WTEN

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about WTEN!

WTEN, WXXA share staff under new plan: A behind-the scenes consolidation of two Capital Region television stations became apparent to the v

Kulbida joins WTEN for 4 p.m. newscast: ALBANY — WTEN News 10 has hired former WNYT anchor Lydia Kulbida to lead its new 4 p.m….

Stormy weather: WXXA cuts jobs: WXXA, which merged its news operation with that of WTEN, laid off meteorologist Jason…

Fox affiliate sold, new role with WTEN: ALBANY — A Louisiana businessman has purchased the broadcast assets of WXXA-TV, the Fox…

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also operates Fox affiliate WXXA-TV . the two stations share studios on Northern Boulevard in Albany’s Bishop’s Gate section . WTEN formerly operated the station was owned by the Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company . damage to the station’s transmission line forced it to end operations two weeks early . the two stations shared space inside a former retirement home for nuns . the station broadcast from a temporary transmitter in Herkimer, limiting the signal to the immediate area . it went to full power and installed a permanent tower next to the studio a few months later . within their first year after the sale, the station switched its affiliation to CBS on February 1, 1955 . the station’s call letters were changed to WCDA (for Capital District-Albany) and a satellite station, WCDB (channel 29 when the FCC allocated two additional VHF channels to Albany, Hudson Valley sought and received permission to move to channel 10 . the station’s transmitter was moved to Vail Mills, approximately 35 miles (56 km) west of Albany the new transmitter proved inadequate for serving the Capital District proper . the FCC eventually allowed a waiver in 1963 . in 1966, WTEN and WROW-AM-FM moved to new facilities in Albany . in 1978, poole sold two VHF stations to Knight-Ridder . the new owner signed an affiliation deal with ABC . Upon knight-ridder’s exit from broadcasting in 1989, WTEN and sister the Young purchases of the two stations plus WTEN satellite WCDC were consummated more than three months apart . on October 1, 2007, Young Broadcasting launched the Retro Television Network on a new third digital subchannel of WTEN in an effort to cut costs, the company eliminated ten positions from WTEN on January 31, 2008 . in January 2009, after failing to meet the minimum standards for being listed on NASDAQ, Young Broadcasting was dropped from the exchange on July 27, 2012, it was announced that the Capital District’s Fox affiliate, WXXA-TV, owned by Newport Television, would be sold to Shield Media, LLC for $19.2 million . on October 23, the on June 6, 2013, Young Broadcasting announced that it would merge with Media General . the merger was approved by the FCC on November 8, after media general shareholders approved the merger a day earlier . more than two years later, on the WCDB call sign would return to the air in 1978 for the student-run radio station at University at Albany . WMGT began as a separate station affiliated with the duMont network . in December 1954, Capital Cities bought the license and returned it to the air in 1957 under its final calls, WCDC . due to substantial snow and ice build-up, a tower collapse forced WCDC off the air again in March 1983 . most cable systems on the Vermont and Massachusetts sides of the market picked up WCDC’s signal . cable companies shut down their analog signal on channel 19 on June 12, 2009, following WTEN’s lead . citing declining over-the-air viewership, Nexstar agreed to take WCDC-TV off air . damage to station’s transmission line would take the station off air on November 19 . Albany public radio station WAMC entered the station’s digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26 . in 2019, during the digital television repack, WTEN moved from UHF channels 26 to 24 . WNYT overtook W in the 1990s and 2000s, this station has occasionally finished ahead of WRGB or, more recently, WNYT . in November 2009, wNYT’s newscasts slipped back to third place . on October 26, 2011, WTEN became the second station in Albany to upgrade its newscasts to high definition level . as a full-time satellite of WTEN, WCDC simulcast all newscast from its parent outlet . on January 24, 2013, the Fox outlet dropped its separate weeknight 5 and 11 o’clock newscasts . WXXA’s weekday morning newscast (seen 7 to 9 a.m.) and