Network
Wazoo Sports Network is a regional sports network specializing in airing local high school, college, and minor league sports mainly in the Kentuckiana and Bluegrass regions of Kentucky and southern Indiana, The network, which started out as online-only in 2005, became a digital subchannel network...
, a regional sports network
Regional sports network
In the United States of America and Canada, a regional sports network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate...
devoted to high school and minor league athletics and sports from the University of Louisville
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...
and University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
, over its 11.3 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...
, along with Lexington's WLEX. The network had previously been online-only before launching its subchannel service.
News operation
Not surprisingly for a station with roots in a newspaper, WHAS-TV has been an innovator in news coverage. It was the first Kentucky station to use newsreel film.In the late 1970s, WHAS-TV displaced long-dominant WAVE-TV
WAVE (TV)
WAVE aka "WAVE 3" is the NBC television station in Louisville, Kentucky. Owned by Raycom Media, the station broadcasts from its main studio in downtown Louisville...
and became the news ratings leader in Louisville. It held the lead through the early 21st century, often by a wide margin. While it still leads WAVE and WLKY in most time slots, its dominance is not nearly as absolute as it once was. In recent years, it has lost the 11 p.m. lead to WLKY. In the May 2006 ratings period, WHAS placed 4th at 11:00 behind Sex and the City
Sex and the City
Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
re-runs on local Fox affiliate WDRB
WDRB
WDRB is a television station in Louisville, Kentucky, broadcasting locally on channel 41 as a Fox affiliate. Owned by Block Communications, the station's transmitter is located in Floyds Knobs, Indiana alongside sister-station WMYO...
, but by May 2007 it had regained the runner-up spot behind WLKY. http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20070529-1208.html
As a CBS affiliate in the late 1970s until 1991, its newscasts were titled "Action 11 News" In 1991, its news branding was changed to "Kentuckiana's News Channel, WHAS-11." Most recently in the late 1990s, the station began using "WHAS 11 News" to brand its news product. Since 1991, WHAS has been using versions of Frank Gari's
Frank Gari
Frank Gari is a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs as a performer are "Utopia" , "Lullaby of Love" and "Princess" , all of which hit the U.S. Top 40 in 1961. He co-wrote with Roger McGuinn the song Beach Ball for Bobby Darin...
"Newschannel" music package.
On January 2, 2006, WHAS began producing a 10:00pm newscast on WBKI-TV
WBKI-TV
WBKI-TV is the CW-affiliated television station for the Kentuckiana area of North-Central Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Licensed to Campbellsville, Kentucky, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter in Raywick, Kentucky...
. On Monday, August 24, 2009, WHAS became the second station (behind WAVE-TV) in Louisville to broadcast its local news in widescreen. Unlike WAVE (and eventually WDRB), the WHAS newscasts are actually aired in 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 ...
widescreen standard definition
Standard-definition television
Sorete-definition television is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either enhanced-definition television or high-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same resolution as...
. The WBKI broadcast is currently presented in standard definition 4:3 due to that station not having an HD master control facility. With the LMA between WHAS and WBKI now in place, WBKI's newscast presentations may be upgraded to widescreen.
WHAS Newscast titles
- Focus: 1pm (1 p.m. newscast; 1960s-early 1970s)
- Channel 11 News Hour (5 p.m. newscast; 1960s-early 1970s)
- Focus: 11pm (11 p.m. newscast; 1960s-early 1971)
- TV-11 News (1971-1975)
- News 11 (1975–mid 1977)
- Action 11Action 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...
(late 1977–Mid 1983) - Action 11 News (Late 1983–1991)
- WHAS 11 News (1991–present)
WHAS-TV Current on-air staff
WHAS 11 News Anchors- Claudia CoffeyClaudia CoffeyClaudia Coffey is an Emmy Award winning American broadcast journalist. She is the co-anchor of WHAS11's News At 4 in Louisville, Kentucky. Coffey also writes the popular Coffey Talk blog on whas11.com, which is known for showcasing charitable events and causes around Louisville.-Career:Coffey’s TV...
- weekdays at 4p - Adrianna Hopkins - weekend evenings at 6:30p, 10p (on WBKI) and 11p
- Terry Meiners - weekday mornings "Good Day Live" at 9a
- Renee Murphy - weekdays at noon and 5:30p
- Rachel Platt - weekday mornings "Good Morning Kentuckiana" (5a-7a), "Good Day Live" at 9a
- Doug Proffitt - weeknights at 5p, 5:30p, 6p, 10p (on WBKI) and 11p
- Kelsey Starks - Weekday mornings "Good Morning Kentuckiana" at (4:30a-5a)
- Melissa Swan - weeknights at 5p, 6p and 11p
- Andy Treinen - weekday mornings "Good Morning Kentuckiana" (5a-7a)
First Alert StormTeam
- Monty Webb (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...
Member) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5p, 5:30p, 6p, 10p (on WBKI) and 11p - Kristin Walls - meteorologist; weekends at 6:30p, 10p (on WBKI), 11p, "Good Morning Kentuckiana" Sundays.
- Ben Pine (AMS Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
and NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings "Good Morning Kentuckiana" and Noon - Reed Yadon - meteorologist; Saturday mornings "Good Morning Kentuckiana"
WHAS 11 Sports team
- Adam Lefkoe - sports anchor; weekends at 6:30p, 10p (on WBKI) and 11p
- Kent Spencer - sports director; weekdays at 6p, 10p (on WBKI) and 11p
WHAS 11 Reporters
- Johnny Archer - general assignment reporter
- Joe Arnold - general assignment reporter
- Bryan Baker - general assignment reporter
- Mike Colombo - general assignment reporter
- Adrianna Hopkins - general assignment reporter
- Gene Kang - general assignment reporter
- Brooke Katz - general assignment reporter
- Anna Prendergast - general assignment reporter
- Adam Walser - general assignment reporter
Notable former WHAS staff
- Mort CrimMort CrimMort Crim is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim was born . Crim retired from anchoring TV newscasts at WDIV-TV Detroit in 1996. He also anchored at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago. Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News...
(later became anchor for KYW-TVKYW-TVKYW-TV, virtual channel 3, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. KYW-TV shares a studio facility with its sister station, CW flagship WPSG just north of Center City Philadelphia...
Philadelphia and WDIV-TVWDIV-TVWDIV-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned by Post-Newsweek Stations and is the flagship station and home base of the group with the offices of the group located alongside WDIV's studios; the "Local" branding now...
DetroitDetroit, MichiganDetroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
, now runs Mort Crim Communications) - Milton MetzMilton MetzMilton Metz is a retired American radio and television personality in Louisville, Kentucky. He still does commercial work for local radio and television stations....
- host of WHAS-TV's "Omelet"(1970-1979),84 WHAS's "Metz Here"(1960's-1980's) - Hugh SmithHugh Smith (news anchor)Hugh Smith was a reporter, news anchor, and news director at WTVT in Tampa, Florida, from 1963 until his retirement in 1991...
(later became anchor for WTVTWTVTWTVT, channel 13, is a television station in Tampa, Florida. It is an owned and operated station of the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the News Corporation...
in Tampa, FloridaTampa, FloridaTampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
; died December 16, 2007) - Stacy SmithStacy SmithStacy Smith is a news anchor at CBS owned and operated KDKA-TV, the market leader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a contributor to , the Emmy-winning television news magazine program that airs on WQED-TV.-Education and career:...
(now at KDKA-TVKDKA-TVKDKA-TV, channel 2, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. KDKA-TV broadcasts from a transmitter located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and its studios are located in downtown Pittsburgh at Gateway Center....
in Pittsburgh) - Kristen Cornett - Meteorologist (2001-2004) - (now at KMOVKMOVKMOV, virtual channel 4, is the CBS-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri. KMOV is owned by the Dallas-based Belo Corporation, with its studio and office facilities in St...
in St. Louis)
Owners
- 1950-1986: Bingham family
- 1986-1997: Providence Journal Company
- 1997–present: Belo CorporationBeloBelo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...