WTEN

'WTEN' is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, the station broadcasts an analog signal on VHF channel 10 and a digital signal on UHF channel 26. WTEN's transmitter is located at the Helderberg Mountains antenna farm in New Scotland. Owned by Young Broadcasting, the station has studios located on Northern Blvd. in Albany. WTEN is known on-air as '''"News 10"'''.
WTEN operates a full-time satellite 'WCDC-TV'. Licensed to Adams, the station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 19 and a digital signal on UHF channel 36. WTEN's transmitter is located on the highest point in Massachusetts, Mount Greylock. There is no on-air reference to WCDC but the station is mentioned in WTEN's legal ID, EEO public file report, and on the ''News 10 Storm Tracker Weather Channel''. WCDC's signal reliably covers the western half of Massachusetts, Southern Vermont, Northern Connecticut, and Southwestern New Hampshire. WCDC, along with WNYA, can be considered rimshot signals into the Springfield - Holyoke, Massachusetts market. Despite WCDC being located in Berkshire County, Time Warner cable systems in the county carry WTEN's signal instead of WCDC¹.
Young Broadcasting will be launching Equity Broadcasting's Retro Television Network service on WTEN's DT3 digital subchannel on October 1, 2007 as part of a test of the network with sister stations WBAY in Green Bay and KRON in San Francisco. The network features classic sitcoms and dramas. [1]

Contents

History

WTEN

WCDC

WCDB

Newscasts

Newscast Titles

News Team

Past Staff

External Links

History

WTEN

WTEN began broadcasting on March 26, 1954 known then as 'WROW-TV'. The station was affiliated with CBS and broadcasted on channel 41. It was owned by Hudson Valley Communications Company along with WROW-AM. In 1957, it moved to channel 10 and had its call letters changed to 'WCDA-TV'. The calls were changed again to the current 'WTEN' around 1960. Hudson Valley Communications eventually became Capital Cities Communications with WTEN becoming its flagship station.
In 1968, Capital Cities sold the original three stations of the group (WTEN, WPRO-TV in Providence, Rhode Island and WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan) to Poole Broadcasting. Nine years later, Poole sold WTEN, WJRT, and WPRO (now WPRI-TV) to Knight-Ridder. Knight Ridder signed an affiliation deal with ABC, resulting in WTEN swapping affiliations with WAST (now WNYT) to become the market's ABC affiliate. Young Broadcasting bought WTEN and its sister station WKRN-TV in Nashville from Knight-Ridder upon the latter's exit from broadcasting.
WTEN signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 26 in 2004 and began offering high-definition service. WTEN's digital signal can also be seen on Time Warner digital cable channel 1810.

WCDC

WCDC began broadcasting on March 26, 1954--the same date as parent station WROW-TV--as 'WMGT-TV' ('M'ount 'G'reylock 'T'elevision) on channel 74. The tower location on Mount Greylock helped WCDC serve not only as a major boost to WROW, but also as the market's secondary affiliate of the DuMont network from its launch until the network's demise in 1956.
In 1957, WMGT moved to channel 19 and in 1960 the call letters were changed to the current 'WCDC-TV'. The WCDC call letters were derived from WTEN's former calls WCDA. The WMGT-TV call sign is now used on the NBC affiliate in Macon.
WCDC's digital signal on UHF channel 36 signed on nearly 18 months before WTEN's did, though they did not upgrade to high-definition programming until WTEN-DT signed on. WCDC's digital signal is currently not offered on Time Warner digital cable systems in Adams.

WCDB

Prior to WCDA's move to channel 10, a second satellite was operated by WCDA located on channel 29 in the Montgomery County town of Hagaman. The station, with the call letters of 'WCDB', signed off the air in 1959 after the WCDA move rendered WCDB superfluous even though it did provide some primary CBS coverage to Utica. The WCDB calls would return to the air in 1978 and serve the student-run radio station at the University at Albany.

Newscasts

In 2005, WTEN launched a 24-hour local weather channel on new second digital subchannels of WTEN and WCDC. The weather channel is known as the ''News 10 Storm Tracker Weather Channel'' and can also be see in Albany on Time Warner digital cable channel 554. However, the channel is not seen on Time Warner digital cable systems in Adams or other former Adelphia systems. The weather channel can also be seen via live streaming video on WTEN's website. WTEN's weather radar is known as "News 10 Storm Tracker HD Doppler".

Newscast Titles

★ ''Action News'' (1970s-1986)

★ ''10 Eyewitness News'' (1986-1995)

★ ''News 10'' (1995-present)

News Team

'Anchors'
''(In Alphabetical Order)''

Personality	Position	WTEN Since
'Steve Ammerman'	News 10 at 5, News 10 at 6, News 10 at 11	1997
'Christine Arangio'	News 10 at 5:30, News 10 at 11	2007
'Tracy Egan'	News 10 at Noon	1994
'Dori Marlin'	News 10 in the Morning (weekdays)	2005
'Mark O'Brien'	News 10 in the Morning	2007
'Elisa Streeter'	News 10 in the Morning	ca. 1989
'Anya Tucker'	News 10 at 6, News 10 at 11 (weekends)	unknown
'Alyssa Van Wie'	News 10 in the Morning (weekends)	2004

'Reporters'
''(In Alphabetical Order)''

Personality	Position	WTEN Since
'John Craig'	General Assignment Reporter	2000
'Eric Egan'	General Assignment Reporter	2007
'Tracy Egan'	Reporter, News 10 at 5, News 10 at 5:30, News 10 at 6 (weeknights)	1994
'Demetra Ganias'	General Assignment Reporter	2006
'Dori Marlin'	General Assignment Reporter	2005
'John McLoughlin'	General Assignment Reporter/Managing Editor (since 2003)	1972
'Jeff Stoecker'	General Assignment Reporter	unknown
'Latricia Thomas'	General Assignment Reporter	2005

'Storm Tracker 10 Meteorologists'
''(in order of rank)''

Personality	Position	WTEN Since
'Steve Capporizzo'	News 10 at 5, News 10 at 5:30, News 10 at 6, News 10 at 11, News 10 Chief Meteorologist/Host of: "Pet Connection" specials seen six times a year	1989
'Chris Gloninger'	News10 in the Morning (weekends)	2007
'Andy Gregorio'	News10 in the Morning, News10 at Noon	1997
'Katie Virtue'	News10 at 6, News10 at 11 (weekends)	2005

'Sports'
''(in order of rank)''

Personality	Position	WTEN Since
'Brian Sinkoff'	Sports Director, News10 at 6, News10 at 11/Host of: ''Friday Night Frenzy''	2005
'Jamie Seh'	News10 at 6, News10 at 11 (weekends)/Host of: ''Friday Night Frenzy''	2006

Past Staff

★ Cary Berglund (Weekend/Noon anchor, 1986-1989; now at KNBC in Los Angeles)

★ Jim Brennan (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, 1991-2000; now hosts "New York Week in Review", aired on PBS stations across New York state)

★ Greg Floyd (Weekend anchor in the mid 1980's until leaving for WTZA in Kingston, then resurfacing at WXXA and WRGB)

★ Cynthia Fodor (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor -1990's). Now with KCCI, Des Moines, Iowa and serves as Mid-West Bureau Chief for the nationally-syndicated travel magazine radio show, "The Travel Hour with Stephen Pickford and Friends" (formerly the Travel World Radio Show)

★ Bob Gordon (Weatherman during the 1970's, preceded Bob Kovachick)

★ John Guaraldi (meteorologist from 1981 until about the mid-90s, now meteorologist at WPLG-TV in Miami)

★ Bob Kovachick (Now of WNYT, was chief meteorologist at WTEN from April 1977 until 1986, was the first credentialed meteorologist in the Albany market)

★ Walt McClure (key reporter from 1999-2005, now in the same role at WXXA-TV)

★ Scott Patterson (reporter from 2001-2005, now weekend anchor at KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska)

★ Terry McSweeney (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor from 2000-2006, 5:00 p.m. anchor 2002-2006, presently in California [2])

★ Dan Murphy (Sports Director from 1992-2005 and previously weekend sports, now host of "Murphy's Law" on WOFX radio)

★ Ed O'Brien (Sports Director from 1986-89, fired upon Young's purchase of the station and went to WRGB where he is now weekday morning anchor)

★ Mary Caroline Powers (Co-anchored the noon news for many years with Ralph Vartigian. Worked at WRGB during the 1970's and later worked in public television and as an editor at ''The Saratogian'' newspaper)

★ Rip Rowan (Sports anchor from 1968-86, later worked for the Albany-Colonie Yankees AA farm team)

★ Sharman Sachetti (Former morning anchor - as of 2005 a reporter at WFXT)

★ Mai Shiozaki (Former freelance morning anchor - was press secretary for National Organization for Women)

★ Jeff Smith (Weekend meteorologist 2004-January 2007, now weekend mornings at WABC-TV)

★ John Spadafora (Weekend sports anchor from 1992-2005, now heads communications for the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce)

★ Ralph Vartigian (Longtime host of the children's program Commander Ralph and later the co-anchor of the noon news)

★ Dick Wood (Main anchor from 1973-1991, as of 2006 hosts a jazz show on WABY Moon Radio)

★ Herb Starr (reporter, weekend anchor, 1970-1975; communications dir., NY Lt Gov; corporate media advisor. Now a private investor)

★ Dick (Hill) McCarthy, (anchor, 1970s, later in communications for New York state. WABY doing sports reports currently)

★ Richard Roth, (reporter, early 70s, is a CBS News correspondent based in London)

★ Richard Reingold, (reporter, early 70s, was president and general manager of WUSA-TV, Washington, DC)

★ Dick Williams, (reporter-weekend anchor, early 70s, hosts WAGA-TV (FOX 5)'s Georgia Gang in Atlanta)

External Links

★ Station Website

★ ABC Website

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¹ - ''WTEN cable carriage information courtesy Time Warner cable engineering staff, Pittsfield, MA.''