A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. Scott Dennis announces his departure from ABC7, Hurricane ETA rapidly intensifies from a tropical storm to a major category 4 hurricane in less than 24 hours in the western Caribbean. [27] WSB-TV continued this practice as late as June 2007, when it reportedly preempted a telecast of the Pixar film Finding Nemo in favor of the Ron Howard-directed comedy Parenthood.[28]. After three years at WWSB, Lauren Dorsett (pictured) has announced her departure from the Sarasota ABC affiliate, setting changes to the anchor lineup for … in Communication, she joins the Next-Mark from WWSB ABC-7 in Sarasota, where she was a reporter, photojournalist and on-air personality. 27°33′21″N 82°21′48″W / 27.55583°N 82.36333°W / 27.55583; -82.36333, http://www22.verizon.com/NROneRetail/NR/rdonlyres/A6D51319-17A2-4D3D-9BF1-B060DCDA9F25/0/FLGulfCoast.pdf, FCC document: "APPENDIX B: ALL FULL-POWER TELEVISION STATIONS BY DMA, INDICATING THOSE TERMINATING ANALOG SERVICE BEFORE ON OR FEBRUARY 17, 2009.". by | Sep 15, 2020 ... 941.544.2765 WWSB's studios are located on 10th Street in the Rosemary District of Sarasota, and its transmitter is located on Rutland Road in the unincorporated Manatee County community of Rye, about 5 miles east-southeast of Parrish. In previous years, WWSB carried generally the same syndicated programs as the other Tampa Bay stations, despite the overlap in signals, such as The Rosie O'Donnell Show (which was also held by WTVT during its entire run), Extra (also seen on WFLA-TV) and M*A*S*H (seen over the years on many stations, most recently WTVT). Joseph S. Grano, Jr., has a record of success providing vision and strategic direction to organizations experiencing rapid growth and change. It is the first television station in Georgia, and only the second second station south of Washington, D.C., four months behind Richmond, Virginia's WTVR-TV (channel 6). In the 1970s, WXLT also cleared some CBS and NBC programming passed on by WTVT and WFLA; in 1972, for example, when The Joker's Wild debuted on CBS, it was pre-empted on WTVT but carried by WXLT. It was not available in high definition on Dish until 2017.
The network's Sunday morning talk show, This Week, airs on a two-hour delay to accommodate the station's Sunday morning newscast.
In mid-November 2009, reporter Tom Jones and a cameraman escaped serious injury when the telescoping radio mast of their electronic news-gathering van (holding a microwave antenna for the remote pickup unit used for outside broadcasting) contacted 115-kilovolt high-voltage powerlines while leaving the Fulton County Jail. He’s just looking to find a new way to continue to serve his community. In December 1965, WSB was the first television station in Georgia to broadcast live in color, beginning with Ruth Kent's Today in Georgia program.[11]. The first HD broadcast was on September 27, 2006; during its noon broadcast. Even though WWSB broadcasts on digital channel 24 and its virtual channel is 40, the station is branded as ABC 7 because of its channel position on most cable systems in the market. WSB-TV carries most of the ABC lineup in pattern. Charter Communications also carried WSB for its subscribers in the town of Douglas in Coffee County. [6] The station became notorious in 1974 when news anchor and talk-show host Christine Chubbuck committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on-the-air making reference to the station's "blood and guts" policies in her final monologue. 9 in our list of hottest women news anchors. Bob's weather forecasts are spot-on and he writes great blog entries on their website, mysuncoast.com Cornwell is a communications professional with expertise in all aspects of media. It signed on to provide ABC programming in an area of the state that was insufficiently covered by the signal of WLCY-TV (channel 10, now WTSP) because of that station's lower-powered transmitter location well north of the Tampa Bay area's other television stations at the time. It was not uncommon to see WXLT's billboards in Tampa, St. Petersburg or Largo. Syndicated programming on WWSB includes Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, both seen during the 7 pm hour, simultaneous with WFTS. WWSB's conversion to "ABC 7" involved a redress of the station's news set, a new logo to a unique version and color scheme of the well-known circle 7 logo, a new slogan, and a major local promotion and advertising campaign. WWSB's studios are located on 10th Street in the Rosemary District of Sarasota, and its transmitter is located on Rutland Road (County Road 675) in the unincorporated Manatee County community of Rye, about 5 miles (8 km) east-southeast of Parrish. [14][15] Although the group planned to operate under the name Terrier Media, it was later announced in June 2019 that Apollo would also acquire Cox's radio and advertising businesses, and retain the Cox Media Group name. The station has Falcons games on Monday Night Football since 2006 when it moved from ABC to ESPN under a syndication arrangement, to provide a local broadcast outlet for those games. In south Georgia (as far south as the Florida border), it was carried on Cox Communications, and virtually all TCI, later Mediacom systems, with the exception of the Columbus operation due to a historic lack of an ABC affiliate in the Albany media market covering southwest Georgia.
The station also includes DeSoto and Hardee counties in its viewing area. On cable, the station is the sole ABC affiliate on Comcast's southern Sarasota County systems and it competes with Fort Myers-based WZVN-TV (also known on-air as "ABC 7") in DeSoto and Charlotte counties. Her suicide occurred the day after a story she filed was cut for a story on a shootout at an area restaurant. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WSB's digital channel went on the air on April 17, 1998, making it one of the first regular-service digital television stations in the country.
That same year, Robert Nelson sold the station to current owner Calkins Media (formerly Southern Broadcast Corporation).
The station was the original local television broadcaster of the relocated Atlanta Braves baseball team, carrying the games from 1966 to 1972, until the Braves telecasts moved to WTCG (now WPCH-TV) in 1973. The call letters were changed to the current WWSB on August 31, 1986. WSB-TV is located less than one block south of the building formerly utilized by WXIA when that station moved its operations to WATL's studios in 2008. The FCC dismissed the complaints and approved the sale of the channel 8 license to Broadcasting, Inc., in August 1951. “Shannon will focus on all aspects of media relations, video production and communications strategy development,” said Joseph Grano, Next-Mark’s president and founder.
A graduate of the University of South Florida with a B.A. In northwest Georgia, it was carried in some of the counties covered by the Chattanooga DMA: Catoosa, Dade, Murray, and Walker, but remains on line-ups in Whitfield County. In addition to its main studios, WWSB operates a South Bureau (covering Southern Sarasota and Charlotte Counties) and Manatee Bureau (for Manatee County). The original columns that stood on the front portico of the old building were placed in a garden area alongside the new building. Presently, all Atlanta Hawks games on WSB-TV are broadcast through ABC's NBA broadcast contract. Copyright 2019 WWSB. That same year, Robert Nelson sold the station to Calkins Media (formerly Southern Broadcast Corporation). The station's news department focuses its coverage on Sarasota and Manatee counties with occasional coverage of Charlotte County. It was not uncommon to see WXLT's billboards in Tampa, St. Petersburg or Largo. The show focuses on the issues that African Americans face in the community. Some network daytime shows changed stations in August, while the full affiliation switch occurred on Sept. 1. “Shannon brings the expertise and experience our clients expect. The station also includes DeSoto and Hardee counties in its viewing area. This translator will be co-located on the same tower as Cox-owned WALR-FM (104.1), and less than .25 miles (0.40 km) west of another tower holding WRDG (105.3 FM; which is not owned by Cox).[26]. The massive electric spark caused an explosion, left a crater underneath the van, arced to and broke a water main, and caused a brief power outage; the vehicle was a total loss. Rebecca Vargas - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor, Alix Redmonde - health and medical reporter, Bobeth Yates - general assignment reporter and host of, Josh Taylor - "7 South Newsroom" bureau reporter, Linda Carson - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor and host of. WSB-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 32), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Had the station not successfully petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to keep its affiliation, the then-23-year-long ABC affiliation would have ended on April 2, 1995.[4]. When officers found Duncan on Oct. 29, they say she suffered a single gunshot wound. in Communication, she joins the Next-Mark from WWSB ABC-7 in Sarasota, where she was a reporter, photojournalist and on-air personality. In late June 2009, the station also applied for a translator on channel 14 just southwest of Rome.
In March 2004, the station dropped all mentions of its over-the-air position on UHF channel 40 and rebranded as "ABC 7" (with the logo rebranded as a slightly modified version of the Circle 7 logo used by most of ABC's O&O stations) in reference to its cable channel position on Bright House Networks and Comcast in the station's service area. [3] In December 2013, non-duplication rules enforced by ABC and cable companies threatened to remove WWSB from all Verizon FiOS systems due to the presence of WFTS-TV. [25] There is no STA request for this station, however, and as of September 2011[update] it is still listed as only an application. Until WLCY upgraded its facilities in the late 1970s, both that station and WXLT competed for viewers in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. It was the first network-affiliated station in West Central Florida that was neither based in Tampa nor St. Petersburg. Dead. It signed on to provide ABC programming in an area of the state that was insufficiently covered by the signal of WLCY-TV (channel 10, now WTSP) because of that station's lower-powered transmitter location well north of the Tampa Bay area's other television stations at the time. Your guide to this year’s election on the Suncoast, Sarasota Sheriff searching for bank robbery suspect, Sarasota woman arrested after shots fired in mall parking lot. [13], In February 2019, it was announced that Apollo Global Management would acquire Cox Media Group and Northwest Broadcasting's stations.
In the 1970s, WXLT also cleared some CBS and NBC programming not carried by their respective Tampa Bay stations, WTVT (channel 13) and WFLA-TV (channel 8). "[12] Cox Media Group's president, Kim Guthrie, subsequently clarified to trade publication Radio & Television Business Report that the company was solely seeking "a merger or partnership" and not an outright sale of the television stations. In previous years, WWSB carried generally the same syndicated programs as the other Tampa Bay stations, despite the overlap in signals, such as The Rosie O'Donnell Show (which was also broadcast by WTVT during its entire run), Extra (also seen on WFLA-TV, channel 8) and M*A*S*H (seen over the years on many stations, most recently on WTVT) as well as Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (which was also seen on WFTS) in the 2000-01 season. The station originally operated from studios located on Lawton Drive in Sarasota. [9], On April 11, 2016, it was reported that Calkins would exit the broadcasting industry and sell its stations to Raycom Media. - HeraldTribune.com, Query the FCC's TV station database for WWSB, https://annex.fandom.com/wiki/WWSB?oldid=370306. This extreme hurricane has top winds now at 130 mph with gusts up to 160 mph. This hometown guy is staying in Sarasota. (WWSB License, LLC) First air date October 23, 1971 Call letters' meaning Sarasota & Bradenton Former callsigns WXLT-TV (1971-1986) Former channel number(s) Analog: 40 (UHF, 1971-2009) Digital: 52 (UHF) Former affiliations Scott Dennis announced to his viewers that he will be leaving ABC7 at the end of the month.