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WSYX
Columbus, Ohio
Branding	ABC 6
Slogan	On Your Side Your Weather Authority
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Subchannels	6.1 ABC 6.2 MyNetworkTV
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (WSYX Licensee, Inc.)
First air date	August 30, 1949
Call letters’ meaning	SYX sounds like six, station's channel number
Sister station(s)	WTTE
Former callsigns	WTVN-TV (1949-1987)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1949-1955)[1]
Transmitter Power	100 kW (analog) 59 kW (digital)
Height	286 m (both)
Facility ID	56549
Transmitter Coordinates	39°56′14″N, 83°1′17″W
Website	www.wsyx6.com

WSYX, channel 6, is the ABC television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. WSYX is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group and is the sister station to Fox affiliate WTTE (channel 28). The two stations share a studio in suburban Grandview Heights, which shares a post office with Columbus. WSYX carries a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV on its second digital subchannel. Digital television in the United States supports multiple digital subchannels if you divide the 19. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. ... MyNetworkTV (sometimes written My Network TV, and unofficially abbreviated MyNet, MyTV, MYN-TV, MNT, or MNTV) is a television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company, a division of News Corporation. ... The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) NASDAQ: SBGI is the operator of the largest number of local television stations in the United States with a total of 59 stations across the country in 38 primarily small and medium markets, many of which are located in the South and the Midwest. ... is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... In broadcasting, sister stations are broadcast stations owned by the same company. ... WTTE, FOX28 is the Fox television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... The DuMont Television Network was the worlds first commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power (ERP) is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains to the actual electrical power output of a transmitter. ... The kilowatt (symbol: kW) is a unit for measuring power, equal to one thousand watts. ... HAAT is used extensively in radio, as it is actually much more important than power. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A facility ID is used in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission to identify broadcast TV stations. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: , Country State Counties Franklin, Fairfield, Delaware Government  - Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area  - City 212. ... The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) NASDAQ: SBGI is the operator of the largest number of local television stations in the United States with a total of 59 stations across the country in 38 primarily small and medium markets, many of which are located in the South and the Midwest. ... FOX redirects here. ... WTTE, FOX28 is the Fox television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. ... Grandview Heights is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. ... MyNetworkTV (sometimes written My Network TV, and unofficially abbreviated MyNet, MyTV, MYN-TV, MNT, or MNTV) is a television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company, a division of News Corporation. ... Digital television (DTV) refers to the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by means of discrete (digital) signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV. Introduced in the late 1990s, this technology appealed to the television broadcasting business and consumer electronics industries as offering new...

Like all other NTSC Channel 6 stations, WSYX's audio signal can be heard on 87.75 MHz FM, which is adjacent to the 88-108MHz FM broadcast radio band. WSYX emphasizes the fact that in much of central Ohio, FM radios can receive the station when a television set is not nearby. The Federal Communications Commission says Channel 6 stations, who are all authorized to broadcast their analog audio signals at 87.75 megahertz. frequently cause interference to educational stations in the lower FM band. NTSC is the analog television system in use in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and some other countries (see map). ... Channel 6, also marketed as Six, are an Irish cable and satellite television operating, intending to launch on the Dublin, Waterford and Cork cable systems formerly owned by NTL, and Sky Digital in September 2005. ... A megahertz (MHz) is one million (106) hertz, a measure of frequency. ... In telecommunications, frequency modulation (FM) conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its frequency. ...

History

The station began operations on August 30, 1949 as WTVN-TV, Columbus' second television station. The station was owned by Picture Waves, Inc., controlled by Toledo attorney and investor Edward Lamb, and was a sister station to WTVN radio (610 AM). In February 1953, Picture Waves sold the WTVN stations to the Taft Television and Radio Company, which was based in Cincinnati. Taft later purchased an FM station in Columbus, WLWF (96.3 MHz.), from the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation in 1959, renaming the FM station WTVN-FM (it is now WLVQ). is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio Location of Toledo within Lucas County, Ohio. ... Edward Lamb (April 23, 1901 - March 23, 1987) was an American businessman, broadcasting executive and labor lawyer. ... WTVN is a full-service AM radio station in Columbus, Ohio located at 610 kHz. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, founded by radio manufacturing pioneer Powel Crosley Jr. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... WLVQ is an FM radio station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, broadcasting on 96. ...

WTVN-TV was an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network at its inception, and was one of only three primary affiliates of that network. In 1953, it took on a secondary affiliation with ABC. Channel 6 became an exclusive ABC station when DuMont closed down operations in 1955. In the early 1970s, Taft's common ownership of WTVN-TV and WKRC-TV in Cincinnati was awarded "grandfather status" by the Federal Communications Commission which, under its newly-enacted "one-to-a-market" rule, prohibited television stations with overlapping signals to share common ownership while protecting existing instances. (One of channel 6's competitors, Crosley/Avco-owned WLWC [channel 4, now WCMH-TV], was also given grandfathered protection through a similar situation.) The DuMont Television Network was the worlds first commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946. ... For the AM radio station, see WKRC (AM). ... A grandfather clause is an exception that allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future situations. ... FCC redirects here. ... Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation) is a commonly used term among media critics, policy makers, and others to characterize ownership structure of mass media industries. ... Avco Corporation is a subsidiary of Textron which operates Textron Systems Corporation and Lycoming. ... WCMH-TV, channel 4, is the NBC television affiliate serving the Columbus, Ohio market. ...

WTVN-TV identification logo, circa 1978.

In 1987 Taft Broadcasting underwent a corporate restructuring, which saw Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner acquire a majority of Taft's shares, renaming the company Great American Broadcasting. However, as the FCC considered the restructuring as an ownership change, WTVN-TV lost its grandfathered protection and could not be retained by Great American. A group of former Taft Broadcasting shareholders, led by the Bass brothers, purchased WTVN-TV for their new company, called Anchor Media. The sale closed on August 31, 1987; and the new owners renamed the station WSYX. WTVN and WLVQ-FM remained owned by Great American Broadcasting for the next several years. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the year 1987. ... Carl Lindner, Jr. ... is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Anchor Media, which also purchased fellow ABC affiliates WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina (in April 1987) and KOVR in Stockton, California (in January 1989), was purchased by River City Broadcasting in 1993. River City was merged into the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1996. Sinclair owned Columbus' Fox affiliate, WTTE, but could not keep both stations since the FCC did not allow common ownership of two stations in a single market. Sinclair kept the longer-established WSYX and sold WTTE to Glencairn, Ltd., owned by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards. However, the Smith family (Sinclair's founding owners) controlled nearly all of Glencairn's stock. In effect, Sinclair now had a duopoly in Columbus in violation of FCC rules. Sinclair and Glenciarn further circumvented the rules by merging WTTE's operations with those of WSYX under a local marketing agreement, with WSYX as the senior partner. WLOS channel 13 is the ABC television affiliate in Asheville, North Carolina. ... Not to be confused with Ashville. ... KOVR, channel 13, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Stockton, California, and serving the Sacramento-Stockton television market. ... Nickname: Motto: Stocktons Great, Take A Look! Location in San Joaquin County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County San Joaquin Incorporated 1850 Government  - Mayor Edward J. Chavez  - City Manager J. Gordon Palmer, Jr. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... A true duopoly is a specific type of oligopoly where only two producers exist in one market. ... PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS...

In 2001, after the FCC allowed duopolies, Sinclair tried to acquire Glencairn outright. However, the FCC would not allow Sinclair to repurchase WTTE for two major reasons. First, the FCC does not allow duopolies between two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. Also, the Columbus market has only seven full-power stations -- too few to legally permit a duopoly. Glencairn was renamed Cunningham Broadcasting, but is still effectively owned by Sinclair because nearly all of its stock is owned by trusts controlled by the Smith family. This situation is one of many that has led to allegations that Cunningham is simply a shell corporation used by Sinclair to circumvent FCC ownership rules. Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of television stations in the United States. ... A shell corporation is defined in Barrons Finance & Investment Handbook as a company that is incorporated but has no significant assets or operations. ...

In August 2006, WSYX launched a digital subchannel to carry programming from My Network TV, a new programming service from News Corporation, the parent company of Fox. The digital subchannel is known as My TV Columbus. My Network TV (sometimes written MyNetworkTV, and unofficially abbreviated MNT or MNTV) is an upcoming television network in the United States, owned by News Corporation, which is scheduled to launch on September 5, 2006. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: , LSE: NCRA) is an American media conglomerate company and the third worlds largest. ...

Digital television

The station's digital channel (VHF 13) is multiplexed:

Digital channels

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Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009^[1], WSYX will will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 13. ^[2] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WSYX's virtual channel as 6. The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television standard for carrying data about each channel. ... In telecommunications, a virtual channel is a channel designation which differs from the actual radio channel or frequency which the signal travels. ...

WSYX will no longer be available on FM 87.75MHz after digital transition is complete. In telecommunications, frequency modulation (FM) conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its frequency. ...

News Operation

Channel 6 was generally in last place in the local news ratings, except for two periods when the station was intensely competitive -- from 1977 to 1983, and from 1987 to 1992. During this era, channel 6 often passed WCMH for second place behind long-dominant WBNS-TV. Over the years, the station has featured high profile Columbus anchors including Tom Ryan,^[3] Pat Lalama, I.J. Hudson, Lou Forrest (known as Louis de la Foret on CNN Headline News), and Deborah Countiss. Liz Claman, now an anchor on CNBC, and Carol Costello, now an anchor on CNN, were also one time reporters on WSYX. The station became competitive again in the late 1990s, and since then has waged a fierce battle with WCMH for the runner-up position behind WBNS-TV. WBNS-TV (10TV) is the CBS television affiliate for Columbus and central Ohio. ... CNN Headline News is a spin-off network from the original Cable News Network (CNN) television news network in the United States and Canada. ... Liz (Elizabeth Kate) Claman, (born December 12, 1963), is the co-anchor of the CNBC morning program Morning Call. ... This article is about CNBC U.S., the business news channel in the U.S.. For other uses, see CNBC (disambiguation). ...

Currently, WSYX's news programs are called "ABC 6 On Your Side" while programming on WTTE is branded "FOX 28 News at 10" and "Good Day Columbus." The news operation produces five hours of news each weekeday on channel 6 and three hours of news on channel 28. The stations place a prime focus on their weather operation, which uses the full suite of Weather Central technology, by placing the forecast near the beginning of each newscast and by providing weather updates every ten minutes during morning newscasts. WSYX and WTTE did not participate in the wider implementation of Sinclair's now-defunct News Central format for its newscasts, but did air "The Point", a one-minute political commentary that was a requirement of all Sinclair-owned stations with newscasts until the series was discontinued in December 2006. News Central is an english newscast aired daily on Studio 23. ...

WSYX launched its newscasts in High Definition on Saturday, May 10th, 2008. This makes WSYX the third Columbus station and Columbus the second market in Ohio (after Cleveland) to have all major news operations producing news in high definition. In addition, this was the first Sinclair station to launch local newscasts in high definition.

Newscast Titles

WSYX's newscasts have been known by the following names:

Action 6 News (1977-1987) Action News is a local television newscast format in the United States. ...

Channel 6 News (1987-1992)

6 On Your Side News (1992-1995)

6 News (1995-1999)

NewsCenter on ABC 6 (1999-2006) NewsCenter (NotiCentro in Spanish) is the name given to a number of local-news operations at American television stations. ...

ABC 6 NewsCenter (2006-2007)

ABC 6 On Your Side (2007-Present)

Current Personalities

Anchors

• Sean Cuellar - weekends
• Andy Dominianni - weekday morning and noon
• Yolanda Harris - weeknights
• Kent Justice - weekends
• Terri Sullivan - weekday mornings and noon
• Gabe Spiegel - weeknights

Weather

• Lisa Colbert - weekday mornings and noon
• Jerry Martz - chief meteorologist/weekday evenings
• Dana Turtle - weekends

Sports

• Clay Hall - sports director/weeknights
• Anthony Rothman - weekends

Reporters

• Tom Bosco (On Your Side)
• Susan Burton (Health and Science)
• Johnny DiLoretto (Entertainment)
• Maria Durant
• Mary Jedlicka
• Carol Luper
• Emily Riemer (State House)
• Shannon McCormick
• Dr. Marivi Soto
• Shawndrea Thomas
• Jake Whittenberg
• Alexis Wiley (On Your Side Investigations)

Notable alumni

• Bob Alan
• Anne Allred
• Mary Baer
• Terre Blair
• Kimberly Boles
• Mike Bowersock
• Chris Bradley
• Charlene Brown
• Tom Burris
• Demee Caporal
• Don Carson
• Liz Claman
• Kirstin Cole
• Mark Cooper
• Larry Cosgrove
• Carol Costello
• Deborah Countiss
• Wendi Craver
• Ray Crawford
• Michele DeSelms
• Dan Fabrizio (ND at WCBD-TV)
• Jim Finnerty
• Lou Forrest
• Michelle Gailiun
• Earl Green
• Jon Greiner
• Tom Griffith
• Donna Hanover
• Ted Hart
• Bob Hetherington
• I.J. Hudson
• Tanya Hutchins
• Mike Jackson
• Bruce Kirk
• Pat Lalama
• Dwight Lauderdale
• Tom Lawrence
• Tom Layson
• Karen Massie
• Dawn Meadows
• Alan Mitchelle
• Steve Minich
• Jim Miller
• Chad Myers
• Megan Pringle
• Liz Ogletree
• Mike Rowe (1999-2008)
• Tom Ryan
• Mike Stevens
• Calvin Sneed
• Scott Taylor
• Tony Victor
• Lorene Wagner

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References

1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
2. ^ FCC CDBS
3. ^ Robinson, Ralph (Reporter), Tom Ryan (News caster) and Gayd Hogan (News caster) "Unknown Episode." Action 6 News. Unknow Network. Station call sign: WSYX, Originally aired from Unknown City. Unknow date of publication. Filmed in Groveport. Lenght: 1 Minute 45 seconds. Republished by Annaheim, Kurt W. "Media Page - See, Hear and Discover Free Electricity." Last updated 7 May 2008. Befreetech.Com. Accessed 23 June 2008. (Note: 4.5 Mb Windows Media Video File. Direct link: <http://befreetech.com/media/stan_meyers_bb.wmv>)

   Annotation: This is a NEWS broadcast video which consists of coverage of Stan Meyer's invention on "Action 6 News". The stations call letters are based on the fact that "Tom Ryan" is listed within the Wikipedia article WSYX. The reliability and verifiability of the original source should still however be checked. The name of the republisher was found via a WHOIS search at WHOIS.net. Accordingly, the website's last update was found via a GoDaddy.com's WHOIS search. befreetech.com appears to be a commercial website which, in this case, may not meet wikipedia's standards for reliable information. This website is not "authoratative". The video confirms Mr. Tom Ryan's presence.

Action News is a local television newscast format in the United States. ...

External links

• WSYX Website
• WTVN-TV History Page at the Early Television Foundation
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WSYX
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WSYX-TV
• [2] -Columbus Dispatch story about WSYX running fake news
• http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/73525.html FCC document about Channel 6 audio interference with educational stations in lower FM megahertz band