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WBNS-TV, channel 10, is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of the Columbus Dispatch, along with WBNS radio (1460 AM and 97.1 FM). WBNS-TV's studios, offices and transmitter are located west of Downtown Columbus, near the confluence of the Olentangy and Scioto rivers.

WBNS-TV currently broadcasts in stereo and uses its SAP channel for a variety of purposes, including simulcasts of its radio sister and simulcasts of NOAA weather radio. The Dispatch Broadcast Group broadcasting operations also include WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana.

History

WBNS-TV began operations on October 5, 1949. The call letters stand for Wolfe Bank, Newspaper and Shoes, referring to the separate businesses owned by the Wolfe family in Columbus. WBNS radio had been a CBS affiliate for almost 20 years, so channel 10 immediately joined the CBS television network. It is currently the ninth longest-tenured CBS affiliate. Channel 10 has used the on-air branding of 10TV since 1977. It is also one of only a few stations in the country to have had the same owner, call letters and primary network affiliation throughout its history, as well as the only major station in the city still owned by Ohio interests.

Although the concentration of media ownership that exists between the WBNS stations and the Dispatch (Columbus's only daily newspaper since 1985) might seem to run afoul of the Federal Communications Commission's cross-ownership rules, the Wolfe family was granted an exemption because their ownership pre-dated the regulations which prohibited common ownership of co-located print and broadcast media in the mid-1970s.

WBNS-TV was known to produce such children's programming such as a local version of the Romper Room franchise, locally-produced shows Flippo the Clown, Luci's Toyshop, Franz the Toymaker, and programs hosted by popular Columbus Zoo and Aquarium personality Jack Hanna. The station also featured "Fritz the Nite Owl," who hosted midnight movies during the 1970s and Sunday state government talk called Capital Square in the 1990s. Throughout much of the 1990s and early years of the millennium WBNS-TV was home to the 10TV Kids News Network (KNN); a local show, "Produced by kids, for kids." The half-hour show aired Saturday mornings. Several KNN kids have gone on to pursue careers in television news or public relations in central Ohio.

In 1995, WBNS-TV replaced Cleveland's WJW-TV as the default affiliate in the Mansfield area (part of the Cleveland-Akron DMA) after WJW became a Fox broadcast outlet. The new Cleveland CBS affiliate, WOIO, unlike WBNS-TV, did not reach Mansfield with a Grade B signal. WBNS also replaced Toledo CBS affiliate WTOL on cable television in the Lima DMA.

The first live high-definition broadcast on the station's digital signal, WBNS-DT, took place in September 1998 in which the broadcast was a football game between Ohio State and West Virginia, making the station a pioneer in American digital television. The station claims this to have been the first locally produced HD broadcast in the US, however as several other stations throughout the country also lay claim to this distinction, the veracity cannot be verified.

The station has strong ties to the athletic department of Ohio State University. For many years, it has produced the coaches shows for both the football and men's basketball teams, along with other shows about Ohio State athletics. Additionally, its radio sister has been the flagship station of Ohio State football and basketball for decades. Prior to the launch of the Big Ten Network in September 2007, the station aired Ohio State games offered by ESPN Plus in both sports, including prime-time pre-emptions of CBS network programming for games. Because of the Big Ten Network's exclusive contracts to cover live Ohio State sports, WBNS now only carries selected CBS Big Ten basketball broadcasts on weekends and latter portions of the conference tourney, although the programming outside of live sports remains produced by WBNS-TV. It has been the TV home of Wheel of Fortune since 1983 and Jeopardy! since 1984.

On 12 June 2009, WBNS-TV launched Doppler 10 Now, a weather subchannel based on the Local AccuWeather platform.[1]

On October 1, 2012, WBNS-TV launched a redesigned set.[2]

Digital television

Digital channels

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
10.1 1080i 16:9 WBNS TV Main WBNS-TV programming / CBS
10.2 480i 4:3 WBNSTV2 Doppler 10 Now [1]
(to be replaced by Antenna TV on June 12, 2013)

As of September 15, 2012, the high-definition feed for WBNS-TV was dropped from Dish Network due to a contractual dispute between the two sides.

On May 28, 2013, WBNS-TV announced that their 10.2 subchannel will begin carrying Antenna TV. Commercials for the new network, tagged as "Ridiculously Retro", showcase clips from Flippo the Clown and Lucy's Toyshop, hinting that old, local favorites could return to the airwaves.

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBNS-TV stopped transmitting its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition.[3] The digital signal remained on channel 21.[4]

News operation

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WBNS-TV Eyewitness News open, 2004.

WBNS-TV was the first television station in the Columbus market to debut a news helicopter, "10TV SkyCam" (now "Chopper 10") in 1979, satellite news truck "10TV Skybeam" in 1986 and launch the Ohio News Network in 1997, which shared studio and office space with WBNS until ONN ended on August 31, 2012.

Appropriately for a station with roots in a newspaper, WBNS-TV has been a consistent ratings leader in programming and news for most of the time since records have been kept. In fact, for many years a popular saying in Columbus was "4 and 6 don't equal 10", referring to WBNS-TV and its rivals, WLWC/WCMH-TV (Channel 4) and WTVN-TV/WSYX (Channel 6).

The first major challenge to Channel 10's dominance occurred in 1985, two years after WCMH began featuring the popular anchor team (and then-married couple) of Doug Adair and Mona Scott. From then until the mid-2000s, WBNS-TV and WCMH alternated holding the dominant ratings position for their 11 p.m. newscasts (and were virtually tied for ratings leads). However, since 2002, WBNS-TV has returned to a dominant position due to stronger CBS programming and CBS' reacquisition of Sunday-afternoon NFL telecasts. WBNS-TV usually rotates games among the three teams with followings in the Columbus market—the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals (all of whom are part of the CBS package for the American Football Conference).

During the Super Bowl XLI, channel 10 debuted a large marketing campaign to promote the launch of 10TV News in high definition. The song "Carousels (Dreaming of Tomorrow)" by Columbus rock band Alamoth Lane was used throughout the course of the campaign. Some of the band members were shot playing on the roof of WBNS with the Columbus skyline behind them. The song was also used to promote sister station WTHR's 50th Anniversary in 2007.[5]

The station began making preparations for the transition to HD in late March 2007, and debuted its 5:00 p.m. newscast in high definition on April 2, becoming the first television station in Central Ohio to produce newscasts in HD. The station's newscasts are now known as "10TV News", "10TV News HD" was used from 2007-2012, after being known as "10TV Eyewitness News" for many years.

On November 7, 2008, WBNS-TV's morning-noon anchor Heather Pick died of breast cancer. Pick learned in 2004 that the disease she overcame in 1999 had returned. In her last public appearance, Heather hosted the "Spirit Celebration with Heather Pick", raising almost $500,000 for the Columbus Cancer Clinic.[6]

On January 3, 2011, WBNS expanded its weekday morning newscast to 2½ hours, starting at 4:25 a.m. Weekend anchors Jeff Hogan and Angela An replaced Chuck Strickler and Anietra Hamper as anchors, and weeknight 5:30 p.m. anchor Tracy Townsend replaced Hamper and Strickler as noon anchors.[7]

On May 11, 2011, WBNS-TV gained high-profile advertising when WBNS logos and a news ticker replaced those belonging to WCMH-TV on the Casto Building at the corner of High and Broad streets in downtown Columbus. Beginning in 2008, the building was leased by rival station WCMH-TV to house its NBC 4 on the Square newscast. When WCMH discontinued the newscast, WBNS assumed the lease but decided not to utilize the street-level studio space.[8]

Station slogans

  • There's a Forrest in Your Future (1975; promoting the arrival of anchorman Lou Forrest to the station)
  • 10-TV, We're Something to See! (circa 1980)
  • People You Can Count On! (1980s)
  • Your 24-Hour News Source (1991–2001)
  • Central Ohio's Most Watched News Station (2001–2003)
  • Central Ohio's News Leader (2003–present)
  • New, Fresh, Up To The Minute (secondary, 2011–present)

News team

Current on-air staff

Anchors
  • Angela An - weekday mornings (4:25-7:00 a.m.; 2000–present)
  • Jessa Goddard - weekend mornings (5:00-7:00 Saturdays and 6:30-8:30 a.m. Sundays; 2011–present; formerly of ONN)
  • Kristyn Hartman - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. (2012–present)
  • Jeff Hogan - weekday mornings (4:25-7:00 a.m.; 1998–present; formerly sports director)
  • Kurt Ludlow - weeknights at 5:30 and 11:00 p.m. reporter (1986–1999, 2004–present)
  • Jerry Revish - weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. (1980–present)
  • Chuck Strickler - Saturdays at 6:00, Sundays at 6:30 and weekends at 11:00 p.m. (1994–present; formerly morning and noon anchor)
  • Tracy Townsend - weekdays at noon and weeknights at 5:30 p.m.; also co-host of "Capitol Square" (2006–present)
Weather team
  • Chris Bradley (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. (2006–present)
  • Mike Davis (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings (4:25-7:00 a.m.) and weekdays at noon (1987–present; former chief meteorologist)
  • Josh Poland - meteorologist/co-anchor; weekend mornings (5:00-7:00 Saturdays and 6:30-8:30 a.m. Sundays; 2010–present)
  • Eric Elwell - (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seals of Approval) - Saturdays at 6:00, Sundays at 6:30 and weekends at 11:00 p.m. (2012–present; former chief meteorologist at ONN)
Sports team
  • Dom Tiberi - sports director; weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. (1981–present)
  • Beau Bishop - sports anchor/reporter; Saturdays at 6:00, Sundays at 6:30 and weekends at 11:00 p.m. (2007–present)
  • Greg Miller - fill-in sports anchor/reporter (2010–present)
  • David Wilkinson - fill-in sports anchor/reporter (2011–present)
Reporters
  • Paul Aker - investigative reporter
  • Ashleigh Barry - general assignment reporter (2010–present)
  • Danielle Elias - general assignment reporter (2010–present)
  • Jason Frazer - general assignment reporter (2010–present)
  • Jim Heath - chief political reporter and co-host and moderater of "Capitol Square" (2012–present)
  • Jennifer Jarrell - general assignment reporter/works out of ThisWeek News in Lewis Center, Ohio (2012–present)
  • Maureen Kocot - general assignment reporter (1995–present; former weekend morning anchor)
  • Kevin Landers - general assignment reporter (1999–present)
  • Tanisha Mallett - general assignment reporter (2006–present)
  • Justin Moss - general assignment reporter (2011–present)
  • Glenn McEntyre - general assignment reporter (2007–present)
  • Karina Nova - general assignment and morning traffic reporter (4:25-7:00 a.m.; 2006–present)
  • Tino Ramos - general assignment reporter (1994–present; former weekday 5:00 a.m. anchor and weekend morning anchor)
  • Shayla Reaves - general assignment reporter (2010–present)
Chopper 10
  • Terry Ault - "Chopper 10" chief pilot/reporter (1979–present)
  • Greg Casagrande - "Chopper 10" line pilot (2001–present)

Notable former staff

  • Roy Briscoe - noon anchor (deceased)
  • Andrea Cambern - anchor (1991-2012; retired and living in California with her husband)
  • Keith Cate - weekend anchor (1988–1993; now evening co-anchor at WFLA-TV in Tampa)
  • Carol Costello - 6 and 11 p.m. anchor (1990–1992; now at CNN)
  • Jay Crawford - sports anchor (1993–1998; now at ESPN)
  • Faith Daniels - daytime anchor (1982-1983; later with CBS News & NBC's Today Show)
  • Lou Forrest - later Louis de la Foret on CNN
  • John Fortney - anchor (now anchor/news director at WTAP-TV in Parkersburg, WV)
  • Bob Grossi - weatherman
  • Jack Hanna - program host
  • Anietra Hamper - morning anchor (now runs a media company in Columbus, Ohio)
  • Joe Holbrook - former weatherman from 50s through 90s
  • Dan Imel - host of Chiller Theater and High Road to Adventure, and fill-in news anchor (1960's-1970's; deceased)
  • Phil Keating - reporter (1993; now at Fox News Channel)[9]
  • John Klemack - overnight associate producer (now reporter at KNBC-TV Los Angeles)
  • Karen Kornacki - weekend sports anchor (now weekend sports anchor at KMBC-TV in Kanasas City)
  • Carol Luper - reporter (1979–1989; now at WSYX/WTTE)
  • Dave Malkoff - overnight update anchor/associate producer (now at NBC's The Weather Channel)
  • Ron Olsen - Reporter (Went on to KABC and KTLA in Los Angeles, Peabody recipient for Rodney King beating story)
  • Bob Orr - news anchor/reporter (now a CBS Evening News reporter)
  • Frederick "Fritz the Nite Owl" Peerenboom - program host
  • Bill Pepper - anchor/reporter (deceased)
  • Heather Pick - weekday morning and noon anchor (2002–2008; died on November 7, 2008 due to breast cancer)
  • Gary Radnich - sports director/anchor (1982–85; now with KRON-TV in San Francisco)
  • Ed Ross - reporter (deceased)
  • Rod Serling - writer, producer and creator of The Twilight Zone (deceased)
  • Dana Tyler - evening anchor (1981–1990; currently 6 p.m. co-anchor/reporter at WCBS-TV and 9 p.m. on WLNY-TV in New York City)
  • Lorene Wagner - morning anchor (later at WSYX/WTTE; now does real estate in Columbus)
  • Chuck White - the first African-American anchorman in Columbus and later Public Affairs Director (retired in 2005)
  • Jonathan Winters - performer and comedian (deceased)
  • Dave Kaylor - weekday anchor (1980–2005; now with Reputation Management Associates (Dave currently facilitates corporation training sessions))
  • Mike Kilburn - Traffic anchor (1994–2004;Traffic anchor with WSYX-6 and WTTE FOX 28)
  • Tom Walker - Dispatch Washington, D.C. Correspondent (retired)

Management

  • Tom Griesdorn - President and General Manager
  • Elbert Tucker - News Director
  • Tonya McCleary - Assistant News Director
  • Chuck DeVendra - Director of Sales
  • Paul Ballinger - Local Sales Manager
  • Pat Wise - National Sales Manager
  • Butch Moore - Sports Marketing Manager
  • Angela Pace - Director of Community Affairs (former news anchor at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m.)
  • Pat Ingram - Director of Engineering
  • Patty Williams - Director of Finance
  • Doug Jones - Promotion Director
  • Kristi Hayes - Art Director
  • Mike Berry - Broadcast Operations Manager
  • Carol Triplett - Commercial Traffic Manager

References

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference b&c1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ http://www.10tv.com/content/slideshows/2012/10/slideshow-wbns-10tv-set-debut.html
  3. ^ "WBNS-10TV Delays DTV Transition To June 12". WBNS. 6 February 2009. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  4. ^ "DTV Transition Status Report". FCC. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  5. ^ "WBNS-TV Sister station's 50th Anniversary promo". WTHR-TV Indianapolis. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  6. ^ "WBNS-10TV Remembers Heather Pick". WBNS-TV. 7 November 2008. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  7. ^ "WBNS Expands Early Morning News". TVnewscheck.com. 15 December 2010. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  8. ^ "10TV Debuts Signs At Broad And High". WBNS. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  9. ^ "Phil Keating Bio". Fox News. Retrieved 9 March 2013.

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