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{{Other uses|WABC (disambiguation){{!}}WABC}} |
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{{about|WABC-TV, which originally held the WJZ-TV call letters|the television station in Baltimore using that callsign since 1957|WJZ-TV}} |
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{{short description|ABC TV station in New York City}}{{pp-vandalism|small=yes}} |
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{{Infobox television station |
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| callsign = WABC-TV |
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| logo = Wabc 2013.png |
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| logo_size = 175px |
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| slogan = Number One in New York |
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| branding = {{ubl|ABC 7 or Channel 7 (general)|Channel 7 ''[[Eyewitness News]]''|(newscasts)}} |
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| digital = 7 ([[very high frequency|VHF]]) |
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| virtual = 7 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]]) |
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| subchannels = [[#Digital channels|See § Digital channels]] |
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| affiliations = {{ubl|'''7.1:''' [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] ('''[[owned-and-operated station|O&O]]''')|'''7.2:''' [[Localish]]|'''7.3:''' [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]<ref name="rei" />}} |
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| owner = [[ABC Owned Television Stations]]<br>(a subsidiary of [[The Walt Disney Company]]) |
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| licensee = American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. |
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| location = [[New York City|New York, New York]] |
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| country = United States |
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1947|04|p=y}}<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1947/1947-04-21-BC.pdf#page=18 "FCC handles its hottest FM-TV case."] ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting – Telecasting]]''. April 21, 1947, pg. 18.</ref> |
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| airdate = {{Start date and age|1948|08|10|p=y}} |
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| callsign_meaning = {{ubl|'''W'''|'''A'''merican|'''B'''roadcasting|'''C'''ompany}} |
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| former_callsigns = WJZ-TV (1948–1953) |
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| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:'''|7 (VHF, 1948–2009)|'''Digital:'''|45 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]], 1999–2009)}} |
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| former_affiliations = {{ubl|'''.2:'''|[[ABC News Now]] (2004–2005)|ABC Plus (2005–2009)|Live Well Network (2009–2020)|'''.3:'''|[[The Local AccuWeather Channel|AccuWx]] (2006–2015)|LWN ([[Standard-definition television|SD]] 2015)}} |
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| sister_stations = [[WEPN (AM)]], [[WEPN-FM]] |
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| erp = 34 [[kilowatt|kW]] |
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| haat = {{convert|405|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}<br>{{convert|506|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} ([[construction permit|CP]]) |
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| facility_id = 1328 |
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| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|40|44|54.4|N|73|59|8.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline,title}}}}<br>{{nowrap|{{coord|40|42|46.8|N|74|0|47.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}}} (CP) |
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| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] |
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| website = {{URL|abc7ny.com}} |
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}} |
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'''WABC-TV''', [[virtual channel|virtual]] and [[very high frequency|VHF]] [[digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 7, is the [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship station]] of the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[television network]], [[city of license|licensed]] to [[New York City|New York, New York]], United States. The station is owned by the [[ABC Owned Television Stations]] subsidiary of [[The Walt Disney Company]]. WABC-TV's studios are located in the [[Lincoln Square, Manhattan|Lincoln Square]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]], adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its [[transmitter]] is located at the [[Empire State Building]]. |
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WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its version of the ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' format and for its [[Live with Kelly and Ryan|morning show]], syndicated nationally by corporate cousin [[Walt Disney Television]]. |
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In the few areas of the [[Eastern United States]] where an ABC station isn't receivable over-the-air, WABC is available on [[DirecTV]] and select [[cable television|cable]] systems.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} |
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==History== |
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===As WJZ-TV (1948–1953)=== |
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[[File:WJZ now WABC advertisement (1953).jpg|thumb|left|March 1953 advertisement announcing the call letter change from WJZ-TV to WABC-TV.<ref name="callchange">{{cite magazine|title=WABC and WABC-TV ad|volume=44|url=https://archive.org/stream/broadcastingtele44unse#page/n904/mode/1up|accessdate=March 14, 2018|magazine=Broadcasting Telecasting|issue=9|date=March 2, 1953|page=37}}</ref>]] |
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The station signed on August 10, 1948, as '''WJZ-TV''',<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-08-16-BC.pdf#page=23 "WJZ-TV starts; elaborate inaugural program."] ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting – Telecasting]]'', August 16, 1948, pg. 23.</ref> the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with [[WLS-TV|WENR-TV]] in [[Chicago]] and [[WXYZ-TV]] in [[Detroit]] being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its then-sister radio station, [[WABC (AM)|WJZ]]. In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]], as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's prime time schedule began to expand. The station's original transmitter site was located at [[The Pierre]] Hotel at 2 East 61st Street, before moving to the Empire State Building a few years later. The station's original studios were located at 77 West 66th Street, with additional studios at 7 West 66th Street. A tunnel linked ABC studios at 7 West 66th Street to the lobby of the Hotel des Artistes, a block north on West 67th Street. Another studio inside the Hotel des Artistes was used for ''Eyewitness News Conference''.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} |
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===As WABC-TV (1953–present)=== |
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The station's call letters were changed to '''WABC-TV''' on March 1, 1953<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-03-02.pdf#page=70 "It's now WABC-AM-FM-TV; ABC also changes slides."] ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', March 2, 1953, pg. 70.</ref><ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-03-02.pdf#page=37 WABC-AM-FM-TV advertisement]. ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', March 2, 1953, pg. 37.</ref> after ABC merged its operations with [[American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres|United Paramount Theatres]], a firm which was broken off from former parent company [[Paramount Pictures]] by decree of the U.S. government.<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-02-16.pdf#page=27 "Ambitious ABC planning initiated under new merged ownership."] ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', February 16, 1953, pp. 27–29.</ref> The WJZ-TV callsign was later reassigned to [[Westinghouse Broadcasting]] (the original owners of WJZ radio in New York) as an historical nod in 1957 for their newly acquired [[WJZ-TV|television station]] in [[Baltimore]] – a station that was, by coincidence, an ABC affiliate until 1995. |
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As part of ABC's expansion program, initiated in 1977, ABC built 7 [[Lincoln Square, Manhattan|Lincoln Square]] on the southeast corner of West 67th Street and [[Ninth Avenue (Manhattan)|Columbus Avenue]], on the site of an abandoned moving and storage warehouse. At about the same time, construction was started at 30 West 67th Street on the site of a former parking lot. Both buildings were completed in June 1979 and WABC-TV moved its offices from 77 West 66th Street to 7 Lincoln Square. |
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On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WABC-TV, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two [[September 11 attacks|hijacked airplanes crashed]] into and destroyed the north and south towers of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]]. WABC-TV's transmitter maintenance engineer Donald DiFranco died in the attack.<ref>[https://www.silive.com/september-11/index.ssf/2010/09/donald_difranco_43_tv_station.html Donald DiFranco, 43, TV station engineer]</ref> In the immediate aftermath, the station fed its signal to [[WNYE-TV]], [[WFUT-DT|WHSE-TV]], [[WFTY-DT|WHSI-TV]], and the [[New Jersey Network]] ([[WNJN (TV)|WNJN]], [[WNJB (TV)|WNJB]], [[WNJT (TV)|WNJT]], [[WNJS (TV)|WNJS]], W43CH-D, W49BE-D and W35DK-D)<ref>[https://variety.com/2001/tv/news/tv-beams-back-into-n-y-1117852904/ TV beams back into N.Y.]</ref> before establishing temporary facilities at the [[Armstrong Tower]] in [[Alpine, New Jersey]]. The station eventually re-established transmission facilities at the Empire State Building, its original home when it signed on the air in 1948.<ref>{{citation |last=Fybush |first=Scott |date=September 10, 2002 |url=http://www.fybush.com/wtc-recovery.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218160702/http://www.fybush.com/wtc-recovery.html |title=9/11 Plus One |publisher=NorthEast Radio Watch |archivedate=December 18, 2005}}</ref> |
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[[ABC News Now]] was launched in 2004 on digital subchannels of the ABC O&O stations.<ref>{{cite news|title=ABC News banks on digital, despite small audiences today|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-09-04-digital-broadcasts_x.htm|accessdate=May 29, 2014|newspaper=USA Today|agency=AP|date=September 4, 2004}}</ref> On January 31, 2005, ABC removed ABC News Now from O&O and affiliated stations' subchannels as the channel ended its experimental phase originally.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kerschbaumer |first1=Ken |title=ABC News Now... And Later |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA498484.html |accessdate=January 15, 2020 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |date=January 24, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007075559/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA498484.html |url-status=dead |archivedate=October 7, 2008}}</ref> The group changed its programming on secondary channels to ABC Plus, a local news and public affairs format. ABC teamed up with [[AccuWeather]] to launch a [[The Local AccuWeather Channel|multicast service]] on WABC's third subchannel between December 9, 2005 and March 31, 2006.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Umstead |first1=R. Thomas |last2=Moss |first2=Linda |title=Much Ado About Multicasting |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/much-ado-about-multicasting-368289 |accessdate=January 24, 2020 |work=Multichannel |publisher=Future Publishing Limited |date=December 9, 2005 |language=en-us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115190636/https://www.multichannel.com/news/much-ado-about-multicasting-368289 |archive-date=January 15, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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On May 27, 2007, WABC-TV's studios suffered major damage as the result of a fire that knocked the station off the air shortly before the start of the 11:00 p.m. newscast. According to preliminary reports, the fire may have been ignited by a spotlight coming into contact with a curtain inside the news studio; the station's website later reported the cause as an "electrical malfunction". The station's building was evacuated and the fire was brought under control, though the studio was said to be "badly damaged", having suffered smoke and water damage. WABC-TV resumed broadcasting at around 1:00 a.m. on May 28, 2007 (initially carrying the network's 10:00 p.m. West Coast feed of ''[[Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series)|Brothers & Sisters]]'', followed by the full broadcast of ''[[World News Now]]''). Due to the fire, the station broadcast ''Eyewitness News'' from the newsroom, while ''Live! with Regis and Kelly'', whose set was also affected, moved to the set of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]''. Starting with the 5:00 p.m. newscast on June 20, 2007, the station resumed the ''Eyewitness News'' and ''Live!'' broadcasts from its main studios at Columbus Avenue and 66th Street.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wabc-tv-back-air-studio-fire-article-1.254337# |title=WABC-TV back on the air after studio fire |date=May 28, 2007 |publisher=Associated Press/New York Daily News |location=New York}}</ref> |
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The [[Live Well Network]] (LWN) was launched on April 27, 2009 in high definition by ABC's O&O stations on the stations'.2 subchannels.<ref>{{cite news|last=|first=|date=April 27, 2009|title=ABC O&Os Launch Digital Network|work=Broadcasting & Cable|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/209986-ABC_O_Os_Launch_Digital_Network.php|url-status=dead|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430035659/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/209986-ABC_O_Os_Launch_Digital_Network.php|archive-date=April 30, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=ABC Multicasts Live Well HD Channel |url=http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/local-broadcast/e3i18f9fdff77fbe360c575973113dc907b |work=Mediaweek |date=October 25, 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030074214/http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/local-broadcast/e3i18f9fdff77fbe360c575973113dc907b |archivedate=October 30, 2009}}</ref> |
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WABC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 7, at 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 45 to VHF channel 7.<ref name="FCCForm387">{{Cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101234258&formid=387&fac_num=1328 |title=FCC DTV Status Report for WABC |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://media.myfoxny.com/pdf/WWORForm388Update091508.pdf |title=WWOR-DT FCC Form 387, Exhibit 4 |date=September 15, 2008 |publisher=[[WNYW]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321131859/http://media.myfoxny.com/pdf/WWORForm388Update091508.pdf |archivedate=March 21, 2012}}</ref> WABC's digital signal was initially difficult to receive over-the-air in New York City. The station was requested by [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) to broadcast at a lower power; WABC was among many stations which have found it necessary to increase power to restore coverage to the same level as its former analog signal. On June 29, 2009, WABC filed an application with the FCC to increase power from 11.69 kW to 27 kW.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101319333&formid=301&fac_num=1328 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805222955/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101319333&formid=301&fac_num=1328 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 5, 2012 |title=CDBS Print |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |access-date=October 3, 2009 }}</ref> On January 31, 2010, the FCC granted a [[special temporary authority]] (STA) for the station to increase power to 26.9 kW.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1347981&Service=DS&Form_id=911&Facility_id=1328 |title=Engineering STA |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref> |
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In May 2013, WABC-TV and [[Philadelphia]] [[sister station]] [[WPVI-TV]] became the first two ABC-owned stations to offer live, web-based streaming of programming to authenticated subscribers of participating cable and satellite television providers as provided through the relaunched ''Watch ABC'' [[mobile app]]s.<ref name=variety-watchabc>{{cite magazine |title=ABC to Stream Live Via App |url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/abc-to-stream-live-via-app-1200479778/ |magazine=Variety |accessdate=June 1, 2013}}</ref><ref name=engadget-watchabc>{{cite web |title=Watch ABC app with live TV streaming comes to Kindle Fire, but not Google Play |url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/05/31/watch-abc-app-kindle-fire/ |work=Engadget |accessdate=June 1, 2013}}</ref> |
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ABCOTS indicated in January 2015 that its stations' 3rd subchannel would affiliated with [[Laff (TV network)|Laff network]] upon launch on April 15, 2015, but until then LWN would run on both subchannels.<ref name="bc">{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/currency/exclusive-comedy-multicast-net-launching-abc-scripps/137199|title=Exclusive: Comedy Multicast Net Launching on ABC, Scripps|last=Lafayette|first=Jon|work=Broadcasting & Cable|date=January 18, 2015|accessdate=January 20, 2015}}</ref> ABC Stations rebranded Live Well Network on .2 as Localish on February 17, 2020 to add an outlet for the Localish lifestyle content.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lafayette |first=Jon |url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/abc-rebranding-live-well-broadcast-diginet-to-localish |title=ABC Rebranding Live Well Broadcast Diginet to Localish |work=Broadcasting & Cable |publisher=Future Publishing Limited |date=January 21, 2020 |accessdate=2020-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124195838/https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/abc-rebranding-live-well-broadcast-diginet-to-localish |archive-date=January 24, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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===Cable carriage disputes=== |
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[[File:ABC newscrew in New York City.jpg|thumb|400px|WABC-TV Eyewitness News reporting in [[Park Row (Manhattan)|Park Row, New York]]]] |
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====Cablevision (2010)==== |
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On March 7, 2010 at 12:02 a.m. WABC-TV's signal was removed from [[Cablevision]]'s New York area systems (including iO Digital Cable) after failing to reach terms on a new [[retransmission consent]] agreement; the station was replaced by either a blank screen or a looping video containing a message from Cablevision about the removal. To avoid interruption of programming, the station urged Cablevision subscribers in the station's viewing area (totaling up to three million subscribers) to switch to other services, such as [[Verizon Fios|Verizon FiOS]] and [[DirecTV]] or simply view the station over the air through an over-the-air digital antenna and if necessary, a digital converter box, for older television sets.<ref>{{citation |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7305404#comments&status=ok |title=WABC-TV Channel 7 returns to Cablevision subscribers |date=March 8, 2010 |publisher=WABC-TV |access-date=August 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308092311/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=7305404#comments&status=ok |archive-date=March 8, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> WABC's sister station, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia was also pulled from Cablevision's New Jersey systems in [[Mercer County, New Jersey|Mercer]], [[Ocean County, New Jersey|Ocean]] and [[Monmouth County, New Jersey|Monmouth Counties]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=resources/inside_station/station_info&id=7314004 |title=Unknown: dead link |publisher=[[WPVI-TV]]}}{{dead link|date=June 2012}}</ref> |
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Later that same day at approximately 8:50 p.m., 20 minutes into ABC's broadcast of the [[82nd Academy Awards|82nd Annual Academy Awards]], Cablevision and ABC reached a deal, restoring WABC and WPVI's signals for Cablevision subscribers after a nearly 21-hour blackout.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20100307/BUSINESS/100307002/Cablevision--ABC-reach-deal--WABC-TV-restored |title=Cablevision, ABC Reach Deal; WABC-TV Restored |date=March 7, 2010 |newspaper=[[Poughkeepsie Journal]] }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |
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====Time Warner Cable (2010)==== |
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In July 2010, ABC's parent company Disney announced that it was involved in a carriage dispute with [[Time Warner Cable]] (now [[Spectrum (cable service)|Spectrum]]), its first with that provider in 10 years. This dispute involved four ABC owned-and-operated stations (WABC-TV and sister stations [[KABC-TV]] in Los Angeles, [[WTVD]] in [[Durham, North Carolina]] and [[WTVG]] in [[Toledo, Ohio]] [the latter station would be sold by ABC the next year]), [[Disney Channel]] and the [[ESPN]] networks. If a deal wasn't in place, the affected stations and cable channels would've been removed from Time Warner and [[Bright House Networks]] systems across the country. On September 2, 2010, Disney and Time Warner Cable reached a long-term agreement to keep the channels on Time Warner Cable systems.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weprin |first=Alex |title=Disney-ABC, Time Warner Cable Strike Deal |url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/disney-abc-time-warner-cable-strike-deal/24401 |accessdate=February 8, 2019 |work=TVNewser |date=September 3, 2010}}</ref> |
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==Digital channels== |
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The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]: |
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! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]] |
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! Programming<ref name=rei>{{cite web|title=Digital TV Market Listing for WABC|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WABC#station|website=RabbitEars.Info|accessdate=February 21, 2020}}</ref> |
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| 7.1 || rowspan=2 | [[720p]] || rowspan=2 | [[16:9]] || WABC-HD || Main WABC-TV programming / [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] |
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| 7.2 || LOCLish || [[Localish]] |
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| 7.3 || [[480i]] || [[4:3]] || LAFF ||[[Laff (TV network)|Laff]] |
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==Programming== |
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WABC has long presented events such as the [[Columbus Day]] Parade and [[Puerto Rican Day Parade]] and beginning in 2017, they became the first television station to air the [[New York City LGBT Pride March]].<ref>[http://abc7ny.com/pride/ New York City LGBT Pride March]</ref> In addition, the station is also producing local programs such as ''Here and Now'', a program covering the latest issues, trends and news stories impacting the local black community, ''Tiempo'', a weekly program that focus on the issues affecting local Hispanic citizens, and ''Up Close'', a public affairs program on the latest issues with the newsmakers. The station also formerly produced ''Viewpoint'', a weekly program that highlighted the cultural and community efforts in New York, Long Island and New Jersey (each of these regions rotated weekly). |
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As of 2020, aside from ''Live with Kelly and Ryan'', WABC's first-run syndicated programs include ''[[Tamron Hall (talk show)|Tamron Hall]]'', ''[[Rachael Ray (talk show)|Rachael Ray]]'', ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and ''[[Wheel of Fortune (American game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]''. The station also airs off-network reruns of ''[[Wipeout (2008 American game show)|Wipeout]]'' and ''[[Castle (TV series)|Castle]]'', both former ABC programs, during weekend late nights. |
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===''Live with Kelly and Ryan''=== |
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{{main|Live with Kelly and Ryan}} |
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WABC-TV produces the nationally [[broadcast syndication|syndicated]] talk show ''Live with Kelly and Ryan''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ryan-seacrests-live-with-kelly-ripa-ratings-1202406403/|title=Ryan Seacrest's 'Live With Kelly' Debut Lifts Series in Monday Ratings|last=Otterson|first=Joe|date=May 2, 2017|work=Variety|access-date=June 8, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Until the station's newscasts were moved to a separate studio in 2011, the program originated in the same ground-floor studio at 7 Lincoln Square as ''Eyewitness News'', thus creating a situation which forced local news updates broadcast during ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and ''Live'' to be produced from the WABC-TV newsroom and the morning show's presence also limited the size of the ''Eyewitness News'' set. |
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The program's roots originated with ''A.M. New York'', which debuted in 1970 as a local version of [[NBC]]'s ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]'' show;<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OICAAAAMBAJ&q=WABC-TV+AM+New+York&pg=PA52 |title=Best Bets |journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=May 18, 1970 |page=52 |accessdate=May 9, 2011}}</ref> its first host was [[John Bartholomew Tucker]], who remained with the program until 1972. After Tucker's departure, a succession of hosts came and went, the most successful of whom was Stanley Siegel, who hosted from 1975 to 1978 (for a year beginning in 1977, the series was called ''The Stanley Siegel Show'').<ref name="LLC1977">{{cite journal|author=New York Media, LLC|title=New York Magazine|website=Newyorkmetro.com|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41|date=September 12, 1977|publisher=New York Media, LLC|pages=41–|issn=0028-7369}}</ref> After 1980, the show was retitled ''Good Morning New York'', whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included [[Spencer Christian]], Andrea Kirby, [[Judy Licht]], Dick Wolfsie and longtime ''Eyewitness News'' reporter and anchor Doug Johnson. After years of a losing ratings battle against ''[[The Phil Donahue Show|Donahue]]'' on WNBC-TV, WABC-TV cancelled ''Good Morning New York'' in early 1983.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muICAAAAMBAJ&q=WABC-TV+Good+Morning+New+York&pg=PA14 |title=ABC-TV Memo: Wasps Preferred (Intelligencer) |journal=New York |date=March 21, 1983 |page=14 |accessdate=May 9, 2011}}</ref> |
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The current show began as the station's second attempt at a local morning show a month later, aptly titled ''The Morning Show'' (using the "Circle 7" logo in the actual text for one of the "o"s) and was originally hosted by [[Regis Philbin]] and [[Cyndy Garvey]]. After Garvey's departure a year later, she was replaced by Ann Abernathy, who in turn, left in 1985 to return to [[Los Angeles]]. That year, [[Kathie Lee Gifford|Kathie Lee Johnson]] (who would marry [[Frank Gifford]] a year later) became Philbin's new co-host. |
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In 1988, [[Disney–ABC Domestic Television|Buena Vista Television]] began syndicating the show nationally as ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee''. Gifford left the show in 2000 and was eventually replaced by [[Kelly Ripa]]. Philbin left the show in November 2011 and the show aired for nearly a year as ''Live! with Kelly'' until former [[New York Giants]] defensive end [[Michael Strahan]] became Ripa's permanent co-host in September 2012. In May 2016, Strahan left the show to become a full-time anchor at ''Good Morning America'', thus leaving Ripa as the solo host again. On May 1, 2017, it was announced that [[Ryan Seacrest]] would become the new host of the show; in order to accommodate his syndicated radio show ''[[On Air with Ryan Seacrest]]'' (which normally originates from Los Angeles), an additional studio was built within WABC's facilities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ryan Seacrest Tapped as Kelly Ripa's Permanent Co-Host on 'Live'|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/ryan-seacrest-kelly-ripa-co-host-live-with-kelly-and-ryan-1202404490/|website=Variety|accessdate=May 9, 2017|date=May 2017}}</ref> |
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===Sports programming=== |
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WABC-TV serves as the local over-the-air broadcaster of ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' games involving the New York Giants and the [[New York Jets]], airing simulcasts of the team's ESPN-televised games (WABC-TV's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company, holds an 80% majority ownership stake in ESPN, and the ABC Owned Television Stations have right of first refusal for simulcasts of ESPN's [[National Football League|NFL]] telecasts within a team's home market). Because of this, atypical for a network-owned station outside of [[breaking news]] and severe weather coverage necessitating such situations, the station has had to reschedule ABC network programs preempted by the telecasts. The preseason and Monday night telecasts mark the only NFL games to have aired on WABC-TV since ABC lost the rights to NFL games in 2006. ''Monday Night Football'' telecasts involving the Giants or Jets that are not carried by WABC-TV are sublicensed to [[WPIX]].<ref name="wpix-mnf">{{cite news|last=|first=|date=September 16, 2019|title=PIX11 to air three Monday night football games this season, starting with Jets vs. Browns tonight|language=en|work=PIX 11|publisher=[[WPIX]]|url=https://pix11.com/2019/09/16/pix11-to-air-three-monday-night-football-games-this-season-starting-with-jets-vs-browns-tonight/|url-status=live|accessdate=October 23, 2019}}</ref> The station carried coverage of the Giants' victory in [[Super Bowl XXV]]. |
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Since 2013, WABC-TV serves as the exclusive local English-language carrier of the annual [[New York City Marathon]], which the station airs live, highlights air via [[ESPN on ABC]]. The station preempts a weekend edition of ''Good Morning America'' and delays ''This Week'' to schedule time for the live broadcast. The marathon is also simulcast on [[ESPN2]] nationally (although viewers in the WABC-TV viewing area cannot see it via ESPN2 because the simulcast is blacked out locally). |
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WABC-TV currently airs any [[New York Knicks]] and [[Brooklyn Nets]] games televised via the ''[[NBA on ABC]]''. The station has aired the Knicks' appearances in the [[1970 NBA Finals|1970]], [[1972 NBA Finals|1972]] and [[1973 NBA Finals]] (where the Knicks won in 1970 and 1973), as well as the then-New Jersey Nets' appearance in the [[2003 NBA Finals]]. |
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WABC-TV previously aired [[New York Rangers]], [[New York Islanders]] and [[New Jersey Devils]] games carried through the ''[[NHL on ABC]]''; this included the Devils' victories in the [[2000 Stanley Cup Finals|2000]] and [[2003 Stanley Cup Finals]], as well as their defeat in the [[2001 Stanley Cup Finals]]. |
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WABC-TV also previously aired any [[New York Yankees]] and [[New York Mets]] games through [[Major League Baseball on ABC|ABC's baseball contract]]; this included the Yankees' victory in the [[1977 World Series]] and defeat in the [[1981 World Series]]. |
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==News operation== |
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WABC-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 35 minutes each weekday and 5½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station partners with Philadelphia sister station, WPVI-TV – which popularized the ''[[Action News]]'' format – in the production and broadcast of statewide [[New Jersey]] political debates. When the two stations broadcast a statewide office debate, such as for [[Governor of New Jersey|Governor]] or [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]], they'll pool resources and have anchors or reporters from both stations participate in the debate. Additionally, the two stations share coverage of news from New Jersey where their markets overlap, pooling reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. |
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===Beginning to 1968=== |
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[[File:WABC Eyewitness News 2013.png|thumb|right|Channel 7 ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' at 11:00 p.m. open, used from August 8, 2011 – May 3, 2016]] |
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WABC-TV launched ''Report to New York'', its first regular news program, on October 26, 1959, featuring [[Scott Vincent]] with news, [[Howard Cosell]] with sports, and Lynn Dollar with the weather. ''Report to New York'' aired Monday through Friday at 11:00 p.m. By January 1961, channel 7 expanded ''Report to New York'' with a 15-minute early edition at 6:15 p.m. on weeknights, and on Saturday and Sunday evenings. |
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On October 22, 1962, WABC-TV expanded its weeknight news to 45-minutes, and retitled it ''The Big News''. Newcomers [[Bill Beutel]] and Jim Burnes<ref>{{cite news | title =Jim Burnes of A. B. C., 42, Dies; Covered U.S. Urban Disorders | newspaper =The New York Times | location =New York, New York | pages =41 | date =June 26, 1970 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/26/archives/jim-burnes-of-abc-42-dies-covered-us-urban-disorders.html | access-date =August 2, 2020 }}</ref> were the anchors, with Cosell continuing on sports and Rosemary Haley as "weather girl".<ref>{{cite news | title =Broadcasting magazine advertisement for ''The Big News'' | work =Broadcasting | date =November 19, 1962 |page=45 | url =https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/62-OCR/1962-11-19-BC-OCR-Page-0045.pdf | access-date =August 2, 2020 }}</ref> However, this effort failed to draw viewers from the ratings leader [[WCBS-TV]] and second-place [[WNBC|WNBC-TV]]. |
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===The ''Eyewitness News'' era=== |
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In early 1968, Beutel left the station to become the [[London]] bureau chief for [[ABC News]] and was replaced by [[Roger Grimsby]], who was transferred by ABC from [[San Francisco]] sister station [[KGO-TV]]. In a complete revamp, Grimsby was joined by [[Tex Antoine]] doing weather, celebrity gossip columnist [[Rona Barrett]], ''[[New York Daily News]]'' columnist [[Jimmy Breslin]] with political commentary and reviews by [[Martin Bookspan]] and Allan Jeffries, while Cosell continued doing sports. Known as ''Roger Grimsby and the Noisemakers'', this format didn't help the ratings, which plunged to an all-time low.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvweek.com/in-depth/2003/05/giving-witness-to-eyewitness-n/|title=Giving Witness to Eyewitness News|last=Primo|first=Al|date=May 19, 2003|work=TVWeek.com|access-date=August 15, 2018}}</ref> |
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Later that year, newly hired news director [[Al Primo]] brought to WABC-TV the ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' format and branding, in which reporters present their stories directly to the viewers. Having experienced great success introducing the format during his time at [[KYW-TV]] in Philadelphia, Primo this time added a twist – a degree of conversational chatter among the anchors, known as "happy talk". The "Tar Sequence" cue from the musical score of the [[1967 in film|1967 film]] ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'', composed by [[Lalo Schifrin]], was introduced as the theme music. The score included a telegraphic-style melody appropriate for a newscast. The ''Eyewitness News'' format and theme music were quickly adopted by ABC's other four owned-and-operated stations at the time: KGO-TV, WLS-TV in Chicago, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and KABC-TV in Los Angeles (though KGO-TV and WXYZ-TV didn't use the ''Eyewitness News'' title for their programs). The format quickly rejuvenated a station that had long been an also-ran to WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV. Within a year, Channel 7 had shot to first place in the ratings for the first time in its history, displacing longtime leader WCBS-TV. It spent most of the decade going back and forth with WCBS-TV for first place. For a time in the 1980s, it fell into last place among the network-owned stations, but still fought with WNBC-TV for second place. |
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Retaining only Grimsby, Cosell, and Antoine from the earlier ''Noisemakers'' format, Primo also hired [[Tom Dunn (journalist)|Tom Dunn]] away from WCBS-TV to serve as Grimsby's co-anchor. After Dunn departed for [[WOR-TV]] in 1970, Bill Beutel returned to the station as his replacement and for the next 16 years, Grimsby and Beutel were the faces of ''Eyewitness News''. |
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The Grimsby-Beutel team were split up for several months in 1975 after ABC had reassigned Beutel to its new morning show, ''[[AM America]]'' that January. The station brought in WXYZ-TV's [[Bill Bonds]] and veteran [[Boston]] anchor [[Tom Ellis (journalist)|Tom Ellis]] to help replace Beutel, with Grimsby teaming with Ellis at 6:00 p.m. and Bonds at 11:00 p.m.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gardella |first=Kay |date=August 20, 1975 |title=TV's local news front undergoes some changes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/395918532/ |work=Daily News |location=New York, NY |access-date=April 30, 2019 }}{{paywall}}</ref> When ''AM America'' was canceled and replaced with ''Good Morning America'' in November 1975, Beutel was re-teamed with Grimsby at 6:00 p.m., with Ellis joining Bonds at 11:00 p.m.. Bonds returned to Detroit in June 1976<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Bonds quits at Ch. 7 news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/488479458/ |work=Daily News |location=New York, NY |date=June 19, 1976 |access-date=April 30, 2019 }}{{paywall}}</ref> and was replaced by [[Larry Kane]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Val |date=June 25, 1976 |title=WABC juggles news staff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/488439881/ |work=Daily News |location=New York, NY |access-date=April 30, 2019 }}{{paywall}}</ref> who lasted only one year as the sole 11:00 p.m. anchor before returning to his home market of Philadelphia. Ellis remained until May 1977<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ch. 7 weighs Ellis' anchor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/482814854/ |work=Daily News |location=New York, NY |date=May 14, 1977 |access-date=April 30, 2019 }}{{paywall}}</ref> and Kane's successor, [[Ernie Anastos]], began his New York career at the station; he co-anchored at 11:00 p.m. with [[Rose Ann Scamardella]] and later [[Kaity Tong]], for his entire 12-year tenure there. |
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On November 30, 1981, the station became the second in the city to expand its late afternoon/evening newscasts by adding of a 5:00 p.m. edition, first presented by Rose Ann Scamardella and [[Storm Field]], later succeeded by Kaity Tong and [[Tom Snyder]], the latter only lasting several months before being replaced by 11:00 p.m. co-anchor Ernie Anastos. |
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In 1985, the station lured WLS-TV's news director, Bill Applegate, from Chicago to New York City. Applegate claimed credit for taking WLS-TV from last to first in only two years and ABC hoped he could work the same magic at the flagship station. In the wake of declining ratings, Grimsby was fired on April 16, 1986, a move for which Applegate drew considerable ire and Grimsby was quickly hired by rival WNBC-TV. In 1987, Channel 7 surged back into first place. It has been the ratings leader in New York City since then, and has grown to become the most-watched broadcast television station in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=|title=Nielsen Sweep|work=FOX Business|publisher=FOX Business|url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/channel---tv-station-new-york-nation--nielsen-sweep/|url-status=dead|access-date=|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212112032/http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/channel---tv-station-new-york-nation--nielsen-sweep/|archivedate=February 12, 2009}}</ref> Beutel stepped down from the anchor desk in 2001, which concluded the longest tenure for a main anchor in New York City television history at that time. His record has since been surpassed by WNBC's Chuck Scarborough and [[WXTV-DT|WXTV]]'s Rafael Pineda. Scarborough's uninterrupted run behind the desk is the longest in New York television (since 1974). Pineda is second, having started with WXTV in 1972, retiring in 2013 after 41 years. |
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===2000–present=== |
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WABC-TV's news department is respected for its straightforward presentation (especially during breaking news). For the last decade, it has waged a spirited battle for first place, but for most of the time has held onto the lead, helped in part by lead-ins from the highly rated talk and entertainment shows. For over 24 years (December 1986 to May 2011), the lead-in for the 5:00 p.m. ''Eyewitness News'' broadcast had been ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' at 4:00 p.m. and its strong ratings brought viewers along to the 5:00 p.m. newscast. |
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The newscasts were replayed on one of channel 7's digital subchannels, another which also carried local weather and news channel. WABC-TV's website had a link for live streaming video of "Channel 7 Eyewitness News NOW", which offered live local and national weather updated from [[AccuWeather]] alongside local news. The format of "Eyewitness News NOW" is similar to the defunct [[NBC Weather Plus]]. On February 24, 2011, AccuWeather and ABC both replaced ENN as well as similar news channels on WABC-TV's sister stations, KABC-TV in Los Angeles and WLS-TV in Chicago, replacing them in all three cities with a [[standard-definition television|standard definition]], [[Letterboxing (filming)|letterboxed]] simulcast of the [[Live Well Network]], and then on April 15, 2015, these stations were replaced by [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]. |
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On December 2, 2006, WABC-TV became the second station in the New York City market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in [[High-definition television|high definition]]. On September 7, 2010, WABC-TV expanded its weekday morning newscast, moving its start time to 4:30 a.m. 3 Days earlier on September 4, 2010, WABC added an hour-long extension of its Saturday morning newscast from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=August 24, 2010|title=WABC Expands Morning News|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2010/08/24/44695/wabc-expands-morning-news|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=TVNewsCheck|publisher=TVNewsCheck}}</ref> On May 26, 2011, WABC-TV added another hour of local news at 4:00 p.m. to replace ''Oprah'', which aired its last original episode the previous day. WABC also produces a 7:00 p.m. newscast on Saturdays following college football during the regular season. |
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On September 24, 2011, the station began broadcasting its newscasts and public affairs programs from a new street-level window studio at a former [[Disney Store]] location in the ABC building on 66th Street and Columbus Avenue. The space previously used for news broadcasts was used to expand the ''Live with Kelly'' studio.<ref>{{cite news |last=Flamm |first=Matthew |date=February 6, 2011 |url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110206/FREE/302069970# |title=WABC Plans Post-Oprah Era – Station To Add Local News Hour; Regis Exit Delayed Several Months |newspaper=[[Crain Communications|Crain's New York Business]] |accessdate=June 24, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Huff |first=Richard |date=February 18, 2011 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/eyewitness-news-set-major-face-lift-summer-new-studio-timeslot-article-1.136978 |title='Eyewitness News' Set for Major Face-Lift Come Summer with New Studio, Timeslot |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |accessdate=June 24, 2012}}</ref> In January 2012, the station also expanded its weekend 11:00 p.m. newscasts to an hour. On September 8, 2014, the station expanded its Noon newscast to one full hour from the previous half hour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://7online.com/entertainment/afternoons-are-new-on-abc7-ny/256565/ |title=Channel 7's New Afternoon Lineup |date=August 18, 2014 |publisher=WABC-TV |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819091327/http://7online.com/entertainment/afternoons-are-new-on-abc7-ny/256565/ |archivedate=August 19, 2014 }}</ref> |
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===Notable current on-air staff=== |
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====Anchors==== |
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* [[Sade Baderinwa]] |
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* [[Sandra Bookman]] – also host of ''Here and Now'' |
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* [[Michelle Charlesworth]] – also reporter and fill-in anchor |
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* [[Liz Cho]] |
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* [[David Novarro]] |
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* [[Bill Ritter (journalist)|Bill Ritter]] – also host of ''Eyewitness News UpClose'' |
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* [[Ken Rosato]] – also host of ''New York Viewpoint'' |
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* [[Joe Torres (journalist)|Joe Torres]] – also host of ''Tiempo'' and fill-in anchor |
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====Weather==== |
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* [[Lee Goldberg (meteorologist)|Lee Goldberg]] ([[American Meteorological Society|AMS]] Seal of Approval) – chief meteorologist |
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* [[Sam Champion]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/sam-champion-biography/story?id=2343718 |title=Sam Champion's Biography |publisher=Good Morning America |accessdate=July 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=May 22, 2019|title=Sam Champion joins WABC-TV's Eyewitness News This Morning and at Noon|url=https://abc7ny.com/sam-champion-joins-eyewitness-news-this-morning-and-at-noon/5312773/|accessdate=May 23, 2019|publisher=WABC-TV}}</ref> |
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* [[Amy Freeze]] (AMS CBM Seal of Approval) |
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====Sports==== |
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*[[Ryan Field (sportscaster)|Ryan Field]] – sports director |
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*[[Sam Ryan]] – sports reporter |
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====Reporters==== |
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* [[N. J. Burkett|N.J. Burkett]] – general assignment reporter |
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* [[Dave Evans (reporter)|Dave Evans]] – political reporter |
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* [[Lauren Glassberg]] – general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor |
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* [[Shannon Sohn]] – NewsCopter 7 reporter |
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* [[Toni Yates]] – general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor |
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===Notable former on-air staff=== |
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* [[Roz Abrams]] (retired)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epg-Byz5Dic |title=1994 Roz Abrams WABC 7 New York Promo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723051034/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epg-Byz5Dic |accessdate=July 13, 2012|archive-date=July 23, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/09/veteran_broadcaster_roz_abrams_inspires_students_during_historymakers_speech.html |title=HistoryMakers, Like Roz Abrams, Inspire Students With Stories of Achievement |accessdate=January 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222221546/http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/09/veteran_broadcaster_roz_abrams_inspires_students_during_historymakers_speech.html |archivedate=December 22, 2014 }}</ref> |
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* [[Ernie Anastos]] (Last at [[WNYW]],retired from television)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI">{{cite web |url=http://www.reocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/2020/alumni_wabc.html |title=WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI |accessdate=July 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201165918/http://www.reocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/2020/alumni_wabc.html |archive-date=February 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* [[Tex Antoine]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Steve Bartelstein]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/item_unlHH5q9tq3ieSbsenOHlI;jsessionid=9283599DF50B73E6451ABF9082C61C5F |title=TV NEWSMAN SPILLS AND LOOKS AHEAD |last=Adams |first=Cindy |date=September 28, 2007 |work=[[New York Post]] |accessdate=July 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021183928/http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cindy_adams/item_unlHH5q9tq3ieSbsenOHlI;jsessionid=9283599DF50B73E6451ABF9082C61C5F |archivedate=October 21, 2012 }}</ref> (retired from television) |
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* [[Bill Beutel]]<ref name="Remembering Bill Beutel">{{cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=3995643 |title=Remembering Bill Beutel |last=Ritter |first=Bill |date=April 10, 2006 |publisher=WABC-TV |accessdate=July 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185330/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=3995643 |archive-date=July 16, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (deceased) |
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* [[Bill Bonds]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased; was best known for his work at former [[Detroit]] sister station [[WXYZ-TV]]) |
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* [[Jim Bouton]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Spencer Christian]] (left to join ''Good Morning America'', now with [[San Francisco]] sister station [[KGO-TV]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Lisa Colagrossi]] (deceased) |
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* [[Bertha Coombs]] (now with CNBC)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Victoria Corderi]] (was most recently at NBC News as a reporter for ''[[Dateline NBC]]'') |
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* [[Howard Cosell]] (later with [[ESPN on ABC|ABC Sports]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Penny Crone]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired) |
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* [[Tom Dunn (journalist)|Tom Dunn]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Tom Ellis (journalist)|Tom Ellis]] (later at [[WCVB-TV]], [[WHDH (TV)|WNEV-TV]] and [[NECN]], deceased) |
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* [[Bill Evans (meteorologist)|Bill Evans]] (left on February 5, 2019, now with [[WLNG]]) |
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* [[Storm Field]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired) |
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* [[Ira Joe Fisher]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/18/earlyshow/saturday/main667554.shtml |title=Ira Joe Fisher |last=Morales |first=Tatiana |date=February 11, 2009 |publisher=[[CBS News]] |accessdate=July 14, 2012}}</ref> (retired from television) |
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* [[Frank Gifford]] (later with ABC Sports)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0hNIAAAAIBAJ&pg=3006%2C6178274 |title=Frank Gifford To Join ABC |work=[[Record-Journal]] |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> (deceased) |
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* [[Carlos Granda]] (now with [[KABC-TV]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Roger Grimsby]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Mark Haines]] (later with CNBC)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/15838129/ |title=Mark Haines obituary |publisher=CNBC|accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> (deceased) |
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* [[Robb Hanrahan]] (now with [[WHP-TV]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whptv.com/content/bios/RobbHanrahan/RobbHanrahan.aspx |title=Robb Hanrahan bio |publisher=[[WHP-TV]] |accessdate=March 10, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523121405/http://www.whptv.com/content/bios/RobbHanrahan/RobbHanrahan.aspx |archivedate=May 23, 2013 }}</ref> |
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* [[Steve Hartman]] (now with CBS News)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[E. D. Hill|Edye Hill (Tarbox)]] (later with [[Fox News]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Carol Iovanna]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-iovanna/24/149/3b1 |title=Carol Iovanna's LinkedIn profile |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> (retired from television) |
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* [[John Johnson (reporter)|John Johnson]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired) |
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* [[Larry Kane]] (later with [[KYW-TV]] and [[KYW (AM)|KYW]] radio, was most recently with the [[Comcast Network]] until its October 2, 2017 rebranding)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Bob Lape]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (now with [[WCBS (AM)|WCBS]] radio) |
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* [[Judy Licht]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judy-licht/ |title=Judy Licht bio |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> (retired from television) |
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* [[Nancy Loo]] (now with [[WGN America]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Dorothy Lucey]] (later with [[KTTV]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Felipe Luciano]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired from television) |
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* [[Joan Lunden]] (later with ''Good Morning America'')<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Sal Marchiano]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired) |
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* [[Art McFarland]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired) |
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* [[Corey McPherrin]] (now with [[WFLD]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Larry Mendte]] (now with [[WABC (AM)|WABC]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[George Michael (sportscaster)|George Michael]] (later with [[WRC-TV]]; former host of ''[[The George Michael Sports Machine]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/sportscaster-george-michael-loses-battle-cancer-article-1.433405 |title=Sportscaster George Michael loses his battle with cancer |last=Hinckley |first=David |date=December 24, 2009 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> (deceased) |
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* [[Tim Minton]] (last at WNBC, retired from television) |
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* [[Rob Nelson (reporter)|Rob Nelson]] (now with [[WGN America]]) |
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* [[Mary Nissenson]] (deceased) |
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* [[Gil Noble]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Mike Parker (reporter)|Mike Parker]] (was most recently at [[WBBM-TV]] in [[Chicago]]) (deceased) |
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* [[Jim Paymar]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (now a producer; President of Paymar Communications) |
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* [[Jeff Pegues]] (now with CBS News) |
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* [[Charles Perez]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/charles-perez-takes-blowtorch-coworkers-wabc-ch-7-new-book-article-1.154321 |title=Charles Perez takes blowtorch to former coworkers at WABC/CH. 7 in new book |last=Huff |first=Richard |date=January 28, 2011 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref>(retired) |
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* [[Tappy Phillips]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/bio?section=ontv/stationinfo/bios&id=3301291 |title=Tappy Phillips bio |accessdate=March 10, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927012858/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/bio?section=ontv%2Fstationinfo%2Fbios&id=3301291 |archivedate=September 27, 2012 }}</ref> (retired) |
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* [[Richie Powers]] (deceased)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sports.nyhistory.org/richie-powers/ |title=Richie Powers bio |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[Rob Powers]] (now at [[WEWS-TV]]) |
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* [[Geraldo Rivera]] (now with Fox News)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Susan Roesgen]] (now at [[WGNO]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Jeff Rossen]] (now with NBC News)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26639476/ns/nbcnightlynews-about_us/t/jeff-rossen/#.UTwTaKXqkU8 |title=Jeff Rossen bio |date=February 19, 2011 |publisher=NBC News|accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[Rose Ann Scamardella]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired) |
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* [[John Schubeck]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Marvell Scott]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (retired from television; now a team physician<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2009/10/former_wabc_sports_anchor_marv.html |title=Former WABC sports anchor Marvell Scott now roaming sidelines as sports physician for Rutgers football team |date=October 9, 2009 |publisher=The Star Ledger |accessdate=March 23, 2015}}</ref>) |
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* [[Rosanna Scotto]] (now with WNYW)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Joel Siegel]] (later with ''Good Morning America'')<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Tom Snyder]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> (deceased) |
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* [[Lara Spencer]] (left to join ''Good Morning America'', later hosted ''[[The Insider (TV program)|The Insider]]'' and ''[[Antiques Roadshow (American TV program)|Antiques Roadshow]]'', has since rejoined ''GMA'')<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Lori Stokes]] (now with WNYW) |
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* [[Spencer Tillman]] (now with [[Houston]] sister station [[KTRK-TV]] and also, commentator with [[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Lee Thomas (reporter)|Lee Thomas]] (now with [[WJBK]]) |
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* [[Melba Tolliver]] (retired)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Kaity Tong]] (now with [[WPIX]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[John Bartholomew Tucker]] (deceased)<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[David Ushery]] (now with WNBC)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/about-us/David-Ushery-121567759.html |title=David Ushery bio |date=September 21, 2012 |publisher=WNBC-TV|accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[Scott Vincent]] (deceased)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6017320/?ref_=nm_knf_i1|title=Report to New York|date=October 26, 1959|publisher=|accessdate=December 31, 2016|via=IMDb}}</ref> |
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* [[Rolonda Watts]] (later with ''[[Inside Edition]]'' and talk show ''[[Rolonda]]'')<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Diana Williams]] (retired) |
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* [[Joe Witte]] (now a researcher at the [[Goddard Space Flight Center]])<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Warner Wolf]] (was most recently with WABC's ''[[Imus in the Morning]]'' radio show until December 3, 2016) |
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* [[Jenna Wolfe]] (previously with NBC's ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]'', now moderator of ''First Things First with [[Cris Carter]] and Nick Wright'' on [[Fox Sports 1|FS1]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.today.com/id/27687258/ns/today/t/jenna-wolfe/#.UTwXbqXqkU8 |title=Jenna Wolfe bio |accessdate=March 10, 2013}}</ref> |
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* [[Eli Zaret]]<ref name="WABC-TV NEWS ALUMNI" /> |
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* [[Circle 7 logo]] |
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* [[Media in New York City]] |
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WABC-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is the flagship station of the ABC television network, licensed to New York, New York, United States. The station is owned by the ABC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. WABC-TV's studios are located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building.
WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its version of the Eyewitness News format and for its morning show, syndicated nationally by corporate cousin Walt Disney Television.
In the few areas of the Eastern United States where an ABC station isn't receivable over-the-air, WABC is available on DirecTV and select cable systems.[citation needed]
History
As WJZ-TV (1948–1953)
The station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV,[5] the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its then-sister radio station, WJZ. In its early years, WJZ-TV was programmed much like an independent station, as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's prime time schedule began to expand. The station's original transmitter site was located at The Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st Street, before moving to the Empire State Building a few years later. The station's original studios were located at 77 West 66th Street, with additional studios at 7 West 66th Street. A tunnel linked ABC studios at 7 West 66th Street to the lobby of the Hotel des Artistes, a block north on West 67th Street. Another studio inside the Hotel des Artistes was used for Eyewitness News Conference.[citation needed]
As WABC-TV (1953–present)
The station's call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953[6][7] after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theatres, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U.S. government.[8] The WJZ-TV callsign was later reassigned to Westinghouse Broadcasting (the original owners of WJZ radio in New York) as an historical nod in 1957 for their newly acquired television station in Baltimore – a station that was, by coincidence, an ABC affiliate until 1995.
As part of ABC's expansion program, initiated in 1977, ABC built 7 Lincoln Square on the southeast corner of West 67th Street and Columbus Avenue, on the site of an abandoned moving and storage warehouse. At about the same time, construction was started at 30 West 67th Street on the site of a former parking lot. Both buildings were completed in June 1979 and WABC-TV moved its offices from 77 West 66th Street to 7 Lincoln Square.
On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WABC-TV, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. WABC-TV's transmitter maintenance engineer Donald DiFranco died in the attack.[9] In the immediate aftermath, the station fed its signal to WNYE-TV, WHSE-TV, WHSI-TV, and the New Jersey Network (WNJN, WNJB, WNJT, WNJS, W43CH-D, W49BE-D and W35DK-D)[10] before establishing temporary facilities at the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey. The station eventually re-established transmission facilities at the Empire State Building, its original home when it signed on the air in 1948.[11]
ABC News Now was launched in 2004 on digital subchannels of the ABC O&O stations.[12] On January 31, 2005, ABC removed ABC News Now from O&O and affiliated stations' subchannels as the channel ended its experimental phase originally.[13] The group changed its programming on secondary channels to ABC Plus, a local news and public affairs format. ABC teamed up with AccuWeather to launch a multicast service on WABC's third subchannel between December 9, 2005 and March 31, 2006.[14]
On May 27, 2007, WABC-TV's studios suffered major damage as the result of a fire that knocked the station off the air shortly before the start of the 11:00 p.m. newscast. According to preliminary reports, the fire may have been ignited by a spotlight coming into contact with a curtain inside the news studio; the station's website later reported the cause as an "electrical malfunction". The station's building was evacuated and the fire was brought under control, though the studio was said to be "badly damaged", having suffered smoke and water damage. WABC-TV resumed broadcasting at around 1:00 a.m. on May 28, 2007 (initially carrying the network's 10:00 p.m. West Coast feed of Brothers & Sisters, followed by the full broadcast of World News Now). Due to the fire, the station broadcast Eyewitness News from the newsroom, while Live! with Regis and Kelly, whose set was also affected, moved to the set of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Starting with the 5:00 p.m. newscast on June 20, 2007, the station resumed the Eyewitness News and Live! broadcasts from its main studios at Columbus Avenue and 66th Street.[15]
The Live Well Network (LWN) was launched on April 27, 2009 in high definition by ABC's O&O stations on the stations'.2 subchannels.[16][17]
WABC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, VHF channel 7, at 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[18] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 45 to VHF channel 7.[19][20] WABC's digital signal was initially difficult to receive over-the-air in New York City. The station was requested by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast at a lower power; WABC was among many stations which have found it necessary to increase power to restore coverage to the same level as its former analog signal. On June 29, 2009, WABC filed an application with the FCC to increase power from 11.69 kW to 27 kW.[21] On January 31, 2010, the FCC granted a special temporary authority (STA) for the station to increase power to 26.9 kW.[22]
In May 2013, WABC-TV and Philadelphia sister station WPVI-TV became the first two ABC-owned stations to offer live, web-based streaming of programming to authenticated subscribers of participating cable and satellite television providers as provided through the relaunched Watch ABC mobile apps.[23][24]
ABCOTS indicated in January 2015 that its stations' 3rd subchannel would affiliated with Laff network upon launch on April 15, 2015, but until then LWN would run on both subchannels.[25] ABC Stations rebranded Live Well Network on .2 as Localish on February 17, 2020 to add an outlet for the Localish lifestyle content.[26]
Cable carriage disputes
Cablevision (2010)
On March 7, 2010 at 12:02 a.m. WABC-TV's signal was removed from Cablevision's New York area systems (including iO Digital Cable) after failing to reach terms on a new retransmission consent agreement; the station was replaced by either a blank screen or a looping video containing a message from Cablevision about the removal. To avoid interruption of programming, the station urged Cablevision subscribers in the station's viewing area (totaling up to three million subscribers) to switch to other services, such as Verizon FiOS and DirecTV or simply view the station over the air through an over-the-air digital antenna and if necessary, a digital converter box, for older television sets.[27] WABC's sister station, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia was also pulled from Cablevision's New Jersey systems in Mercer, Ocean and Monmouth Counties.[28]
Later that same day at approximately 8:50 p.m., 20 minutes into ABC's broadcast of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Cablevision and ABC reached a deal, restoring WABC and WPVI's signals for Cablevision subscribers after a nearly 21-hour blackout.[29]
Time Warner Cable (2010)
In July 2010, ABC's parent company Disney announced that it was involved in a carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum), its first with that provider in 10 years. This dispute involved four ABC owned-and-operated stations (WABC-TV and sister stations KABC-TV in Los Angeles, WTVD in Durham, North Carolina and WTVG in Toledo, Ohio [the latter station would be sold by ABC the next year]), Disney Channel and the ESPN networks. If a deal wasn't in place, the affected stations and cable channels would've been removed from Time Warner and Bright House Networks systems across the country. On September 2, 2010, Disney and Time Warner Cable reached a long-term agreement to keep the channels on Time Warner Cable systems.[30]
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[1] |
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7.1 | 720p | 16:9 | WABC-HD | Main WABC-TV programming / ABC |
7.2 | LOCLish | Localish | ||
7.3 | 480i | 4:3 | LAFF | Laff |
Programming
WABC has long presented events such as the Columbus Day Parade and Puerto Rican Day Parade and beginning in 2017, they became the first television station to air the New York City LGBT Pride March.[31] In addition, the station is also producing local programs such as Here and Now, a program covering the latest issues, trends and news stories impacting the local black community, Tiempo, a weekly program that focus on the issues affecting local Hispanic citizens, and Up Close, a public affairs program on the latest issues with the newsmakers. The station also formerly produced Viewpoint, a weekly program that highlighted the cultural and community efforts in New York, Long Island and New Jersey (each of these regions rotated weekly).
As of 2020, aside from Live with Kelly and Ryan, WABC's first-run syndicated programs include Tamron Hall, Rachael Ray, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. The station also airs off-network reruns of Wipeout and Castle, both former ABC programs, during weekend late nights.
Live with Kelly and Ryan
WABC-TV produces the nationally syndicated talk show Live with Kelly and Ryan.[32] Until the station's newscasts were moved to a separate studio in 2011, the program originated in the same ground-floor studio at 7 Lincoln Square as Eyewitness News, thus creating a situation which forced local news updates broadcast during Good Morning America and Live to be produced from the WABC-TV newsroom and the morning show's presence also limited the size of the Eyewitness News set.
The program's roots originated with A.M. New York, which debuted in 1970 as a local version of NBC's Today show;[33] its first host was John Bartholomew Tucker, who remained with the program until 1972. After Tucker's departure, a succession of hosts came and went, the most successful of whom was Stanley Siegel, who hosted from 1975 to 1978 (for a year beginning in 1977, the series was called The Stanley Siegel Show).[34] After 1980, the show was retitled Good Morning New York, whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included Spencer Christian, Andrea Kirby, Judy Licht, Dick Wolfsie and longtime Eyewitness News reporter and anchor Doug Johnson. After years of a losing ratings battle against Donahue on WNBC-TV, WABC-TV cancelled Good Morning New York in early 1983.[35]
The current show began as the station's second attempt at a local morning show a month later, aptly titled The Morning Show (using the "Circle 7" logo in the actual text for one of the "o"s) and was originally hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey. After Garvey's departure a year later, she was replaced by Ann Abernathy, who in turn, left in 1985 to return to Los Angeles. That year, Kathie Lee Johnson (who would marry Frank Gifford a year later) became Philbin's new co-host.
In 1988, Buena Vista Television began syndicating the show nationally as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Gifford left the show in 2000 and was eventually replaced by Kelly Ripa. Philbin left the show in November 2011 and the show aired for nearly a year as Live! with Kelly until former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan became Ripa's permanent co-host in September 2012. In May 2016, Strahan left the show to become a full-time anchor at Good Morning America, thus leaving Ripa as the solo host again. On May 1, 2017, it was announced that Ryan Seacrest would become the new host of the show; in order to accommodate his syndicated radio show On Air with Ryan Seacrest (which normally originates from Los Angeles), an additional studio was built within WABC's facilities.[36]
Sports programming
WABC-TV serves as the local over-the-air broadcaster of Monday Night Football games involving the New York Giants and the New York Jets, airing simulcasts of the team's ESPN-televised games (WABC-TV's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company, holds an 80% majority ownership stake in ESPN, and the ABC Owned Television Stations have right of first refusal for simulcasts of ESPN's NFL telecasts within a team's home market). Because of this, atypical for a network-owned station outside of breaking news and severe weather coverage necessitating such situations, the station has had to reschedule ABC network programs preempted by the telecasts. The preseason and Monday night telecasts mark the only NFL games to have aired on WABC-TV since ABC lost the rights to NFL games in 2006. Monday Night Football telecasts involving the Giants or Jets that are not carried by WABC-TV are sublicensed to WPIX.[37] The station carried coverage of the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XXV.
Since 2013, WABC-TV serves as the exclusive local English-language carrier of the annual New York City Marathon, which the station airs live, highlights air via ESPN on ABC. The station preempts a weekend edition of Good Morning America and delays This Week to schedule time for the live broadcast. The marathon is also simulcast on ESPN2 nationally (although viewers in the WABC-TV viewing area cannot see it via ESPN2 because the simulcast is blacked out locally).
WABC-TV currently airs any New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets games televised via the NBA on ABC. The station has aired the Knicks' appearances in the 1970, 1972 and 1973 NBA Finals (where the Knicks won in 1970 and 1973), as well as the then-New Jersey Nets' appearance in the 2003 NBA Finals.
WABC-TV previously aired New York Rangers, New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils games carried through the NHL on ABC; this included the Devils' victories in the 2000 and 2003 Stanley Cup Finals, as well as their defeat in the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals.
WABC-TV also previously aired any New York Yankees and New York Mets games through ABC's baseball contract; this included the Yankees' victory in the 1977 World Series and defeat in the 1981 World Series.
News operation
WABC-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours, 35 minutes each weekday and 5½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station partners with Philadelphia sister station, WPVI-TV – which popularized the Action News format – in the production and broadcast of statewide New Jersey political debates. When the two stations broadcast a statewide office debate, such as for Governor or U.S. Senate, they'll pool resources and have anchors or reporters from both stations participate in the debate. Additionally, the two stations share coverage of news from New Jersey where their markets overlap, pooling reporters, live trucks, and helicopters.
Beginning to 1968
WABC-TV launched Report to New York, its first regular news program, on October 26, 1959, featuring Scott Vincent with news, Howard Cosell with sports, and Lynn Dollar with the weather. Report to New York aired Monday through Friday at 11:00 p.m. By January 1961, channel 7 expanded Report to New York with a 15-minute early edition at 6:15 p.m. on weeknights, and on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
On October 22, 1962, WABC-TV expanded its weeknight news to 45-minutes, and retitled it The Big News. Newcomers Bill Beutel and Jim Burnes[38] were the anchors, with Cosell continuing on sports and Rosemary Haley as "weather girl".[39] However, this effort failed to draw viewers from the ratings leader WCBS-TV and second-place WNBC-TV.
The Eyewitness News era
In early 1968, Beutel left the station to become the London bureau chief for ABC News and was replaced by Roger Grimsby, who was transferred by ABC from San Francisco sister station KGO-TV. In a complete revamp, Grimsby was joined by Tex Antoine doing weather, celebrity gossip columnist Rona Barrett, New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin with political commentary and reviews by Martin Bookspan and Allan Jeffries, while Cosell continued doing sports. Known as Roger Grimsby and the Noisemakers, this format didn't help the ratings, which plunged to an all-time low.[40]
Later that year, newly hired news director Al Primo brought to WABC-TV the Eyewitness News format and branding, in which reporters present their stories directly to the viewers. Having experienced great success introducing the format during his time at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Primo this time added a twist – a degree of conversational chatter among the anchors, known as "happy talk". The "Tar Sequence" cue from the musical score of the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, composed by Lalo Schifrin, was introduced as the theme music. The score included a telegraphic-style melody appropriate for a newscast. The Eyewitness News format and theme music were quickly adopted by ABC's other four owned-and-operated stations at the time: KGO-TV, WLS-TV in Chicago, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and KABC-TV in Los Angeles (though KGO-TV and WXYZ-TV didn't use the Eyewitness News title for their programs). The format quickly rejuvenated a station that had long been an also-ran to WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV. Within a year, Channel 7 had shot to first place in the ratings for the first time in its history, displacing longtime leader WCBS-TV. It spent most of the decade going back and forth with WCBS-TV for first place. For a time in the 1980s, it fell into last place among the network-owned stations, but still fought with WNBC-TV for second place.
Retaining only Grimsby, Cosell, and Antoine from the earlier Noisemakers format, Primo also hired Tom Dunn away from WCBS-TV to serve as Grimsby's co-anchor. After Dunn departed for WOR-TV in 1970, Bill Beutel returned to the station as his replacement and for the next 16 years, Grimsby and Beutel were the faces of Eyewitness News.
The Grimsby-Beutel team were split up for several months in 1975 after ABC had reassigned Beutel to its new morning show, AM America that January. The station brought in WXYZ-TV's Bill Bonds and veteran Boston anchor Tom Ellis to help replace Beutel, with Grimsby teaming with Ellis at 6:00 p.m. and Bonds at 11:00 p.m.[41] When AM America was canceled and replaced with Good Morning America in November 1975, Beutel was re-teamed with Grimsby at 6:00 p.m., with Ellis joining Bonds at 11:00 p.m.. Bonds returned to Detroit in June 1976[42] and was replaced by Larry Kane,[43] who lasted only one year as the sole 11:00 p.m. anchor before returning to his home market of Philadelphia. Ellis remained until May 1977[44] and Kane's successor, Ernie Anastos, began his New York career at the station; he co-anchored at 11:00 p.m. with Rose Ann Scamardella and later Kaity Tong, for his entire 12-year tenure there.
On November 30, 1981, the station became the second in the city to expand its late afternoon/evening newscasts by adding of a 5:00 p.m. edition, first presented by Rose Ann Scamardella and Storm Field, later succeeded by Kaity Tong and Tom Snyder, the latter only lasting several months before being replaced by 11:00 p.m. co-anchor Ernie Anastos.
In 1985, the station lured WLS-TV's news director, Bill Applegate, from Chicago to New York City. Applegate claimed credit for taking WLS-TV from last to first in only two years and ABC hoped he could work the same magic at the flagship station. In the wake of declining ratings, Grimsby was fired on April 16, 1986, a move for which Applegate drew considerable ire and Grimsby was quickly hired by rival WNBC-TV. In 1987, Channel 7 surged back into first place. It has been the ratings leader in New York City since then, and has grown to become the most-watched broadcast television station in the United States.[45] Beutel stepped down from the anchor desk in 2001, which concluded the longest tenure for a main anchor in New York City television history at that time. His record has since been surpassed by WNBC's Chuck Scarborough and WXTV's Rafael Pineda. Scarborough's uninterrupted run behind the desk is the longest in New York television (since 1974). Pineda is second, having started with WXTV in 1972, retiring in 2013 after 41 years.
2000–present
WABC-TV's news department is respected for its straightforward presentation (especially during breaking news). For the last decade, it has waged a spirited battle for first place, but for most of the time has held onto the lead, helped in part by lead-ins from the highly rated talk and entertainment shows. For over 24 years (December 1986 to May 2011), the lead-in for the 5:00 p.m. Eyewitness News broadcast had been The Oprah Winfrey Show at 4:00 p.m. and its strong ratings brought viewers along to the 5:00 p.m. newscast.
The newscasts were replayed on one of channel 7's digital subchannels, another which also carried local weather and news channel. WABC-TV's website had a link for live streaming video of "Channel 7 Eyewitness News NOW", which offered live local and national weather updated from AccuWeather alongside local news. The format of "Eyewitness News NOW" is similar to the defunct NBC Weather Plus. On February 24, 2011, AccuWeather and ABC both replaced ENN as well as similar news channels on WABC-TV's sister stations, KABC-TV in Los Angeles and WLS-TV in Chicago, replacing them in all three cities with a standard definition, letterboxed simulcast of the Live Well Network, and then on April 15, 2015, these stations were replaced by Laff.
On December 2, 2006, WABC-TV became the second station in the New York City market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On September 7, 2010, WABC-TV expanded its weekday morning newscast, moving its start time to 4:30 a.m. 3 Days earlier on September 4, 2010, WABC added an hour-long extension of its Saturday morning newscast from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.[46] On May 26, 2011, WABC-TV added another hour of local news at 4:00 p.m. to replace Oprah, which aired its last original episode the previous day. WABC also produces a 7:00 p.m. newscast on Saturdays following college football during the regular season.
On September 24, 2011, the station began broadcasting its newscasts and public affairs programs from a new street-level window studio at a former Disney Store location in the ABC building on 66th Street and Columbus Avenue. The space previously used for news broadcasts was used to expand the Live with Kelly studio.[47][48] In January 2012, the station also expanded its weekend 11:00 p.m. newscasts to an hour. On September 8, 2014, the station expanded its Noon newscast to one full hour from the previous half hour.[49]
Notable current on-air staff
Anchors
- Sade Baderinwa
- Sandra Bookman – also host of Here and Now
- Michelle Charlesworth – also reporter and fill-in anchor
- Liz Cho
- David Novarro
- Bill Ritter – also host of Eyewitness News UpClose
- Ken Rosato – also host of New York Viewpoint
- Joe Torres – also host of Tiempo and fill-in anchor
Weather
- Lee Goldberg (AMS Seal of Approval) – chief meteorologist
- Sam Champion[50][51]
- Amy Freeze (AMS CBM Seal of Approval)
Sports
- Ryan Field – sports director
- Sam Ryan – sports reporter
Reporters
- N.J. Burkett – general assignment reporter
- Dave Evans – political reporter
- Lauren Glassberg – general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor
- Shannon Sohn – NewsCopter 7 reporter
- Toni Yates – general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor
Notable former on-air staff
- Roz Abrams (retired)[52][53]
- Ernie Anastos (Last at WNYW,retired from television)[54]
- Tex Antoine[54] (deceased)
- Steve Bartelstein[55] (retired from television)
- Bill Beutel[56] (deceased)
- Bill Bonds[54] (deceased; was best known for his work at former Detroit sister station WXYZ-TV)
- Jim Bouton[54] (deceased)
- Spencer Christian (left to join Good Morning America, now with San Francisco sister station KGO-TV)[54]
- Lisa Colagrossi (deceased)
- Bertha Coombs (now with CNBC)[54]
- Victoria Corderi (was most recently at NBC News as a reporter for Dateline NBC)
- Howard Cosell (later with ABC Sports)[54] (deceased)
- Penny Crone[54] (retired)
- Tom Dunn[54] (deceased)
- Tom Ellis (later at WCVB-TV, WNEV-TV and NECN, deceased)
- Bill Evans (left on February 5, 2019, now with WLNG)
- Storm Field[54] (retired)
- Ira Joe Fisher[57] (retired from television)
- Frank Gifford (later with ABC Sports)[58] (deceased)
- Carlos Granda (now with KABC-TV)[54]
- Roger Grimsby[54] (deceased)
- Mark Haines (later with CNBC)[59] (deceased)
- Robb Hanrahan (now with WHP-TV)[60]
- Steve Hartman (now with CBS News)[54]
- Edye Hill (Tarbox) (later with Fox News)[54]
- Carol Iovanna[61] (retired from television)
- John Johnson[54] (retired)
- Larry Kane (later with KYW-TV and KYW radio, was most recently with the Comcast Network until its October 2, 2017 rebranding)[54]
- Bob Lape[54] (now with WCBS radio)
- Judy Licht[62] (retired from television)
- Nancy Loo (now with WGN America)[54]
- Dorothy Lucey (later with KTTV)[54]
- Felipe Luciano[54] (retired from television)
- Joan Lunden (later with Good Morning America)[54]
- Sal Marchiano[54] (retired)
- Art McFarland[54] (retired)
- Corey McPherrin (now with WFLD)[54]
- Larry Mendte (now with WABC)[54]
- George Michael (later with WRC-TV; former host of The George Michael Sports Machine)[63] (deceased)
- Tim Minton (last at WNBC, retired from television)
- Rob Nelson (now with WGN America)
- Mary Nissenson (deceased)
- Gil Noble[54] (deceased)
- Mike Parker (was most recently at WBBM-TV in Chicago) (deceased)
- Jim Paymar[54] (now a producer; President of Paymar Communications)
- Jeff Pegues (now with CBS News)
- Charles Perez[64](retired)
- Tappy Phillips[65] (retired)
- Richie Powers (deceased)[66]
- Rob Powers (now at WEWS-TV)
- Geraldo Rivera (now with Fox News)[54]
- Susan Roesgen (now at WGNO)[54]
- Jeff Rossen (now with NBC News)[67]
- Rose Ann Scamardella[54] (retired)
- John Schubeck[54] (deceased)
- Marvell Scott[54] (retired from television; now a team physician[68])
- Rosanna Scotto (now with WNYW)[54]
- Joel Siegel (later with Good Morning America)[54] (deceased)
- Tom Snyder[54] (deceased)
- Lara Spencer (left to join Good Morning America, later hosted The Insider and Antiques Roadshow, has since rejoined GMA)[54]
- Lori Stokes (now with WNYW)
- Spencer Tillman (now with Houston sister station KTRK-TV and also, commentator with Fox Sports)[54]
- Lee Thomas (now with WJBK)
- Melba Tolliver (retired)[54]
- Kaity Tong (now with WPIX)[54]
- John Bartholomew Tucker (deceased)[54]
- David Ushery (now with WNBC)[69]
- Scott Vincent (deceased)[70]
- Rolonda Watts (later with Inside Edition and talk show Rolonda)[54]
- Diana Williams (retired)
- Joe Witte (now a researcher at the Goddard Space Flight Center)[54]
- Warner Wolf (was most recently with WABC's Imus in the Morning radio show until December 3, 2016)
- Jenna Wolfe (previously with NBC's Today, now moderator of First Things First with Cris Carter and Nick Wright on FS1)[71]
- Eli Zaret[54]
See also
- Circle 7 logo
- List of television stations in New York (by region)
- Media in New York City
- New Yorkers in journalism
- WABC (AM) (770 kHz)
- WPLJ (95.5 MHz)
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