WTTG
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WTTG, channel 5, is an owned-and-operated
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...

 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...

 of the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

, located in the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 capital city of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

  The station's studio and office facility, and transmitter are co-located in the Tenleytown
Tenleytown
Tenleytown is a historic neighborhood in Northwest, Washington, DC.-History:In 1790, Washington locals began calling the neighborhood "Tennally's Town" after area tavern owner John Tennally...

 neighborhood of Washington.

WTTG's sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....

 is WDCA
WDCA
WDCA, virtual channel 20, is a television station in Washington, D.C.. Owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, WDCA is a sister station to Fox network outlet WTTG , and is affiliated with the co-owned MyNetworkTV programming service...

 (channel 20), forming a duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....

 owned by News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

, Fox Broadcasting's parent company.

Digital programming

After the digital conversion on June 12, 2009, WTTG moved from analog channel 5 to digital channel 36 to complete its analog to digital conversion. However, through the use of PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...

, digital television receivers will display WTTG's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 as "5".
Channel Programming
5.1 Main WTTG programming / FOX

Early years

The station traces its history to May 19, 1945, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont
Allen B. DuMont
Allen Balcom DuMont also spelled Du Mont, was an American scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public...

 founded W3XWT, the second experimental station in the nation's capital (after NBC
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...

's W3XNB, forerunner to WRC-TV
WRC-TV
WRC-TV, channel 4, is an owned and operated television station of the NBC television network, located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C...

).

Later in 1945, DuMont Laboratories
DuMont Laboratories
DuMont Laboratories was an American television equipment manufacturer. The company was founded in 1931, by inventor Allen B. DuMont. Among the company's developments were long-lasting cathode ray tubes that would be used for television. Another product out of the lab was a DuMont invention, the...

 began a series of experimental coaxial cable
Coaxial cable
Coaxial cable, or coax, has an inner conductor surrounded by a flexible, tubular insulating layer, surrounded by a tubular conducting shield. The term coaxial comes from the inner conductor and the outer shield sharing the same geometric axis...

 hookups between W3XWT and its other television station, WABD in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 (later WNEW-TV and now WNYW
WNYW
WNYW, virtual channel 5 , is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. The station's transmitter is atop the Empire State Building and its studio facilities are located in the Yorkville section of Manhattan...

). These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...

, the world's first licensed commercial television network. DuMont began regular network service in 1946. Almost a year later on January 3, 1947, W3XWT received a commercial license -- the first in the nation's capital -- as WTTG. The station was named for Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., the DuMont network's chief engineer and a close friend of Dr. DuMont. At the time of the launch, the new WTTG was the first DuMont O&O station built from the ground up, preceding its then sister stations in New York
WNYW
WNYW, virtual channel 5 , is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. The station's transmitter is atop the Empire State Building and its studio facilities are located in the Yorkville section of Manhattan...

 and Pittsburgh
KDKA-TV
KDKA-TV, channel 2, is an owned and operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. KDKA-TV broadcasts from a transmitter located in the Perry North neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and its studios are located in downtown Pittsburgh at Gateway Center....

.

Like its New York sister station, WTTG was far more successful than the network as a whole. In 1956, after DuMont ended network operations, WTTG and WABD became independent stations and were spun off from DuMont Laboratories as the "DuMont Broadcasting Corporation". It later changed its name to Metropolitan Broadcasting due to the failure associated with DuMont.

As an independent station

In 1958, Washington investor John Kluge bought controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting and installed himself as its chairman. He changed the company's name to Metromedia
Metromedia
Metromedia was a media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and owned Orion Pictures from 1986-1997.- Overview :...

 in 1961. Goldsmith sat on Metromedia's board for over a quarter-century.

At first, WTTG ran on a low budget. However, in the late 1960s, it benefited from Metromedia's aggressiveness in acquiring top syndicated programming, giving it a significant leg up on WDCA, which signed on in 1966. By the 1970s, WTTG was one of the leading independent stations in the country, running a broad lineup of cartoons, off-network sitcoms, first-run syndicated shows, old movies, local news and locally produced programs. During this time period, and well into the early 1990s, WTTG was the flagship station for the Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 men's basketball
College basketball
College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

 team. Its main claim to fame was Panorama, an afternoon talk show hosted by John Willis, and later Maury Povich
Maury Povich
Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich is an American TV talk show host who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury.-Personal background:...

.

When cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 began in the 1970s, WTTG became a regional superstation
Superstation
Superstation in United States television can have several meanings. In its most precise meaning, a superstation is defined by the Federal Communications Commission as "A television broadcast station, other than a network station, licensed by the FCC that is secondarily transmitted by a satellite...

. At one point, it appeared on every cable system in Maryland and Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

, as well as most of Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

 and in parts of North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

, South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

 and Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

.

Transition to Fox

Metromedia owned the station until 1986 when Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....

, after buying 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

, purchased the Metromedia television stations to form the nucleus of the Fox network. WTTG became one of the original six Fox owned-and-operated stations (O&O), all the while retaining consistently high ratings, a rarity for a Fox station then. Initially, its programming was similar to what it had run as a true independent station, since Fox only programmed for a few hours on weekends. Then, on June 25, 1990, the morning cartoon block was ended in favor of Fox 5 Morning News. It was the second Fox O&O to have a morning newscast and the fourth or fifth Fox affiliate with morning news.

As channel 5 transitioned to an O&O and more independent stations signed on, it lost much of its cable audience. Though not distributed as widely as it once was, it is still available on several Maryland and Virginia cable systems. For instance, it has long been available on cable in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia in the United States. Its population as of 2010 is 48,914, and at the 2000 census, 40,468. Harrisonburg is the county seat of Rockingham County and the core city of the Harrisonburg, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical...

 and the Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley is both a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. The valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians , to the north by the Potomac River...

 even though WHSV-TV
WHSV-TV
WHSV-TV, channel 3 , is an ABC affiliate television station for the Harrisonburg, Virginia, market. WHSV News 3, as it is known on-air, is owned by Gray Television and has its transmitter located west of the town of Stanley on Massanutten Mountain...

 recently launched a digital-only Fox station
WHSV-DT2
The Valley's FOX is the Fox-affiliated television station for Harrisonburg, Virginia. The station is a second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WHSV-TV which is owned by Gray Television....

 in 2006. However, WTTG is still carried on basic cable in the Shenandoah Valley. Additionally, it is still carried on cable in Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by but separate from Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.The official population estimate for...

 despite the city recently gaining a Fox affiliate, WAHU-CA
WAHU-CA
WAHU-CD is the low-powered Fox-affiliated television station for Charlottesville, Virginia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 40 from a transmitter on Carters Mountain. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 213...

. Both stations are carried on basic cable in the Charlottesville area. It also served as the default Fox affiliate for Salisbury, Maryland
Salisbury, Maryland
-Demographics:Salisbury is the principal city of the Salisbury-Ocean Pines CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Salisbury metropolitan area and the Ocean Pines micropolitan area , which had a combined population of 176,657 at the 2010 census.As of the census of 2000, there were...

 until the debut of new default Fox affiliate, Fox21 Delmarva
WBOC-DT2
WBOC-DT2 is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Delmarva Peninsula of Maryland and Delaware. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WBOC-TV locally owned by Draper Holdings Business Trust. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel...

, a subchannel of WBOC-TV
WBOC-TV
WBOC-TV, channel 16 , is a CBS affiliate based in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. WBOC-TV is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust, with its main studios in Salisbury, secondary studios/office facilities in Dover and Milton, Delaware, and transmitter in Laurel, Delaware...

, on August 21, 2006.

In the 1990s, Fox 5 added more syndicated talk shows and reality shows. It continued to air afternoon cartoons from Fox Kids until the fall of 2001, when they moved to WDCA (only to be cut to Saturdays everywhere in 2002). But WTTG later on brought back Fox children's programming under the banner 4Kids TV
4Kids TV
4Kids TV was a Saturday morning television programming block on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The block was part of the Fox Network schedule...

. On October 29, 2001, WDCA became WTTG's sister station when Fox bought it from Viacom
Viacom
Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...

. Fox 5 continued to run top rated off-network sitcoms in the evenings. In 2002, it added an evening 5 to 6 p.m. newscast. Today, it has 40 hours a week of local news.

WTTG has been the primary station for the Washington Redskins
Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...

 since 1994, when Fox bought the rights to air NFL games
NFL on FOX
NFL on Fox is the brand name of the Fox Broadcasting Company's coverage of the National Football League's National Football Conference games, produced by Fox Sports...

 in which a team from the National Football Conference
National Football Conference
The National Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League . This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference , currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL.-Current teams:Since 2002, the NFC has comprised 16 teams,...

 (which the Redskins are in) was on the road. All Redskins home games since 1965 have sold out (though the Redskins have had to deal with numerous no-shows), thus allowing them to be aired on WTTG (along with the Redskins' entire road slate) provided they are against an NFC team and are not being played at night, which will be aired on WRC-TV
WRC-TV
WRC-TV, channel 4, is an owned and operated television station of the NBC television network, located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C...

 for Sunday Night Football
Sunday Night Football
Sunday Night Football is a weekly American football game held throughout most of the season by the National Football League. Sunday night games have been played regularly since 1987 and have thus far aired on three different television outlets:...

, ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

 (WDCA
WDCA
WDCA, virtual channel 20, is a television station in Washington, D.C.. Owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, WDCA is a sister station to Fox network outlet WTTG , and is affiliated with the co-owned MyNetworkTV programming service...

 locally) for Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN. From to it aired on ABC. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series...

 or WUSA
WUSA (TV)
WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network...

 when a team from the American Football Conference
American Football Conference
The American Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League . This conference and its counterpart, the National Football Conference , currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL....

 is the visiting team. This relationship is limited to regular season and postseason games, since WRC airs preseason games. Prior to 1994, WTTG aired the Redskins preseason games and training camp scrimmages during the majority of the 1980's into the early 1990's.

On May 15, 2006 WTTG launched a new website, which features more news and video with the "MyFox" name and interface. (The "My" in the MyFox name may be a reference to Fox's new network My Network TV, which is now shown locally on WDCA
WDCA
WDCA, virtual channel 20, is a television station in Washington, D.C.. Owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, WDCA is a sister station to Fox network outlet WTTG , and is affiliated with the co-owned MyNetworkTV programming service...

.) It is at www.myfoxdc.com.

The new logo and set premiered on June 25, 2006. WTTG launched "NewsEdge" (previously titled "The Edge" until October 2006), its 11–11:30 p.m. newscast, on July 31, 2006. "NewsEdge", which is anchored solo by 10 p.m. co-anchor Brian Bolter, follows its 10–11 p.m. newscast. Also with the launch of the 11 p.m. broadcast, Fox 5 has now expanded its 6 p.m. broadcast to 7 days a week. The new "NewsEdge" has gone to 7 days as well; the weekend 11 p.m. broadcast is 15 minutes long, followed by "Sports Extra."

On January 30, 2009, starting with its 6 p.m. newscast, WTTG became the third station in DC (behind CBS affiliate WUSA
WUSA (TV)
WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network...

 and ABC affiliate WJLA) to launch news in high definition. With the change to HD came the new Fox O&O HD graphics currently used on other Fox-owned stations.

Criticism

In 2004, the inner operations of WTTG during the station's first years under News Corporation's ownership were scrutinized in Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald is an American film director, film producer, and political activist.-Early life:Greenwald was born and raised in New York City, the son of Ruth and Harold Greenwald. He attended the city's High School of Performing Arts...

's documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. The documentary, through a panel of former WTTG journalists and staffers, claimed that following News Corporation's acquisition, WTTG's news reporting became biased and sensationalistic, much in the style of the Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox 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...

, which News Corporation also owns and which the film primarily criticizes. Former WTTG employees claimed that:
  • they were told "from the top" to air a tribute to Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

    , as seen at the 1988 Republican National Convention
    1988 Republican National Convention
    The 1988 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana from August 15 to August 18, 1988. It was the second time that a major party held its conclave in one of the five states known as the Deep South, coming on the...

    , uncut;
  • they were told to run a piece from A Current Affair
    A Current Affair (US TV series)
    A Current Affair is an American television newsmagazine that aired in syndicated from July 1986 to 1996 before reappearing briefly in March 2005. The show was produced by 20th Century Fox, and long based at Fox's New York flagship WNYW.-Overview:...

    that "rehashed the whole matter of [Senator Ted Kennedy
    Ted Kennedy
    Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...

    's deadly car accident at] Chappaquiddick" which had "zero news value"; and
  • an obsessive attitude over airing stories related to wedge issues such as race relations and AIDS
    AIDS
    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

    .

News operation

WTTG broadcasts a total of 45 hours of local news a week (eight hours on weekdays, two hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays), the most of any television station in the Washington, D.C. market; however as is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, WTTG's Saturday and Sunday 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption or delay due to sports coverage.

On September 4, 2006, WTTG began simulcasting its weekday morning and daily 10 p.m. newscasts on Baltimore's Fox-owned WUTB
WUTB
WUTB, digital channel 41, is the MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated television station for Baltimore, Maryland. Its transmitter is located near Gilson Park in Catonsville. The station has studios on Seton Drive in Baltimore near the city and county line...

, under the banner of My 24 News. The higher-ups at both stations cite the decision to simulcast as a by-product of cross-regional news interests and increasing overlap between the Baltimore and Washington media 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...

s. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/10/AR2006081001835.html On October 2006, while WTTG aired Fox Sports
Fox Sports (USA)
Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company . It was formed in 1994 with Fox's acquisition of broadcast rights to National Football League games...

' coverage of the 2006 Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 postseason, the first half-hour of the 10 p.m. newscast was seen on Washington's Fox-owned WDCA
WDCA
WDCA, virtual channel 20, is a television station in Washington, D.C.. Owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, WDCA is a sister station to Fox network outlet WTTG , and is affiliated with the co-owned MyNetworkTV programming service...

 under the banner of Fox 5 News at Ten Special Edition. The same has occurred in 2007, with a banner name of My 20 News at 10.

On July 2, 2007, WTTG discontinued its noon newscast and replaced it with an hour-long newscast at 11am, titled Fox 5 News Midday. On September 10, 2007, the station added "NewsEdge" at 6pm which is also anchored solo by Brian Bolter. The 6 p.m. edition of "NewsEdge" follows its hour-long 5 p.m. newscast. The addition of "NewsEdge" at 6 p.m. was due in part to the success of its current 11 p.m. counterpart.

On January 14, 2009, WTTG entered into talks with local NBC O&O WRC-TV
WRC-TV
WRC-TV, channel 4, is an owned and operated television station of the NBC television network, located in the American capital city of Washington, D.C...

 (channel 4) to share helicopters and pool news video. On September 14, 2009, WTTG expanded FOX Morning News to five hours (now airing from 5-10 a.m.), but discontinued its hour-long 11 a.m. midday newscast. In early 2010, WTTG became the second station (behind WUSA) to start news at 4:30 a.m.
Anchors
  • Brian Bolter
    Brian Bolter
    Brian Bolter is a television news anchor and reporter. Bolter hopscotched across the country working in several TV markets as he gained experience. He has worked at KHBS-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas, KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas, KHQA-TV in Quincy, Illinois, and at WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland...

    - weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
  • Shawn Yancy
    Shawn Yancy
    Shawn Yancy is a News Anchor for WTTG-TV, FOX 5 News in Washington, DC. Yancy co-anchors FOX 5 News at 5pm & 10pm and contributes to the Newsedge @ 6 and 11pm. Yancy previously co-anchored FOX 5 Morning News from 5 to 7am. She joined the FOX 5 News team in September 2001...

    - weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.
  • Laura Evans - weeknights at 5 p.m.
  • Sarah Simmons - weekday mornings "Fox 5 Morning News" (4:30-7 a.m.)
  • Steve Chenevey - weekday mornings "Fox 5 Morning News" (5-9 a.m.)
  • Holly Morris
    Holly Morris (Television Reporter)
    Holly Morris is a television reporter for WTTG in Washington D.C. since 1998. She is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Duke University in 1993 with a degree in civil engineering....

    - Sunday mornings; also morning feature reporter
  • Allison Seymour - weekday mornings "Fox 5 Morning News" (7-10 a.m.)
  • Tony Perkins - weekday mornings "Fox 5 Morning News" (9-10 a.m.)
  • Will Thomas - weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
  • Maureen Umeh - weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.

Fox 5 Weather Team
  • Sue Palka (NWA
    National Weather Association
    The National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...

     Seal of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
  • Gary McGrady (AMS
    American Meteorological Society
    The 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...

     Seal of Approval) - Meteorologist; weeknights at 5 p.m.
  • Tony Perkins - Meteorologist; weekday mornings "Fox 5 Morning News" (5-9 a.m.)
  • Tucker Barnes - Meteorologist; weekday mornings "Fox 5 Morning News" (4:30-5 a.m. and 9-10 a.m.)
  • Gwen Tolbart - Meteorologist; Sunday mornings, and weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.

Sports team
  • Dave Feldman - Sports Director; weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.
  • Lindsay Murphy - Sports Anchor; weekends at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.; also sports reporter
  • Dave Ross - sports producer; occasionally on "Fox 5 Morning News"

Reporters
  • Matt Ackland - general assignment reporter
  • Melanie Alnwick - special projects reporter
  • Bob Barnard - general assignment reporter
  • Roby Chavez - general assignment reporter
  • Claudia Coffey - general assignment reporter
  • Stacey Cohan - general assignment reporter
  • Tom Fitzgerald - general assignment reporter
  • John Henrehan - general assignment reporter
  • Karen Gray Houston - general assignment reporter
  • Sherri Ly - general assignment reporter
  • Wisdom Martin - general assignment reporter
  • Beth Parker - general assignment reporter
  • Roz Plater - general assignment reporter
  • Paul Wagner - general assignment reporter
  • Allyson Wilson - general assignment reporter
  • Julie Wright - morning traffic reporter

Former on-air staff

  • James Adams – anchor/reporter (1977–1990)
  • Ed Alwood – reporter/business anchor (1977–1982)
  • Brooke Baldwin – reporter (2006–2008) (Now at CNN
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

    )
  • Ric Barrick – meteorologist(2001–2002)
  • Mike Barry – meteorologist (2004–2006)
  • Dave Bender – reporter (1990–1993; now at KOVR-TV)
  • Jackie Bensen – reporter (1987–1999; now at WRC-TV)
  • Dave Benz – sports anchor/reporter (??–2009; now at Comcast SportsNet California)
  • Josh Binswanger – "Fox Morning News" anchor (1998–2000) (later with WBZ-TV
    WBZ-TV
    WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WBZ-TV's studios and office facilities, shared with sister station WSBK-TV , are located in the Allston-Brighton section of Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham,...

     Boston)
  • Steve Buckhantz
    Steve Buckhantz
    Steve Buckhantz is a television play-by-play announcer for the Washington Wizards.-Biography:His television announcing career began as Sports Director at WTTG, a Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C. A District native, Buckhantz grew up in Arlington, Virginia, where his father owned a construction...

     – sports anchor (1987–2001; now with Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic)
  • Alan Campbell – weekend anchor/staff announcer (1961–1963)
  • Connie Chung
    Connie Chung
    Connie Chung, full name: Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S...

     – reporter (1970–1971)
  • Jack Conaty
    Jack Conaty
    Jack Conaty was the chief political correspondent for WFLD-TV in Chicago from 1987 to 2009.He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Providence College in Rhode Island...

     – reporter (1986–1987)
  • Vince DeLisi – sports anchor and reporter (1990–1992)
  • Rory Devine – reporter (1982-1983)
  • Gurvir Dhindsa - anchor (2004-2011; now at Good Day Atlanta on WAGA-TV)
  • Stacey Donaldson – meteorologist (1998–2002)
  • Mike Dunston – reporter (now anchor at WOFL in Orlando)
  • Barton Eckert – anchor/reporter (1975–1984)
  • Darya Folsom – morning anchor/reporter (1994–1998; now at KRON-TV)
  • Joe Fowler – sports anchor/reporter (1986–1987)
  • Michael Garguilo – morning anchor/reporter (2000–2006; now at WNBC-TV)
  • Jeff Gilbert - meteorologist
  • Bill Gormly – host of children's show Countdown Carnival/staff announcer (1963–1968)
  • Delores Handy – 10 p.m. anchor (1978–1981; now at WBUR in Boston)
  • Brett Haber
    Brett Haber
    Brett Haber is an American sportscaster. He is currently a play-by-play commentator and host for Tennis Channel and several other national and regional sports outlets. Haber is also Editor-at-Large/Sports Editor for Washingtonian Magazine. In July of 2011 Haber announced his resignation as Sports...

     – sports anchor/reporter (1997–2000; now with WUSA)
  • Kerri Lee Halkett – traffic reporter/anchor (1997–2000; now at WVIT-TV)
  • Chick Hernandez – sports anchor/reporter (1993–2000; now with Comcast SportsMet Mid-Atlantic)
  • Lou Holder – weekend sports anchor/reporter (200?–2007)
  • Hillary Howard
    Hillary Howard
    Hillary Howard is an Emmy-award winning reporter. She currently co-anchors the 2pm to 7pm shift on all-news station WTOP in Washington, DC.- Career :...

     (Statter) – meteorologist (1990s–2000; now at WTOP radio)
  • Bill Johnson – staff announcer and children's show host (1950s-1960s)
  • Gus Johnson
    Gus Johnson (sportscaster)
    Augustus Cornelius "Gus" Johnson, Jr. is an American sportscaster. Formerly employed by CBS Sports, he currently calls play-by-play for Fox Sports, Showtime, the Big Ten Network and EA Sports.-Education:...

     – weekend sports anchor/reporter (1991–1992)
  • Morris Jones – anchor/reporter (1983–2001; now at TBD TV)
  • Jim Karvellas – sports anchor/reporter (?, deceased)
  • Dennis Ketterer – meteorologist (1983–1985)
  • Mike Landess – anchor/reporter (1998–2001; now at KMGH-TV
    KMGH-TV
    KMGH-TV, channel 7, is the ABC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. The station itself is usually branded as "Denver's 7", but its newscasts are branded as "7 News". It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter located in Golden, Colorado...

     in Denver)
  • Jeff Lawson
    Jeff Lawson
    Jeff Lawson may refer to:* Jeff Lawson, meteorologist at WTTG from 1984–1989, now at WVEC in Norfolk, Virginia* Jeff Lawson, co-founder of distributed.net* Jeff Lawson , English MMA fighter and The Ultimate Fighter 9 cast member...

     – meteorologist (1984–1989)
  • Lark McCarthy – Fox 5 Morning News co-anchor (1990–2007)
  • Patrick McGrath – national correspondent (1983–2009; retired)
  • Pat Mitchell
    Pat Mitchell
    Pat Mitchell is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of The Paley Center for Media in New York City and the former President and CEO of Public Broadcasting Service ....

     – anchor/Panorama host (1977–1979)
  • Tracey Neale – anchor/reporter (1994–2003)
  • Maury Povich
    Maury Povich
    Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich is an American TV talk show host who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury.-Personal background:...

     – anchor/reporter/Panorama host (1967–1976 and 1983–1986; now hosting The Maury Show)
  • John Raye – anchor 1976–1981
  • Lee Reynolds – children's show host Captain Tugg
    Captain Tugg
    Captain Tugg was the host of a local children's cartoon show that was broadcast in the early 1960s by WTTG, Channel 5, a Washington, D.C. television station. Captain Tugg was the master of the Channel Queen, a tugboat that plied the Potomac River, near the capital city. With his parrot, Fantail,...

     (1958–1966), Grandpa Reynolds (1956–1959), and Captain Lee and Mates (1964–1966)
  • Mike Ritz – sports reporter (1987–1991)
  • Amy Robach
    Amy Robach
    Amy Joanne Robach is a national correspondent for NBC's Today, as well as the co-anchor of their Saturday edition.-Biography:...

     – anchor/reporter (1998–2003; now with NBC News)
  • Diane Roberts – sports reporter and substitute sports anchor
  • Nathan Roberts – anchor/reporter (1988–1991, formerly of TBD TV)
  • Angela Robinson – anchor/reporter/Panorama host (1983–1993)
  • Al Roker
    Al Roker
    Albert Lincoln "Al" Roker, Jr. is an American television meteorologist as well as an actor and book author. He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. On Monday, July 20, 2009, he began co-hosting his new morning show, Wake Up with Al, on The Weather Channel, which airs weekdays...

     – weather anchor (1976–1978; now with NBC News
    NBC News
    NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...

     The Today Show
    The Today Show
    Today is an iconic American morning news and talk show airing every morning on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre on American television and in the world. The show is also the fourth-longest running American television series...

    )
  • Steve Rudin – meteorologist (2001–2004; now with WJLA and TBD TV)
  • Tom Sater – meteorologist (1998–2005)
  • Bob Schieffer
    Bob Schieffer
    Bob Lloyd Schieffer is an American television journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1996; chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since...

     – reporter (1969–19??; now CBS News
    CBS News
    CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...

     Chief Washington Correspondent)
  • Kevin Schultze – reporter (1993–1996)
  • Bob Sellers
    Bob Sellers
    Bob Sellers is a former news co-anchor for WSMV's 6 and 10 o'clock broadcasts. He was previously an anchor for WTTG's Fox 5 Morning News. He also was an anchor for Fox News Channel. Joining the network in 2002, he regularly hosted weekend hours of Fox News Live and frequently anchored Fox News Live...

     – weekday morning anchor (2006–2008; now at WSMV-TV
    WSMV-TV
    WSMV-TV, virtual channel 4, is the NBC-affiliated television station serving the Nashville, Tennessee area. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 10. Owned by Meredith Corporation, its transmitter and tower are located adjacent to its studios on Knob Road in west Nashville, south of...

     in Nashville)
  • Michelle Sigona – traffic reporter (2004–2006; now correspondent for Fox's America's Most Wanted
    America's Most Wanted
    America's Most Wanted is an American television program produced by 20th Television, and was the longest-running program of any kind in the history of the Fox Television Network until it was announced on May 16, 2011 that the series was canceled after twenty-three years, with the final episode...

    )
  • Aleen Sirgany – anchor/reporter (1999–2001)
  • Karna Small – anchor (1976–1978)
  • Alan Smith – anchor (1960s-1970s)
  • Bernie Smilovitz – sports anchor (1978–1986)
  • Jill Sorenson – reporter (2004–2005; now with Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic)
  • Cynthia Steele – weeknight 10 p.m. anchor (1990–199?)
  • Jackie Stone – reporter (1983–1991)
  • Sara Underwood – reporter (???–2000; now at WFXT-TV in Boston)
  • Todd D. Wallace – morning anchor (2000–2002; later with WRTV-TV in Indianapolis)
  • Tim White – morning anchor (1990–1992; retired)
  • Brian Williams
    Brian Williams
    Brian Douglas Williams is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004...

     – anchor/reporter/Panorama host (1985–1986; now anchor/managing editior for NBC Nightly News
    NBC Nightly News
    NBC Nightly News is the flagship daily evening television news program for NBC News and broadcasts. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is located in the center...

    )
  • John Wills – anchor (1960s–1970s)
  • Brian Wilson
    Brian Wilson (Fox News correspondent)
    Brian Wilson was an American anchor reporter for the Fox News Channel. He is the past chairman of the Capitol Hill Radio/TV Correspondents' Association....

     – anchor/reporter (19??–2000)

Translator

WTTG is broadcasted on a low powered translator called W46BR in Moorefield, West Virginia
Moorefield, West Virginia
Moorefield is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Moorefield is the county seat of Hardy County. It was originally chartered in 1777 and named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out...

. W46BR is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, INC instead of WTTG and Fox Television Stations.

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