WBOY-TV
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| WBOY-TV | |
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| Clarksburg, West Virginia | |
| Branding | 12 News |
| Slogan | Your Town. Your State. Your Future. |
| Channels | Analog: 12 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner | West Virginia Media Holdings, LLC |
| First air date | November 17, 1957 |
| Former affiliations | Secondary: ABC (1957-1980s) |
| Transmitter Power | 263 kW (analog) 324 kW (digital) |
| Height | 262 m (analog) 249.8 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 71220 |
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| Website | www.wboy.com |
WBOY is a television station in Clarksburg, West Virginia affiliated with NBC. It identifies itself as "WBOY, Clarksburg-Morgantown-Fairmont", even though Morgantown is located in the Pittsburgh television market. It operates on channel 12, and its digital channel is channel 52.
The station was launched in 1957. It was the second television station in its small market. It was originally intended to be the ABC affiliate for all of north-central West Virginia. However, the market's intended NBC affiliate, Parkersburg's WTAP-TV, did not have a signal strong enough to reach Clarksburg and Weston. After it became clear that Parkersburg and Clarksburg were going to be separate markets, WBOY joined NBC and remains there to this day. However, it retained a secondary ABC affiliation for many years.
In 2001, Hearst-Argyle Television acquired WBOY, along with WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire, from Birney Imes, Jr., a Columbus, Mississippi businessman who also owned that city's WCBI-TV (which was sold to Morris Network). Hearst-Argyle's acquisition of WBOY was finalized on April 30, 2001. Hearst-Argyle kept WMUR, but opted to sell WBOY to West Virginia Media Holdings (which was creating a statewide "network" of stations to share resources) in September of that year, with the sale closing on December 13. The station received a major influx of cash to upgrade its news operation and built a second studio in Morgantown. A major emphasis was placed on news from that town, in the hopes of increasing ratings and thus getting the town reassigned to the Clarksburg-Fairmont market. The station is also expected to produce a large amount of sports content relative to West Virginia University located in that town for use by the other member stations.
WBOY is the only West Virginia Media Holdings station to have the lead in local news ratings. It is also the only primary West Virginia Media Holdings station to not be affiliated with CBS.
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[edit] Current News Staff
[edit] Anchors & Reporters
- Courtney Dunn - Reporter
- Don Graye - Anchor/Reporter
- Sarah Kapis - Reporter/Weekend Anchor
- April Kaull - Statewide Correspondent/Anchor
- Karen Kiley - Reporter
- Hilary Magacs - Reporter
- Amanda McCall - Morgantown Reporter
- Elizabeth Schubert - Anchor/Reporter
- Chris Stirewalt - Political Editor
- J. Turchetta - Upshur/Randolph/Tucker Bureau Chief
- Albert Zipp - Managing Editor/Anchor
[edit] Meteorologists
- Josh Fosbrink - Meteorologist
- Jason Kratzwald - Meteorologist
- Jason Parrish - Chief Meteorologist
[edit] Sports Anchors
- Greg Chandler - Sports Reporter
- Scott Grayson - Sports Director
- Dave Stingo - NASCAR Analyst
[edit] Former Staff
- Spencer Adkins - (now the Chief Meteorologist at sister WOWK)
- Valerie Abati - (now morning and noon Meteorologist at KDKA)
- Gary Bowden - (Owns his own Advertising Agency - Gary Bowden Marketing)
- Christine D'Antonio - (now known as Christine Kennedy at WITN-TV in Washington, NC)
- Josh DeVine - (now at WJRT-TV in Flint, MI)
- Bob Fulton - (now with Dominion Power media relations)
- Gabe Gutierrez - (now at WJRT-TV in Flint, MI)
- Sarah Lieu - (consumer reporter for West Virginia Media Holdings group)
- Steven Ring - (now at WRBL in Columbus, GA)
- Natalie Tennant - (running for WV Secretary of State)
- Erik Wells - (running for the U.S. House in WV District 2)
- Lorie Wyant - (now Lorie Stingo, works for the FBI in Clarksburg)
- Adam Joseph - (now at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia)
- Mike Simons - (passed away at the age of 49 from complications after a bone marrow transplant)
- Brian Slocum - (now at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, NC)
- Kristie Kubovic - (now at WLEX-TV in Lexington, KY)
- John Rodgers - (now at WCAV/WVAW-LP/WAHU-CA in Charlottesville, VA)
- Julie Chin - (now at KJRH-TV in Tulsa)
- Joe Porter - (now working as a music producer in Chicago)
- Chris Clark - (now at BayNews 9 in Tampa)
- Pete Yanity - (now at WSPA-TV in Spartanburg, SC)
- Jim Valliere - (now at Pinellas County Government, Clearwater, FL)
- Eric Minor - (now at WTOV9 Steubenville, Oh/Wheeling, WV)
- Lauren Hills - (now at WNCN in Raleigh, North Carolina)
Denise Alex - (now at The Ohio News Network, Columbus, Ohio)
[edit] External links
- Station Web site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBOY
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBOY-TV
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