WSAZ-DT2
Encyclopedia
WSAZ-DT2 is the primary MyNetworkTV
and secondary This TV
television station
for Huntington
and Charleston, West Virginia
, the second-largest market
in terms of area east of the Mississippi River
. It is a second digital subchannel
of NBC
affiliate WSAZ-TV
which is owned by Gray Television
. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 23.2 (or virtual channel
3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Barkers Ridge Road in unincorporated
Northeastern Cabell County, West Virginia
. WSAZ-DT2 can also be seen on Suddenlink
channel 2 as well as Time Warner Cable
and Comcast
channel 17.
Its parent has studios on Fifth Avenue/US 60
in Downtown Huntington and operates secondary facilities on Columbia Avenue in Charleston along I-64
/US 119
and U.S. 60. Syndicated
programming on the station includes South Park
, TMZ on TV
, The Wendy Williams Show
, and Cash Cab
among others. The origin of WSAZ-DT2 was back on January 24, 2006 when The WB and UPN
announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS
(the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
.
On February 22, News Corporation
announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. On March 9, UPN affiliate WHCP (now WQCW
) agreed to become part of The CW.
MyNetworkTV launched on September 5 and WSAZ created this second digital subchannel to be the area's affiliate. WQCW officially joined The CW when it launched on September 18. From its launch until some point in time, WSAZ-DT2 was been affiliated The Sportsman Channel
until the network was dropped and This TV was added as a replacement. Over time, the station also began airing more syndicated programming.
WSAZ produces a nightly prime time newscast on this station called MyZTV Ten O'clock News. The show competes with the area's only sixty minute news on Fox affiliate WVAH-TV
(produced by ABC
affiliate WCHS-TV
). On weeknights, the news segment of WSAZ-DT2's show originates from the Charleston studios. At one point in time, there was also a one hour weekday morning show on the station. Known as Your Day on MyZTV, this newscast competed with WVAH's sixty minute broadcast airing at the same time.
It was dropped after the show's news anchor resigned from the station. WSAZ-DT2 currently repeats the second hour of WSAZ's weekday morning newscast (called WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Today) at 7 and its noon broadcast (known as WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Midday) at 12:30. Although its parent station upgraded local newscasts to high definition on June 26, 2011, broadcasts remain in pillar-boxed 4:3 standard definition because WSAZ-DT2 only airs in that digital format.
Anchors
First Warning Meteorologists
Sports
Reporters
Photojournalists
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
and secondary This TV
This TV
This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....
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 Huntington
Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. Its population was 49,138 at...
and Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...
, the second-largest market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
in terms of area east of the Mississippi River
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
. It is a 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...
of 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 WSAZ-TV
WSAZ-TV
WSAZ-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Huntington and Charleston, West Virginia. This area is the second-largest market in terms of area east of the Mississippi River consisting of 61 counties in Central West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southeastern Ohio. It broadcasts a high...
which is owned by Gray Television
Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is a communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with administrative offices in Albany, Georgia.Established in 1946 by James H...
. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 23.2 (or 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....
3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Barkers Ridge Road in unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
Northeastern Cabell County, West Virginia
Cabell County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 96,784 people, 41,180 households, and 25,490 families residing in the county. The population density was 344 people per square mile . There were 45,615 housing units at an average density of 162 per square mile...
. WSAZ-DT2 can also be seen on Suddenlink
Suddenlink Communications
Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, is a top-10 cable broadband services provider in the United States with approximately 1.4 million subscribers. Suddenlink operates in 18 states in primarily medium-sized communities. With its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO,...
channel 2 as well as 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 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...
channel 17.
Its parent has studios on Fifth Avenue/US 60
U.S. Route 60
U.S. Route 60 is an east–west United States highway, running from the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast in Virginia to western Arizona. Despite the final "0" in its number, indicating a transcontinental designation, the 1926 route formerly ended in Springfield, Missouri, at its intersection...
in Downtown Huntington and operates secondary facilities on Columbia Avenue in Charleston along I-64
Interstate 64 in West Virginia
The alignment of Interstate 64 was to originally parallel US 60 from Charleston to the Virginia state line. This would go through environmentally sensitive areas such as Hawk's Nest and the New River Gorge area and might have disrupted the natural beauty and the isolation of the area.In 1969,...
/US 119
U.S. Route 119
U.S. Route 119, commonly abbreviated as US 119, is a spur of US 19. It is a north–south route that was an original United States highway of 1926. It is often referred to as Corridor G east of US 23 and KY 80 in Kentucky to Interstate 64 at Charleston, West Virginia.- Kentucky :US 119 is a two...
and U.S. 60. 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 the station includes South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
, TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV, or simply TMZ and TMZTV, is an American syndicated entertainment and gossip news television show that premiered on September 10, 2007. The program is generally aired on Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates, though a majority of the stations that carry the series are Fox affiliates...
, The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Wendy Williams that premiered on July 14, 2008, as six-week sneak peek, in Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. The test run was picked up for a full season that began its run on July 13, 2009 in over 70% of the country in...
, and Cash Cab
Cash Cab (U.S. game show)
Cash Cab is an American game show that began airing on the Discovery Channel on December 5, 2005. The program is hosted by stand-up comedian Ben Bailey. While Bailey's show takes place in New York City, some episodes of Season 6 take place in Las Vegas...
among others. The origin of WSAZ-DT2 was back on January 24, 2006 when The WB and 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...
announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS
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...
(the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of 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...
.
On February 22, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. On March 9, UPN affiliate WHCP (now WQCW
WQCW
WQCW is the CW affiliate for the Huntington/Charleston, West Virginia television market. It is licensed to Portsmouth, Ohio and is the one of two commercial stations in the market licensed outside of West Virginia. Its transmitter is located in West Portsmouth, Ohio...
) agreed to become part of The CW.
MyNetworkTV launched on September 5 and WSAZ created this second digital subchannel to be the area's affiliate. WQCW officially joined The CW when it launched on September 18. From its launch until some point in time, WSAZ-DT2 was been affiliated The Sportsman Channel
The Sportsman Channel
Sportsman Channel is a television speciality channel dedicated to hunting, shooting and fishing programming. It launched in 2003.-History:Sportsman Channel was started in 2003 by C. Michael Cooley and Todd D. Hansen of Muskego, Wisconsin...
until the network was dropped and This TV was added as a replacement. Over time, the station also began airing more syndicated programming.
Newscasts
WVAH-TV
WVAH-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Charleston and Huntington, West Virginia which is the second-largest market in terms of area east of the Mississippi River. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter south of Scott Depot along the Putnam...
(produced by 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 WCHS-TV
WCHS-TV
WCHS-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Charleston and Huntington, West Virginia. This area is the second-largest market in terms of area east of the Mississippi River and consists of 61 counties in Central West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southern Ohio...
). On weeknights, the news segment of WSAZ-DT2's show originates from the Charleston studios. At one point in time, there was also a one hour weekday morning show on the station. Known as Your Day on MyZTV, this newscast competed with WVAH's sixty minute broadcast airing at the same time.
It was dropped after the show's news anchor resigned from the station. WSAZ-DT2 currently repeats the second hour of WSAZ's weekday morning newscast (called WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Today) at 7 and its noon broadcast (known as WSAZ NewsChannel 3 Midday) at 12:30. Although its parent station upgraded local newscasts to high definition on June 26, 2011, broadcasts remain in pillar-boxed 4:3 standard definition because WSAZ-DT2 only airs in that digital format.
Anchors
- Melanie Shafer - Monday through Wednesday mornings and reporter
- Susan Nicholas - Thursday and Friday mornings
- Rob Johnson - weekday mornings and weekdays at 12:30
- Jessica Ralston - weeknights also reporter and producer
- Sarah Sager - weekends and reporter
- John Marra - Saturday Report host also home and garden expert
First Warning Meteorologists
- Chris Bailey - weeknights
- Brandon Butcher (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...
and 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...
Seals of Approval) - weekday mornings - Josh Fitzpatrick - weekends
Sports
- Keith Morehouse - 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...
seen weeknights - John Mulvaney - weekends also reporter and photographer
Reporters
- Hanna Francis - occasional producer
- Carrie Jones - Charleston weekends
- Melanie Chapman - producer
- Randy Yohe
- Carrie Cline
- Bill Murray
Photojournalists
- Cathleen Moxley - Charleston multimedia journalist
- Michael Hyland - Charleston multimedia journalist
- John Green - Senior Charleston
- Amanda Dixon - producer
- Ryan Lake - Charleston
- Steve Eschleman
- Jim Backus