WBBH-TV
Encyclopedia
WBBH-TV is the NBC
-affiliated television station
for Southwest Florida
licensed to Fort Myers
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter in Southeastern Punta Gorda
along SR 31
. Owned by the Waterman Broadcasting Corporation
, WBBH operates ABC
affiliate WZVN-TV
(owned by Montclair Communications, Inc.) through a local marketing agreement
(LMA). The two share studios on Central Avenue in Fort Myers. Syndicated
programming on WBBH includes: Wheel of Fortune
, Jeopardy!
, The Dr. Oz Show
, and Ellen
.
The station brands itself as NBC 2, as it is located on cable channel 2 on most Southwest Florida cable systems. However, its signal remaps to its old analog channel 20 via PSIP.
affiliate WINK-TV
, WBBH shared ABC with that channel until WEVU (now WZVN) launched on August 21, 1974. Started by local businessmen, the station originally used a 1,000 foot tower in Lehigh Acres
which increased to 1,500 feet in 1983. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 20. Waterman Broadcasting purchased the station in 1978 and the -TV suffix was removed from the call letters on October 16 of that year (this was later bought back).
In 1994, WEVU entered into a local marketing agreement with WBBH and moved into this station's facilities. At that time, both began identifying by the cable channel slots. The two began offering high definition signals on October 31, 2002 becoming the first stations in the market
to offer network programming in HD (WZVN upgraded four hours after WBBH). This channel began offering NBC Weather Plus
on a new second digital subchannel
in September 2006. In December 2008 after the national service folded, WBBH-DT2 switched formats and became a 24-hour local news and weather channel known as "NBC 2 News Now". On February 17, 2009 at noon, the station turned off its analog signal and began transmitting exclusively in digital.
In 1994, WBBH and WZVN began a partnership where news reporters would appear on both stations. Resources such as video footage and coverage was also shared. Each station maintained separate unique sets at the Central Avenue facilities and featured a distinct on-air style. There were primary personalities such as anchors that would only appear on one channel. The combined forces of the two stations was billed as the Eyewitness News
Network. It should be known that if WZVN chose not become a junior partner in the local marketing agreement, the station would have been required to shut down its news department. The same arrangement continues today except WZVN has fewer personalities that only appear on that station. Otherwise, all on-air personnel is shared.
Traditionally, WBBH tends to cover more from Charlotte County
while WZVN has a slight Collier County
focus since it is licensed to Naples. Compared with WBBH, WZVN's newscasts air in a flashier fast-paced format with on-air promotions referring to more coverage in thirty minutes especially on weeknights. On weekends, there are separate news and sports anchors but the meteorologists are seen on both WBBH and WZVN. This is possible because the two still maintain separate sets and do not always air local news at the same time. Since it was the first station in Southwest Florida and the only outlet on VHF, WINK-TV has long been the most watched channel according to Nielsen ratings
. Between the two, WBBH and WZVN air twelve hours of news on weekdays and four and a half on weekends.
Its best known former personality is Harry Horn who was also a veteran of WZVN and WINK-TV. He lost his battle with ALS
in August 2005. During major hurricanes, most recently Charley
and Wilma
, the news team of WBBH and WZVN put on 24-hour continuous coverage. Commercial breaks are dropped for several hours preceding and following landfall. There is a simulcast on both stations and a common live video stream is presented on both websites. During previous years, WBBH's news set was used along with both channel's weather sets. As of the 2007 season, WZVN's news set will be used in the event of a hurricane as its studio provides the best protection against damaging winds.
In March 2007, WBBH's website began offering live streaming video of its weekday noon and 4 p.m. newscasts. Today, morning newscasts are also streamed. In June, it added local news segments to its NBC Weather Plus subchannel now called "NBC 2 News Now". In early-February 2008 following the lead of WZVN, WBBH transitioned its newscasts to 16:9
enhanced definition widescreen
. Although not truly high definition like WINK-TV (which upgraded on October 20, 2007), this matched the aspect ratio
of HD television screens. On July 19, the two started airing local news full in high definition becoming the second and third stations respectively in Fort Myers to do so (WZVN upgraded five hours after WBBH).
On October 26, 2008, several changes occurred on the two stations in order to better compete with dominant WINK-TV. WZVN dropped the first hour of its weekday morning show and mid-morning newscast at 10. WBBH debuted a new hour-long midday show at 11 while keeping its hour-long noon broadcast. Meanwhile, WZVN added an hour-long newscast weekday mornings at 9 to piggyback off Good Morning America
. This is currently the only local newscast in the time slot. On September 8, 2009, WZVN starting offering a prime time newscast on weeknights known as The 7 O'Clock News to go up against WINK-TV
's show airing at the same time. In addition to the main studios, WBBH and WZVN operate a Collier County Bureau on Tamiami Trail
North (U.S. 41/SR 45) in Naples
. The two stations operate a Baron weather radar
at the main facilities that is known on WBBH as "NBC 2 First Alert Power Doppler HD". The radar has a range of 300 miles and can survey approaching storms in three dimensions.
NBC 2 First Alert Weather Team
Sports team
Reporters
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...
-affiliated 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 Southwest Florida
Southwest Florida
Southwest Florida is a region of Florida , United States located along its gulf coast, south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee and mostly north of the Everglades...
licensed to Fort Myers
Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 62,298 in the 2010 census, a 29.23 percent increase over the 2000 figure....
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter in Southeastern Punta Gorda
Punta Gorda, Florida
Punta Gorda is a city in Charlotte County, Florida, United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau estimates of 2007, the city had a population of 16,762. It is the county seat of Charlotte County and the only incorporated municipality in the county...
along SR 31
Florida State Road 31
State Road 31 is a state road in Southwest Florida in Lee, Charlotte, and DeSoto counties. It is about 36 miles long. The entire roadway is two lanes wide, even near Fort Myers. The highway crosses the Caloosahatchee River via the Wilson Pigott Bridge, a small drawbridge, a mile north of the...
. Owned by the Waterman Broadcasting Corporation
Waterman Broadcasting Corporation
Waterman Broadcasting Corporation is a company based in Fort Myers, Florida,it was founded in 1978 in Ft. Myers FL when it purchased WBBH.It is owned by Bernard Waterman.-Stations owned by Waterman:...
, WBBH operates 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 WZVN-TV
WZVN-TV
WZVN-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida licensed to Naples. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 from a transmitter in Southeastern Punta Gorda along SR 31. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 7 and in high definition on...
(owned by Montclair Communications, Inc.) through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA). The two share studios on Central Avenue in Fort Myers. 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 WBBH includes: Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
, The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
, and Ellen
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...
.
The station brands itself as NBC 2, as it is located on cable channel 2 on most Southwest Florida cable systems. However, its signal remaps to its old analog channel 20 via PSIP.
Digital programming
On WBBH-DT2 and Comcast digital channel 216 is a 24-hour local news and weather channel.| Channel | Video | Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20.1 | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
main WBBH programming/NBC (HD) |
| 20.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | WBBH-DT2 "NBC 2 News Now" (SD) |
History
It signed-on as the area's NBC affiliate on December 18, 1968. As the second television station in Southwest Florida after CBSCBS
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...
affiliate WINK-TV
WINK-TV
WINK-TV, virtual channel 11, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida that is licensed to Fort Myers. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter north of Fort Myers Shores near the Lee and Charlotte County line in Punta Gorda. The...
, WBBH shared ABC with that channel until WEVU (now WZVN) launched on August 21, 1974. Started by local businessmen, the station originally used a 1,000 foot tower in Lehigh Acres
Lehigh Acres, Florida
Lehigh Acres is a census-designated place in Lee County, Florida, United States. The US Census Bureau estimates the CDP's population at 67,867 as of 2006...
which increased to 1,500 feet in 1983. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 20. Waterman Broadcasting purchased the station in 1978 and the -TV suffix was removed from the call letters on October 16 of that year (this was later bought back).
In 1994, WEVU entered into a local marketing agreement with WBBH and moved into this station's facilities. At that time, both began identifying by the cable channel slots. The two began offering high definition signals on October 31, 2002 becoming the first stations in the 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...
to offer network programming in HD (WZVN upgraded four hours after WBBH). This channel began offering NBC Weather Plus
NBC Weather Plus
NBC Weather Plus was a 24-hour, commercially sponsored, weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and the local affiliates of the NBC network. It debuted on November 15, 2004 and shut down on December 31, 2008...
on a new 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...
in September 2006. In December 2008 after the national service folded, WBBH-DT2 switched formats and became a 24-hour local news and weather channel known as "NBC 2 News Now". On February 17, 2009 at noon, the station turned off its analog signal and began transmitting exclusively in digital.
News operation
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
Network. It should be known that if WZVN chose not become a junior partner in the local marketing agreement, the station would have been required to shut down its news department. The same arrangement continues today except WZVN has fewer personalities that only appear on that station. Otherwise, all on-air personnel is shared.
Traditionally, WBBH tends to cover more from Charlotte County
Charlotte County, Florida
Charlotte County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 141,627. In 2005, the population of the MSA was 154,030.The U.S. Census Bureau 2007 estimate for the county was 152,814...
while WZVN has a slight Collier County
Collier County, Florida
Collier County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 251,377. The U.S. Census Bureau 2007 estimate for the county is 315,839...
focus since it is licensed to Naples. Compared with WBBH, WZVN's newscasts air in a flashier fast-paced format with on-air promotions referring to more coverage in thirty minutes especially on weeknights. On weekends, there are separate news and sports anchors but the meteorologists are seen on both WBBH and WZVN. This is possible because the two still maintain separate sets and do not always air local news at the same time. Since it was the first station in Southwest Florida and the only outlet on VHF, WINK-TV has long been the most watched channel according to Nielsen ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
. Between the two, WBBH and WZVN air twelve hours of news on weekdays and four and a half on weekends.
Its best known former personality is Harry Horn who was also a veteran of WZVN and WINK-TV. He lost his battle with ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...
in August 2005. During major hurricanes, most recently Charley
Hurricane Charley
Hurricane Charley was the third named storm, the second hurricane, and the second major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. Charley lasted from August 9 to August 15, and at its peak intensity it attained 150 mph winds, making it a strong Category 4 hurricane on the...
and Wilma
Hurricane Wilma
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Wilma was the twenty-second storm , thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and fourth Category 5 hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 season...
, the news team of WBBH and WZVN put on 24-hour continuous coverage. Commercial breaks are dropped for several hours preceding and following landfall. There is a simulcast on both stations and a common live video stream is presented on both websites. During previous years, WBBH's news set was used along with both channel's weather sets. As of the 2007 season, WZVN's news set will be used in the event of a hurricane as its studio provides the best protection against damaging winds.
In March 2007, WBBH's website began offering live streaming video of its weekday noon and 4 p.m. newscasts. Today, morning newscasts are also streamed. In June, it added local news segments to its NBC Weather Plus subchannel now called "NBC 2 News Now". In early-February 2008 following the lead of WZVN, WBBH transitioned its newscasts to 16:9
16:9
16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
enhanced definition widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
. Although not truly high definition like WINK-TV (which upgraded on October 20, 2007), this matched the aspect ratio
Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...
of HD television screens. On July 19, the two started airing local news full in high definition becoming the second and third stations respectively in Fort Myers to do so (WZVN upgraded five hours after WBBH).
On October 26, 2008, several changes occurred on the two stations in order to better compete with dominant WINK-TV. WZVN dropped the first hour of its weekday morning show and mid-morning newscast at 10. WBBH debuted a new hour-long midday show at 11 while keeping its hour-long noon broadcast. Meanwhile, WZVN added an hour-long newscast weekday mornings at 9 to piggyback off Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
. This is currently the only local newscast in the time slot. On September 8, 2009, WZVN starting offering a prime time newscast on weeknights known as The 7 O'Clock News to go up against WINK-TV
WINK-TV
WINK-TV, virtual channel 11, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida that is licensed to Fort Myers. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter north of Fort Myers Shores near the Lee and Charlotte County line in Punta Gorda. The...
's show airing at the same time. In addition to the main studios, WBBH and WZVN operate a Collier County Bureau on Tamiami Trail
Tamiami Trail
The Tamiami Trail is the southernmost of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 in Miami. The road also has the hidden designation of State Road 90....
North (U.S. 41/SR 45) in Naples
Naples, Florida
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of July 1, 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 21,653. Naples is a principal city of the Naples–Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated total population of 315,839 on July 1, 2007...
. The two stations operate a Baron weather radar
Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...
at the main facilities that is known on WBBH as "NBC 2 First Alert Power Doppler HD". The radar has a range of 300 miles and can survey approaching storms in three dimensions.
Newscast titles
- The Sixth Hour Report/The Eleventh Hour Report (1968–1974)
- First Edition News (1974–1977)
- TV-20 Eyewitness NewsEyewitness NewsEyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
(1977–1994) - Channel 2 News (1994–1996)
- News 2 (1996–1997)
- NBC 2 News (1997–present)
Station slogans
- "20, Proud as a Peacock!" (1979–1981, localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- "Southwest Florida's NewsChannel" (1988–1996)
- "Coverage You Can Count On" (1996–1997)
- "Count On Us!" (1997–2007)
- "Count On Us in High Definition" (2007–2009)
- "Count On NBC 2 First" (2009–present)
News team
Anchors- Kellie Burns - weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.
- Patrick Comer - weekend mornings
- Kelly Creswell - weekend mornings; also weeknight reporter
- Stacey Deffenbaugh - weekdays at noon
- Len Jennings - weekdays at 4 and 4:30, and weeknights at 11 p.m.
- Lindsay Logue - weekdays at 4, and weeknights at 11 p.m.
- Clay Miller - weekday mornings and 11 a.m.
- Joe Roetz - weekend evenings; also weeknight reporter
- Heather Turco - weekday mornings and 11 a.m.
NBC 2 First Alert Weather Team
- Haley Webb - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Jason Dunning - meteorologist; weekend mornings, also fill-in
- Jeremy Eisenzopf (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...
Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend evenings, also fill-in - John Patrick (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and 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...
Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; weekdays at 4 and 4:30 p.m. - Jim Reif (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekdays at 11 a.m. and noon
- Robert Van Winkle - meteorologist; weekday mornings
Sports team
- Brian Colleran - sports 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...
; weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m. - Rishi Barran - sports anchor; weekend evenings, also sports reporter
- Brad Shellgren - sports reporter
Reporters
- Elizabeth Billingsley
- Alex Boyer - Cape CoralCape Coral, FloridaCape Coral is a municipality located in Lee County, Florida, United States, on the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1957 and developed as a master-planned, pre-platted community, the city grew to a population of 154,305 by the year 2010. With an area of , Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and...
reporter - Linh Bui - health reporter
- Paul Gessler
- Sarah Hollenbeck
- Stephanie Kolp
- Sara Miles
- Chad Oliver - "One Tank Trips" segment producer
- Jason Pawloski - weekday morning traffic reporter
- Andy Pierrotti - investigative reporter
- Karla Rae - Collier County Bureau reporter
- Meaghan Smith
- Saundra Weathers - Charlotte County reporter
Notable former on-air staff
- Gene LavanchyGene LavanchyGene P. Lavanchy , is an American radio and television personality and journalist, and a co-host of WFXT's Fox 25 Morning News in Boston.- Education and career :...
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in Philadelphia) - Shepard SmithShepard SmithDavid Shepard Smith, Jr. , known better as Shepard Smith, is an American television news anchor. He is host of Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Studio B weekdays on Fox News Channel. In addition, he anchors the 5:00 p.m...
(now at Fox News ChannelFox News ChannelFox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
) - Ukee WashingtonUkee WashingtonUlysses Samuel "Ukee" Washington III is an American news co-anchor for the weekday morning newscast on KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He anchors Eyewitness News This Morning on CBS 3 and The CW Philly with co-anchor Erica Von Tiehl, and co-hosts Talk Philly with Pat Ciarrocchi weekdays at...
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in Philadelphia)