WUPW
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WUPW is the Fox-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 Northwestern Ohio
Northwest Ohio
Northwest or northwestern Ohio consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the US state of Ohio. This area borders Lake Erie, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana. Some areas in northwestern Ohio are also considered the Black Swamp area. The Toledo metropolitan area is also part...

 that is licensed to Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...

. 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 46 from a transmitter in Oregon
Oregon, Ohio
Oregon is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Toledo, located on Lake Erie, just east of the city. The population was 20,291 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Oregon is located at ....

. Owned by the LIN TV Corporation, the station has studios at Four SeaGate
One SeaGate
Fifth Third Center at One SeaGate is the tallest building in Toledo, Ohio. Until 2006, the building served as the world headquarters for Owens-Illinois. In 2007, Fifth Third Bank moved their Northwest Ohio headquarters to the building.- Building features :...

 on North Summit Street in Downtown Toledo. 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...

 and other programming on WUPW includes: The Office, Maury
Maury (TV series)
Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...

, Better
Better (TV series)
Better is a syndicated lifestyle television show. It airs weekdays on 80 stations across the United States. The program is produced and distributed by Meredith Corporation which was first founded as a publishing company back in 1902. Better gets its name from Meredith's flagship publication, Better...

, Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis
Judge Mathis is a syndicated television legal reality show produced originally by Black Pearl Productions. In 2008, it entered its tenth season produced by AND Syndicated Productions and Telepictures. It is taped at NBC Tower in Chicago, but includes cases and litigants from other U.S....

, Family Feud
Family Feud
Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people...

, Divorce Court
Divorce Court
Divorce Court is a judge show about cases which only involve divorcing couples. Out of the shows currently airing in the court-themed genre, Divorce Court is the oldest...

, Judge Alex
Judge Alex
Judge Alex is a United States syndicated courtroom television show that debuted September 12, 2005. The host/arbitrator is the Hon. Alex Ferrer, a former police officer, lawyer, and Florida judge. The show was produced in Houston at the television studios of Fox's KRIV , as was previously done with...

, Swift Justice with Jackie Glass
Swift Justice With Nancy Grace
Swift Justice with Jackie Glass is a syndicated court program hosted by Judge Jackie Glass....

, Anderson
Anderson (TV series)
Anderson is an American first-run syndicated talk show that is hosted by CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper, who also serves as co-producer in his first foray into daytime talk television. The show debuted on September 12, 2011, and is distributed by Warner Bros...

, Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...

, TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV, or simply TMZ and TMZTV, is an American syndicated entertainment and gossip news television show that premiered on September 10, 2007. The program is generally aired on Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates, though a majority of the stations that carry the series are Fox affiliates...

, 30 Rock
30 Rock
30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live...

, The People's Court
The People's Court
The People's Court is a US television court show in which small claims court cases are heard, though what is shown is actually a binding arbitration....

and How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...


History

The station went on-air September 22, 1985 as an Independent with an analog signal on UHF channel 36. Originally, WUPW was owned by a consortium of local investors and private companies. It became a charter Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986. It was sold to Atlanta-based Ellis Communications in 1993. Three years later, that company was sold to a group led by the Retirement Systems of Alabama
Retirement Systems of Alabama
Retirement Systems of Alabama is the administrator of the pension fund for employees of the state of Alabama. It is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. David G. Bronner is the chief executive officer....

 who merged with Aflac
Aflac
Aflac Incorporated is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, founded in 1955 and based in Columbus, Georgia. In the United States, Aflac underwrites a wide range of insurance policies, but is perhaps more known for its payroll deduction insurance coverage, which pays...

's broadcasting group to form Raycom Media
Raycom Media
- History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....

.

After Raycom acquired the Malrite Communications Group in 1999 (which owned 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...

 affiliate WNWO-TV
WNWO-TV
WNWO-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station in Northwest Ohio that is licensed to Toledo. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 from a transmitter northeast of Oregon. Owned by Barrington Broadcasting, the station has studios on South Byrne Road...

), WUPW was spun-off to Sunrise Television due to Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 (FCC) rules at the time prohibiting common ownership of two stations in the same market
Media market
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. WNWO was longer-established and Raycom opted to keep that channel over WUPW.

Until 2001, WUPW was the only over-the-air television station in the area to air cartoons weekday afternoons as the local WB affiliate, WT05
WT05
WT05 is the flagship television station of Block Communications, which also owns the Toledo Blade and Buckeye CableSystem. It is the CW's Northwest Ohio affiliate....

, is cable exclusive. Current owner LIN TV acquired this station in 2002 through its purchase of Sunrise Television. Raycom bought CBS
CBS
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 WTOL
WTOL
WTOL is the CBS- affiliated television station licensed in Toledo, Ohio. The station broadcasts on channel 11 and can be seen quite clearly throughout Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan , and southwest Ontario...

 in 2006 after Liberty Broadcasting merged with Raycom. WNWO was sold to Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC , headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois is an entity wholly focused on broadcast television. The company's assets mainly consist of television stations in middle and small sized markets...

 due to the same FCC rule of common ownership. In early-June 2007, WUPW along with three other LIN TV-owned Fox affiliates switched their websites over to Fox Interactive Media's "My Fox" platform which is already being used by Fox owned-and-operated station
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...

s (O&Os). The LIN-owned channels were the first non-Fox O&Os to adopt the new site design.

On October 2, 2008, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

’s contract to carry WUPW on its cable system expired and lost the right to carry this channel's programming as a result. On October 29, the station and Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

 reached a contract for carrying both analog and high definition signals. However, customers in Erie County
Erie County, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 79,551 people, 31,727 households, and 21,764 families residing in the county. The population density was 312 people per square mile . There were 35,909 housing units at an average density of 141 per square mile...

 (except the immediate Sandusky
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County. It is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east....

 area) and Huron County
Huron County, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 59,487 people, 22,307 households, and 16,217 families residing in the county. The population density was 121 people per square mile . There were 23,594 housing units at an average density of 48 per square mile...

 no longer receive WUPW on local cable. This area is included in Time Warner's Northeastern Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

 region and is served accordingly by Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

's WJW. Later in October along with other LIN-owned Fox affiliates, WUPW redesigned its website to remove itself from the "My Fox" template. The new website is also operated by Fox Interactive Media but is now using a design jointly developed by LIN TV and 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...

.

Its high definition-ready 8VSB
8VSB
8VSB is the modulation method used for broadcast in the ATSC digital television standard. ATSC and 8VSB modulation is used primarily in North America; in contrast, the DVB-T standard uses COFDM....

 digital transmitter was first turned on for broadcasting in 2003. The transmitter is a liquid-cooled solid state system and quickly became known as a very reliable signal as other stations in the Toledo area struggled with the Inductive output tube
Inductive output tube
The inductive output tube or IOT is a variety of vacuum tube which evolved in the 1980s to meet increasing efficiency requirements for high-power RF amplifiers. The primary commercial use of IOTs is in UHF television transmitters, where they have mostly replaced klystrons because of their higher...

 type of transmitter during the birth of digital television in Northwestern Ohio. The WUPW transmitter has a great deal of redundancy: sixteen amplifiers and hot standby back-up digital exciters. It also has its own on-board computer system
Master control
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 to watch over critical systems. The WUPW transmitter site has a emergency diesel generator to keep the station on-the-air even if a total loss of electrical power were to occur in the city. In June 2009, the station's digital signal remained at channel 46 following the digital transition. However, it can be tuned to channel 36 using PSIP. In early-2010, the FCC received an application from WUPW to nearly double its power from 110 to 200 kilowatts.

The station's broadcast tower is 1,253 foot high that has a seven foot face on each of its three sides. The tower was built by Stainless Steel Tower of 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...

. The top section has a 53 foot aerial mast with a side mount dipole antenna for the transmission of analog television programs. The digital antenna is a side mount made by Dielectric and is mounted at 1,200 feet. It was completed in 1985 and is the property of LIN TV. WUPW airs regional and national sports programming from 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...

. Local teams that appear on on WUPW include Detroit Lions
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...

 regular season games (from NFL on Fox
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...

). Since its normal coverage area reaches within 75 miles of the Lions' home Ford Field
Ford Field
Ford Field is an indoor American football stadium located in Detroit, Michigan, USA, that is the current home field of the NFL's Detroit Lions. It is owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. It regularly seats 65,000, though it is expandable up to 70,000 for football and 80,000 for...

, it is part of the Lions' blackout area.

News operation

On January 28, 1996, WUPW entered into a news share agreement with CBS affiliate WTOL which resulted in a weeknight prime time newscast at 10 p.m. produced by the latter. Known as Fox 36 News at 10, the show originated from WTOL's facilities on North Summit Street. Most stories were recycled from the CBS affiliate's newscasts. The partnership between WUPW and WTOL ended on July 31, 2000 with this channel's news operation moving to Four SeaGate.

New graphics and a new set accompany the launch of the independent half-hour show known as Fox Toledo News at 10. The broadcast was extended to an hour on August 6, 2001 with a five-minute "Fastcast" review of news, weather, and sports ending at 11 while also expanding to seven nights a week. On January 5, 2004, WUPW launched Fox Toledo News First at 4 on weekdays with the nightly 10 o'clock show renamed as First at 10 and an updated set and new graphics. In November 2006, this station took over third-place ranking in viewership in the November ratings period which was a position previously held by WNWO. In 2007, it began using the Fox O&O News Theme and a version of the Fox O&O graphics package that were modified in-house. The theme and graphics were offered to all Fox affiliates, regardless of ownership, through affiliate news video service Fox News Edge. In September 2010, the station began to offer limited morning news and weather cut-ins in a two-hour programming block known as The Morning Zone

September 24, 2007 saw the expansion of First at 4 to an hour. This newscast was canceled on January 11, 2010 and replaced with a show that airs weeknights at 6:30 against national news programs seen on the big three networks
Big Three Television Networks
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. Its 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...

 is known as "Stormtracker Doppler MAX". Throughout its existence, WUPW's news department has won many awards. The channel maintains partnerships with the Toledo Free Press
Toledo Free Press
The Toledo Free Press is a semi-weekly paper in Toledo, Ohio. It was founded in March 2005 by Thomas Pounds, a veteran administrator of daily newspapers in Toledo and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On March 10, 2010, the paper added a Wednesday edition called the Toledo Free Press STAR, that is...

, Bowling Green
Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green is the county seat of Wood County in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Bowling Green was 30,028. It is part of the Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University...

 Sentinel-Tribune
, Findlay
Findlay, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 38,967 people, 15,905 households, and 10,004 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,266.3 people per square mile . There were 17,152 housing units at an average density of 997.6 per square mile...

 Living Magazine
, Wauseon
Wauseon, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 7,091 people, 2,706 households, and 1,875 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,437.6 people per square mile . There were 2,851 housing units at an average density of 578.0 per square mile...

 Fulton County Expositor
, and at one time, on WNWT-AM 1520.

As of November 2011, WUPW is the only "Big Four" network-affiliated television station in Toledo that hasn't made the upgrade in broadcasting their newscasts in 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...

 or 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen. WTVG was the first to make the upgrade in July 2010. WTOL was the second station to go HD in April 2011. WNWO upgraded its newscasts to enhanced definition widescreen on August 15, 2011. WUPW is planning to upgrade its newscasts into high definition near the end of 2011 to early 2012.

Newscast titles

  • Fox 36 News at 10 (1996–2000)
  • FOX Toledo News at 10 (2000–present)
  • FOX Toledo News First at 4 (2004–2007)
  • FOX Toledo News at 6:30 (2010–present)
  • FOX Toledo Morning Zone (2010–present, cut-ins only)

Station slogans

  • Don't Let Fox 36 Weekends Pass You By (1987–1988; localized version of Fox ad campaign)
  • "Just You Watch" (2004–2010, general slogan)
  • "First. Fast. Fair." (2004–2009, news slogan)
  • "On-Air. Online. On the Go." (2009–2010, news slogan)
  • "Always On. On-Air. Online. On Mobile." (2010–present, general slogan)

Current on-air staff (as of December 2011)

Anchors
  • Allison Brown - weekends at 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and host of Toledo Idol
  • Nicole Collier - Fox Toledo News at Day Break
  • Laura Emerson - weeknights at 6:30 and 10 p.m.
  • Shaun Hegarty - weeknights at 6:30 and 10 p.m.


Weather team
  • Doug Moats - chief meteorologist, weeknights at 6:30 and 10 p.m.
  • Bruce Slusher - weather anchor; weekends at 10 p.m.
  • Larry Whatley - weather anchor; fill-in


Sports team
  • Howard Chen - sports director; weeknights at 6:30 and 10 p.m., also Hardcore Blitz host
  • Joe Rychnovsky - sports anchor; weekends at 10 p.m., also The Rychnovsky Recap host


Reporters
  • Sharia Davis - general assignment reporter
  • Ashley Johncola - general assignment reporter
  • Kristi Leigh - general assignment reporter
  • Heather Miller - general assignment reporter
  • Kevin Milliken - general assignment reporter
  • Jennifer Steck - general assignment reporter

External links

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