WNYT
Albany, New York
Branding	NewsChannel 13
Slogan	Live. Local. Late Breaking.
Channels	13 (VHF) analog, 12 (VHF) digital
Translators	7 W07AI Pittsfield, MA 7 W07AJ Gloversville 38 W38DL Adams, MA
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
Founded	February 17, 1954 (on channel 35, moved to channel 13 in 1958)
Call letters meaning	W New York Television
Former callsigns	WTRI (1954-1958), WAST (1958-1981)
Former affiliations	ABC (1954–1977) CBS (1977–1981)
Transmitter Power	178.0 kW (analog) 9.10 kW (digital)
Website	www.wnyt.com/

WNYT is the NBC television affiliate for New York state's Capital District (Albany-Schenectady-Troy). It is licensed to Albany and its transmitter is located on Bald Mountain outside of Troy and its studios located in Menands, approximately one block north of the Albany city line. It is currently owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.. Image File history File links WNYT.jpg WNYT-TV logo (from www. ... Flag Seal Location Location in Albany County and the State of New York Coordinates , Government Country   State     County United States   New York     Albany Founded Incorporated 1614 1686 Mayor Gerald D. Jennings Geographical characteristics Area     City 56. ... A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, slogan, and design scheme. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 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History

The station, originally licenced to Troy, first signed on February 17, 1954 as ABC affiliate WTRI (co-owned with WTRY radio) on channel 35 with studios right outside Troy near its transmitter on Bald Mountain in Spiegeltown. In 1958, it changed its city of license to Albany and moved to channel 13 with new call letters, WAST (for Albany-Schenectady-Troy); originally the station had wanted to take the calls WTAS (Troy-Albany-Schenectady), however the similarity of the "TAS" to the news agency of the Soviet Union led to the use of the WAST calls. February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the American network, for the Australian network, see Australian Broadcasting Corporation The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... Fox Sports 980 (WOFX) is one of 2 Sports talk radio stations in the Albany, NY area. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ITAR-TASS (ИТАР-ТАСС), Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, is the major news agency of the Russian Federation. ...

Shortly after the upgrade, WAST was sold to Sonderling Broadcasting which moved the studio to a warehouse on the Albany-Menands line which previously housed Selective Service records. Although improvements had been made, the station's signal was still significantly weaker than its rivals due to a sizeable short spacing to WNET in Newark, New Jersey and the differences of the Bald Mountain location vs. the tower farm in the Helderberg Mountains used by the other stations in the market. Menands is a village located in Albany County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 3,910. ... SSS redirects to here, you may also want the Social Security System The Selective Service System, in the United States, is a system to register all males over the age of 18 for the purpose of having information available about potential soldiers in case of war. ... WNET (Thirteen/WNET) is an American television station licensed by the FCC to serve Newark, New Jersey. ... Nickname: The Brick City Map of Newark in Essex County Coordinates: ) °′40. ...

In 1977, WAST switched affiliations with WTEN and became the Capital District's CBS affiliate, followed the next year by Viacom purchasing Sonderling, making WAST the company's first television station holding (ironically enough, Viacom had started as the syndication arm of CBS). Four years later, WRGB swapped affiliations with WAST, and WAST became the area's NBC affiliate. Seeking a fresh start and a new identity, Viacom decided to mark the affiliation change with new calls: WNYT. With the new affiliation and calls, Viacom expanded and modernized the studios, newsroom, offices (including the market's first modern computers) and made a significant investment in electronic equipment, including a satellite receiving news station. Investment in talent also increased with the station both building its own talent and taking key talent from other stations in the market. The big change made WNYT one of few stations to have affiliated with every major network, ABC, CBS, and NBC. WNYT was a steady #2 by the late 1980s, and in 1992 scored its first #1 late news victory with a slow expansion into #1 in other timeslots. With the rebranding of the station's newscasts from News 13 to NewsChannel 13 in 1991, WNYT became the first station to use the "Live Local Late-Breaking" tagline, a slogan which is now commonplace throughout the country. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... WTEN is the call letters for a television station in Albany, New York. ... It has been suggested that CBS evening news anchors be merged into this article or section. ... Viacom began life as CBS Films, the television syndication division of CBS. In 1971, the division was renamed VIACOM (Video & Audio Communications), and in 1973 it was spun off, amid new FCC rules forbidding television networks from owning syndication companies (the rules were later repealed). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1994, after Viacom bought Paramount Pictures, Paramount became the parent for all of Viacom's television stations, including WNYT. Shortly thereafter, Paramount decided to divest itself of all non-UPN affiliates, which led to a deal in 1996 where Paramount traded WNYT and WHEC-TV in Rochester to Hubbard Broadcasting Corporation for UPN affiliate WTOG-TV in Tampa. In Viacom's last sweeps period owning WNYT, the station had its first solid book as the #1 station in the Albany market, a position which the station has maintained in the decade Hubbard has owned the station. Two years after Hubbard bought WNYT, it won the distinction of being the first (and, to date, only) station outside of New York City to win the regional Emmy award for best newscast in New York state. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... WHEC-TV (10NBC) is a television station in Rochester, New York. ... Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Mayor Robert Duffy Area    - City 96. ... Hubbard Broadcasting Corporation is a broadcasting company based in St. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Tampas skyline For alternate meanings, see Tampa (disambiguation) Tampa is a city located in Hillsborough County on the west coast of Florida. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... An Emmy Award. ...

In the mid-1990s, WNYT began an alliance with PBS station WMHT which has led to WNYT producing several programs for WMHT including semi-regular "Town Hall" meetings, the weekly call-in show "HealthLink", and for two years a 10:00 p.m. newscast on WMHT's then-secondary station WMHQ. From 2001 to 2004, WNYT also maintained a Joint Sales Agreement with Pax affiliate WYPX which included rebroadcasts of newscasts and local non-news programming. WMHT is the call letters for a television station and radio station in Schenectady, New York owned and operated by WMHT Educational Telecommunications. ... WCWN is the callsign of the The WB network station based in Schenectady, New York and broadcasting on channel 45. ... The correct title of this article is i (TV network). ... WYPX is a broadcast television and radio station in Albany, New York. ...

In 2001, WNYT opened a bureau covering Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the first of its kind, in downtown Pittsfield; the current chief of that bureau is Subrina Dhammi. After forging an alliance with the Glens Falls Post-Star, a similar bureau (the "Saratoga-North Country Newsroom") was opened in Saratoga Springs in early 2004; former weekend sports anchor Mark Mulholland currently is chief of that bureau. Berkshire County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. ... Caption Pittsfield is a city located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, USA. The population was 26,186 at the 2000 census. ...

WNYT-DT began broadcasting in October of 2003 on channel 12; unlike the current signal, WNYT-DT is based off of a master digital television tower in the Helderbergs with the market's other stations. In December 2005, WNYT-DT began NBC WeatherPlus on channel 13.2 with a full launch coming two months later; this service is carried on the digital lineups of Time Warner Cable (channel 556), Adelphia Communications (channel 169), and Berkshire Cable Corp. in northwest Columbia County (channel 713). NBC Weather Plus national feed, 2005. ...

WNYT's analog transmitter and doppler radar located on Bald Mountain, outside of Troy, New York. (Dave Lombardo)

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Key Personalities

Current

• John Allen (Nightside reporter and key substitute anchor)
• Phil Bayly (Weekday morning anchor, previously had a long (1986-2003) career as WNYT's highly noted political reporter)
• Dan Bazile (Weekend morning anchor and political reporter, previously of WXXA)
• Abigail Bleck (Dayside Reporter)
• Jay Bobbin (Entertainment reporter, better known as a columnist for Tribune Media Services and namesake of the "Jay Bobbin Seven Questions Rule"
• Paul Caiano (Weekday morning meteorologist, was weekend meteorologist from 1993-2000)
• Andrew Catalon (Weekend sports anchor)
• Lee Copson (Weekend meteorologist)
• Jason Gough (Noon/fill-in meteorologist)
• Elaine Houston (5:30 p.m. anchor and education reporter)
• Jim Kambrich (5:00/6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor, previously anchored weekday mornings until being picked as Ed Dague's successor in 2003)
• Bob Kovachick (Chief Meteorologist since 1988 and arguably the best known weathercaster in the Capital District market)
• Lydia Kulbida (6:00/11:00 p.m. anchor and reporter of the station's "In Depth" features)
• Bill Lambdin (Key midday reporter and one of two news personalities dating back to the station's years as WAST)
• Kelly Lynch (Noon anchor and host of "Forum 13" on Sunday mornings; anchored weekends from 1998-2004 and is spouse to Rodger Wyland)
• Kumi Tucker (Weekend evening anchor and key nightside reporter)
• Rodger Wyland (Sports Director/host of "Big Board Sports" on Sudnay evenings as well as a radio show of that name on WOFX)
• Benita Zahn (5:00/5:30 p.m. anchor/health reporter and longest tenured news talent at WNYT dating back to the station's late WAST years)

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• Howie Altschule (Fill-in, then noon, meteorologist from 1997-2004, now a notable forensic meteorologist)
• Chris Brunner (Longtime reporter and later assistant News Director, left in 2002 to become News Director at Capital News 9)
• Nancy Cozean (First lead weekday anchor in the Albany market, now mayor of the City of Poughkeepsie)
• Ed Dague (Lead anchor and managing editor from 1984 to 2003; his arrival at the station is seen as the reversal of WNYT's fortunes)
• Josh Einiger (Original chief of the Berkshire Newsroom, now weekday morning anchor at WFTV in Orlando)
• John Gray (Left for WXXA at the end of 2003 after being passed up as Ed Dague's replacement, most notably anchored the 5:00/5:30 newscasts)
• Todd Gross (Chief meteorologist from 1980 to 1983)
• Wilson Hall (The longtime NBC news reporter joined the station as the main news anchor in the late 1970's. Wilson Hall died in 1991.)
• Brandon Hertell (Fill-in meteorologist, will be morning meteorologist at WXXA-TV starting in September )
• Chris Kapostasy (Now better known as Chris Jansing of MSNBC, started at then-WAST as a reporter in 1981 and was weeknight co-anchor from 1987 until her 1998 departure)
• Bob McNamara (Sports director from 1981-2001, the first talent WNYT acquired from another station (WRGB) and the only person to have on-air roles at all 3 of Albany's VHF's)
• Miles O'Brien (Now of CNN's American Morning, his first job as an anchor was weekends at WNYT for a time in the mid-1980s)
• Randy Salerno (Weekend anchor from 1988-93, now weekday morning/noon anchor at WBBM-TV in Chicago)
• Steve Scoville (Reporter and later contributor of "Capital Region Backroads", a longtime segment at the end of Wednesday and Friday night newscasts, 1982-2006)
• Norm Sebastian (Former weekend, then weekday morning/noon meteorolgist until his death in late 2000)
• Herb Stevens (Chief Meteorologist prior to Bob Kovachick's arrival, Stevens is known as the Skiing Weatherman of syndicated weekly ski forecast fame)
• John Wolf (Weatherman during the later WAST years)

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Newscasts

The station's radar is called "First Warning Live Doppler".

Weekdays

• NewsChannel 13 Early Today (5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.)
• NewsChannel 13 Today (6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.)
• NewsChannel 13 Live at Noon (12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
• NewsChannel 13 Live at Five
• NewsChannel 13 Live at 5:30
• NewsChannel 13 Live at 6
• NewsChannel 13 Live at 11 (11:00 p.m. to 11:35 p.m.)

Weekends

• NewsChannel 13 Weekend Today (8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.)
• NewsChannel 13 Live at 6
• NewsChannel 13 Live at 11 (11:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.)
• Big Board Sports (Sunday 11:30 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.)

Newscast titles

• 13 News (1977-1981)
• TV-13 News (1981-1986)
  • During this period, the 6:00 newscast was known as "The 30-Minute News", a move to signify its length vs. the then-hour long newscasts on WRGB and WTEN
• News 13 (1986-September 1991)
• NewsChannel 13 (September 1991-present)

Outlying translators

• W07AI Pittsfield, MA (currently off the air awaiting relocation due to sign-on of co-channel WXXA-DT)
• W07AJ Gloversville (see above)
• W38DL Adams, MA
  • Until 2003, the Adams translator on Mount Greylock was W51AE, the change took place when full-power WNYA signed on analog channel 51.

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External links

• WNYT website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNYT
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W07AI
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W07AJ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W38DL