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WKBW-TV
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Facility ID54176
ERP660 kW
HAAT432 m (1,417 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°38′15″N 78°37′11″W / 42.63750°N 78.61972°W / 42.63750; -78.61972
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WKBW-TV's studio and office facility in downtown Buffalo.

WKBW-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains studios at 7 Broadcast Plaza in downtown Buffalo and a transmitter on Center Street in Colden.

WKBW-TV is one of many local Buffalo television stations that are available

Corning and Horseheads; this ended when WENY-TV signed on as the ABC affiliate for the Elmira
market.

History

Clinton Churchill/CapCities ownership (1957–1986)

The Channel 7 frequency was hotly contested during the 1950s; the

WBEN-TV), but was unable to secure a license. The competition for the channel 7 allocation continued to grow when the city's first UHF station, WBES-TV, failed. Clinton Churchill, original owner of 50,000 watt radio station WKBW (1520 AM, now WWKB), was granted the license to operate the station in 1957. WKBW-TV was originally intended to be an independent station. However, after WBUF was shut down by its second owner, NBC, on September 30, 1958, then-ABC affiliate WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ
) re-added NBC programs. As a result of the network shuffle, WKBW-TV premiered as ABC's new Buffalo affiliate when it went on the air on November 30, 1958. The station's studios were originally located at 1420 Main Street in the former Churchill Tabernacle Church, with WKBW radio located next door at 1430 Main Street.

Churchill sold the WKBW stations to Capital Cities Broadcasting (which later became

AM Buffalo after the Dialing for Dollars franchise was discontinued; AM Buffalo still airs today. Under Capital Cities' ownership, in 1978 the WKBW stations moved their studios from Main Street to their present location, "7 Broadcast Plaza", on Church Street a few blocks southwest of Niagara Square
.

In 1977, WKBW-TV unsuccessfully sued the

Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) over simultaneous substitution rules. In Capital Cities Communications Inc v Canadian Radio-Television Commission, WKBW-TV argued that the CRTC did not have jurisdiction to enforce simultaneous substitution if the stations simulcasting an American program did not broadcast across a provincial line (in WKBW's case, the stations in question were in Toronto and Hamilton, both of which were primarily carried only in the province of Ontario). The Supreme Court of Canada
ruled in the CRTC's favor, declaring broadcasting to be a federal undertaking under Canadian law, and that whether the station broadcast across a provincial line was irrelevant to that fact.

Queen City Broadcasting/Granite Broadcasting Co. years (1986–2014)

Granite Broadcasting's version of the Circle 7 logo, used on WKBW from 2003 to 2014.

When Capital Cities announced its acquisition of ABC in March 1985, it was required to divest stations to stay within Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership limits of the era. The company announced the sale of WKBW-TV to J. Bruce Llewelyn's Queen City Broadcasting in August of that year; the sale of the station would be completed in early 1986, shortly after Capital Cities completed its acquisition of ABC.[2][3] At that point, WKBW radio was sold to Price Communications and had its call letters changed to WWKB (that station is currently owned by Audacy). In late 1993, Granite Broadcasting acquired a 45% minority stake in WKBW-TV from Queen City Broadcasting.[4] A year-and-a-half later, in June 1995, Granite bought the remaining 55% interest in the station.[5]

Until 2000, New York Lottery drawings were shown on WKBW-TV (these have since moved to WGRZ and were discontinued in October 2013; they have since been reinstated). WKBW-TV, through at least the early 2000s, operated the Niagara Frontier radio reading service on its second audio program feed, though it was pulled after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy in 2004 due to content concerns and the FCC's stricter enforcement of obscenity laws, which included some RRS titles. WNED-FM's subcarrier then was contracted to carry the service from then on.

From 2006 to April 2009, WKBW-TV operated WNGS, owned at the time by

Luken Communications by January 2009 (which led to WNGS and other Equity stations dropping the network) and the Equity stations being liquidated, with WNGS sold to the Daystar Television Network in April 2009 (the station has since been resold to a local group run by Philip A. Arno). As a result of the changes, WKBW-TV ended the LMA with WNGS which has since changed its call to WBBZ-TV.[6]

The Scripps era (2014–present)

WKBW Circle 7 logo, used from September 2014 to December 2021.

On February 10, 2014, the

Gannett Company, publishers of USA Today and various other newspapers around the country, acquired WGRZ-TV in 1996. E. W. Scripps spun-off their papers to Journal Media Group on April 1, 2015,[10][11] while Gannett's broadcasting and digital media operations were spun off to the new Tegna on June 29, 2015.[12]

On September 24, 2020, a consortium made up of Scripps and Berkshire Hathaway announced the proposed purchase of Ion Media, including its Ion Television owned-and-operated station in the Buffalo market, WPXJ-TV (channel 51).[13] Scripps chose not to retain WPXJ as Buffalo has fewer than eight unique television station owners, not enough to permit a duopoly in any case. WPXJ was instead included in a package of stations resold to Inyo Broadcast Holdings.[14]

On December 31, 2021, beginning with the 11 p.m. newscast, WKBW had its first major rebrand in 18 years. The station changed its logo to a new one that it had been using for its digital operations for the previous few months.

Programming

Until recently, WKBW-TV signed off on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a half-hour from 4 to 4:30 a.m.; there was no station information, but the American and Canadian national anthems were played before and after the test pattern, like Sinclair-owned stations WUTV (channel 29) and WNYO-TV (channel 49), which continue to sign off on Monday mornings.

Local programming

Current

  • Countdown to 19/20## (title changes each year to correspond with the coming year) is an annual tradition held on
    New Year's Rockin' Eve broadcast and has been carried by the station since 1988. Also covered by the broadcast are local First Night
    celebrations.

Historical

Internet initiatives

During the 1990s and through much of the 2000s, WKBW-TV was proactive in its ventures on the Internet. The station was among the first in Western New York to launch a website in the mid-1990s and was the first to offer

podcasts
. WKBW-TV streamed its noon newscasts live online, one of the few major network affiliates to offer a video stream at the time (the feed was removed from the WKBW.com page in April 2007, but remained in operation through at least mid-2008; Scripps reactivated the stream in 2015). On demand video of newscasts is available. WKBW-TV redesigned its website in April 2007 using the YouNews TV platform for locally contributed viewers photos and videos. In December 2010, the station's webmaster was laid off. The station's website continued to be managed internally by Granite until October 2014, when a Scripps-run modern site designed for compatibility with both traditional PC and mobile tablet and smartphone platforms came online, along with the standard Scripps interface for the station's mobile/tablet apps.

Financial difficulties and cutbacks

WKBW-TV's then-owner Granite Broadcasting filed for

NABET Local 25 and the management at WKBW-TV, though recent contract offers have been rejected.[23] The two sides, after significant acrimony and a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, came to an agreement on March 4, 2011.[24]
Upon WKBW-TV general manager Bill Ransom's retirement, his replacement, Mike Nurse, made a concerted effort to reverse the damage done during Ransom's tenure, boosting the weather staff to four meteorologists (all of which are natives to Western New York), revamping the morning show with new hosts and a new name and moving to a three-man sports department. Scripps further increased the staff to five meteorologists and again revamped the news department largely with familiar names in Buffalo television.

News operation

WKBW-TV currently broadcasts 32 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces a half-hour sports wrap-up program Sunday Sports Final, which airs Sunday evenings after the 11 p.m. newscast. Along with forecasts for WKBW-TV's news programs, WKBW-TV's weather staff also provides forecasts for two local radio stations owned by Townsquare Media, WTSS and WYRK, as well as for Audacy-owned WBEN.

The Irv, Rick and Tom era (1970–1989)

The station had news operations from its beginning, but ceased broadcasting a 6 p.m. newscast in the fall of 1965, due to a mass exodus of viewers to WBEN-TV.

Seal of Good Practice
. The station's morning news program, the first in Western New York, debuted in 1989. Good Morning Western New York (the program's title from 1989 to 2000 and from September 2009 to September 2010) initially started at 6 a.m., before moving up to 5:30 a.m. in 1996 and 5 a.m. by 2000; as of August 2016, it currently starts at 4:30 a.m. Between 2000 and September 1, 2003, and from October 27, 2008, to 2009, the morning show was known as Eyewitness News This Morning and from September 2, 2003, to October 24, 2008, was known as 7 News This Morning (WKBW-TV's morning show predated by seven years the next competitor, WIVB-TV, which did not debut its morning newscast, Wake Up! until 1994. WGRZ-TV followed suit with Daybreak in 1996).

1989–2003

From about 1989 until February 1997, the station identified itself as News Channel 7, but kept the Eyewitness News name for its newscasts out of posterity, resulting in rather long station announcements (for example, "From WKBW-TV News Channel 7, this is Eyewitness News at 5"); a similar situation arose on then-

Nielsen ratings system switched the Buffalo market from a diary market to an automatically metered market and in part because of WKBW-TV's inflated reputation (coupled with Weinstein's and Jolls' respective retirements), eventually rival WIVB-TV overtook the #1 spot, although it was still very much a three-way battle between the market's local news stations. Beginning in the mid-1990s, the station began making some questionable moves that arguably began its fall to the bottom. The first was declining to renew The Oprah Winfrey Show, which served as the lead-in for WKBW-TV's 5 p.m. news; rival WIVB-TV picked up the show along with Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! in September 2012 to serve as the lead-in to WIVB-TV's prime time programming, which has been credited with helping hasten WKBW-TV's decline and WIVB-TV's rise in the ratings.[27] In 2000, WKBW-TV displaced longtime 5 p.m. anchor Kathleen Leighton to mornings in favor of former WIVB-TV weather anchor Maria Genero, who had been host of the talk show Good Day New York. Genero's experience as an evening news anchor was minimal and within months, Leighton quit the station, with Genero being moved to mornings. Not long afterward, WIVB-TV passed WKBW-TV for first place in nearly all timeslots—the first time in almost 30 years that WKBW-TV had lost the lead. Then, in 2002, after four years of using "Your Hometown Advantage," WKBW-TV adopted the slogan "Live, Local, Late Breaking," a slogan used on stations across the country and, on September 2 of that year, started its own local talk show (WNY Live!) that originally was used for long-form features but quickly turned into a mainly advertorial
program, a type of program mainly prevalent in lower-trafficked morning timeslots, but rarely successful in the afternoons, a move that was described as "deadly" to the ratings for its evening newscasts. In September 2003, however, came the most iconic change: dropping their long branding heritage for a more generic news imaging.

First 7 News era (2003–2008)

WKBW-TV satellite truck with branding from the 7 News era.

WKBW-TV decided to adopt a new identity, thus bringing the Eyewitness News era to an end. The station's newscasts were rebranded as 7 News in September 2003 and "Move Closer to Your World" was dropped in favor of a more contemporary

2007 NFL Draft, Sportsnite was cancelled.[28] WNGS was not available on satellite providers during Sportsnite's run, therefore limiting the show's audience. Through 2009, WKBW-TV continued to produce a special version of Sportsnite, Sportsnite Niagara, in cooperation with Niagara University
during college hockey and basketball season. WKBW-TV suspended its Saturday newscasts in September 2008, during college football season; the station resumed those newscasts that December after football season ended (in previous years, each newscast was delayed approximately one hour in the event of football games).

Return to Eyewitness News (2008–2011)

The station revived "Move Closer to Your World" for promotions celebrating the station's 50th anniversary, for the intro to breaks during its newscasts. It also reintroduced the theme for the introduction to its 11 p.m. newscasts on September 19, 2008 (along with the restoration of the "

Atlantic Broadband, WKBW-TV's newscasts climbed back to a strong second place, behind WGRZ. Although it had retreated back to third when WIVB-TV returned to the two cable providers, WKBW-TV kept many of those viewers gained during the dispute and has made the Buffalo market's television newscasts a much closer three-way ratings race again, with only the station's morning newscast still in distant third.[30][31] Ratings have waffled since that time. From September 2009 to September 2010, the title of the morning newscast was changed to Good Morning WNY. After Bridget Blythe's departure in October 2010, the morning show reverted it back to the Eyewitness News This Morning title, with Ginger Geoffery and Patrick Taney as anchors. The morning show increased its popularity in key demographics, tying WIVB-TV for second place in the ratings in May 2011; however, ratings for the 11 p.m. newscast dropped to fourth place among the market's late evening news broadcasts, behind the WIVB-TV-produced 10 p.m. newscast on WNLO.[32] WKBW-TV also updated its set and graphics in October 2010. Ratings somewhat rebounded by October 2011; WKBW-TV's 11 p.m. newscast jumped to second place, behind WIVB-TV but ahead of WGRZ.[33]

Upgrade to high definition

On August 13, 2011, beginning with its 6 p.m. newscast, WKBW-TV became the first television station in the Buffalo market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in

16:9
aspect ratio.

2010–2013

The early 2010s were a time of upheaval for the WKBW-TV newsroom as Ransom and news director John Di Sciullo, two key leaders, departed the station (Ransom retired, while Di Sciullo left for WBBZ). Ransom's replacement, Michael Nurse, sought to overhaul the relatively undermanned newsroom by increasing the staff and overhauling the morning show. Brought in to host the newly branded Good Morning were out-of-market newcomers Cole Heath and Tiffany Lundberg, with meteorologist and feature reporter Mike Randall held over from the previous staff. However, WIVB-TV strengthened their morning show staff at the same time, undermining any possible gains WKBW-TV may have made with its re-staffing and the morning show lost a third of its audience in the fall of 2013, even with promos for the morning show during Bills preseason coverage (which may have actually backfired, as the ad campaign had portrayed Heath and Lundberg as unable to pronounce the names of towns in the station's coverage area).[37]

Scripps takes over (2014–2021)

In August 2014, one year after the revamp, Good Morning was canceled, Heath and Lundberg were fired, and Randall was demoted to weekends (at his request, to accommodate his acting career).

Time Warner Cable News in a trade that sent 12-year news veteran John Borsa to Time Warner Cable News.[41] On the evening news front, veteran anchorman Keith Radford was signed to a contract extension following the Scripps takeover while Sports Reporter Jeff Russo was promoted to co-anchor.[40]

On September 27, 2014, WKBW-TV adopted the standardized imaging and graphics used by other Scripps stations, and changed its circle 7 logo, the last remaining remnant of the 7 News era, to the once-ABC O&O proprietary version, matching that of new sister station WXYZ-TV in Detroit; by coincidence, like WKBW-TV, WXYZ-TV was another station sold off by ABC to Scripps in the Capital Cities-ABC merger of 1986 to comply with ownership limits. Its Eyewitness News branding was initially retained, albeit with a slight alter to "7 Eyewitness News," until it was dropped in January 2022. The station initially continued to incorporate the classic "Move Closer to Your World" theme into its newscast openings until 2016 when it was dropped completely in favor of the Scripps "Inergy" theme, a move that caused a decline in viewership, since the theme had been used for over four decades (with a brief hiatus during the 7 News era), and was a longtime television staple among many Western New Yorkers and Southern Ontarians.

In early 2015, WKBW, in partnership with the Western New York

Chevy Dealers, introduced the "7 First Alert Mobile Weather Lab"; a specialized SUV designed for storm chasing, complete with a dashcam, multiple radar sources, and a built-in weather station
for live broadcasts. This made WKBW the first and only television station in the Buffalo market that owns and operates their own storm chaser vehicle.

In December 2015, Co-Anchor, Joanna Pasceri, was replaced by newcomer, Ashley Rowe, who joined Keith Radford and Jeff Russo at the anchor desk.

In August 2016, WKBW hired Don Paul, the longtime chief meteorologist at rival WIVB. It also promoted Sports Reporter Joe Buscaglia to Sports Director, and added one half hour to its morning newscasts to begin at 4:30 a.m. in response to its rivals. The hiring of Paul and another reporter, Ali Touhey, was originally to provide personnel for a weekend morning newscast that Scripps had planned to launch on the station in early 2016, but Scripps postponed, then ultimately canceled the newscast before it debuted. As a result, WKBW's First Alert weather team had eight meteorologists on their payroll (including two freelancers and mostly off-air graphic artist Dave Vogan), by far the most of any station in the market. Citing budget issues, WKBW released Paul after his two-year contract expired in December 2018;[42] he eventually returned to WIVB.

In April 2017, WKBW received a brand new set which is inspired by the Scripps graphics package.[43]

In fall 2017, WKBW began airing The Now, a local/national hybrid lifestyle and soft news magazine, in the 7 p.m. time slot, following

The List.[44] It initially outrated WIVB's 6:30 p.m. newscast on WNLO, the only comparable competition, but ratings quickly collapsed after several months.[45]

WKBW has an association with Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, employing entry-level graduates of the university as part of the school's Journalism Career Program. Most move on to other stations in the Scripps portfolio within a few years.[46]

On August 6, 2019, it was announced that General Manager, Michael Nurse, as well as two key Sales Managers, were let go. Although details were not provided, it was speculated that the changes occurred as a result of the station's continuing ratings woes, and a preference for Scripps to move the station in a new direction.[47] Marc Jaromin was hired to replace Nurse. Jaromin criticized his technical and on-air staff for multiple technical and editorial errors during a December 21 simulcast of an NFL Network Thursday Night Football game airing on a Saturday night with the Bills against the rival New England Patriots (a game that effectively determined that season's AFC East division championship), stating the game broadcasts and pre-game and post-game shows were well below the broadcast standards for an NFL market station.[48]

On December 18, 2020, longtime AM Buffalo host Linda Pellegrino retired after three decades of hosting the morning show. Melanie Camp, who joined AM Buffalo several months prior, took over as host three days later.

In 2020, WKBW and reporter Charlie Specht were honored with an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for an investigation into a church cover-up of child sexual abuse inside the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.[49]

Lead anchor Keith Radford, who had been reduced to a part-time schedule in 2019, announced his intent to retire at the end of 2020; however, he ended up staying until June 2021.[50] He was replaced by 5:30 pm anchor, Jeff Russo.

Second 7 News era (2022–present)

On January 1, 2022, WKBW ditched its Eyewitness News branding for the second time after 13-plus years. Its newscasts returned to the "7 News" brand for the first time since October 26, 2008. With the change, WKBW also abandoned its circle 7 logo for the first time ever.[51]

In June 2022, Ashley Rowe opted to leave to spend more time with family and was replaced by Lia Lando.[52]

In October 2023, the station hired Michael Wooten, a longtime reporter and anchor for rival WGRZ, to host a new 5:30 p.m. newscast focusing on long-form interviews and features.[53]

Notable former staff

  • Rick Azar – Sports director (1958–1989; first voice ever heard on WKBW as he signed on the station in 1958, was the station's sports director for 28 years)[54]
  • Stan Barron – Sports director (1958–1965); the station's first sports director (Azar held other duties for the time); traded to WBEN in 1965
  • ESPN National Hockey Night; later worked for NESN
    )
  • Melanie Camp – Host of AM Buffalo (2020–2022, now at KPRC-TV in Houston)
  • Liz Dribben – Co-host of Dialing for Dollars (1964–1968; later appeared on WNYC and WEVD in New York City)[55]
  • Jim Gardner – Anchor (1974–1976; later became anchor for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia until retiring in 2022)[56]
  • Tom Jolls – Weather forecaster/Commander Tom Show host (as Commander Tom 1965–1991), announcer (1965–1999)[54]
  • Jeff Kaye
    – Announcer (1965–1977)
  • John Murphy—Sports director (1989–September 16, 2007); concurrently worked for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, where he remains[57]
  • Danny Neaverth – Weather (1970s; better known as a disc jockey)[58]
  • Mike Randall, meteorologist and feature reporter (1983–2023)
  • Dave Thomas – Host of Dialing for Dollars/Rocketship 7 (1960s–1978; promoted to WPVI-TV under the alias "Dave Roberts"; father of actor David Boreanaz)[54]
  • Tommy Shannon – host of Buffalo Bandstand (1960s)[59]
  • Clip Smith – Sports/weather anchor (1971–1989)[60]
  • Mark Thompson – reporter and weather anchor (later became chief meteorologist at KTTV in Los Angeles and a Fox announcer)[61]
  • Orchard Park. Now Executive Director of the Family Justice Center in Buffalo, NY[62]
  • Irv Weinstein – Reporter/anchor (1964–1998)[54]
  • Frankie Yankovic – Host of Polka Time (1962)[63]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WKBW-TV[64]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
7.1 720p
16:9
 WKBW-HD Main WKBW-TV programming / ABC
7.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV
7.3 Mystery Grit
7.4 Grit Ion Mystery
7.5 HSN HSN
49.2 480i 16:9 Stadium The Nest (WNYO-DT2)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Between 2009 and 2015, the station had not multiplexed its channels. The two networks carried by WKBW-TV on its digital subchannels prior to 2009 (

Escape, which airs on 7.3, debuted on April 28, 2015.[67] Shortly following WUTV dropping its affiliation with the network, WKBW added Grit
as a third subchannel in mid/late June 2017.

Analog-to-digital conversion

WKBW-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over

PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel
as its former VHF analog channel 7. VHF channel 7 was reassigned to WNGS (channel 67, now WBBZ-TV), at the time under the control of WKBW, for its post-transition digital channel.

On March 13, 2020,[69] WKBW moved its physical frequency down to channel 34 (previously held by WVTT-CD, which moved down the dial to VHF channel 11) as the result of a domino effect stemming from the broadcast spectrum auction. The station's virtual channel 7 did not change.

See also

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