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91-692: WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City , serving as the flagship of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan , adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building . WABC-TV is best known in broadcasting circles for its version of

182-486: A barter in some cases. AccuWeather AccuWeather is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers , then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree in meteorology . His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania . While running his company, Myers also worked as

273-491: A digital subchannel to television stations. By 2021, the service had been quietly discontinued. AccuWeather continues to provide local weather content to noncommercial Milwaukee PBS station WMVT-DT3 under a separate agreement. In 2015, Verizon FiOS replaced The Weather Channel with a new 24/7 all-weather television network called " The AccuWeather Channel ". This followed earlier negotiations among AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, and DirecTV . The AccuWeather Network

364-408: A multicast service on WABC's third subchannel between December 9, 2005, and March 31, 2006. On May 27, 2007, WABC-TV's studios suffered major damage as the result of a fire that knocked the station off the air shortly before the start of the 11 p.m. newscast. According to preliminary reports, the fire may have been ignited by a spotlight coming into contact with a curtain inside the news studio;

455-799: A standard definition , letterboxed simulcast of the Live Well Network, and then on April 15, 2015, these stations were replaced by Laff. On December 2, 2006, WABC-TV became the second station in the New York City market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . On September 7, 2010, WABC-TV expanded its weekday morning newscast, moving its start time to 4:30 am. Three days earlier on September 4, 2010, WABC added an hour-long extension of its Saturday morning newscast from 9 a.m. to 10 am. On May 26, 2011, WABC-TV added another hour of local news at 4 p.m. to replace Oprah , which aired its last original episode

546-464: A 30-year period. It is generally accepted that the upper limit on how far one can reliably forecast is between one and two weeks, a limit based on both limits in observation systems and the chaotic nature of the atmosphere . An informal assessment conducted by Jason Samenow at The Washington Post asserted that AccuWeather's forecasts at the 25-day range were often wrong by as many as ten degrees Fahrenheit, no better than random chance and that

637-421: A air pollution visualization and forecasting service. Data is gathered through government controlled stations and individual contributors. It gradually started offering street by street level prediction of AQI . It also sells Flow, a pocket-sized device to measure AQI. Due to sells volume, more Flow devices report AQI than government stations. Although government stations report AQI with greater accuracy. After

728-416: A degree of conversational chatter among the anchors, known as "happy talk". The "Tar Sequence" cue from the musical score of the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke , composed by Lalo Schifrin , was introduced as the theme music. The score included a telegraphic-style melody appropriate for a newscast. The Eyewitness News format and theme music were quickly adopted by ABC's other four owned-and-operated stations at

819-586: A firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U.S. government. The WJZ-TV callsign was later reassigned to Westinghouse Broadcasting (the original owners of WJZ radio in New York) as an historical nod in 1957 for their newly acquired television station in Baltimore – a station that was, by coincidence, an ABC affiliate until 1995. As part of ABC's expansion program, initiated in 1977, ABC built 7 Lincoln Square on

910-490: A handful of other weather-related services. The company is best known for the eponymous website, app, and TV channel. Their brand is marketed as being more accurate than competitors, as is implied by their name, however there is mixed scientific research on this. The company acts as a middleman between government weather data and consumers, as well as integrating weather forecasts into other products. While AccuWeather provides some free services funded by advertisements, most revenue

1001-668: A member of Penn State's meteorology faculty. The company adopted the name 'AccuWeather' in 1971. AccuWeather is headquartered in Ferguson Township , just outside of State College , Pennsylvania, with offices at 80 Pine Street in Manhattan's Financial District in addition to Wichita , Kansas , and Oklahoma City , Oklahoma . Internationally, AccuWeather has offices in Montreal , Tokyo , Beijing , Seoul , and Mumbai . AccuWeather provides weather forecasts, warnings, and

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1092-523: A message from Cablevision about the removal. To avoid interruption of programming, the station urged Cablevision subscribers in the station's viewing area (totaling up to three million subscribers) to switch to other services, such as Verizon FiOS and DirecTV or simply view the station over the air through an over-the-air digital antenna and if necessary, a digital converter box, for older television sets. WABC's sister station, WPVI-TV in Philadelphia,

1183-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

1274-629: A new 6:30 p.m. newscast, available only through the stream. On September 11, 2023, WABC-TV, along with sister stations WPVI-TV and WTVD in Durham, North Carolina , launched an additional hour-long newscast at 10 a.m. which took over the time slot previously occupied by Tamron Hall . The broadcast delivers news in a traditional format, and also allows more focus to be placed on local newsmakers, and further discussion on topics addressed on Good Morning America and Live with Kelly and Mark . WABC delayed its launch by one day, due to coverage of events in

1365-402: A single season, acknowledged that AccuWeather's forecasts were of value in short-range forecasting while also noting that their long-range forecasts beyond one week were less accurate than climatological averages. The National Weather Service , which provides large amounts of the data that AccuWeather repackages and sells for profit, also provides that same information for free by placing it in

1456-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

1547-587: A weekly program that focus on the issues affecting local Hispanic citizens, and Up Close , a public affairs program on the latest issues with the newsmakers. The station also formerly produced Viewpoint , a weekly program that highlighted the cultural and community efforts in New York, Long Island and New Jersey (each of these regions rotated weekly). As of 2023, aside from Live with Kelly and Mark , WABC's first-run syndicated programs include Tamron Hall , Jeopardy! , and Wheel of Fortune . WABC-TV produces

1638-580: A year later) became Philbin's new co-host. In 1988, Buena Vista Television began syndicating the show nationally as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee . Gifford left the show in 2000 and was eventually replaced by Kelly Ripa . Philbin left the show in November 2011 and the show aired for nearly a year as Live! with Kelly until former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan became Ripa's permanent co-host in September 2012. In May 2016, Strahan left

1729-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1820-407: Is a separate operation from " The Local AccuWeather Channel ", which continues to run in selected markets across the country. It became the third 24/7 weather network to launch on American television, after The Weather Channel in 1982 and WeatherNation TV in 2011. The AccuWeather Network is also carried on Spectrum TV, DIRECTV, Frontier, and on Philo and FuboTV streaming services. On August 1, 2018,

1911-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

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2002-659: Is generated through a tiered subscription model which unlocks certain features. AccuWeather's forecasts and warning services are generally derived from free and publicly available government data. Weather observations and data are gathered by the National Weather Service and meteorological organizations outside the United States, as well as from non-meteorological organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency and

2093-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

2184-487: Is respected for its straightforward presentation (especially during breaking news). For the last decade, it has waged a spirited battle for first place, but for most of the time has held onto the lead, helped in part by lead-ins from the highly rated talk and entertainment shows. For over 24 years (December 1986 to May 2011), the lead-in for the 5 p.m. Eyewitness News broadcast had been The Oprah Winfrey Show at 4 p.m. and its strong ratings brought viewers along to

2275-708: The Eyewitness News format and for its morning show , syndicated nationally by corporate cousin Disney General Entertainment Content . The station signed on August 10, 1948, as WJZ-TV, the first of three television stations signed on by ABC during that same year, with WENR-TV in Chicago and WXYZ-TV in Detroit being the other two. Channel 7's call letters came from its then-sister radio station, WJZ . In its early years, WJZ-TV

2366-659: The NBA on ABC . The station has aired the Knicks' appearances in the 1970 , 1972 and 1973 NBA Finals (where the Knicks won in 1970 and 1973), as well as the then-New Jersey Nets' appearance in the 2003 NBA Finals . WABC-TV aired New York Rangers , New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils games carried through the NHL on ABC ; this included the Devils' victories in the 2000 and 2003 Stanley Cup Finals , as well as their appearance in

2457-679: The 2001 Stanley Cup Finals . Beginning in 2021 , it officially reassumed this duty, this time as the OTA simulcast partner of the NHL on ESPN . Through the ABC portion of the MLS on ESPN package, WABC-TV aired New York City FC 's victory in the 2021 MLS Cup and the New York Red Bulls ' appearance in the 2008 MLS Cup . WABC-TV also previously aired any New York Yankees and New York Mets games through ABC's baseball contract ; this included

2548-615: The New York Jets ' season-opening game on Monday Night Football against the San Francisco 49ers (ABC simulcast ESPN's coverage of the game). Disney and DirecTV ended their standoff on September 14, restoring WABC and ESPN to the satellite provider. [REDACTED] Media related to WABC-TV at Wikimedia Commons Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

2639-650: The United Stations Radio Networks (previously through Westwood One until 2009), also provides weather for over 800 radio stations and over 700 newspapers, including WINS in New York City and WBBM in Chicago . During severe-weather episodes, AccuWeather employees have been called upon by television journalists such as Larry King , Geraldo Rivera , and Greta van Susteren for expert commentary. Accuweather's broadcast meteorologist Jim Kosek became an internet sensation in 2010 due to what

2730-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

2821-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

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2912-631: The public domain . On April 14, 2005, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) introduced the " National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 " in the U.S. Senate . The legislation would have forbidden the National Weather Service from providing any such information directly to the public, and the legislation was generally interpreted as an attempt by AccuWeather to profit off of taxpayer-funded weather research by forcing its delivery through private channels. AccuWeather denies this and maintains it never intended to keep weather information out of

3003-425: The 45-day forecasts were not even able to predict trends accurately, and that, although the forecasts did not decrease in accuracy with time, the forecasts were so far off even in the short range as to be useless. The Post commissioned another assessment from Penn State University professor Jon Nese , comparing several more cities to Accuweather's predictions; that assessment, while acknowledged as being limited to

3094-691: The 5 p.m. newscast. The newscasts were replayed on one of channel 7's digital subchannels, another which also carried local weather and news channel. WABC-TV's website had a link for live streaming video of "Channel 7 Eyewitness News NOW", which offered live local and national weather updated from AccuWeather alongside local news. The format of "Eyewitness News NOW" is similar to the defunct NBC Weather Plus . On February 24, 2011, AccuWeather and ABC both replaced ENN as well as similar news channels on WABC-TV's sister stations, KABC-TV in Los Angeles and WLS-TV in Chicago, replacing them in all three cities with

3185-543: The AccuWeather Network began on DIRECTV nationwide. In July 2021, AccuWeather announced a companion over-the-top channel, AccuWeather Now , that will focus mainly on viral videos and shared social media content. AccuWeather created a unified and proprietary apparent temperature system known as "The AccuWeather Exclusive RealFeel Temperature" and has used the quantity in its forecasts and observations. The formula for calculating this value incorporates

3276-712: The Chinese company Huafeng Media Group, receiving the sole rights to deliver forecasts made by the China Meteorological Administration , a government agency that controls Huafeng. Besides its forecasting services to individual consumers, AccuWeather performs weather-related predictive analytical services for businesses, such as determining how weather conditions have influenced past sales history and advising businesses on adapting their sales strategy for future weather events. Starting in 2005, AccuWeather offered The Local AccuWeather Channel as

3367-634: The Empire State Building a few years later. The station's original studios were located at 77 West 66th Street, with additional studios at 7 West 66th Street. A tunnel linked ABC studios at 7 West 66th Street to the lobby of the Hotel des Artistes, a block north on West 67th Street. Another studio inside the Hotel des Artistes was used for Eyewitness News Conference . The station's call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953, after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theatres ,

3458-530: The Empire State Building, its original home when it signed on the air in 1948. ABC News Now was launched in 2004 on digital subchannels of the ABC O&;O stations. On January 31, 2005, ABC removed ABC News Now from O&O and affiliated stations' subchannels as the channel ended its experimental phase originally. The group changed its programming on secondary channels to ABC Plus, a local news and public affairs format. ABC teamed up with AccuWeather to launch

3549-805: The FCC granted a special temporary authority (STA) for the station to increase power to 26.9 kW. In May 2013, WABC-TV and Philadelphia sister station WPVI-TV became the first two ABC-owned stations to offer live, web-based streaming of programming to authenticated subscribers of participating cable and satellite television providers as provided through the relaunched Watch ABC mobile apps . ABCOTS indicated in January 2015 that its stations' 3rd subchannel would affiliated with Laff network upon launch on April 15, 2015, but until then LWN would run on both subchannels. ABC Stations rebranded Live Well Network on .2 as Localish on February 17, 2020, to add an outlet for

3640-498: The Local AccuWeather Network, on wired Internet, and on mobile application and websites. The mobile application has a minute-by-minute forecast and also collects crowd-sourced weather observations. The company is also active in the areas of convergence and digital signage . They have added a user-contributed video section to their photo gallery. In 2015, AccuWeather entered into a joint venture with

3731-638: The Localish lifestyle content. WABC has long presented events such as the Columbus Day Parade and Puerto Rican Day Parade and beginning in 2017, they became the first television station to air the New York City LGBT Pride March . In addition, the station is also producing local programs such as Here and Now , a program covering the latest issues, trends and news stories impacting the local black community, Tiempo ,

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3822-467: The Noisemakers , this format didn't help the ratings, which plunged to an all-time low. Later that year, newly hired news director Al Primo brought to WABC-TV the Eyewitness News format and branding, in which reporters present their stories directly to the viewers. Having experienced great success introducing the format during his time at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Primo this time added a twist –

3913-647: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

4004-749: The US armed forces. In 2024, AccuWeather employed around 500 people, more than 100 of whom are operational meteorologists. AccuWeather also operates a 24/7 weather channel known as The AccuWeather Network included with various cable providers and streaming services. The network broadcasts a combination of live and pre-recorded national and regional weather forecasts, analysis of ongoing weather events, and weather-related news, in-between local weather segments. The network's studio and master control facilities are based at their headquarters near State College, Pennsylvania . In 2006, AccuWeather acquired WeatherData, Inc. of Wichita. Renamed AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions in 2011,

4095-627: The Wichita facility now houses AccuWeather's specialized severe weather forecasters. As of June 2023, Steven R. Smith is CEO having taken over the position from company founder Dr. Joel N. Myers who became executive chairman. Joel Myers' brother Evan Myers was Chief Operating Officer until 2020 and Senior Vice President. His other brother, Barry Lee Myers , was chief executive officer from 2007 to January 1, 2019. The regular weather provider for Bloomberg Television , AccuWeather also provides guest commentary on major TV networks. AccuWeather, through

4186-512: The Yankees' victory in the 1977 World Series and appearance in the 1981 World Series . WABC-TV presently broadcasts 48 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 35 minutes each weekday and 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station partners with Philadelphia sister station, WPVI-TV – which popularized the Action News format – in

4277-542: The acquisition, in spring of 2023, all Flow device sales were suspended. In April 2012, AccuWeather drastically shortened the range of their publicly available historical data from 15 years to 1 year. They also began increasing the range of their forecast from 15 days to 25 days, 45 days, and (by 2016) to 90 days. These hyper-extended forecasts have been compared to actual results several times and shown to be misleading, inaccurate, and sometimes less accurate than simple predictions based on National Weather Service averages over

4368-432: The anchor desk in 2001, which concluded the longest tenure for a main anchor in New York City television history at that time. His record has since been surpassed by WNBC's Chuck Scarborough and WXTV 's Rafael Pineda. Scarborough's uninterrupted run behind the desk is the longest in New York television (since 1974). Pineda is second, having started with WXTV in 1972, retiring in 2013 after 41 years. WABC-TV's news department

4459-473: The annual New York City Marathon . The station preempts a weekend edition of Good Morning America and delays This Week to schedule time for the live broadcast. The marathon is also simulcast on ESPN2 nationally (although viewers in the Tri-State area cannot see it via ESPN2 because the simulcast is blacked out locally). WABC-TV currently airs any New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets games televised via

4550-418: The city, marking the anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. The station's signal is multiplexed : On March 7, 2010, at 12:02 am. WABC-TV's signal was removed from Cablevision 's New York area systems (including iO Digital Cable) after the two sides failed to reach terms on a new retransmission consent agreement; the station was replaced by either a blank screen or a looping video containing

4641-541: The company describe as his "all-out, manic style" announcements, e.g. of a blizzard forecast as a " snowmaggedon ". Other well known AccuWeather meteorologists are Bernie Rayno, Brittany Boyer, Geoff Cornish and Melissa Constanzer. AccuWeather's Chief Meteorologist is Jonathan Porter and Dan Kottlowski is AccuWeather's lead hurricane forecaster. Elliot Abrams retired from AccuWeather in 2019 after working at AccuWeather for more than 50 years. AccuWeather produces local weather videos each day for use on their own website, on

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4732-460: The country. On September 2, 2010, Disney and Time Warner Cable reached a long-term agreement to keep the channels on Time Warner Cable systems. On August 31, 2023, Disney removed all of its channels, including WABC-TV, two other ABC-owned stations, and the ESPN networks, from Spectrum cable systems due to a carriage dispute, its first with the provider since 2010 when its predecessor, Time Warner Cable,

4823-422: The decade going back and forth with WCBS-TV for first place. For a time in the 1980s, it fell into last place among the network-owned stations, but still fought with WNBC-TV for second place. Retaining only Grimsby, Cosell, and Antoine from the earlier Noisemakers format, Primo also hired Tom Dunn away from WCBS-TV to serve as Grimsby's co-anchor. After Dunn departed for WOR-TV in 1970, Bill Beutel returned to

4914-606: The effects of temperature , wind , humidity , sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation, and elevation on the human body , similar to the rarely used (but public domain ) wet-bulb globe temperature . AccuWeather has been granted a United States patent on The RealFeel Temperature, but the formula is a trade secret and has not been reviewed by other meteorological authorities. In response to AccuWeather's "RealFeel", The Weather Channel introduced their "FeelsLike" temperature reading. AccuWeather acquired air pollution startup Plume Labs in 2022. Plume labs started in 2014, as

5005-457: The forecasts missed half of the fourteen days of rain that had occurred during the month of the assessment. AccuWeather responds that it does not claim absolute precision in such extremely long forecasts and advises users to only use the forecast to observe general trends in the forecast period, but this contrasts with the way the forecasts are presented. An assessment from the Post determined that

5096-514: The full broadcast of World News Now ). Due to the fire, the station broadcast Eyewitness News from the newsroom, while Live! with Regis and Kelly , whose set was also affected, moved to the set of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire . Starting with the 5 p.m. newscast on June 20, 2007, the station resumed the Eyewitness News and Live! broadcasts from its main studios at Columbus Avenue and 66th Street. The Live Well Network (LWN)

5187-479: The hands of the general public. The bill did not come up for a vote. Santorum received campaign contributions from AccuWeather's president, Joel Myers. On October 12, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated AccuWeather CEO Barry Lee Myers , the younger brother of the company's founder, to head the National Weather Service's parent administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . It

5278-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

5369-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

5460-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

5551-485: The nationally syndicated talk show Live with Kelly and Mark . Until the station's newscasts were moved to a separate studio in 2011, the program originated in the same ground-floor studio at 7 Lincoln Square as Eyewitness News , thus creating a situation which forced local news updates broadcast during Good Morning America and Live to be produced from the WABC-TV newsroom and the morning show's presence also limited

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5642-626: The new co-host of the show. WABC-TV serves as the local over-the-air broadcaster of Monday Night Football games, airing simulcasts of the ESPN-televised games carried nationally on ABC. However, ESPN-only MNF telecasts involving the Giants or Jets air locally on WPIX . Previously, the station carried coverage of the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XXV . Since 2013, WABC-TV serves as the exclusive local English-language carrier of

5733-406: The nomination, Myers withdrew his consideration for nomination on November 12, 2019, due to ill health, though allegations of a hostile workplace and pervasive sexual harassment while Myers was at AccuWeather are rumored to have stalled it. Myers sent a letter to The Washington Post in 2019 to address these allegations. In August 2017, security researcher Will Strafach intercepted traffic from

5824-662: The north and south towers of the World Trade Center . WABC-TV's transmitter maintenance engineer Donald DiFranco died in the attack. In the immediate aftermath, the station fed its signal to WNYE-TV , WHSE-TV , WHSI-TV , and the New Jersey Network before establishing temporary facilities at the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey . The station eventually re-established transmission facilities at

5915-502: The previous day. On September 24, 2011, the station began broadcasting its newscasts and public affairs programs from a new street-level window studio at a former Disney Store location in the ABC building on 66th Street and Columbus Avenue. The space previously used for news broadcasts was used to expand the Live with Kelly studio. In January 2012, the station also expanded its weekend 11 p.m. newscasts to an hour. On September 8, 2014,

6006-598: The production and broadcast of statewide New Jersey political debates. When the two stations broadcast a statewide office debate, such as for Governor or U.S. Senate , they pool resources and have anchors or reporters from both stations participate in the debate. Additionally, the two stations share coverage of news from New Jersey where their markets overlap, pooling reporters, live trucks, and helicopters. WABC-TV launched Report to New York , its first regular news program, on October 26, 1959, featuring Scott Vincent with news, Howard Cosell with sports, and Lynn Dollar with

6097-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

6188-673: The ratings leader WCBS-TV and second-place WNBC-TV . In early 1968, Beutel left the station to become the London bureau chief for ABC News and was replaced by Roger Grimsby , who was transferred by ABC from San Francisco sister station KGO-TV . In a complete revamp, Grimsby was joined by Tex Antoine doing weather, celebrity gossip columnist Rona Barrett , New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin with political commentary and reviews by Martin Bookspan and Allan Jeffries, while Cosell continued doing sports. Known as Roger Grimsby and

6279-433: The same magic at the flagship station. In the wake of declining ratings, Grimsby was fired on April 16, 1986, a move for which Applegate drew considerable ire and Grimsby was quickly hired by rival WNBC-TV. In 1987, Channel 7 surged back into first place. It has been the ratings leader in New York City since then, and has grown to become the most-watched broadcast television station in the United States. Beutel stepped down from

6370-456: The series was called The Stanley Siegel Show ). After 1980, the show was retitled Good Morning New York , whose co-hosts in the last years of its run in that form included Spencer Christian , Andrea Kirby, Judy Licht , Dick Wolfsie and longtime Eyewitness News reporter and anchor Doug Johnson. After years of a losing ratings battle against Donahue on WNBC-TV, WABC-TV canceled Good Morning New York in early 1983. The current show began as

6461-530: The show to become a full-time anchor at Good Morning America , thus leaving Ripa as the solo host again. On May 1, 2017, it was announced that Ryan Seacrest would become the new host of the show; to accommodate his syndicated radio show On Air with Ryan Seacrest (which normally originates from Los Angeles), an additional studio was built within WABC's facilities. Seacrest departed Live on April 14, 2023, and three days later Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos , became

6552-420: The size of the Eyewitness News set. The program's roots originated with A.M. New York , which debuted in 1970 as a local version of NBC 's Today show; its first host was John Bartholomew Tucker , who remained with the program until 1972. After Tucker's departure, a succession of hosts came and went, the most successful of whom was Stanley Siegel, who hosted from 1975 to 1978 (for a year beginning in 1977,

6643-613: The southeast corner of West 67th Street and Columbus Avenue , on the site of an abandoned moving and storage warehouse. At about the same time, construction was started at 30 West 67th Street on the site of a former parking lot. Both buildings were completed in June 1979 and WABC-TV moved its offices from 77 West 66th Street to 7 Lincoln Square. On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WABC-TV, as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed

6734-520: The station as his replacement and for the next 16 years, Grimsby and Beutel were the faces of Eyewitness News . The Grimsby-Beutel team were split up for several months in 1975 after ABC had reassigned Beutel to its new morning show, AM America that January. The station brought in WXYZ-TV's Bill Bonds and veteran Boston anchor Tom Ellis to help replace Beutel, with Grimsby teaming with Ellis at 6 p.m. and Bonds at 11 pm. When AM America

6825-481: The station expanded its Noon newscast to one full hour from the previous half-hour. WABC-TV will leave its longtime home of Lincoln Square upon the completion of a new campus for Disney, located at Hudson Square in Lower Manhattan in 2025. On January 31, 2022, WABC announced they would be launching a streaming channel titled "ABC 7 New York 24/7 Stream". As part of the launch of the service, WABC announced

6916-421: The station's second attempt at a local morning show a month later, aptly titled The Morning Show (using the "Circle 7" logo in the actual text for one of the "o"s) and was originally hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey . After Garvey's departure a year later, she was replaced by Ann Abernathy, who in turn, left in 1985 to return to Los Angeles. That year, Kathie Lee Johnson (who would marry Frank Gifford

7007-417: The station's website later reported the cause as an "electrical malfunction". The station's building was evacuated and the fire was brought under control, though the studio was said to be "badly damaged", having suffered smoke and water damage. WABC-TV resumed broadcasting at around 1 a.m. on May 28, 2007 (initially carrying the network's 10 pm. West Coast feed of Brothers & Sisters , followed by

7098-492: The station; he co-anchored at 11 p.m. with Rose Ann Scamardella and later Kaity Tong for most of his tenure there. On November 30, 1981, the station became the second in the city to expand its late afternoon/evening newscasts by adding of a 5 p.m. edition. The broadcast was initially anchored by weather forecaster Storm Field along with Scamardella; Anastos, and later Tong, would replace them. Tom Snyder , who joined WABC after his late night talk show, Tomorrow ,

7189-420: The time: KGO-TV, WLS-TV in Chicago, WXYZ-TV in Detroit and KABC-TV in Los Angeles (though KGO-TV and WXYZ-TV did not use the Eyewitness News title for their programs). The format quickly rejuvenated a station that had long been an also-ran to WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV. Within a year, Channel 7 had shot to first place in the ratings for the first time in its history, displacing longtime leader WCBS-TV. It spent most of

7280-517: The weather. Report to New York aired Monday through Friday at 11 pm. By January 1961, channel 7 expanded Report to New York with a 15-minute early edition at 6:15 p.m. on weeknights, and on Saturday and Sunday evenings. On October 22, 1962, WABC-TV expanded its weeknight news to 45 minutes, and retitled it The Big News . Newcomers Bill Beutel and Jim Burnes were the anchors, with Cosell continuing on sports and Rosemary Haley as "weather girl". However, this effort failed to draw viewers from

7371-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

7462-460: Was also pulled from Cablevision's New Jersey systems in Mercer , Ocean and Monmouth counties. Later that same day at approximately 8:50 p.m. 20 minutes into ABC's broadcast of the 82nd Academy Awards , Cablevision and ABC reached a deal, restoring WABC and WPVI's signals for Cablevision subscribers after a nearly 21-hour blackout. In July 2010, ABC's parent company Disney announced that it

7553-441: Was canceled and replaced with Good Morning America in November 1975, Beutel was re-teamed with Grimsby at 6 p.m, with Ellis joining Bonds at 11 pm. Bonds returned to Detroit in June 1976 and was replaced by Larry Kane , who lasted only one year as the sole 11 p.m. anchor before returning to his home market of Philadelphia. Ellis remained until May 1977 and Kane's successor, Ernie Anastos , began his New York career at

7644-495: Was canceled, would take Anastos' place in 1982 and would remain at the station until 1984; WABC attempted an early afternoon, feature-driven newscast shortly thereafter with Anastos and Beutel anchoring Eyewitness Extra , but the program was short lived and was canceled in early 1983. In 1985, the station lured WLS-TV's news director, Bill Applegate, from Chicago to New York City. Applegate claimed credit for taking WLS-TV from last to first in only two years and ABC hoped he could work

7735-445: Was initially difficult to receive over-the-air in New York City. The station was requested by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast at a lower power; WABC was among many stations which have found it necessary to increase power to restore coverage to the same level as its former analog signal. On June 29, 2009, WABC filed an application with the FCC to increase power from 11.69 kW to 27 kW. On January 31, 2010,

7826-611: Was involved in a carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum ), its first with that provider in 10 years. This dispute involved four ABC owned-and-operated stations (WABC-TV and sister stations KABC-TV, WTVD and WTVG in Toledo, Ohio [the latter station would be sold by ABC the next year]), Disney Channel and the ESPN networks. If a deal was not in place, the affected stations and cable channels would have been removed from Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems across

7917-425: Was involved in a dispute with Disney. On September 11, 2023, the stations and their sister cable channels were restored by Charter Communications (the parent company of Spectrum) after the company and Disney reached an agreement. On September 1, 2024, Disney pulled its networks from DirecTV after the two sides failed to reach a distribution deal. The removal, which included WABC-TV and ESPN, would ultimately impact

8008-428: Was launched on April 27, 2009, in high definition by ABC's O&O stations on the stations' .2 subchannels. WABC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, VHF channel 7, at 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 45 to VHF channel 7. WABC's digital signal

8099-480: Was noted that unlike 11 of the previous 12 NOAA administrators, Myers lacks an advanced scientific degree, instead holding bachelor's and master's degrees in business and law. Barry Myers stepped down as CEO of AccuWeather on January 1, 2019, and completely divested himself of any ownership of AccuWeather in accordance with his pledge to the Office of Government Ethics and the U.S. Senate. After two years of inaction on

8190-491: Was programmed much like an independent station , as the ABC television network was still, for the most part, in its very early stages of development; the ABC-owned stations did air some common programming during this period, especially after the 1949 fall season when the network's prime time schedule began to expand. The station's original transmitter site was located at The Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st Street, before moving to

8281-678: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

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