WBOY-TV
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HAAT | 262 m (860 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 39°17′5.7″N 80°19′44.8″W / 39.284917°N 80.329111°W |
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Website | www |
WBOY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States, serving North Central West Virginia as an affiliate of NBC and ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on West Pike Street in downtown Clarksburg, and its transmitter is located east of downtown and US 50.
The station identifies on-air as "Clarksburg–Fairmont–Morgantown" even though the third city is considered to be part of the Pittsburgh market. Despite this, WBOY-TV operates a news bureau in Morgantown which makes it the only commercial station to have facilities there.
History
The station was launched on November 17, 1957. It was the second television station in its small market. WBOY was originally intended to be the ABC affiliate for all of North-Central West Virginia. However, the area's intended NBC affiliate,
Imes Communications of Columbus, Mississippi, who also owned that city's CBS affiliate WCBI-TV bought the station in 1976, as well as ABC affiliate WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire. At that time, WBOY dropped the remainder of its ABC programming, allowing it to become a full NBC affiliate; as a result, cable systems began importing Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV for ABC programming. In early 2001, Hearst Television (the owner of WTAE-TV) acquired WBOY and WMUR from Imes; Hearst's acquisition of WBOY was finalized on April 30, 2001. In 2000, the FCC started to allow a company to own multiple stations with overlapping coverage areas. However, Hearst opted to keep WTAE-TV (one of its longtime flagship stations) and sold WBOY to West Virginia Media Holdings (which was creating a statewide "network" of stations to share resources) in September 2001; the sale closed on December 13 of that year.
WBOY launched a new second
On November 17, 2015,
News operation
After being acquired by West Virginia Media Holdings, the station upgraded its news operation and built secondary studios in Morgantown on Scott Avenue. A major emphasis was placed on news from that town in the hopes of increasing ratings and thus getting the town reassigned to the Clarksburg/Fairmont market. The move made WBOY the highest rated station in
Nexstar Media produces a half-hour evening newscast that airs at 5:30 p.m. The newscast, titled West Virginia Tonight, is broadcast live from
On April 1, 2013, WBOY became the second station in the market and the last station owned by West Virginia Media Holdings to upgrade its local newscasts to high definition. With the upgrade came new graphics and a new music package (Aerial by Stephen Arnold).[citation needed]
Notable former staff
- WV Secretary of State
- Irv Weinstein – later the longtime anchor at WKBW radio and television in Buffalo, New York[5]
- Erik Wells – former Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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12.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WBOYNBC | NBC |
12.2 | 720p | WBOYABC | ABC | |
12.3 | 480i | 4:3 |
Escape | Ion Mystery |
12.4 | Laff | Laff |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBOY-TV shut down its analog signal, over
References
- ^ "FCC History Cards for WBOY-TV" (PDF).
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WBOY-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Nexstar Buys 4 W.Va. TVs For $130M". TVNewsCheck. November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
- ^ Consummation Notice, CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ^ "Staffannouncer.com Presents: Sandy Beach with Irv Weinstein & Stan Roberts 1988 WMJQ". WMJQ. 1988. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WBOY". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ^ Transmission Complete: WBOY Broadcasting In Digital, WBOY-TV, February 17, 2009
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.