WDTV
FCC | |
Facility ID | 70592 |
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ERP | 935 kW[1] |
HAAT | 221.8 m (728 ft)[1] |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°18′2″N 80°20′36″W / 39.30056°N 80.34333°W |
Translator(s) | W28FC-D (UHF 28, Roanoke) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Website | www |
WDTV (channel 5) is a
History
It signed on as WJPB-TV on March 17, 1954, as the second television station in the
Those two issues, combined with the fact UHF converters were very expensive, led the station to shut down on February 28, 1955. Meanwhile, the area's third station
In 1967, WDTV switched primary affiliation to CBS. As a result, it is one of the few TV stations in the country that has held a primary affiliation with all "Big Three" networks. However, for many years it continued sharing ABC with WBOY and aired select sports programming from the network since the market was one of the few in the country without a primary ABC affiliate. The area's cable companies imported WTAE-TV from Pittsburgh (which already served the Morgantown area) to bring the full ABC schedule to the area. At some point in 1981, WDTV dropped all ABC programming. The network would not return to a Clarksburg–Weston–Fairmont based station until August 1, 2008, when WBOY launched a new second digital subchannel to offer the network. WDTV aired programming from UPN on its second digital subchannel until September 18, 2006, when the network merged with The WB to form The CW. WVFX, at the time owned separately from this station, became an affiliate with the new combined service (through The CW Plus) on a second digital subchannel.
In 2007, WVFX's owner, Davis Television, sold that station to Withers Broadcasting. Since the Clarksburg–Weston–Fairmont market has only five full-powered stations, this amount is too few to allow a duopoly under normal Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines. However, Withers obtained a "failed station" waiver allowing the purchase to go through. Gray Television announced on May 13, 2016, that it would acquire WDTV and WVFX for $26.5 million.[4] Gray assumed control of the stations through a local marketing agreement on June 1.[5] The sale was completed on May 1, 2017.[6]
The northern West Virginia television market geography is unusual, as
News operation
WBOY historically leads WDTV in local
After acquiring WVFX, WDTV made plans to produce a prime time newscast at 10 p.m. on the former. It would be the second time a broadcast has been attempted on the station in its history. In late 2010, the plans became a reality. The show is known as Fox 10 News at 10 and it features the
On November 12, 2011, WDTV began airing their news broadcasts in high definition. It makes WDTV the third station in West Virginia to broadcast local news in high definition, following
Notable former on-air staff
- Susan Barnett – now at KYW-TV
- Fox News Channel
- Christi Paul – now at CNN
- Dan Potash – now at SportsNet Pittsburgh
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
5.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WDTV-D1 | CBS |
5.2 | 480i | WDTV-D2 | MeTV | |
5.3 | WDTV-D3 | Heroes & Icons | ||
5.4 | WDTV-D4 | Outlaw |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WDTV shut down its analog signal, over
Out-of-market carriage
WDTV is carried as far south as Summersville in the Charleston–Huntington market. In the Pittsburgh market, it is carried in Morgantown, West Virginia; Markleysburg, Pennsylvania; and Oakland, Maryland. In the Harrisonburg market, it is carried in Franklin, Pendleton County.
CATV
During the 1970s and possibly into the 1980s, WDTV was once carried in Charleston[11] and surrounding areas. In Charleston, WDTV was available only when WCHS-TV, then the CBS affiliate in the Charleston–Huntington market, did not clear a network program.
References
- ^ a b c "Channel Substitution/Community of License Change". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 19, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
- ^ "Report & Order", Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, May 12, 2022, Retrieved May 12, 2022.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WDTV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Gray Buying WDTV-WVFX Clarksburg, WV". TVNewsCheck. May 13, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ^ "Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 18, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
- ^ "Notice". licensing.fcc.gov.
- ^ "Petitions for Modification of the Satellite Television Markets of WDTV, Weston, West Virginia, and WBOY-TV and WVFX, Clarksburg, West Virginia" (PDF). FCC EDOCS.
- RabbitEars.info. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ "CDBS Menu". fjallfoss.fcc.gov. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ "Cable Search". fjallfoss.fcc.gov. Retrieved January 27, 2024.