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WTAE-TV began broadcasting on September 14, 1958; the station has been Pittsburgh's ABC affiliate since its sign-on. Pittsburgh had only one major commercial television station for close to a decade—DuMont-owned WDTV (channel 2, now KDKA-TV), which signed on in 1949 and carried programs from all four television networks (DuMont, ABC, NBC and CBS).
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948.
TV stations formerly owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group; City of license / Market Station Channel Years owned Current ownership status Anniston, AL: WJSU-TV [ρ] 40: 2014–2015 [o] WGWW; Howard Stirk Holdings: Tuscaloosa, AL: WCFT-TV [ρ] 33: 2014–2015 [o] WSES; Howard Stirk Holdings Stockton–Sacramento, CA: KOVR: 13: 1997–2005: CBS News ...
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In 1980, Wiggin turned down a news anchor job in Atlanta in order to join WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. [3] [4] She then became co-anchor of the weekend news at WTAE-TV in 1981. [1] In November 1986, she was named anchor for the weeknight news. [1] [3] In that position, she was part of a successful team with Don Cannon. [5]
The station's ratings were so bad that Cox was unable to switch the station's affiliation to ABC like it did with sister stations WSB-TV and WSOC-TV in 1978, as Hearst Television had developed a solid affiliate relationship with ABC, thus WTAE-TV was one of its strongest affiliates and unwilling to exchange networks.
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ABC World News Tonight with David Muir; other programs include morning news-talk show Good Morning America, Nightline, Primetime, 20/20, and Sunday morning political affairs program This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
ABC, CBS and/or NBC stations may air their corresponding network's early evening newscast at 6:00 or 6:30 p.m. ET and PT/5:00 or 5:30 p.m. CT/MT, depending on the station's choice of feed. NBC Nightly News with Kate Snow airs live in all time zones during Fall to avoid pre-emption due to the live airing of NBC Sunday Night Football .