WTEN

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WTEN is the ABC affiliate for New York state's Capital District (Albany-Schenectady-Troy.) It is licensed to Albany, with its transmitter located in the Helderberg Mountains outside Albany.

History

WTEN first signed on March 26, 1954 as CBS affiliate WROW-TV on UHF channel 41. It was owned by the Hudson Valley Communications Company along with WROW-AM. In 1957 it moved to VHF channel 10 as WCDA and became WTEN a few years later within 1960. Hudson Valley Communications eventually became Capital Cities Communications with WTEN as the flagship station.

In 1968, Capital Cities sold the original three stations of the group (WTEN, WPRO-TV Providence and WJRT Flint, Michigan to Poole Broadcasting. Nine years later, Poole sold WTEN, WJRT, and WPRI (former WPRO-TV) to Knight-Ridder which near-instantly switched WTEN's affiliation with WAST (now WNYT) to become the market's ABC station with the same happening in Providence between WPRI and WTEV (now WLNE). In 1989, Young Broadcasting bought WTEN and sister WKRN in Nashville from Knight-Ridder upon the latter's exit from broadcasting.

WTEN signed on its high-definition service on channel 26 in 2004. WCDC's digital signal on channel 36 signed on nearly 18 months earlier though even though they did not upgrade to high-definition programming until WTEN-DT's signon. In 2005, WTEN launched the Storm Tracker Weather Channel, a 24-hour local weather channel, on WTEN-DT 10.2 and WCDC-DT 19.2.

Outlying Translators

WTEN operates a satellite station, WCDC on analog channel 19, broadcasting at 447.0 kW, from atop Mt. Greylock in Adams, Massachusetts. WCDC-DT operates on channel 36 at 16.2 kW. WCDC has no website, logos, or any on-air mention on WTEN. It is only named in the EEO public file report. WCDC began broadcasting on March 26, 1954 as WMGT-TV (W Mount Greylock Television [1]) channel 74, on the same date that WROW-TV channel 41 (the predecesor to WTEN). WCDC carried a secondary affiliation with the DuMont network from 1954-1956. In 1957, WMGT-TV 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, Georgia.

WTEN also once operated another satellite, WCDB channel 29, in the Montgomery County hamlet of Hagaman. It has since gone off the air and the call letters now belong to the student-run radio station at the University at Albany.

WTEN and WNYT are the only Albany television stations to operate satellites in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. WCDC and current UPN, future MNTV, affiliate WNYA can be seen in the Springfield, MA television market.

Logos

• Current WTEN-TV/DT logo
  Current WTEN-TV/DT logo
• Version of current logo with the ABC logo, discontinued late 2005 or early 2006
  Version of current logo with the ABC logo, discontinued late 2005 or early 2006

Personalities

Current

• Steve Ammerman (Weekday morning/Noon anchor, anchored weekends 2000-04)
• Steve Caporizzo (Chief Meteorologist and host of the "Pet Connection" series, a longtime segment on early evening newscasts, now primetime specials)
• John Craig (Key nightside reporter/fill-in anchor)
• Tracy Egan (5:30 p.m. anchor and health reporter; veteran of the market with two prior stints at WRGB prior to arriving at WTEN)
• Andy Gregorio (Weekday morning meteorologist, previously also did noon)
• Dori Marlin (Weekday morning anchor)
• John McLoughlin (Managing Editor and reporter, WTEN's longest tenured talent dating back to 1972)
• Terry McSweeney (5:00/6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, latter two since 2000)
• Jeff Smith (Weekend meteorologist)
• Brian Sinkoff (Sports Director)
• Elisa Streeter (5:00/6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, latter two since 1997; also is one of WTEN's longest tenured reporters dating back to 1988)
• Anya Tucker (Weekend evening anchor)
• Alyssa Van Wie (Weekend morning anchor)
• Katie Virtue (Noon/fill-in meteorologist)

Past

• Jim Brennan (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, 1990-2000; 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)
• 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 the mid 1970s until 1986)
• 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)
• 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)
• Rip Rowan (Sports anchor from 1968-86)
• John Spadafora (Weekend sports anchor from 1992-2005, now heads communications for the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce)
• Dick Wood (Main anchor from 1973-1991)
• Sharman Sachetti (former morning anchor - as of 2005 a reporter at Boston's FOX affiliate)

Newscast Titles

• Action News (1970s-1986)
• 10 Eyewitness News (1986-1995)
• News 10 (1995-present) [2]

Newscasts

The station's radar is called "Storm Tracker 10".

Monday-Friday

• News 10 in fhe Morning (5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.)
• News 10 at Noon
• News 10 at 5
• News 10 at 5:30
• News 10 at 6
• News 10 at 11 (11:00 p.m. to 11:35 p.m.)

Weekends

• News 10 in the Morning (6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.)
• News 10 at 6
• News 10 at 11

External links

• Official website
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