WBNS-TV
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HAAT | 279 m (915 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 39°58′15.5″N 83°1′39.2″W / 39.970972°N 83.027556°W |
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WBNS-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside the company's sole radio properties, WBNS (1460 AM) and WBNS-FM (97.1). The stations share studios on Twin Rivers Drive west of Downtown Columbus, where WBNS-TV's transmitter is also located.
WBNS-TV also serves as the CBS affiliate of record for the nearby Zanesville, Ohio, market.
Before its purchase in August 2019 by Tegna, WBNS-TV was the
History
Until 1995
WBNS-TV began operations on October 15, 1949.
The WBNS call letters stand for "Wolfe Bank Newspaper and Shoes", the businesses owned by the company's longtime owners, the Wolfe family. Channel 10 maintained common ownership with The Columbus Dispatch, the city's lone remaining daily newspaper and the "N" in the station's call letters, until 2015 under an exemption of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s cross-ownership rules. The FCC has largely prohibited common ownership of co-located print and broadcast media since the mid-1970s. The Wolfe family, who purchased the Dispatch in 1905, sold the newspaper and related assets to New Media Investment Group in June 2015.
WBNS-TV was known for its locally produced shows Flippo the Clown,
Since 1995
In 1995, WBNS-TV replaced
The first live high-definition broadcast on the station's digital signal took place in September 1998 in which the broadcast was a football game between Ohio State and West Virginia, making the station a pioneer in American digital television. The station claims this to have been the first locally produced HD broadcast in the U.S.; however, as several other stations throughout the country also lay claim to this distinction, the veracity cannot be verified. It is widely considered the first ever live sporting event in HD in the U.S. produced using a production truck and transmission vehicle from NHK, Japan's national public broadcasting organization.[6]
Working with sister company Radio Sound Network, WBNS-TV, WBNS (AM) and Ohio News Network (ONN) produced and distributed on a Streaming media platform the Ohio State spring football game in 2001. It was one of the first live sporting events in the U.S. to be streamed. The game was delivered on RealVideo, a compressed video format, on the RealPlayer media player platform on the station's website. It also was distributed to Windows Mobile mobile devices using the Windows Media Player format, including Compaq's IPAQ personal digital assistant which required an ExpressCard to connect to the Internet.
On June 11, 2019, Dispatch announced it would sell its broadcasting assets, including the WBNS stations, to Tegna Inc. for $535 million in cash, a handsome return on its purchase of WBNS radio in 1929. Coinciding with WBNS-TV's 70th anniversary, the deal ended the Wolfe family's involvement in local media after over a century. At the time of the sale announcement, channel 10 was the only major television station in Columbus still owned by Ohio-based interests.
The sale was approved by the FCC on July 29, 2019,[7] and was completed on August 8.[8] WBNS-TV became Tegna's third television station located in Ohio, operating alongside fellow CBS affiliate WTOL in Toledo and NBC affiliate WKYC in Cleveland.[9]
Programming
Sports programming
WBNS-TV has strong ties to the
News operation
WBNS presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays and four hours on Sundays).
WBNS-TV was the first television station in the Columbus market to debut a news helicopter, "10TV SkyCam" (now "Chopper 10") in 1979, satellite news truck "10TV Skybeam" in 1986 and launch the Ohio News Network in 1997, which shared studio and office space with WBNS until ONN ended on August 31, 2012.
Appropriately for a station with roots in a newspaper, WBNS-TV had been a consistent ratings leader in programming and news for most of the time since records have been kept. In fact, for many years a popular saying in Columbus was "4 and 6 don't equal 10",[citation needed] referring to WBNS-TV and its rivals, WLWC/WCMH-TV (channel 4) and WTVN-TV/WSYX (channel 6). Since the sale of the station to Tegna, however, WBNS-TV's ratings have plummeted, with WCMH-TV and WSYX battling for first, with WSYX edging out WCMH-TV for the top spot.[10]
The first major challenge to Channel 10's dominance occurred in 1985, two years after WCMH began featuring the popular anchor team (and then-married couple) of
During Super Bowl XLI, channel 10 debuted a large marketing campaign to promote the launch of 10TV News in high definition. The song "Carousels (Dreaming of Tomorrow)" by Columbus rock band Alamoth Lane was used throughout the course of the campaign. Some of the band members were shot playing on the roof of WBNS with the Columbus skyline behind them. The song was also used to promote sister station WTHR's 50th anniversary in 2007.
The station began making preparations for the transition to HD in late March 2007, and debuted its 5 p.m. newscast in high definition on April 2, becoming the first television station in Central Ohio to produce newscasts in HD. The station's newscasts are now known as 10TV News; 10TV News HD was used from 2007 to 2012, after being known as 10TV Eyewitness News for many years.
On November 7, 2008, WBNS-TV's morning-noon anchor Heather Pick died of breast cancer. Pick learned in 2004 that the disease she overcame in 1999 had returned. In her last public appearance, she hosted the "Spirit Celebration with Heather Pick", raising almost $500,000 for the Columbus Cancer Clinic.[11]
On January 3, 2011, WBNS expanded its weekday morning newscast to 21⁄2 hours, starting at 4:25 a.m. Weekend anchors Jeff Hogan and Angela An replaced Chuck Strickler and Anietra Hamper as anchors, and weeknight 5:30 p.m. anchor Tracy Townsend replaced Hamper and Strickler as noon anchors.[12]
On May 11, 2011, WBNS-TV gained high-profile advertising when WBNS logos and a news ticker replaced those belonging to WCMH-TV on the Casto Building at the corner of High and Broad streets in downtown Columbus. Beginning in 2008, the building was leased by rival station WCMH-TV to house its NBC 4 on the Square newscast. When WCMH discontinued the newscast, WBNS assumed the lease but decided not to utilize the street-level studio space.[13]
On October 1, 2012, WBNS-TV launched a redesigned set.[14][15]
On September 17, 2013, Maria Tiberi, the 21-year-old daughter of WBNS-TV sports director Dom Tiberi, was killed in a car accident along Interstate 270 in Hilliard. Although authorities stated that Maria was distracted at the time of the accident, they did not claim that the distraction was a cell phone. In honor of Maria, WBNS has launched a campaign known as "Maria's Message", an awareness program which aims to prevent such accidents from occurring.[16][17] On April 8, 2014, the 130th Ohio General Assembly passed Senate Bill 294, which officially designated September as "Safe Driving Awareness Month" in honor of Maria.[18] The bill was signed into law by Governor John Kasich in June of that year.
In December 2019, the station named Ashlee Baracy as Chief Meteorologist,[19] replacing Mike Davis, who was fired following his arrest on child pornography charges.[20]
On
Notable alumni
- Sharyl Attkisson – former reporter (now host of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson on the Sinclair Broadcast Group stations)
- Tampa)
- Carol Costello – 6 and 11 p.m. anchor (1990–1992; now at CNN)
- Jay Crawford – sports anchor (1993–1998; later at ESPN; now with WKYC in Cleveland)
- Faith Daniels – daytime anchor (1982–1983; later with CBS News and NBC's Today Show)
- Mike Gleason – sports announcer (1987–1998) Currently Fox Sports 1 announcer, previously at ESPN
- Jack Hanna – program host (Hanna's Ark and Front Page Saturday Night)
- Fox News Channel)[22]
- Dave Malkoff – overnight update anchor/associate producer (later with The Weather Channel, now with CBS News)
- Ron Olsen – Reporter (Went on to KABC and KTLA in Los Angeles, Peabody recipient for Rodney King beating story)
- Heather Pick – weekday morning and noon anchor (2002–2008; died on November 7, 2008, due to breast cancer)
- Gary Radnich – sports director/anchor (1982–1985; later with KRON-TV in San Francisco, now retired)
- Jerry Revish - news anchor/reporter (1980–2019; retired and now pastor of Unity Temple Church of God in Christ in Columbus)
- Rod Serling – writer, producer and creator of The Twilight Zone (deceased)
- Dana Tyler – evening anchor (1981–1990; currently 6 p.m. co-anchor/reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City)
- Jonathan Winters – performer and comedian (deceased)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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10.1 | 1080i | 16:9
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WBNS TV | Main WBNS-TV programming / CBS |
10.2 | 480i | MeTV | MeTV | |
10.3 | Dabl | Dabl | ||
10.4 | Crime | True Crime Network | ||
10.5 | Quest | Quest | ||
10.6 | Shop LC | Shop LC | ||
10.7 | Crime | True Crime Network | ||
10.8 | DEFY | Defy TV |
WBNS-TV broadcasts in Dolby 5.1 and uses its
.On June 12, 2009, WBNS-TV launched Doppler 10 Now, a weather subchannel, carried on channel 10.2, based on the
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBNS-TV shut down its analog signal, over
Retransmission disputes
As of September 15, 2012, the high-definition feed for WBNS-TV was dropped from Dish Network due to a contractual dispute between the two sides.
On September 6, 2017, WBNS and Indianapolis sister station WTHR, in both
References
- Broadcasting – Telecasting, March 22, 1948, pg. 93.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WBNS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Tegna Buys Columbus, Indianapolis Stations". FTVLive.
- ^ "WBNS-TV opens; Tele-Center dedicated." Broadcasting – Telecasting, October 24, 1949, pg. 48.
- ^ "Flippo The Clown". Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ NHK: Profile Archived May 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Notice of Consent to Transfer" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. July 29, 2019. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ^ "TEGNA Completes Acquisition of Dispatch Broadcast Group's Leading, Top Ranked Stations in Indianapolis, IN and Columbus, OH". Tegna Inc. August 8, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ^ Miller, Mark K. (June 11, 2019). "Tegna Buying Dispatch's WTHR, WBNS For $535M". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheckMedia. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- ^ Malone, Michael (February 3, 2024). "Local News Close-Up: Columbus Offers Cosmopolitan Vibe in Heartland". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- ^ "WBNS-10TV Remembers Heather Pick". WBNS-TV. November 7, 2008. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ "WBNS Expands Early Morning News". TVnewscheck.com. December 15, 2010. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ "10TV Debuts Signs At Broad And High". WBNS. May 11, 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ "Slideshow". 10TV. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ Feran, Tim (October 1, 2012). "Channel 10 introduces redesigned set". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ "Maria's Message". WBNS-TV. August 16, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ 10tv Web Staff (September 17, 2019). "6 years after tragic loss, Dom Tiberi has shared Maria's Message with over 100,000 kids". WBNS-TV. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "(130th General Assembly) (Amended Senate Bill Number 294)" (PDF). The Ohio Legislature. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ "Taking over for the Creep in Columbus". FTVLive. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ "Weatherman downloaded 15,912 child porn images". FTVLive. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "10TV News at 5-WBNS-New TEGNA graphics". YouTube.
- ^ "Phil Keating Bio". Fox News. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WBNS
- ^ Glen Dickson (June 19, 2009). "WBNS Launches AccuWeather Channel". Broadcasting & Cable. broadcastingcable.com. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ ‘Antenna TV’ To Launch On WBNS-10TV's 10.2 Channel In June, WBNS-TV, May 28, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2013
- ^ "WBNS-10TV Delays DTV Transition To June 12". WBNS. February 6, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
- ^ "DTV Transition Status Report". Federal Communications Commission. April 16, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ Feran, Tim (September 8, 2017). "WBNS-TV still missing from DirecTV, AT&T as contract flap continues". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ Marszalek, Diana (March 16, 2018). "Dispatch Pulls Stations off DirecTV, AT&T U-Verse". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved March 2, 2020.