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:''For broadcast stations that previously used the WNBC call sign, see WNBC (disambiguation)''
'WNBC', channel 4, is the flagship station of the NBC television network, located in New York City. Its studios are co-located with NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan. WNBC is the sister station to Linden, New Jersey-based WNJU (channel 47, flagship of the co-owned Telemundo network), and the two stations have some cross promotion.
In the few areas of the eastern United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, WNBC is available on satellite via C band, and to subscribers of Dish Network and DirecTV, which also provides coverage of the station to Latin America, the Caribbean, and Jetblue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system.
WNBC traces its history to experimental station 'W2XBS' founded in 1928. It scored numerous "firsts", including the first live telecast of a Presidential speech (President Franklin Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair), the first live telecasts of college and Major League baseball (both in 1939), the first telecast of a National Football League game (also in 1939), the first telecast of a National Hockey League game (early 1940) and the first network telecast of a political convention (the 1940 Republican National Convention).
The station began commercial television operations on July 1, 1941, the first fully-licensed commercial television station in the United States. The call letters were changed to 'WNBT' and it originally broadcast on channel 1. Soon after signing on that day, WNBT aired the first television commercial. The Bulova Watch Company paid $9 for a commercial aired during a baseball game of the Philadelphia Phillies at the Brooklyn Dodgers.
In 1946, the station changed its frequency from channel 1 to channel 4 after VHF channel 1 was removed from use for television broadcasting. (Channel 4 was previously occupied by WABD before moving to channel 5.) The station changed its call letters on October 18, 1954 to 'WRCA-TV' (for NBC's then-parent company, the 'R'adio 'C'orporation of 'A'merica) and on May 22, 1960 channel 4 became 'WNBC-TV'.
In addition to channel 4, NBC also operated two New York radio stations. Located on the AM band at 660 was the station that originated in 1922 as WEAF, later to become WNBC. At 97.1 on the FM band was WEAF-FM, which became WNBC-FM, WNWS, and eventually WYNY. In February 1988, NBC announced the sale of those stations to Emmis Communications, a move which triggered a complicated switch of several stations to new dial spots in October of that same year. 660 AM is now WFAN, and 97.1 is the present home of WQHT.
WNBC-TV also earned a place in broadcasting history as the birthplace of ''The Tonight Show''. It began on the station in 1953 as a local late-night program, ''The Steve Allen Show'', and NBC executive Pat Weaver brought it to the network in 1954. The NBC studio from which ''Tonight'' was broadcast during the Jack Paar and early Johnny Carson years (it first originated at the Hudson Theatre on 44th Street) is now WNBC-TV's main news studio - Studio 6B.
On June 1, 1992, channel 4 dropped the ''-TV'' suffix from its call letters and became simply 'WNBC', with the new branding slogan ''4 New York''. The accompanying station image campaign was titled ''We're 4 New York'', and featured a musical theme composed by Edd Kalehoff. WNBC was rebranded again as ''NBC 4'' on September 5, 1995.
On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WNBC, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center. WNBC broadcast engineer Bill Steckman died in the tragedy, along with six other engineers from other television stations. After resuming over-the-air transmissions, the station broadcast from a radio tower originally built by Edwin Armstrong in Alpine, New Jersey. As of 2005, WNBC-TV is broadcasting its signal from the Empire State Building.
In 2004, WNBC served as the model station for NBC Weather Plus, a 24-hour digital weather channel that airs on its second digital subchannel (4.2) and on several local cable television systems. Other NBC-owned stations launched their own Weather Plus channels in 2005.
On September 13, 2006, WNBC began broadcasting all of their local newscasts in High-Definition, becoming the first station in the New York market to to do so.
On May 5, 2007, WNBC brought back the ''We're 4 New York'' promotional campaign, using both a theme and on-air promos similar to the original 1992 version.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
'Digital channels'
Over its history, WNBC-TV has enjoyed success with its news department, in terms of ratings and critical acclaim. During the 1960s, channel 4 battled with WCBS-TV for the top-rated news department in the New York market. They also remained a strong player even during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the NBC-TV network was at its nadir in the ratings. WNBC's hallmark over the years has been strong coverage of breaking stories and a straight news product that feaures entertainment elements as well as information. Prime examples of this are ''Live at Five'' and ''Today in New York'', which provide a mix of news, features and interviews.
WNBC's news team is one of the most stable in the country; many of its personalities have been at the station for 20 years or more. Chuck Scarborough has been the station's main anchor since 1974 -- the longest uninterrupted tenure for an anchor in New York television history (only WABC-TV's Bill Beutel has served as an anchor in New York longer). Since 1980, he has been teamed with Sue Simmons at 11:00 p.m., and the two have been together longer than any anchor team in New York history. Len Berman has been the station's sports director and lead sports anchor since 1985, and senior correspondent Gabe Pressman has been at the station since 1956, except for a seven-year stint (from 1972 to 1979) at WNEW-TV (now WNYW).
WNBC-TV was the first station in the country to have success with a 5:00 p.m. newscast, adding that block to its ''Sixth Hour'' show at 6:00 p.m. in 1974 and renaming all its local newscasts ''NewsCenter 4''. Three of NBC's other owned-and-operated stations (in Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles) also adopted the ''NewsCenter'' name. The moniker remained until 1980, when they were renamed ''News 4 New York''. Shortly before then the 5 o'clock slot was renamed ''Live at Five'', and the hour was reformatted from a straight news program into a mix of news and celebrity interviews. ''Live at Five'' eventually became the most successful local program in New York, a feat that resulted in landing the show's cast on the cover of ''New York'' magazine.
For most of the time from 1980 to 1990, it used various themes written by Jim McAllister. His theme for ''News 4 New York'' was based on a synthesized version of the NBC chimes, with a graphics package featuring a lightning bolt striking its logo from 1980 to 1990, a fancy die-cut "4". In 1992, the station began calling itself ''4 New York'' and the campaign song, written by Edd Kalehoff, was quickly adopted as the theme for the newscast. The theme was briefly brought back after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 1995, after the station rebranded itself as ''NBC 4'' and its newscasts as ''Newschannel 4'', Kalehoff wrote a new theme called "NBC Stations" featuring the NBC chimes, the chime sequence is G-E-C. It remained in use for eight years, along with a graphics package using a simple red line for lower thirds. While very popular, it made the station look somewhat dated at the turn of the century.
The 2003 graphics package was created by Emmy Award winner Randy Pyburn of Pyburn Films. Pyburn has produced several promos for the station and the now-defunct ''Jane's New York'' specials hosted by former WNBC reporter Jane Hanson. The graphics package was also branded on other NBC stations. The music was written by Rampage Music and features a brassy version of the NBC chimes, and lower thirds feature a shimmering peacock. Other NBC-owned stations are in the process of standardizing around similar graphics packages used by Pyburn although the current 2006 look was designed and executed out of house by a team of assorted graphic artists.
Many WNBC personalities have appeared, and have also moved onto the NBC network, including: Scarborough, Berman, Marv Albert, Jim Hartz, Tom Snyder, Al Roker, Matt Lauer, Tony Guida, Maurice DuBois, and Janice Huff. In the past, Albert, Snyder, Roker, Lauer, Scarborough, Guida and DuBois have worked on channel 4 and at the network at the same time while Huff and Berman do currently.
One popular monthly feature is Berman's "Spanning the World," a reel of odd and interesting sports highlights from the past month, including a recorded introduction and closing by legendary NBC staff announcer Don Pardo. This segment also airs on NBC's ''The Today Show'' on a monthly basis.
When Sue Simmons joined the station in early 1980, she was paired with Chuck Scarborough on both the 6:00 and 11:00 newscasts. However, for most of the time until 2005, WNBC-TV's weeknight anchor rotation had Simmons and another male anchor (including Jack Cafferty, Matt Lauer, and briefly Scarborough) at 5:00; Scarborough and various anchors (John Hambrick, Pat Harper, and Michele Marsh among them) at 6:00; and Scarborough and Simmons together at 11:00. That changed in 2005 as ''Live at Five'' anchor Jim Rosenfield jumped back to WCBS-TV, where he had once been noon and 5 p.m. anchor and took on the role as lead anchor for their 5:00 and 11:00 newscasts. Former reporter Perri Peltz returned to WNBC to co-anchor ''Live at Five'' with Simmons, making New York the one of the few large markets with two female anchors on an evening newscast.
Though a notable event, it was short-lived as Simmons and Peltz were both displaced from ''Live at Five'' due to changes in the station's early evening news line-up that went into effect on March 12, 2007: David Ushery and Lynda Baquero became co-anchors of a truncated, 30-minute long ''Live at Five'' broadcast, followed by Peltz with a 30-minute soft news program, ''News 4 You''. Simmons now anchors both the 6:00 and 11:00 shows with Scarborough.
On July 27, 2007, WNBC announced additional changes to its newscast lineup that will take effect on September 10, 2007. The station will cancel ''Live at Five'' for a second time, and will add a new half-hour newscast at 7:00 p.m., following ''NBC Nightly News''. The 5:00 half-hour slot will be filled with syndicated programming (the newsmagazine series ''Extra''), and ''News 4 You'' will remain at 5:30. In addition, current 5:00 co-anchors David Ushery and Lynda Baquero will move to 6:00, and Chuck Scarborough will work alone on the new 7:00 program, which will be titled ''New York Nightly News''. Sue Simmons will again be seen only at 11:00 with Scarborough. [1]
Currently WNBC cooperates with radio station WINS during its morning newscasts to provide additional coverage of traffic in the New York City area through Shadow Traffic.
★ Lynda Baquero - weeknights 6 p.m.
★ Pat Battle - Saturday mornings
★ Michael Gargiulo - weekend mornings
★ Carolyn Gusoff - Sunday mornings
★ Rob Morrison - weekday mornings
★ Perri Peltz - ''News 4 You''
★ Carol Anne Riddell - Sundays 6 and 11 p.m.
★ Darlene Rodriguez - weekday mornings
★ Melissa Russo - Saturdays 6 and 11 p.m.
★ Chuck Scarborough - weeknights 7 and 11 p.m.
★ Sue Simmons - weeknights 11 p.m.
★ David Ushery - weeknights 6 p.m.
'Weather:'
★ Chris Cimino - weekday mornings
★ Joe Cioffi - fill-in meteorologist
★ Janice Huff - chief meteorologist/weekday evenings
★ John Marshall - weekend evenings
★ SallyAnn Mosey - weekend mornings
'Sports:'
★ Bruce Beck - Friday-Sunday evenings
★ Len Berman - sports director/Monday-Thursday evenings
★ Otis Livingston - weekday mornings
★ Jonas Schwartz - weekend mornings
{|
|valign="top"|
★ Cindy Adams (gossip)
★ Asa Aarons (consumer affairs)
★ Greg Cergol (Long Island)
★ Reg Chapman
★ Pei-Sze Cheng
★ Roseanne Colletti
★ Jay DeDapper (politics)
★ Jonathan Dienst
★ Kendra Farn
★ Cat Greenleaf
★ Vivian Lee
|width="200"|
|valign="top"|
★ Jeffrey Lyons (entertainment)
★ Tim Minton (politics)
★ John Noel
★ Monica Morales
★ Aimee Nuzzo
★ Gabe Pressman (politics; also senior correspondent)
★ Adam Shapiro
★ Ida Siegal
★ Andrew Siff
★ Brian Thompson (New Jersey)
★ Trish Yodice (morning traffic)
★ Tom Zweier {fill in morning traffic reporter}
|}
{|
|valign="top"|
★ Tex Antoine (D)
★ Marv Albert
★ Joe Avellar
★ Bill Boggs
★ Dave Browde [2]
★ Jack Cafferty
★ Ti-Hua Chang
★ Linda Church
★ Mary Civello
★ David Diaz
★ Maurice DuBois
★ Steve Dunlop [3]
★ Kathryn Eismann
★ Fred Facey
★ Dr. Frank Field
★ Ira Joe Fisher
★ Dawn Fratangelo
★ Betty Furness (D)
★ Andrew Glassman
★ Marty Glickman (D)
★ Max Gomez
★ Don Gould
★ Roger Grimsby (D)
★ Tony Guida
★ Pablo Guzmán
★ Andria Hall
★ John Hambrick
★ Jane Hanson
★ Reggie Harris (D)
★ Pat Harper (D)
★ Jim Hartz
★ Pat Hernon (D)
★ Magee Hickey
★ Chauncey Howell
★ Carol Jenkins
★ John Johnson
★ Deb Kaufman
★ Katie Kelly
★ Matt Lauer
★ Pia Lindstrom
|width="250"|
|valign="top"|
★ Lynda Lopez
★ Felipe Luciano
★ Dave Marash
★ Sal Marchiano
★ Dr. David Marks
★ Michele Marsh
★ Frank McGee (D)
★ John Miller
★ Paul Moniz
★ Don Pardo
★ Ralph Penza (D)
★ M.G. Perez
★ Audrey Puente
★ Norma Quarles
★ Bobby Rivers
★ Al Roker
★ Jim Rosenfield
★ Kyle Rote (D)
★ Jim Ryan
★ Dick Schaap (D)
★ Mike Schneider
★ Dean Shepherd
★ Marciarose Shestack
★ Jim Van Sickle
★ Liz Smith
★ Tom Snyder (D)
★ Carl B. Stokes (D)
★ Mike Taibbi
★ Bob Teague (D)
★ Felicia Taylor
★ Howard Thompson
★ Melba Tolliver
★ Glen Walker
★ Chris Wallace
★ Jim Watkins
★ Rolonda Watts
★ Don Williams
★ Joe Witte
★ Myriam Wright
★ Lou Young
|}
(D) - deceased
★ ''The Sunoco Newscast with Lowell Thomas'' (1940-41) (simulcast with the NBC Blue radio network)
★ ''The News with John McCaffrey'' (1950s)
★ ''The Shell Oil News'' (1956-1960)
★ ''The (Gabe) Pressman-(Bill) Ryan Report'' (1960-1967)
★ ''The Sixth Hour/Eleventh Hour News'' (1967-1974)
★ ''NewsCenter 4'' (1974-1980)
★ ''News 4 New York'' (1980-1995)
★ ''NewsChannel 4 (HD)'' (1995-present)
In December 1998, WNBC's news helicopter crashed into the Passaic River near Harrison and Newark, New Jersey. No serious injuries resulted from this incident. Over five years later, on May 4, 2004, while covering a breaking news of a shooting in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a new WNBC helicopter suddenly lost control and crashed onto an apartment building rooftop. The pilot and two passengers received no serious injuries, and actually walked out of the helicopter, thanks to a controlled crash.
:''For similar incidents involving the helicopter crashes of WNBC's former sister radio station, See article about WNBC-AM/WFAN.''
W2XBS is the name of an experimental station in the United States owned by RCA and General Electric. It is one of the oldest television stations in the world, starting up in 1928. The station originally broadcast on the frequencies of 2.0-2.1 MHz. In 1929, W2XBS upgraded their transmitter and broadcast facilities to handle transmissions of 60 vertical lines at 20 frames per second, on the frequencies of 2.75-2.85 MHz.
In 1941, the station was granted a commercial license as 'WNBT' on channel 1. It was moved to channel 4 in 1946.
The station was the first in many areas of television broadcasting: the first live telecast of a Presidential speech (President Franklin Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair), the first live telecasts of college and Major League Baseball (both in 1939), the first telecast of a National Football League game (also in 1939), the first telecast of a National Hockey League game (early 1940), and the first network telecast of a political convention (the 1940 Republican National Convention).
★ WFAN (660 khz.), formerly WNBC (AM)
★ WQHT (97.1 Mhz.), formerly WNBC-FM/WYNY
★ Early television stations
★ NBC 4 - NBC History (2002). ''WNBC.com''.
★ WNBC Website
★ WNBC Wireless
★ WNBC History
★ WNBC Set Design
★ Photos of WNBC's news set
★
★
★ WNBC America Technical Information
★ In Memoriam - Bill Steckman [4]
:''For broadcast stations that previously used the WNBC call sign, see WNBC (disambiguation)''
'WNBC', channel 4, is the flagship station of the NBC television network, located in New York City. Its studios are co-located with NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan. WNBC is the sister station to Linden, New Jersey-based WNJU (channel 47, flagship of the co-owned Telemundo network), and the two stations have some cross promotion.
In the few areas of the eastern United States where viewers cannot receive NBC programs over-the-air, WNBC is available on satellite via C band, and to subscribers of Dish Network and DirecTV, which also provides coverage of the station to Latin America, the Caribbean, and Jetblue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system.
| Contents |
| History |
| Digital Television |
| News operation |
| Personalities |
| Anchors |
| Reporters |
| Notable alumni |
| Newscast titles |
| Helicopter crashes |
| W2XBS |
| Firsts for W2XBS |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
History
WNBC traces its history to experimental station 'W2XBS' founded in 1928. It scored numerous "firsts", including the first live telecast of a Presidential speech (President Franklin Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair), the first live telecasts of college and Major League baseball (both in 1939), the first telecast of a National Football League game (also in 1939), the first telecast of a National Hockey League game (early 1940) and the first network telecast of a political convention (the 1940 Republican National Convention).
The station began commercial television operations on July 1, 1941, the first fully-licensed commercial television station in the United States. The call letters were changed to 'WNBT' and it originally broadcast on channel 1. Soon after signing on that day, WNBT aired the first television commercial. The Bulova Watch Company paid $9 for a commercial aired during a baseball game of the Philadelphia Phillies at the Brooklyn Dodgers.
In 1946, the station changed its frequency from channel 1 to channel 4 after VHF channel 1 was removed from use for television broadcasting. (Channel 4 was previously occupied by WABD before moving to channel 5.) The station changed its call letters on October 18, 1954 to 'WRCA-TV' (for NBC's then-parent company, the 'R'adio 'C'orporation of 'A'merica) and on May 22, 1960 channel 4 became 'WNBC-TV'.
In addition to channel 4, NBC also operated two New York radio stations. Located on the AM band at 660 was the station that originated in 1922 as WEAF, later to become WNBC. At 97.1 on the FM band was WEAF-FM, which became WNBC-FM, WNWS, and eventually WYNY. In February 1988, NBC announced the sale of those stations to Emmis Communications, a move which triggered a complicated switch of several stations to new dial spots in October of that same year. 660 AM is now WFAN, and 97.1 is the present home of WQHT.
WNBC-TV also earned a place in broadcasting history as the birthplace of ''The Tonight Show''. It began on the station in 1953 as a local late-night program, ''The Steve Allen Show'', and NBC executive Pat Weaver brought it to the network in 1954. The NBC studio from which ''Tonight'' was broadcast during the Jack Paar and early Johnny Carson years (it first originated at the Hudson Theatre on 44th Street) is now WNBC-TV's main news studio - Studio 6B.
On June 1, 1992, channel 4 dropped the ''-TV'' suffix from its call letters and became simply 'WNBC', with the new branding slogan ''4 New York''. The accompanying station image campaign was titled ''We're 4 New York'', and featured a musical theme composed by Edd Kalehoff. WNBC was rebranded again as ''NBC 4'' on September 5, 1995.
On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WNBC, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center. WNBC broadcast engineer Bill Steckman died in the tragedy, along with six other engineers from other television stations. After resuming over-the-air transmissions, the station broadcast from a radio tower originally built by Edwin Armstrong in Alpine, New Jersey. As of 2005, WNBC-TV is broadcasting its signal from the Empire State Building.
In 2004, WNBC served as the model station for NBC Weather Plus, a 24-hour digital weather channel that airs on its second digital subchannel (4.2) and on several local cable television systems. Other NBC-owned stations launched their own Weather Plus channels in 2005.
On September 13, 2006, WNBC began broadcasting all of their local newscasts in High-Definition, becoming the first station in the New York market to to do so.
On May 5, 2007, WNBC brought back the ''We're 4 New York'' promotional campaign, using both a theme and on-air promos similar to the original 1992 version.
Digital Television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 4.1 / 28.1 | Main WNBC programming / NBC HD |
| 4.2 / 28.2 | NBC Weather Plus |
| 4.4 / 28.4 | WNBC 4.4 |
News operation
Over its history, WNBC-TV has enjoyed success with its news department, in terms of ratings and critical acclaim. During the 1960s, channel 4 battled with WCBS-TV for the top-rated news department in the New York market. They also remained a strong player even during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the NBC-TV network was at its nadir in the ratings. WNBC's hallmark over the years has been strong coverage of breaking stories and a straight news product that feaures entertainment elements as well as information. Prime examples of this are ''Live at Five'' and ''Today in New York'', which provide a mix of news, features and interviews.
WNBC's news team is one of the most stable in the country; many of its personalities have been at the station for 20 years or more. Chuck Scarborough has been the station's main anchor since 1974 -- the longest uninterrupted tenure for an anchor in New York television history (only WABC-TV's Bill Beutel has served as an anchor in New York longer). Since 1980, he has been teamed with Sue Simmons at 11:00 p.m., and the two have been together longer than any anchor team in New York history. Len Berman has been the station's sports director and lead sports anchor since 1985, and senior correspondent Gabe Pressman has been at the station since 1956, except for a seven-year stint (from 1972 to 1979) at WNEW-TV (now WNYW).
WNBC-TV was the first station in the country to have success with a 5:00 p.m. newscast, adding that block to its ''Sixth Hour'' show at 6:00 p.m. in 1974 and renaming all its local newscasts ''NewsCenter 4''. Three of NBC's other owned-and-operated stations (in Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles) also adopted the ''NewsCenter'' name. The moniker remained until 1980, when they were renamed ''News 4 New York''. Shortly before then the 5 o'clock slot was renamed ''Live at Five'', and the hour was reformatted from a straight news program into a mix of news and celebrity interviews. ''Live at Five'' eventually became the most successful local program in New York, a feat that resulted in landing the show's cast on the cover of ''New York'' magazine.
For most of the time from 1980 to 1990, it used various themes written by Jim McAllister. His theme for ''News 4 New York'' was based on a synthesized version of the NBC chimes, with a graphics package featuring a lightning bolt striking its logo from 1980 to 1990, a fancy die-cut "4". In 1992, the station began calling itself ''4 New York'' and the campaign song, written by Edd Kalehoff, was quickly adopted as the theme for the newscast. The theme was briefly brought back after the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 1995, after the station rebranded itself as ''NBC 4'' and its newscasts as ''Newschannel 4'', Kalehoff wrote a new theme called "NBC Stations" featuring the NBC chimes, the chime sequence is G-E-C. It remained in use for eight years, along with a graphics package using a simple red line for lower thirds. While very popular, it made the station look somewhat dated at the turn of the century.
The 2003 graphics package was created by Emmy Award winner Randy Pyburn of Pyburn Films. Pyburn has produced several promos for the station and the now-defunct ''Jane's New York'' specials hosted by former WNBC reporter Jane Hanson. The graphics package was also branded on other NBC stations. The music was written by Rampage Music and features a brassy version of the NBC chimes, and lower thirds feature a shimmering peacock. Other NBC-owned stations are in the process of standardizing around similar graphics packages used by Pyburn although the current 2006 look was designed and executed out of house by a team of assorted graphic artists.
Many WNBC personalities have appeared, and have also moved onto the NBC network, including: Scarborough, Berman, Marv Albert, Jim Hartz, Tom Snyder, Al Roker, Matt Lauer, Tony Guida, Maurice DuBois, and Janice Huff. In the past, Albert, Snyder, Roker, Lauer, Scarborough, Guida and DuBois have worked on channel 4 and at the network at the same time while Huff and Berman do currently.
One popular monthly feature is Berman's "Spanning the World," a reel of odd and interesting sports highlights from the past month, including a recorded introduction and closing by legendary NBC staff announcer Don Pardo. This segment also airs on NBC's ''The Today Show'' on a monthly basis.
When Sue Simmons joined the station in early 1980, she was paired with Chuck Scarborough on both the 6:00 and 11:00 newscasts. However, for most of the time until 2005, WNBC-TV's weeknight anchor rotation had Simmons and another male anchor (including Jack Cafferty, Matt Lauer, and briefly Scarborough) at 5:00; Scarborough and various anchors (John Hambrick, Pat Harper, and Michele Marsh among them) at 6:00; and Scarborough and Simmons together at 11:00. That changed in 2005 as ''Live at Five'' anchor Jim Rosenfield jumped back to WCBS-TV, where he had once been noon and 5 p.m. anchor and took on the role as lead anchor for their 5:00 and 11:00 newscasts. Former reporter Perri Peltz returned to WNBC to co-anchor ''Live at Five'' with Simmons, making New York the one of the few large markets with two female anchors on an evening newscast.
Though a notable event, it was short-lived as Simmons and Peltz were both displaced from ''Live at Five'' due to changes in the station's early evening news line-up that went into effect on March 12, 2007: David Ushery and Lynda Baquero became co-anchors of a truncated, 30-minute long ''Live at Five'' broadcast, followed by Peltz with a 30-minute soft news program, ''News 4 You''. Simmons now anchors both the 6:00 and 11:00 shows with Scarborough.
On July 27, 2007, WNBC announced additional changes to its newscast lineup that will take effect on September 10, 2007. The station will cancel ''Live at Five'' for a second time, and will add a new half-hour newscast at 7:00 p.m., following ''NBC Nightly News''. The 5:00 half-hour slot will be filled with syndicated programming (the newsmagazine series ''Extra''), and ''News 4 You'' will remain at 5:30. In addition, current 5:00 co-anchors David Ushery and Lynda Baquero will move to 6:00, and Chuck Scarborough will work alone on the new 7:00 program, which will be titled ''New York Nightly News''. Sue Simmons will again be seen only at 11:00 with Scarborough. [1]
Currently WNBC cooperates with radio station WINS during its morning newscasts to provide additional coverage of traffic in the New York City area through Shadow Traffic.
Personalities
Anchors
★ Lynda Baquero - weeknights 6 p.m.
★ Pat Battle - Saturday mornings
★ Michael Gargiulo - weekend mornings
★ Carolyn Gusoff - Sunday mornings
★ Rob Morrison - weekday mornings
★ Perri Peltz - ''News 4 You''
★ Carol Anne Riddell - Sundays 6 and 11 p.m.
★ Darlene Rodriguez - weekday mornings
★ Melissa Russo - Saturdays 6 and 11 p.m.
★ Chuck Scarborough - weeknights 7 and 11 p.m.
★ Sue Simmons - weeknights 11 p.m.
★ David Ushery - weeknights 6 p.m.
'Weather:'
★ Chris Cimino - weekday mornings
★ Joe Cioffi - fill-in meteorologist
★ Janice Huff - chief meteorologist/weekday evenings
★ John Marshall - weekend evenings
★ SallyAnn Mosey - weekend mornings
'Sports:'
★ Bruce Beck - Friday-Sunday evenings
★ Len Berman - sports director/Monday-Thursday evenings
★ Otis Livingston - weekday mornings
★ Jonas Schwartz - weekend mornings
Reporters
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★ Cindy Adams (gossip)
★ Asa Aarons (consumer affairs)
★ Greg Cergol (Long Island)
★ Reg Chapman
★ Pei-Sze Cheng
★ Roseanne Colletti
★ Jay DeDapper (politics)
★ Jonathan Dienst
★ Kendra Farn
★ Cat Greenleaf
★ Vivian Lee
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|valign="top"|
★ Jeffrey Lyons (entertainment)
★ Tim Minton (politics)
★ John Noel
★ Monica Morales
★ Aimee Nuzzo
★ Gabe Pressman (politics; also senior correspondent)
★ Adam Shapiro
★ Ida Siegal
★ Andrew Siff
★ Brian Thompson (New Jersey)
★ Trish Yodice (morning traffic)
★ Tom Zweier {fill in morning traffic reporter}
|}
Notable alumni
{|
|valign="top"|
★ Tex Antoine (D)
★ Marv Albert
★ Joe Avellar
★ Bill Boggs
★ Dave Browde [2]
★ Jack Cafferty
★ Ti-Hua Chang
★ Linda Church
★ Mary Civello
★ David Diaz
★ Maurice DuBois
★ Steve Dunlop [3]
★ Kathryn Eismann
★ Fred Facey
★ Dr. Frank Field
★ Ira Joe Fisher
★ Dawn Fratangelo
★ Betty Furness (D)
★ Andrew Glassman
★ Marty Glickman (D)
★ Max Gomez
★ Don Gould
★ Roger Grimsby (D)
★ Tony Guida
★ Pablo Guzmán
★ Andria Hall
★ John Hambrick
★ Jane Hanson
★ Reggie Harris (D)
★ Pat Harper (D)
★ Jim Hartz
★ Pat Hernon (D)
★ Magee Hickey
★ Chauncey Howell
★ Carol Jenkins
★ John Johnson
★ Deb Kaufman
★ Katie Kelly
★ Matt Lauer
★ Pia Lindstrom
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|valign="top"|
★ Lynda Lopez
★ Felipe Luciano
★ Dave Marash
★ Sal Marchiano
★ Dr. David Marks
★ Michele Marsh
★ Frank McGee (D)
★ John Miller
★ Paul Moniz
★ Don Pardo
★ Ralph Penza (D)
★ M.G. Perez
★ Audrey Puente
★ Norma Quarles
★ Bobby Rivers
★ Al Roker
★ Jim Rosenfield
★ Kyle Rote (D)
★ Jim Ryan
★ Dick Schaap (D)
★ Mike Schneider
★ Dean Shepherd
★ Marciarose Shestack
★ Jim Van Sickle
★ Liz Smith
★ Tom Snyder (D)
★ Carl B. Stokes (D)
★ Mike Taibbi
★ Bob Teague (D)
★ Felicia Taylor
★ Howard Thompson
★ Melba Tolliver
★ Glen Walker
★ Chris Wallace
★ Jim Watkins
★ Rolonda Watts
★ Don Williams
★ Joe Witte
★ Myriam Wright
★ Lou Young
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(D) - deceased
Newscast titles
★ ''The Sunoco Newscast with Lowell Thomas'' (1940-41) (simulcast with the NBC Blue radio network)
★ ''The News with John McCaffrey'' (1950s)
★ ''The Shell Oil News'' (1956-1960)
★ ''The (Gabe) Pressman-(Bill) Ryan Report'' (1960-1967)
★ ''The Sixth Hour/Eleventh Hour News'' (1967-1974)
★ ''NewsCenter 4'' (1974-1980)
★ ''News 4 New York'' (1980-1995)
★ ''NewsChannel 4 (HD)'' (1995-present)
Helicopter crashes
In December 1998, WNBC's news helicopter crashed into the Passaic River near Harrison and Newark, New Jersey. No serious injuries resulted from this incident. Over five years later, on May 4, 2004, while covering a breaking news of a shooting in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, a new WNBC helicopter suddenly lost control and crashed onto an apartment building rooftop. The pilot and two passengers received no serious injuries, and actually walked out of the helicopter, thanks to a controlled crash.
:''For similar incidents involving the helicopter crashes of WNBC's former sister radio station, See article about WNBC-AM/WFAN.''
W2XBS
W2XBS is the name of an experimental station in the United States owned by RCA and General Electric. It is one of the oldest television stations in the world, starting up in 1928. The station originally broadcast on the frequencies of 2.0-2.1 MHz. In 1929, W2XBS upgraded their transmitter and broadcast facilities to handle transmissions of 60 vertical lines at 20 frames per second, on the frequencies of 2.75-2.85 MHz.
In 1941, the station was granted a commercial license as 'WNBT' on channel 1. It was moved to channel 4 in 1946.
Firsts for W2XBS
The station was the first in many areas of television broadcasting: the first live telecast of a Presidential speech (President Franklin Roosevelt opening the 1939 New York World's Fair), the first live telecasts of college and Major League Baseball (both in 1939), the first telecast of a National Football League game (also in 1939), the first telecast of a National Hockey League game (early 1940), and the first network telecast of a political convention (the 1940 Republican National Convention).
See also
★ WFAN (660 khz.), formerly WNBC (AM)
★ WQHT (97.1 Mhz.), formerly WNBC-FM/WYNY
★ Early television stations
References
★ NBC 4 - NBC History (2002). ''WNBC.com''.
External links
★ WNBC Website
★ WNBC Wireless
★ WNBC History
★ WNBC Set Design
★ Photos of WNBC's news set
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★ WNBC America Technical Information
★ In Memoriam - Bill Steckman [4]
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