WJAC-TV (channel 6) is a
television station
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licensed to
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
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, United States, serving the Johnstown–
Altoona–
State College market
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as an affiliate of
NBC
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and
The CW Plus
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. It is owned by
Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, which provides certain services to Johnstown-licensed
Fox
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affiliate
WWCP-TV
WWCP-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate for the Johnstown–Altoona, Pennsylvania, Altoona–State College, Pennsylvania, State College ...
, channel 8 (owned by Sinclair partner company
Cunningham Broadcasting) and Altoona-licensed
ABC
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affiliate
WATM-TV
WATM-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Johnstown–Altoona– State College market. It is owned by Palm Television, L.P., which maintains a local ma ...
, channel 23 (owned by Palm Television,
L.P. and operated by Cunningham Broadcasting under a
local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party. In essence, it is a sort of lease or tim ...
(LMA)) under a time brokerage agreement (TBA).
WJAC-TV's studios (which also house
master control
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and some internal operations for WWCP-TV and WATM-TV) are located on Old Hickory Lane in
Upper Yoder Township (with a Johnstown
postal address), and its transmitter is located northwest of the city in
Laurel Ridge State Park
Laurel Ridge State Park is a List of Pennsylvania state parks, Pennsylvania state park that passes through Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Cambria, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Fayette, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Somerset, and Westmoreland Co ...
along the
Cambria
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–
Westmoreland county line. WWCP-TV and WATM-TV maintain separate facilities on Lulay Street in the borough of
Geistown (also with a Johnstown postal address).
History
WJAC-TV first began its broadcasting operations on September 15, 1949, originally owned by the Johnstown Automotive Company along with WJAC radio (AM 1400, now
WKGE
WKGE (850 AM) is a radio station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania and broadcasting with 10 kW day and night. Owned by Edward A. Schober through licensee Zip2, LLC, the station currently airs an Adult Hits format as "101.3 107.1 Jack FM", ...
at AM 850, and FM 95.5, now
WKYE
WKYE (96.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "Key 96.5") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle Media Family, LLC, and broadcasts an adult contemp ...
at FM 96.5). At the time, it was the third-smallest television station in the country
market
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*Market economy
*Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Geography
*Märket, an ...
-wise to be granted a commercial license on or before December 31 behind
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
affiliate
WNBF-TV in
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...
and fellow NBC affiliate
WICU-TV
WICU-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by SJL Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Lilly Broadcasting, owner of CBS/ CW+ affiliate a ...
in
Erie
Erie (; ) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. Erie is the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest city in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 a ...
. It originally aired an analog signal on
VHF channel 13 before moving to VHF channel 6 in 1952. Upon its sign-on, it aired programming from all four networks of the time (NBC, CBS, ABC, and
DuMont). CBS disappeared from WJAC-TV's schedule when WARD-TV channel 56 (now
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
's
CW affiliate
WPCW
WPCW (channel 19), branded on-air as Pittsburgh's CW, is a television station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the CW affiliate for the Pittsburgh area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CB ...
on channel 19) signed-on in 1953 followed by DuMont when it shut down network operations in 1955. However, the station continued to air a few ABC shows until WWPC-TV, a satellite of Fox affiliate WWCP-TV, became a separate ABC affiliate in 1988.
In the 1960s, Johnstown Automotive sold the WJAC stations to the estate of Anderson H. Walters, the owner of ''
The Tribune-Democrat
''The Tribune-Democrat'' is a seven-day morning daily newspaper published in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Starting May 5, 2020 the paper will print five days, dropping Tuesday and Sunday editions.
...
'', who held them until 1984 when tightened
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) cross-ownership regulations forced the newspaper to sell off the radio stations. The Walters estate sold off the newspaper to
MediaNews Group in 1987 but held on to Channel 6 until 1997 when it was sold to
Sunrise Television
GMTV (an acronym for Good Morning Television), now legally known as ITV Breakfast Broadcasting Limited, was the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 ...
. WJAC and new sister station
WTOV-TV
WTOV-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Steubenville, Ohio, United States, serving the Wheeling, West Virginia–Steubenville, Ohio media market, market as an affiliate of NBC and Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. Owned by Sinclair ...
in the
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Ohio River 33 miles west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 census. The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben, a ...
–
Wheeling, West Virginia
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market were sold to
Cox Enterprises
Cox Enterprises, Inc. is a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Communications and ...
in 2000. The two stations and
WPXI
WPXI (channel 11) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Cox Media Group. The station's offices and studios are located on Evergreen Road in the Summer Hill neighborhood of Pittsbur ...
in Pittsburgh were occasionally marketed together as a result. WJAC-TV and WTOV were updated to WPXI's on-air graphics after being acquired by Cox, despite WPXI changing its own look in 2004. Most of the graphics introduced to WJAC-TV after the acquisition were used until October 2011, when WJAC-TV updated to WPXI's current look. When
KYW-TV switched to CBS on September 10, 1995, WJAC officially became the longest-tenured NBC affiliate in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
WJAC-TV gained a reputation for its locally produced programs at the station throughout the years. ''Scholastic Quiz'', a
game show
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featuring local high school students, and ''Seniors Today'' (a
public affairs program targeted to those 65 and older) would become mainstays of the station's programming and make host Ron Lorence (who would later build WADJ, now
WBHV
WBHV-FM (94.5 MHz) is a radio station licensed to serve State College, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Kristin Cantrell's Seven Mountains Media, through licensee Southern Belle, LLC. The Program Director is Angela Steco.
History
In 1987, W ...
, at 1330 AM and then buy WYSN-FM 101.7, now
WCCL
WCCL (101.7 FM) is an American radio station physically located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but licensed to the community of Central City, Pennsylvania. The oldies formatted station currently carries a syndicated feed of Westwood One's "Good Tim ...
in
Somerset County) a local household name. The station was also one of the stations across the country to produce a local version of the children's TV show ''
Romper Room
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''. In the 1950s and 1960s, WJAC-TV's slogan was "Serving Millions from Atop the Alleghenies."
On September 15, 2009, WJAC-TV celebrated its 60th year of broadcasting. During that month, WJAC-TV aired several commercials advertising the anniversary. One featured a variation of the "Serving Millions from Atop the Alleghenies" slogan creating "Serving Millions Across the Alleghenies." This old slogan was used in various ways in the station's broadcasts and mixed with the station's then-current slogan "Coverage You Can Count On" to form "Coverage You Can Count On Across the Alleghenies" the year before. On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox purchased four television stations in
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the ...
and
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...
from
Newport Television
Newport Television, LLC was a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications.
History
In September 2007, Newport ag ...
, Cox put WJAC-TV, WTOV-TV, and sister stations in
El Paso, Texas
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and
Reno, Nevada
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, plus several radio stations in medium to small markets, on the selling block. All four of the television stations on the block are located in markets that are smaller than Tulsa. On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four stations to Sinclair Broadcast Group.
The FCC granted its approval of the sale on April 29, and it was consummated on May 2. This made WJAC-TV a sister station to nearby
WPGH-TV
WPGH-TV (channel 53) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT (channel 22). Both stations share studios on ...
and
WPMY in Pittsburgh though it is still connected to WPXI-TV through a news-share agreement.
On July 22, 2013, Horseshoe Curve Communications agreed to sell
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
affiliate
WWCP-TV
WWCP-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate for the Johnstown–Altoona, Pennsylvania, Altoona–State College, Pennsylvania, State College ...
(channel 8) to
Cunningham Broadcasting for $12 million. The Sinclair Broadcast Group was to operate the station through
shared services and joint sales agreements. However, the majority of Cunningham's stock is held by the Smith family (owners and founders of Sinclair). As a result, Sinclair would have effectively owned WWCP as well. As WWCP's long-standing local marketing agreement to operate
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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affiliate
WATM-TV
WATM-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Johnstown–Altoona– State College market. It is owned by Palm Television, L.P., which maintains a local ma ...
(channel 23) was part of the deal, it would have resulted in the major commercial television stations in the market being controlled by just two companies. It would have essentially made WJAC-TV, WWCP, and WATM all sister stations and expanded on their existing news share arrangement (see below). However, on February 20, 2014, Horseshoe Curve informed the FCC that the sale of WWCP had fallen through.
Subchannel history
WJAC-DT2
The
Retro Television Network
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began airing on WJAC-TV's second digital subchannel in the late December 2008. Along with then-sister station WPXI, WJAC-TV 6.2 transitioned to
MeTV
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at midnight on June 13, 2011, immediately following an episode of ''
Ellery Queen
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'', at which point the channel was switched to the MeTV feed for the start of ''
Hogan's Heroes''. Sister station WTOV continued to air RTV until January 16, 2012. Before its closure in December 2008, WJAC-TV carried
NBC Weather Plus
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on the second digital subchannel. The regular changes in WJAC's subchannel over its first few years reflect the decisions made internally about how to best make use of the new programming options afforded by Digital OTA broadcast.
On September 1, 2022, MeTV was replaced by
Charge!.
WJAC-DT4
WJAC-DT4, branded on-air as
Alleghenies CW6, is the CW-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of WJAC-TV, broadcasting in
720p
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high definition on channel 6.4. All programming on WJAC-DT4 is received through The CW's programming feed for smaller media markets,
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a secondary national programming service feed of The CW that is fully controlled and 75% owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning a 12.5% stake in the network. It is intended prima ...
, which provides a set schedule of
syndicated programming acquired by The CW for broadcast during time periods outside of the network's regular programming hours; however, Sinclair handles local advertising and promotional services for the subchannel.
On August 21, 2019, Sinclair announced in a letter to the National Cable Television Cooperative that WJAC-TV's fourth subchannel would switch from
TBD
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to The CW Plus, giving The CW its first full-time affiliate in the Johnstown–Altoona market. The affiliation was launched on September 16 at 6 a.m. Prior to this, Pittsburgh's WPCW—which itself was a Johnstown station for much of its history—served the market via cable. Through aggressive
statistical multiplexing
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, CW+ programming on WJAC-DT4 is broadcast in 720p high definition (albeit in a highly-compressed variation of that video resolution). On September 18, WJAC-DT4 adopted its current "Alleghenies CW6" branding.
News operation
In the late-1960s and 1970s, WJAC had a fifteen-minute news and weather show weekday afternoons at 1 known as ''The News Today''. Its 6 o'clock newscast was known as ''The News Tonight'' and the 11 p.m. broadcast was entitled ''11th Hour News''. The weather segment aired first and was titled "Weather in Motion" with its own sounder and graphics, and was hosted (at least for the 1 p.m. broadcast) by Chick Young. The sports segment had a separate theme and was called "Sports Nitecap". Their weekday morning newscast began as a half-hour broadcast at 6:30 in 1985. In 1987, TCI Cable (now Comcast) in
Centre County
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History
The lands ...
began producing a WJAC newscast, known as the ''Centre County Report'', specifically targeted to that area.
On January 14, 2008, WJAC entered into a news share agreement with WWCP and WATM. This station then began to produce WWCP's nightly prime time show and reduced the program to 35 minutes on weeknights while remaining a half-hour on weekends. The newscast, still known as ''Fox 8 News at 10'', now originates from a secondary set at WJAC's facility on Old Hickory Lane in
Upper Yoder Township (with a Johnstown postal address). It features a separate news anchor on weeknights, who does not appear on WJAC, in addition to a different music and graphics package from broadcasts seen on the NBC outlet. Since WJAC has prior commitments with local news and weather cut-ins during ''
Today
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* Current era, present
* The current calendar date
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* ''Today'' (1930 film), a 1930 ...
'', WATM offers taped news updates that are seen Tuesday through Saturday mornings (at :25 and :55 past the hour) during ''
Good Morning America
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''. From January 2008 until March 2011, WJAC simulcasted its nightly newscast at 11 on WATM under the ''ABC 23 News'' branding.
It officially changed the station's news branding from ''WJAC-TV News'' to ''6 News'' on October 25, 2011. This change comes only three years after the switch from ''Channel 6 News''. In addition to the new branding, WJAC updated their on-air graphics and theme music to those of its former sister station, WPXI, in Pittsburgh. Then, in July 2012, this outlet became the first station in the market to broadcast local news in full high definition. In January 2016, to reflect the station's ownership by Sinclair, WJAC-TV stopped using "The Tower" and WPXI's former on-air look and updated their package and music to the generic "Sinclair News Package." WTOV-TV already began using the package in 2014. In addition to its main studios, it also operates bureaus in Altoona (on Beale Avenue), State College (on West College Avenue/PA 26) and
DuBois (on East DuBois Avenue/
PA 255; building is shared with
WIFT
WIFT (102.1 FM, "Bigfoot Country 102.1 & 101.3") is a country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to DuBois, Pennsylvania, serving the DuBois/ Punxsutawney/ Clearfield area. WIFT is owned and operated by Kristin Cantrell, through ...
102.1 FM).
In May 2022, WJAC-TV closed its Altoona bureau in a cost cutting measure. However, the station maintains a photographer based in Altoona for that area. The station also consolidated their State College bureau, and still maintains news reporters and a photographer there.
Notable former on-air staff
*
Bill Brown – anchor (1983–2015; now retired)
*
Marty Radovanic – anchor (1974–2017; now retired)
*
Tim Rigby – sports director and executive producer, later an anchor (1981–2022; now retired)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WJAC-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
UHF channel 34.
Through the use of
PSIP
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, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel
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as its former VHF analog channel 6.
The nearby mountain ridges had prevented most of Altoona and all of State College from receiving the analog signal; conversely, many of Pittsburgh's outer-ring eastern and
Westmoreland County suburbs actually got a grade B signal from WJAC, which in some cases, was superior to that of Pittsburgh NBC affiliate WPXI.
Because the audio portion of VHF channel 6 was transmitted at 87.75
MHz
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, it was possible to listen to the television station on most FM car radios (or any standard FM radio for that matter). This was a feature frequently employed by area residents. However, this is no longer an option after the digital conversion.
Translators
Out-of-market coverage
WJAC-TV is carried on various cable systems in several counties that are located outside of the Johnstown–Altoona market. These counties include
Armstrong Armstrong may refer to:
Places
* Armstrong Creek (disambiguation), various places
Antarctica
* Armstrong Reef, Biscoe Islands
Argentina
* Armstrong, Santa Fe
Australia
* Armstrong, Victoria
Canada
* Armstrong, British Columbia
* Armstrong ...
, eastern
Butler
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,
Clarion
Clarion may refer to:
Music
* Clarion (instrument), a type of trumpet used in the Middle Ages
* The register of a clarinet that ranges from B4 to C6
* A trumpet organ stop that usually plays an octave above unison pitch
* "Clarion" (song), a 2 ...
,
Mifflin and the central to eastern portion of Westmoreland. During the 1990s, WJAC was available on cable in portions of
Warren County Warren County is the name of fourteen counties in the USA. Some are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War:
* Warren County, Georgia
* Warren County, Illinois
* Warren County ...
, despite that county being a part of the Erie market. In Maryland, it is carried in
Allegany County. In West Virginia, it is carried in
Petersburg ( away), Dorcas, Moorefield and Keyser. WJAC-TV is also broadcast over-the-air on a low-powered repeater, W29DH-D, in
Moorefield, West Virginia.
This repeater is owned by Valley TV Cooperative.
References
Website about RCA TK60 Television Cameras featuring pictures of WJAC-TV during the late 50s and early 60s
External links
Official website
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Television channels and stations established in 1949
JAC-TV
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NBC network affiliates
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