WVAH-TV
Encyclopedia
WVAH-TV is the Fox
-affiliated television station
for Charleston
and Huntington, West Virginia
which is the second-largest market
in terms of area east of the Mississippi River
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter south of Scott Depot
along the Putnam
and Kanawha
County line. Owned by Cunningham Broadcasting
, WVAH is operated through a local marketing agreement
(LMA) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
. This make it sister to ABC
affiliate WCHS-TV
and the two share studios on Piedmont Road in Charleston along I-64
/I-77
. Syndicated
programming on the station includes: Family Feud
, Two and a Half Men
, The Steve Wilkos Show
, The Jerry Springer Show
, Maury
and Swift Justice with Jackie Glass.
General Assembly forced West Virginia Public Broadcasting
to withdraw its own application for the channel. It was the first Independent station in West Virginia, as well as the first new commercial station in the market since what is now WOWK-TV
signed-on in 1955, and the first commercial UHF station in the state since WKNA-TV
in Charleston went off-the-air in 1955. It became a charter Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986. Act III Broadcasting
bought the station in 1987.
Soon after buying control, Act III applied to move the station to the VHF band. Despite broadcasting from a 2,000 foot tower with the maximum five million watt
s of power, WVAH had considerable difficulty penetrating the market. The Charleston/Huntington market covers 61 counties in Central West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky
, and Southern Ohio
. Most of this area is a very rugged dissected plateau
, and as a result, UHF stations usually do not get good reception in this kind of terrain.
It also knocked WSAZ-TV
's low-power relay for the Kanawha Valley, also on channel 23, off-the-air on several occasions. As a result, WVAH was permitted to switch to VHF channel 11 in 1989, three years after Fox's launch. However, the station was short-spaced to WPXI
in Pittsburgh and WJHL-TV
in Johnson City, Tennessee
. It then had to conform its signal to protect WJHL. As a result, it did not provide a clear over-the-air signal to the southwestern part of the market.
Act III merged with Abry Communications in 1994. That company, in turn, was merged into the Sinclair Broadcast Group later in 1994. In 1997, Sinclair purchased the broadcasting properties of Heritage Media which included WCHS (the remainder of Heritage Media went to News Corporation
). It could not keep WCHS and WVAH due to Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) rules in effect at the time forbidding duopolies. Sinclair opted to keep the longer-established WCHS and sold WVAH to Glencairn, Ltd. which was headed by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards.
Initially, this channel retained its own studios on Mount Vernon Road in Teays Valley
that is an unincorporated suburban area that shares a zip code with Hurricane
even although most of its operations were merged with WCHS. On January 16, 1995, WVAH began airing UPN
programming during overnight hours. However, the station could not clear the entire schedule and dropped the network in early-2000. In 2001, Sinclair tried to acquire Glencairn outright, but the FCC did not allow Sinclair to re-acquire WVAH because it does not allow common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. As a result, Glencairn kept WVAH and changed its name to Cunningham Broadcasting.
Following a tower collapse in 2002, WVAH moved its transmitter and almost all of its facilities to WCHS' studios in Charleston. However, its main studios remained in Teays Valley until late-2009. Sinclair and Fox finalized a six year affiliation contract extension for Sinclair's nineteen Fox affiliates including WVAH. Its affiliation contract now expires in March 2012. The channel is the market's home for Southeastern Conference
football and basketball as a nod to the Kentucky Wildcats
' large following on the Kentucky side of the market. WVAH-TV ended analog operations on February 17, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States
. The station remained on its pre-transition channel 19. Through the use of PSIP
, digital television receivers display its virtual channel
as 11. WVAH's analog channel 11 signal was temporarily reactivated on June 12, 2009 for a two-week period with "analog nightlight" programming consisting a continuous loop of an informative video about the digital switch which is nationally produced in both English and Spanish
as well as subtitled in both English and Spanish.
2006, Charter Communications
streamlined its operations which included selling off portions of its cable system which were "geographically non-strategic". Charter accounts in WCHS's market area were purchased by Suddenlink Communications
(formerly known as Cebridge). Sinclair requested a $40 million one time fee and a $1 per sub per month fee from Suddenlink for retransmission rights of WVAH and WCHS on the Suddenlink cable system. This led to a protracted media battle and smear campaign between the two companies, and Sinclair pulled the two stations off-the-air in the Beckley
market. After several weeks of negotiations, the two companies reached an agreement allowing WVAH and WCHS to continue transmission over the Suddenlink cable system. The terms of the agreement were not released to the public.
and surrounding areas but there is coverage provided to the western vicinities as well. WCHS currently uses the Eyewitness News
branding for its news operation and produces three newscasts for sister station WVAH. This includes Eyewitness News This Morning on Fox 11 seen for an hour on weekday mornings from 7 until 8. There is also an hour long nightly prime time broadcast known as Eyewitness News at 10 on Fox 11.
Although it competes with a nightly show at 10 on MyNetworkTV affiliate WSAZ-DT2
, WVAH's broadcast is the market's only sixty minute late night news. On June 26, 2011, WSAZ launched the second High Definition (HD)news cast in the state of West Virginia and the first in the Charleston-Huntington DMA,On June 3, 2011 WTAP in Parkersburg launched the first news outlet in West Virginia with local news in High Definition (HD). Shows on WVAH and WCHS remain in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition and no plans have been made to make any changes to 16:9
enhanced definition widescreen
and/or full high definition.
Anchors
Eyewitness News Storm Team 11 Meteorologists
Sports
Reporters
Contributors
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...
-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 Charleston
Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...
and Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. Its population was 49,138 at...
which is the second-largest 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...
in terms of area east of the Mississippi River
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
. 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 19 from a transmitter south of Scott Depot
Scott Depot, West Virginia
Scott Depot is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It is located along Crooked Creek at and downstream from the creek's intersection with Teays Valley Road. The zipcode is 25560. It is part of the census-designated place of Teays Valley...
along the Putnam
Putnam County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 51,589 people, 20,028 households, and 15,281 families residing in the county. The population density was 149 people per square mile . There were 21,621 housing units at an average density of 62 per square mile...
and Kanawha
Kanawha County, West Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 200,073 people, 86,226 households, and 55,960 families residing in the county. The population density was 222 people per square mile . There were 93,788 housing units at an average density of 104 per square mile...
County line. Owned by Cunningham Broadcasting
Cunningham Broadcasting
Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of television stations in the United States. The company currently owns six stations—four affiliated with Fox Broadcasting Company , one affiliated with MyNetworkTV and one affiliated with The CW Television Network.Cunningham has very close ties to...
, WVAH is operated 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) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
. This make it sister to 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 WCHS-TV
WCHS-TV
WCHS-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Charleston and Huntington, West Virginia. This area is the second-largest market in terms of area east of the Mississippi River and consists of 61 counties in Central West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southern Ohio...
and the two share studios on Piedmont Road in Charleston along I-64
Interstate 64 in West Virginia
The alignment of Interstate 64 was to originally parallel US 60 from Charleston to the Virginia state line. This would go through environmentally sensitive areas such as Hawk's Nest and the New River Gorge area and might have disrupted the natural beauty and the isolation of the area.In 1969,...
/I-77
Interstate 77 in West Virginia
In the U.S. state of West Virginia, Interstate 77 is a major north–south Interstate highway. It extends for between Bluefield at the Virginia state line to Williamstown at the Ohio state line....
. 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 the station includes: 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...
, Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, The Steve Wilkos Show
The Steve Wilkos Show
The Steve Wilkos Show is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Steve Wilkos. The show debuted on September 10, 2007, two months after Wilkos' departure as director of security on The Jerry Springer Show.-History:...
, The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show is a syndicated television tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician, broadcast in the United States and other countries...
, 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...
and Swift Justice with Jackie Glass.
Digital programming
The station's digital channel is multiplexed.| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 11.1 | Main WVAH-TV programming / FOX |
| 11.2 | The Country Network |
History
The station was founded on September 19, 1982 and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 23. It was owned by the newly-created Meridian Communications based out of Pittsburgh which won the license after the West VirginiaWest Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
General Assembly forced West Virginia Public Broadcasting
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
West Virginia Public Broadcasting is the Public Broadcasting Service member Non-commercial educational Public television state network in West Virginia, whose primary station is WPBY, based in Charleston, West Virginia. Its studios are located at 600 Capitol Street...
to withdraw its own application for the channel. It was the first Independent station in West Virginia, as well as the first new commercial station in the market since what is now WOWK-TV
WOWK-TV
WOWK-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-States and Kanawha Valley area of West Virginia that is licensed to Huntington which is the second largest market east of the Mississippi River. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter...
signed-on in 1955, and the first commercial UHF station in the state since WKNA-TV
WKNA-TV
WKNA-TV was a television station in Charleston, West Virginia that broadcast on UHF channel 49 from 1953 to 1955.The station first signed on with a test pattern on September 21, 1953; regular broadcasts began on October 12. It was owned by Charleston businessman Joseph L. Smith, Jr. along with...
in Charleston went off-the-air in 1955. It became a charter Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986. Act III Broadcasting
Act III Broadcasting
Act III Broadcasting was a company that owned several television stations that started as independents, and later became Fox affiliates. The stations were located in medium-sized markets, and the company existed from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, eventually to be sold to Abry in 1994...
bought the station in 1987.
Soon after buying control, Act III applied to move the station to the VHF band. Despite broadcasting from a 2,000 foot tower with the maximum five million watt
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
s of power, WVAH had considerable difficulty penetrating the market. The Charleston/Huntington market covers 61 counties in Central West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
, and Southern 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...
. Most of this area is a very rugged dissected plateau
Dissected plateau
A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp. Such an area may be referred to as mountainous, but dissected plateaus are distinguishable from orogenic mountain belts by the lack of folding, metamorphism, extensive faulting, or magmatic activity...
, and as a result, UHF stations usually do not get good reception in this kind of terrain.
It also knocked WSAZ-TV
WSAZ-TV
WSAZ-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Huntington and Charleston, West Virginia. This area is the second-largest market in terms of area east of the Mississippi River consisting of 61 counties in Central West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southeastern Ohio. It broadcasts a high...
's low-power relay for the Kanawha Valley, also on channel 23, off-the-air on several occasions. As a result, WVAH was permitted to switch to VHF channel 11 in 1989, three years after Fox's launch. However, the station was short-spaced to WPXI
WPXI
WPXI, channel 11, is the NBC-affiliated television station for Western Pennsylvania that is licensed to Pittsburgh. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 48 from a transmitter located on the north side of Pittsburgh. Owned by Cox Enterprises, the station has studios in the...
in Pittsburgh and WJHL-TV
WJHL-TV
WJHL-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-Cities area of Northeastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia that's licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter on the southwest slope of Holston High Point...
in Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City is a city in Carter, Sullivan, and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with most of the city being in Washington County...
. It then had to conform its signal to protect WJHL. As a result, it did not provide a clear over-the-air signal to the southwestern part of the market.
Act III merged with Abry Communications in 1994. That company, in turn, was merged into the Sinclair Broadcast Group later in 1994. In 1997, Sinclair purchased the broadcasting properties of Heritage Media which included WCHS (the remainder of Heritage Media went to 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...
). It could not keep WCHS and WVAH 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 in effect at the time forbidding duopolies. Sinclair opted to keep the longer-established WCHS and sold WVAH to Glencairn, Ltd. which was headed by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards.
Initially, this channel retained its own studios on Mount Vernon Road in Teays Valley
Teays Valley, West Virginia
Teays Valley is a census-designated place in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. The place is divided into the two districts of Teays Valley and Scott Depot...
that is an unincorporated suburban area that shares a zip code with Hurricane
Hurricane, West Virginia
Hurricane is a city in Putnam County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 6,284 at the 2010 census.-History:Hurricane was named after Hurricane Creek, which was, in turn, named after a group of trees at the mouth of the river bent in one direction...
even although most of its operations were merged with WCHS. On January 16, 1995, WVAH began airing UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
programming during overnight hours. However, the station could not clear the entire schedule and dropped the network in early-2000. In 2001, Sinclair tried to acquire Glencairn outright, but the FCC did not allow Sinclair to re-acquire WVAH because it does not allow common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. As a result, Glencairn kept WVAH and changed its name to Cunningham Broadcasting.
Following a tower collapse in 2002, WVAH moved its transmitter and almost all of its facilities to WCHS' studios in Charleston. However, its main studios remained in Teays Valley until late-2009. Sinclair and Fox finalized a six year affiliation contract extension for Sinclair's nineteen Fox affiliates including WVAH. Its affiliation contract now expires in March 2012. The channel is the market's home for Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...
football and basketball as a nod to the Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats
The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference...
' large following on the Kentucky side of the market. WVAH-TV ended analog operations on February 17, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States
DTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
. The station remained on its pre-transition channel 19. 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 display its 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 11. WVAH's analog channel 11 signal was temporarily reactivated on June 12, 2009 for a two-week period with "analog nightlight" programming consisting a continuous loop of an informative video about the digital switch which is nationally produced in both English and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
as well as subtitled in both English and Spanish.
Carriage dispute
In SummerSummer
Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice...
2006, Charter Communications
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
streamlined its operations which included selling off portions of its cable system which were "geographically non-strategic". Charter accounts in WCHS's market area were purchased by Suddenlink Communications
Suddenlink Communications
Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, is a top-10 cable broadband services provider in the United States with approximately 1.4 million subscribers. Suddenlink operates in 18 states in primarily medium-sized communities. With its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO,...
(formerly known as Cebridge). Sinclair requested a $40 million one time fee and a $1 per sub per month fee from Suddenlink for retransmission rights of WVAH and WCHS on the Suddenlink cable system. This led to a protracted media battle and smear campaign between the two companies, and Sinclair pulled the two stations off-the-air in the Beckley
Beckley, West Virginia
Beckley is a city in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States, which was founded on April 4, 1838. The 2008 population was estimated to be 16,832 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Early in its history, the town was known as Beckleyville and Raleigh Court House...
market. After several weeks of negotiations, the two companies reached an agreement allowing WVAH and WCHS to continue transmission over the Suddenlink cable system. The terms of the agreement were not released to the public.
Newscasts
WCHS has its main facility based in Charleston. As a result, there is a noticeable focus on West Virginia's CapitolWest Virginia State Capitol
The West Virginia State Capitol is the seat of government for the state of West Virginia, and houses the West Virginia Legislature and the office of the Governor of West Virginia. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, the building was dedicated in 1932...
and surrounding areas but there is coverage provided to the western vicinities as well. WCHS currently uses the Eyewitness News
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...
branding for its news operation and produces three newscasts for sister station WVAH. This includes Eyewitness News This Morning on Fox 11 seen for an hour on weekday mornings from 7 until 8. There is also an hour long nightly prime time broadcast known as Eyewitness News at 10 on Fox 11.
Although it competes with a nightly show at 10 on MyNetworkTV affiliate WSAZ-DT2
WSAZ-DT2
WSAZ-DT2 is the primary MyNetworkTV and secondary This TV television station for Huntington and Charleston, West Virginia, the second-largest market in terms of area east of the Mississippi River. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WSAZ-TV which is owned by Gray Television...
, WVAH's broadcast is the market's only sixty minute late night news. On June 26, 2011, WSAZ launched the second High Definition (HD)news cast in the state of West Virginia and the first in the Charleston-Huntington DMA,On June 3, 2011 WTAP in Parkersburg launched the first news outlet in West Virginia with local news in High Definition (HD). Shows on WVAH and WCHS remain in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition and no plans have been made to make any changes 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....
and/or full high definition.
Anchors
- Jennifer McAndrews - weekday mornings and "Baby Steps" segment producer
- Patrick McMurtry - weekday mornings also "Behind the Kitchen Door" and "West Virginia Wildlife" segments producer
- Elizabeth Noreika - weeknights
- Rick Lord - weeknights
- Kallie Cart - weekends and reporter
- Dave Benton - weekends and reporter
Eyewitness News Storm Team 11 Meteorologists
- Jim Barach (CBMCertified 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,...
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) - Chief seen weeknights - Douglass Harlow - weekday mornings
- Ashley Smith - weekends and news reporter
Sports
- Mark Martin - 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...
seen weeknights and "Scholar-Athlete of the Week" segment producer - Josh Lewis - weekends and reporter
- A.J. Good - reporter
Reporters
- Brad Rice - "West Virginia Wildlife" photojournalist and "Traveling West Virginia" segment producer
- Darrah Wilcox - weekday mornings and "Food Revolution Now" segment producer
- Kennie Bass - fill-in news anchor
- Kristin Keeling
- Chris Kittinger
- Atish Baidya
- Leslie Rubin
- Bob Aaron
Contributors
- Mark E. HymanMark E. HymanMark E. Hyman is the Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest chain of local television stations in the United States. Hyman became a visible presence during local news broadcasts over Sinclair's stations, many of which aired The Point from late 2001...
- Sinclair Vice PresidentVice presidentA vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...
for Corporate Relations and Behind the Headlines host - Lee Ann Miller - Ohio's Amish CountryPennsylvania Dutch CountryPennsylvania Dutch Country refers to an area of southeastern Pennsylvania, United States that by the American Revolution had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch inhabitants. Religiously, there was a large portion of Lutherans. There were also German Reformed, Moravian, Amish, Mennonite and...
Recipes - Armstrong WilliamsArmstrong WilliamsArmstrong Williams is an African American political commentator, author of a conservative newspaper column, and host of a daily radio show and a nationally syndicated TV program, called The Right Side with Armstrong Williams. From 2004 to 2007, he co-hosted a daily radio program with Sam...
- The Right Side host - Stephen AndersonStephen Anderson-Arts and entertainment:*Steve Anderson, birth name of American wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin *Steve Anderson , British musician*Steve Anderson , musician and songwriter*Stephen J...
- On the Trail host - Kennie Bass - Screen Gems
- Joe Matusic - Baby Steps