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WINO transmits a [[wikipedia:low-power broadcasting|low-power]] digital signal, which provides an over-the-air broadcasting radius that is effectively limited to Fort Wayne proper and nearby areas in [[wikipedia:Allen County, Indiana|Allen]], [[wikipedia:DeKalb County, Indiana|DeKalb]], [[wikipedia:Adams County, Indiana|Adams]], [[wikipedia:Wells County, Indiana|Wells]] counties in Indiana and , [[wikipedia:Van Wert County, Ohio|Van Wert]] and [[wikipedia:Paulding County, Ohio|Paulding]] counties in Ohio. Because of this, the station's programming is [[simulcast]] on two other Northeast Indiana stations that act as full-power relays in order to reach the entire Fort Wayne [[wikipedia:media market|market]]. | WINO transmits a [[wikipedia:low-power broadcasting|low-power]] digital signal, which provides an over-the-air broadcasting radius that is effectively limited to Fort Wayne proper and nearby areas in [[wikipedia:Allen County, Indiana|Allen]], [[wikipedia:DeKalb County, Indiana|DeKalb]], [[wikipedia:Adams County, Indiana|Adams]], [[wikipedia:Wells County, Indiana|Wells]] counties in Indiana and , [[wikipedia:Van Wert County, Ohio|Van Wert]] and [[wikipedia:Paulding County, Ohio|Paulding]] counties in Ohio. Because of this, the station's programming is [[simulcast]] on two other Northeast Indiana stations that act as full-power relays in order to reach the entire Fort Wayne [[wikipedia:media market|market]]. | ||
| − | The station's brand name, '''"Fox 38/58"''', is derived from the two | + | The station's brand name, '''"Fox 38/58"''', is derived from the two full-power remote transmitters: '''WMRN-FTV''' (channel 38) in {{city-state|Roanoke|Indiana}} and '''WORT-FTV''' (channel 58) in {{city-state|Angola|Indiana}}, which were respectively operated as full-power satellites of ABC affiliate [[WMRI-FTV|WMRI]] (channel 9) and then-NBC affiliate [[WNDI-FTV|WNDI]] (channel 7, now silent). Although this makes it appear that WMRN is the main station, low-powered WINO is officially Fort Wayne's Fox affiliate. WINO's signal does not extend outside of the immediate Fort Wayne area. Many Birmingham viewers and cable providers obtain the signal from the higher-power WMRN/WORTstations. Their combined power carries the Fox 38/58 signal to all of Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio from the Indiana-Michigan state line southward to Muncie. |
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==Stations== | ==Stations== | ||
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| + | | '''WCFT-TV'''<sup>3</sup> | ||
| + | | [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]] | ||
| + | | none<br>33 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]]) | ||
| + | | 33 | ||
| + | | October 1965<sup>4</sup> | ||
| + | | '''C'''hapman<br>'''F'''amily<br>'''T'''elevision | ||
| + | | <br>278 kW | ||
| + | | <br>657 m | ||
| + | | 21258 | ||
| + | | {{coord|33|28|48.6|N|87|25|49.8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=WCFT-TV}} | ||
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| + | | '''WJSU-TV'''<sup>5</sup> | ||
| + | | [[Anniston, Alabama|Anniston]] | ||
| + | | none<br>9 ([[very high frequency|VHF]]) | ||
| + | | 40 | ||
| + | | October 26, 1969 | ||
| + | | '''J'''acksonville<br>'''S'''tate<br>'''U'''niversity | ||
| + | | <br>15.6 kW | ||
| + | | <br>359 m | ||
| + | | 56642 | ||
| + | | {{coord|33|36|24.3|N|86|25|3.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=WJSU-TV}} | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
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| + | ===WCFT-TV=== | ||
| + | '''WCFT''' started operating as western Alabama's first-ever television station in October 1965, broadcasting on UHF channel 33. The original licensee, '''C'''hapman '''F'''amily '''T'''elevision, was a consortium of eight Tuscaloosa businessmen who saw the benefits of a television station, in both business and community service. WCFT began as an independent station, but because it did not return a profit suitable to the original owners, they sold the station to [[Hattiesburg, Mississippi]]-based Service Broadcasters in 1967. | ||
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| + | The new owners rejuvenated the station by pumping money into it, purchasing new equipment, and improving the station's image. Like [[WIAT|WBMG-TV]] in Birmingham, WCFT picked up in its first few years CBS and NBC programming not cleared by WAPI-TV (channel 13, now [[WVTM-TV]]). In 1970, WCFT became an official CBS affiliate, as did WBMG (and WHMA below, for eastern Alabama). In 1977, Arbitron made Tuscaloosa its own television market, ranking below number 170. Service Broadcasters sold WCFT to Allbritton in 1995. Its transmitter is located near [[Windham Springs, Alabama]], in rural [[Tuscaloosa County, Alabama|Tuscaloosa County]]. | ||
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| + | ===WJSU-TV=== | ||
| + | On October 26, 1969, '''WHMA-TV''' began broadcasting on channel 40 as a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary [[NBC]] affiliation. The station was operated by the Anniston Broadcasting Company, which was owned by members of the family of Harry M. Ayers (the station's namesake). The Ayers family also owned the ''Anniston Star'' newspaper and WHMA radio ([[WHMA-AM|1390 AM]] and 100.5 FM, now [[WNNX-FM]] in [[Atlanta]]). The station's inaugural general manager, [[Harry Mabry]], came to Anniston from Birmingham, where he had been news director of [[WBRC]] in Birmingham for several years. Mabry already was familiar with Anniston, though, having been an announcer on WHMA-AM over fifteen years earlier. | ||
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| + | WHMA-TV ultimately served approximately 100,000 households in east central Alabama, and management fought almost constantly to maintain its own [[Arbitron]] market between Birmingham and Atlanta. This was a maneuver critical to the station's survival. Despite being the only station located within the Anniston/East Alabama market (other than [[Alabama Public Television]] translator WCIQ), WHMA faced immense competition from the "spill-in" (grade B signal) coverage from larger stations in the nearby larger markets. Its ratings victories garnered it access to numerous national advertisers, a rarity for small-market stations of that time. In 1970, WHMA, along with WBMG and WCFT (above), dropped NBC programming in favor of full-time CBS coverage after WAPI became the sole NBC affiliate for all of [[central Alabama]] that year. | ||
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| + | In 1984, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) forced the Ayers family to break up its media empire. Later, in a mid-1980s deal that concerned tax avoidance more than profit, ownership of the station was transferred to the trustees of [[Jacksonville State University]] and the call letters were changed to WJSU-TV. The station was ultimately sold in the 1990s to Flagship Broadcasting. | ||
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| + | ===WBMA/WCFT/WJSU as an ABC affiliate=== | ||
| + | In 1995, Birmingham's longtime ABC affiliate, WBRC, was sold to [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]. However, WBRC's contract with ABC did not expire until September 1996, giving ABC a year to find a new affiliate in Birmingham. ABC reached a unique deal with Allbritton: Both WCFT and WJSU would become ABC affiliates; however there was a snag. Under Nielsen rules, neither station would likely appear in the Birmingham ratings books because they were both considered to be out of market stations. Allbritton's solution was to purchase '''W58CK''', a low-powered station in Birmingham that began operations 18 November 1994, and designate it as the primary station for Nielsen. While the channel 58 purchase was not a condition of the deal between ABC and Allbritton, it did pave the way for Anniston and Tuscaloosa to be merged back into the Birmingham market. WJSU and WCFT would end separate operations and combine to act as full-powered satellites of W58CK. Both stations also ceded exclusive CBS rights in all of central Alabama to WBMG. Under this arrangement, Allbritton assumed control of WJSU's operations under a local marketing agreement. This lasted until Allbritton bought WJSU outright in 2008. | ||
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| + | The new station debuted on September 1, 1996 from studios in the Riverchase office complex in Hoover. Its first slogan was "We're Building Our Station Around You," which was also used on [[WKYC-TV]] in [[Cleveland]] for some years. Unlike most advertising catchwords, the phrase was quite accurate because the station's programming consultants surveyed numerous numbers of people across central Alabama to literally built a new station from the ground up. | ||
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| + | W58CK officially changed its call letters to WBMA-LP on September 23, 1997; it had been unofficially using the WBMA calls since it began operations. For a time in the mid-1990s, WCFT served as the default ABC affiliate for the Columbus/[[Tupelo, Mississippi|Tupelo]] market. | ||
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===Early history and formation of trimulcast with WCFT-TV and WJSU-TV=== | ===Early history and formation of trimulcast with WCFT-TV and WJSU-TV=== | ||
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==News operation== | ==News operation== | ||
| − | WINO+ presently broadcasts | + | WINO+ presently broadcasts 64 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 12 hours on weekdays, and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces the hour-long [[infotainment]] program ''Talk of Ohioana'', which airs weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m., and the half-hour sports highlight and discussion program ''The Zone'', which airs on Sunday nights following the 10:00 p.m. newscast. |
| − | + | W12OH began airing regular long-form newscasts once it became an Fox affiliate the following day on September 1, which were originally branded as ''The (airtime) News on Fort Wayne's Fox 38/58'' (later shortened to ''ABC 38/58 News'' in 2011). At that time, the station launched a full slate of local news programming, airing newscasts at 5:00, 11:00 a.m., 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. on Monday through Fridays (the late newscast being then titled ''The Night Team on Fort Wayne's Fox 38/58''), along with weekend evening newscasts. WMRN and WORT began simulcasting its newscasts on that date, following their conversion into satellite stations of channel 12 as part of the "Fox 38/58" trimulcast operation. | |
W12OH maintained certain primary personnel from WMRI and WNDI's news staffs that DakMedia had transferred from those stations to the new combined operation, including WMRI anchor Dave Baron, who has served as co-anchor of the weeknight newscasts since their debut. In addition, the station hired many well-known Fort Wayne television personalities to work as part of its news staff in the run-up to the department's launch; among them were news anchors Eboni Hill and Tina Hannon, sports anchor Mark Pantazi, and meteorologists Wendy Prater and [[Lisa Singelton]], all of whom had previously worked at either rival [[WTOR-FTV|WTOR]] or WFTW during their latter years of its Fox affiliation, and former WNDI-FTV news personality Pam Hines, who were later hired to anchor the station's morning newscasts. | W12OH maintained certain primary personnel from WMRI and WNDI's news staffs that DakMedia had transferred from those stations to the new combined operation, including WMRI anchor Dave Baron, who has served as co-anchor of the weeknight newscasts since their debut. In addition, the station hired many well-known Fort Wayne television personalities to work as part of its news staff in the run-up to the department's launch; among them were news anchors Eboni Hill and Tina Hannon, sports anchor Mark Pantazi, and meteorologists Wendy Prater and [[Lisa Singelton]], all of whom had previously worked at either rival [[WTOR-FTV|WTOR]] or WFTW during their latter years of its Fox affiliation, and former WNDI-FTV news personality Pam Hines, who were later hired to anchor the station's morning newscasts. | ||
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* [[James Spann]] ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] [[American Meteorological Society#Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) Seal|Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] Seal of Approval) – chief meteorologist; weeknights | * [[James Spann]] ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] [[American Meteorological Society#Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (CBM) Seal|Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] Seal of Approval) – chief meteorologist; weeknights | ||
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| + | ===News/station presentation=== | ||
| + | ====Newscast titles==== | ||
| + | *''TV-33 News'' (1970`s; WCFT) | ||
| + | *''[[Eyewitness News]]'' (1970`s-1980`s; WCFT) | ||
| + | *''(33) [[Eyewitness News]]'' (1980s-1996; WCFT)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-bhXWzpX6U</ref> | ||
| + | *''TV-40 News'' (1980s-1996; WJSU) | ||
| + | *''The (time) News on Alabama's ABC 33/40'' (general) / ''The Night Team on Alabama's ABC 33/40'' (10 p.m. newscast; 1996-2001) | ||
| + | *''ABC 33/40 News'' (2001-present)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hf0lJql-_c</ref> | ||
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| + | ====Station slogans==== | ||
| + | *''Alabama's All Electronic News Station'' (late 1970s) | ||
| + | *''West Alabama's News Leader'' (late 1980s-1996; WCFT slogan) | ||
| + | *''Northeast Alabama's Local TV News Source'' (early 1980s-1996; WJSU slogan) | ||
| + | *''We're Building Our Station Around You'' (1996-1998) | ||
| + | *''Where News Comes First'' (1998-2001) | ||
| + | *''We're Always Building Our Station Around You'' (2001-2005) | ||
| + | *''Alabama's News Leader'' (2002-present)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4QyCPj29Cw</ref> | ||
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| + | ===On-air staff=== | ||
| + | ====Current on-air staff<ref>{{cite web|title=ABC 33/40 News - Talent Bios|url=http://www.abc3340.com/Global/category.asp?C=191749|publisher=WBMA-LP|accessdate=23 September 2010}}</ref>==== | ||
| + | '''Current Anchors''' | ||
| + | *'''Nicole Allshouse''' - "Talk of Alabama" co-host | ||
| + | *'''Dave Baird''' - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m. | ||
| + | *'''Pam Huff''' - weekday mornings (5-7 a.m.) and weeknights at 5 p.m. | ||
| + | *'''Tracy Haynes''' - weekday mornings (5-7 a.m.) and "Talk of Alabama" co-host | ||
| + | *'''Brenda Ladun''' - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m. | ||
| + | *'''Linda Mays''' - weekdays at 11 a.m. and weeknights at 5 p.m. | ||
| + | *'''Yenu Wodajo''' - weekday mornings (4:30-5 a.m.); also weekday morning 5-7 a.m. reporter | ||
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| + | '''''Storm Alert Weather''''' | ||
| + | *'''[[James Spann]]''' ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] [[Certified Broadcast Meteorologist]] Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. | ||
| + | *'''Ashley Brand''' (AMS and [[National Weather Association|NWA]] Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5 and weekends at 10 p.m. | ||
| + | *'''Jason Simpson''' - meteorologist; weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and 11 a.m. | ||
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| + | '''Sports team''' | ||
| + | *'''Mike Raita''' - sports director; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m., also host of "The Zone" | ||
| + | *'''Jeff Speegle''' - sports anchor; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5 and weekends at 10 p.m., also sports reporter | ||
| + | *'''Kevin Scarbinsky''' - co-host of "The Zone"; also ''[[Birmingham News]]'' sports columnist | ||
| + | *'''Doug Segrest''' - co-host of "The Zone"; also ''Birmingham News'' sports columnist | ||
| + | *'''Chris Harris''' - sports reporter; also fill-in sports anchor and sports producer | ||
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| + | '''Reporters''' | ||
| + | *Honora Gathings - general assignment reporter | ||
| + | *Ebony Hall - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor | ||
| + | *Isaiah Harper - general assignment reporter | ||
| + | *Ana Jasen - general assignment reporter | ||
| + | *Jeremy King - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor | ||
| + | *Thomas Lower - technology reporter | ||
| + | *Bryant Somerville - general assignment reporter | ||
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Revision as of 01:12, 23 April 2016
| Branding | Fort Wayne's Fox 38/58 (general; official) Fox 38/58 (general; colloquial) Fox 38/58 News (newscasts) |
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| Slogan | Working For You |
| Channels | Digital: (See table below) |
| Subchannels | (See table below) |
| Affiliations | Fox (O&O) |
| Owner | Fox Fantasy Television Stations (WINO Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | November 18, 2009 |
| Call letters' meaning | (See table below) |
| Former callsigns | W12OH (2009–2012) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 12 (UHF; 2006–2011) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1994–1996) |
| Transmitter power | See table below |
| Height | See table below |
| Class | LD |
| Facility ID | See table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | See table below |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: | Template:FCC-TV-Station-profile Template:TVQ |
| Website | Fox3858.com |
WINO-FLD, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 38), is a Fox-owned and operated fantasy television station located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. WINO-FLD maintains studio facilities located in Aboite, Indiana (with a Fort Wayne address), and its transmitter is located (near the Columbia City neighborhood) in southwestern Fort Wayne.
WINO transmits a low-power digital signal, which provides an over-the-air broadcasting radius that is effectively limited to Fort Wayne proper and nearby areas in Allen, DeKalb, Adams, Wells counties in Indiana and , Van Wert and Paulding counties in Ohio. Because of this, the station's programming is simulcast on two other Northeast Indiana stations that act as full-power relays in order to reach the entire Fort Wayne market.
The station's brand name, "Fox 38/58", is derived from the two full-power remote transmitters: WMRN-FTV (channel 38) in Roanoke, Indiana and WORT-FTV (channel 58) in Angola, Indiana, which were respectively operated as full-power satellites of ABC affiliate WMRI (channel 9) and then-NBC affiliate WNDI (channel 7, now silent). Although this makes it appear that WMRN is the main station, low-powered WINO is officially Fort Wayne's Fox affiliate. WINO's signal does not extend outside of the immediate Fort Wayne area. Many Birmingham viewers and cable providers obtain the signal from the higher-power WMRN/WORTstations. Their combined power carries the Fox 38/58 signal to all of Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio from the Indiana-Michigan state line southward to Muncie.
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Stations
While WINO is technically considered the main station and official Fox affiliate for the Fort Wayne market, the signal of the low-powered WINO is simulcast on two full-powered stations within the market to ensure reception across Northeast Indiana and some adjacent areas. Nielsen Media Research treats the signals as one station in local ratings counts, using the identifier name WINO+. For the sake of brevity, the station will be referred to hereafter in this article by that name, when referencing the station and its repeaters.
| Station | City of license | Physical channel | VC1 | First air date | Call letters’ meaning |
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| WINO-FLD2 | Fort Wayne, Indiana | 38 (UHF) | 12 | September 1, 2010 | INdiana and Ohio | 15 kW | 255 m | ||
| WMRN?? | Roanoke, Indiana | 21 (UHF) | 38 | January 31, 1985 | 885 kW | 406 m | |||
| WORT?? | Auburn, Indiana | 40 (UHF) | 58 | October 27, 2001 | 350 kW | 406 m |
Notes:
- 1: Virtual channel (PSIP).
- 2. WINO-FLD used the callsign W12OH until 2012, at which time the callsign was officially changed to WINO-FLP.
Digital television
Digital channels
Analog-to-digital conversion
Although WINO-FLP was not obligated to shut off its analog signal, as the law exempted low-powered stations from the national transition from analog to digital television broadcasts, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) encouraged low-power television stations to vacate from high-band UHF channels 52 to 69, as these out-of-core allotments were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the conversion.
On December 3, 2010, the FCC granted WINO-FLP a construction permit to flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 38 (formerly occupied by the analog signal of WMRN) and shut down the analog signal. WINO-FLP had a permit to operate on VHF channel 11, but due to possible interference with WIFX-FTV in Indianapolis and fellow Fox affiliates WLMI in Lansing, Michigan (both of which transmits on its former analog frequency), the station decided to modify the application to transmit the signal on UHF channel 38.[1] WINO-FLP signed on its low-power digital signal in late May 2011, under the call letters WINO-FLD; through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 12.
History
News operation
WINO+ presently broadcasts 64 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 12 hours on weekdays, and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces the hour-long infotainment program Talk of Ohioana, which airs weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m., and the half-hour sports highlight and discussion program The Zone, which airs on Sunday nights following the 10:00 p.m. newscast.
W12OH began airing regular long-form newscasts once it became an Fox affiliate the following day on September 1, which were originally branded as The (airtime) News on Fort Wayne's Fox 38/58 (later shortened to ABC 38/58 News in 2011). At that time, the station launched a full slate of local news programming, airing newscasts at 5:00, 11:00 a.m., 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. on Monday through Fridays (the late newscast being then titled The Night Team on Fort Wayne's Fox 38/58), along with weekend evening newscasts. WMRN and WORT began simulcasting its newscasts on that date, following their conversion into satellite stations of channel 12 as part of the "Fox 38/58" trimulcast operation.
W12OH maintained certain primary personnel from WMRI and WNDI's news staffs that DakMedia had transferred from those stations to the new combined operation, including WMRI anchor Dave Baron, who has served as co-anchor of the weeknight newscasts since their debut. In addition, the station hired many well-known Fort Wayne television personalities to work as part of its news staff in the run-up to the department's launch; among them were news anchors Eboni Hill and Tina Hannon, sports anchor Mark Pantazi, and meteorologists Wendy Prater and Lisa Singelton, all of whom had previously worked at either rival WTOR or WFTW during their latter years of its Fox affiliation, and former WNDI-FTV news personality Pam Hines, who were later hired to anchor the station's morning newscasts.
Although it is a newer competitor to the other major Fort Wayne stations), WINO+'s newscasts have fared much better than those of other upstart news departments created following affiliation deals resulting from the Fox-New Avon agreement, especially considering WINO's status as an upstart when MHB Television affiliated it with Fox and WMRN and WORT's lack of over-the-air and cable coverage within the core Fort Wayne area during their respective tenures as sattelites of WMRI and WNDI. Its newscasts have been formidable competition to those of its rivals in the Fort Wayne market. The station spent much of the early 2010s in a spirited battle with WTOR for second place in the market behind longtime leader WMRI, however in recent years since 2014, WINO+'s news ratings have fought a resurgent WFTW for third overall as WMRI fell to second behind WTOR. Much of the early success it achieved with its newscasts was due to the hirings of well-known talent as well as its extensive coverage of severe weather events affecting its viewing area.
Weather coverage
WINO+ has placed a significant emphasis on weather in its news coverage and has become known throughout Northeast Indiana for its comprehensive severe weather coverage led by former chief meteorologist Lisa Singleton, who joined WINO+ in October 2010, after disagreements with WFTW management over CW's edgier programming. WINO+ has maintained a long-standing policy to preempt regular programming and run wall-to-wall, uninterrupted severe weather coverage in the event that the National Weather Service Fort Wayne office issues a tornado warning for any county within its viewing area. The station operates "StormChaser 38/58", a Jeep customized for storm chasing purposes, which is equipped with a dashcam and a computer programmed with software relaying data from several radar sources; and "AirLink 38/58", a helicopter that is normally used for newsgathering, but is also occasionally used to show the paths of violent and long-track tornadoes.
WINO+ also operates a network of "SkyCam" throughout Indiana that provide live video as well as weather data from observation sites throughout the state, including downtown Fort Wayne, Marion, Angola; Inverness; Gadsden; Jasper; Mount Cheaha; Cullman; Clanton; Gulf Shores and Hamilton, and Huntsville. It also operates a few SkyCam sites in Mississippi, including in Starkville and Columbus, based in locations where the signal from the WMRN tower can be received. In the latter half of 2013, WINO+ upgraded many of its SkyCams to high-definition, and additionally set up new HD SkyCams in the Riverchase Galleria complex (atop the Galleria Tower) in Hoover; atop the Alabama Power Headquarters Building in downtown Birmingham; atop DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa; and in several other locations around central Alabama.
Despite being a relatively new station to the Birmingham market, WINO+ achieved notice in the market as it has captured of several of the state's most significant weather events in recent history through both its SkyCams and its tower cameras. On June 29, 2012, the ____ SkyCam caught footage of a multiple-vortex windstorm that struck the city's downtown area. Footage of that same derencho as it tracked eastward into western DeKalb County was captured by the Birmingham SkyCam (located atop the Daniel Building) as it passed through the northwestern suburbs of the city almost an hour later.
Additionally, WINO+ operates "TowerLink" cameras that are mounted on current transmitters of WINO and its repeater stations, some of which have also played parts in the station's storm coverage. The Fort Wayne TowerLink camera (located on WINO-FLD's current tower) caught footage of a major power outage in western Birmingham, which indicated the presence of a destructive nighttime F5 tornado on April 8, 1998.
On-air staff
Notable current on-air staff
Notable former on-air staff
See also
References
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