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WUSA
WUSA logo
Washington, D.C.
Branding W*USA 9 (general)
9 News Now (newscasts)
Channels Analog: 9 (VHF)

Digital: 34 (UHF)
Affiliations CBS
Owner Gannett Company
(Detroit Free Press, Inc. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Gannett Company Inc ( is a publicly-traded media Holding company based in the United States. )
Founded January 16, 1949
Call letters’ meaning USA Today and United States of America
Former callsigns WOIC-TV (1949-1950)
WTOP-TV (1950-1978)
WDVM-TV (1978-1986)
Transmitter Power 316 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height 235 m (analog)
254 m (digital)
Facility ID 65593
Transmitter Coordinates 38°57′1.2″N, 77°4′45.5″W
Website www.wusa9.com
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WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network. Gannett Company Inc ( is a publicly-traded media Holding company based in the United States. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. WUSA's studios and transmitter are located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington. Tenleytown is the historic name for a neighborhood in northwest Washington DC. [1]

Contents

History

The station officially went on the air on January 11, 1949 as WOIC-TV, and began full-time operations on January 16. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. It is the fourth-oldest station in the nation's capital. Its original owner was the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, a subsidiary of R.H. Macy and Company, which also owned WOR-AM-FM in New York City, and was working to put WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) on the air at the same time. Macy's is a chain of mid-range American Department stores Its Flagship store in Herald Square, New York City has been billed WOR is a class A (nighttime Clear channel) AM radio station located in New York New York, U WRKS (987 MHz better known as 987 Kiss FM, is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station in New York City, owned by Emmis Communications The City of New York WWOR-TV, channel 9 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Secaucus New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area Nine days later, WOIC broadcast the first televised American presidential inaugural address, given by President Harry S. Truman. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

WOIC-TV picked up the CBS affiliation upon signing on, replacing WMAL-TV (channel 7, now WJLA-TV) as CBS's Washington outlet. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. WJLA-TV, channel 7 is the ABC television affiliate in Washington D But the Bamberger/Macy's ownership had other plans for their station: both WOIC and its New York sister station were scheduled to become affiliates of a planned television network operated by Mutual Radio. The Mutual Broadcasting System ( MBS) was an American Radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999 However, Mutual Television never made it to air, leaving channel 9 to remain a CBS station.

In June 1950, CBS teamed up with the Washington Post to purchase WOIC-TV from Bamberger/Macy's. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The new owners, WTOP Incorporated (the Washington Post owned 55 percent, and CBS held the remaining 45 percent), changed the station's call sign to WTOP-TV, after its new sister stations WTOP radio (then at 1500 AM) and WTOP-FM (96. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise 3 MHz. , now WHUR-FM). "963 WHUR" is an Urban Adult Contemporary radio station that serves the Washington D

In July 1950, WTOP-TV became the first television station in Washington authorized to broadcast color television in the 405-line field sequential color standard, which was incompatible with the black-and-white 525-line NTSC standard. Color broadcasts would continue for nearly 30 months, when regulatory and commercial pressures forced the FCC to rescind its original color standard and begin the process of adopting the 525-line NTSC-3 standard, developed by RCA to be backwards compatible with the existing black-and-white televisions.

In 1954, the WTOP stations moved into a new facility, known as "Broadcast House", at 40th and Brandywine streets NW in Washington. The building was the first in the country designed as a unified radio and television facility. Its name was in honor of Broadcasting House, home of the BBC in London. Broadcasting House is the headquarters and Registered office of the BBC in Portland Place, London, England. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The building was well-known to WTOP's president. since he had spent much of World War II assigned to the BBC. Previous to the move to Broadcast House, the radio stations operated out of the Earle Building (now the Warner Building, home of the Warner Theatre), and WTOP-TV had operated out of the small WOIC studios at the same location. The Warner Theatre is a Theatre in downtown Washington DC, United States When Broadcast House was completed and the new television studios were inaugurated, the old studio became the garage for Broadcast House and the old master control room became both the master control and transmitter room for channel 9, since Broadcast House had been built around the station's original, four-sided tower. People can still see the building with the tower in the middle at the same location, although it is now an office building and retail store front operated by Douglas Development Corp.

The WTOP-TV tower was well known in Washington for two things. First, at Christmas time, the tower was strung with Christmas lights and glowed brightly on top of Mount Reno, the tallest point in the District of Columbia. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Second, the tower tended to sway much more than three-sided towers. In a strong wind the tower could be seen swaying back-and-forth, and during the winter ice from the tower fell quite often on the streets below.

Also in 1954, CBS sold its share of WTOP Inc. to the Washington Post to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's new seven-station-per-group ownership rule. CBS's partial ownership of WTOP radio and WCCO radio in Minneapolis exceeded the FCC's limit for AM stations. WCCO is a Radio station with a storied history spanning more than 80 years that serves the Minneapolis-St CBS opted to sell its share of WTOP, which it had purchased in whole in 1932 before selling controlling interest to the Post in 1949.

After the sale closed, the Post merged the WTOP stations with its other broadcast property, WMBR-AM-TV in Jacksonville, Florida and changed the name of the licensee from "WTOP Inc. WMBR is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT–run student broadcasting station licensed in Cambridge Massachusetts and broadcasting on 88 WJXT channel 4 is an independent television station serving Jacksonville Florida and surrounding communities " to "Post Stations, Inc. " WMBR radio was sold off in 1958, and WMBR-TV became WJXT. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. WJXT channel 4 is an independent television station serving Jacksonville Florida and surrounding communities The Post renamed its broadcasting group "Post-Newsweek Stations" in 1961 after the Post bought Newsweek magazine. Post-Newsweek Stations is the official name of the broadcasting division of the Washington Post Company and is a self-contained corporation within that company Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. Post-Newsweek acquired its third television station, WLBW-TV (now WPLG) in Miami in 1970 and in 1974 added WTIC-TV (now WFSB) in Hartford, Connecticut to the group. WPLG is an ABC network affiliate serving the entire Miami Florida area Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. WFSB, channel 3 is an affiliate of the CBS television network serving most of the state of Connecticut.

In 1972 WTOP-TV joined with the Evening Star Broadcasting Company (owned by the Post's rival, the now-defunct Washington Star and licensee of WMAL-TV) to build the Joint Tower, a 1040-foot, three-sided tower across the alley from Broadcast House at 4010 Chesapeake Street, NW. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was Transmission lines were extended from Broadcast House's transmitter area to the new tower for both WTOP-TV and WHUR-FM (the former WTOP-FM, which had been donated by Post-Newsweek to Howard University in 1971). Howard University is a private, Coeducational Nonsectarian University located in Washington D Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. The old tower continued to serve as the backup antenna for channel 9 until the station sold Broadcast House in 1996. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

In 1974, WTOP and the other Post-Newsweek stations adopted the slogan The One and Only. The moniker was part of a trend toward group identification of stations, with each station being The One and Only Channel (channel number). Staff members from the One and Only period usually refer to themselves as "the one and onlies" as a source of pride. The slogan was dropped from active use in the late 1990s and has not been used as part of an image campaign since 1996. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The slogan no longer appears on the air, but was revived in a sense when channel 9 adopted its current slogan, First and Only with Local News in HDTV.

In July 1978 Post-Newsweek exchanged WTOP-TV with the Evening News Association's WWJ-TV (now WDIV) in Detroit. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) WDIV-TV, channel 4 is the NBC Television station based in Detroit Michigan, United States. Upon completion of the swap, WTOP-TV changed its call letters to WDVM-TV, with the new call letters representing the initials of the areas which channel 9 serves: D for the District of Columbia, V for Virginia, and M for Maryland. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The Washington Post and the Evening News Association, which published the Detroit News, decided to swap their stations for fear the FCC would force them to sell the stations at unfavorable terms or revoke their very valuable licenses because the FCC at the time was considering forbidding ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the same market. The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the US

In 1985, the Gannett Company purchased the Evening News Association. [2] On July 4, 1986, Gannett changed WDVM's call letters to WUSA both in honor of the station being located in the nation's capital and Gannett's ownership of USA Today. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) USA TODAY is a national American daily Newspaper published by the Gannett Company. The same connection is noted with Gannett's Denver station, KUSA-TV. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States KUSA-TV, channel 9 is an NBC -affiliated Television station in Denver Colorado. The WUSA callsign had previously been used by Gannett's station in Minneapolis, which changed its callsign to KARE. KARE, channel 11 is an NBC -affiliated television station licensed to Minneapolis Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis- St While the station's current call sign is commonly printed as W*USA, particularly in Gannett press releases, the asterisk or star between the W and U is not officially recognized as part of the call sign, as FCC records list the station as WUSA. An asterisk ( *) (Latin asteriscum "little star" from Greek ἀστερίσκος) is a Typographical symbol or Glyph A star is a massive luminous ball of plasma. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the Energy on Earth The star device was used to denote its connection to USA Today. (KUSA-TV employs a similar practice. ) After the Women's United Soccer Association (the WUSA) was founded in the late 1990s, the star was replaced on-air with the CBS eye.

WUSA moved to a new Broadcast House at 4100 Wisconsin Avenue, NW in January 1992. WTOP-FM had left the old Broadcast House in 1971, but kept its transmitter there. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. WTOP radio departed in 1978; the Post had sold it a year earlier to the Outlet Company. The Outlet Company was a corporation based in Providence, Rhode Island which owned holdings in both retail and broadcasting The move to the more modern building was tinged with sadness due to the death from a brain tumor of channel 9's popular sportcaster, Glenn Brenner just days before the move.

On May 2, 2005, WUSA became the first station in the Washington market to broadcast its newscasts in High Definition. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition

Digital television

Channel Programming
9. 1 / 34. 1 main WUSA/CBS programming

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [3], WUSA will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel number, 9. [4]

News department

WUSA was the launchpad for several well-known news anchors. Sam Donaldson and Warner Wolf are among WUSA's most successful alumni. Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson (born March 11 1934, El Paso Texas) is a reporter and News anchor for ABC News, substitute Warner William Wolf (born November 11, 1937 in Washington DC) is an American television and radio sports broadcaster best known for being Max Robinson was co-anchor of Eyewitness News with Gordon Peterson from 1969 to 1978 before he became the first black anchorman on network television and one of the original anchors of ABC's World News Tonight. Max Robinson ( May 1, 1939 – December 20, 1988) was an American Television Journalist and was the Chicago Eyewitness News is a name used by local television newscasts widely used in different markets across the United States. Gordon Peterson is an American broadcast journalist and Washington D World News with Charles Gibson (previously known as World News Tonight, often called ABC World News Tonight, also often abbreviated James Brown of CBS Sports was a sports anchor at the station in the 1980s. CBS Sports is a division of CBS which airs many of the sports telecasts in the United States.

Current personalities

Anchors

Reporters

Weather

Sports

Traffic


Notable WUSA Alumni

(D) - Deceased

This list is incomplete. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (often abbreviated to Cronkite School by its students is one of the 24 independent school units at Arizona State University ( ASU) is the largest public Research university in the United States under a single administration with total student KMSP-TV, channel 9 is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation -owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Minneapolis Minnesota Davey Marlin-Jones ( May 8, 1932 - March 2, 2004) was an American stage director as well as a local television personality WJLA-TV, channel 7 is the ABC television affiliate in Washington D WTTG is an owned-and-operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946 in New York NY) is a Washington D NBC News is the news division of American Television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric CBS News is the news division of American Television and Radio network CBS. WRAL-TV, channel 5 is a Television station in Raleigh North Carolina. Ralph Penza ( November 22, 1932 – February 16, 2007) was a senior correspondent and substitute Gordon Peterson is an American broadcast journalist and Washington D WJLA-TV, channel 7 is the ABC television affiliate in Washington D WJLA-TV, channel 7 is the ABC television affiliate in Washington D Max Robinson ( May 1, 1939 – December 20, 1988) was an American Television Journalist and was the Chicago This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American WRC-TV, channel 4 is the NBC owned and operated Television station in Washington D KRON-TV, channel 4 is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. CBS News is the news division of American Television and Radio network CBS. Ruth Todd is an award winning Salt Lake City television news anchor WJXT channel 4 is an independent television station serving Jacksonville Florida and surrounding communities Warner William Wolf (born November 11, 1937 in Washington DC) is an American television and radio sports broadcaster best known for being WABC (770 kHz known as "NewsTalkRadio 77" is a radio station in New York City. Eun Yang (born 1973 is a Korean American weekend news anchor and general assignment reporter during the week for NBC4/ WRC-TV, the local NBC WRC-TV, channel 4 is the NBC owned and operated Television station in Washington D You can help by expanding it.

Historical newscast titles

Slogans

Awards

2001 Emmy: NEWS SPECIALS, "Katherine Graham: A Washington Legend" - Ben Brodsky, Producer, Catherine Snyder-Charlip, Producer, Samara Martin Ewing, Producer [1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Digital Signal Sources", 'The Washington Post', 2008-05-20. Katharine Meyer Graham ( June 16, 1917 &ndash July 17, 2001) was an American publisher The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held  
  2. ^ As indicated under "Licensee" above, the Evening News Association was renamed "Detroit Free Press, Inc. The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily Newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. " in 2005, when that Gannett subsidiary simultaneously bought the Free Press and sold the News.
  3. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  4. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233449&formid=387&fac_num=65593

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