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WSYX, "ABC6" is the ABC television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. WSYX is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and is the sister station to Fox affiliate WTTE. The station began as WTVN-TV on August 30, 1949.
The station currently broadcasts in stereo. WSYX-DT (WSYX's digital station) operates on channel 6. Its transmitter is located in Columbus, Ohio.
History
From its first sign-on August 30, 1949 to August 31, 1987, WSYX operated using the call letters WTVN-TV. The current WSYX is meant to convey the station's channel of operation: 6 = SIX ~ SYX. Originally owned by Taft Broadcasting along with WKRC-TV ABC 12 in Cincinnati, Ohio, ABC and Taft cut an affiliation deal in 1961. Both stations pre-empted a moderate amount of network programming in favor of sports and local Programs between 1965 and 1996. In 1987 WTVN-TV became WSYX-TV after Great American Broadcasting (one of the few successors to Taft Broadcasting) sold the station to Anchor Media. Anchor Media sold the station to River City Broadcasting in the early 1990s. In 1996, River City merged with Sinclair shortly after Sinclair sold its original Columbus station, WTTE-TV FOX 28, to Eddie Edwards and Glencairn, Ltd. However, Sinclair remained the de facto owner of WTTE because the Smith family controlled nearly all of Glencairn's stock. The two stations came to a local marketing agreement (LMA) in which WSYX would operate WTTE. In 2001, Sinclair tried to acquire Glencairn outright -- but the FCC permitted Sinclair to acquire only four of Glencairn's stations (WTTE was not one of the four stations to be acquired by Sinclair outright). Glencairn was renamed Cunningham Broadcasting, but Sinclair remained the de facto owner of Cunningham Broadcasting because nearly all of its stock is owned by trusts controlled by the Smith family.
News Operation
WSYX's combined news operation with sister station WTTE (Fox 28) is called "Columbus' NewsCenter". The stations put a focus on their weather operation, "Accu-Weather", by placing the forecast near the beginning of each newscast and by providing weather updates every 6 minutes during morning newscasts.
WSYX/WTTE locally produces 8 hours of news a day. The station has generally been in last place in the local news ratings wars, except for two periods that include 1977-1983 and 1988-1992, where WSYX was intensely competitive. Despite that, the station has featured high profile Columbus anchors including Tom Ryan, Pat Lalama, I.J. Hudson, Lou Forrest (a.k.a Louis de la Foret on CNN Headline News), and Deborah Countiss. Liz Claman, now an anchor on CNBC, was a one time anchor on WSYX.
Because the audio component of television channel 6 is located at 87.7 MHz, WSYX emphasizes the fact that many FM radios can also receive the station when a television is not nearby.
Newscasts on WSYX
Monday to Friday
- NewsCenter Mornings on ABC6 5-7am
- NewsCenter at Noon on ABC6 12-1pm
- NewsCenter at 5 on ABC6 5-6pm
- NewsCenter at 6 on ABC6 6-6:30pm
- NewsCenter NightTeam on ABC6 11-11:35pm
Personalities
Current personalities
- Anne Allred, Reporter
- Susan Burton, Health Reporter
- Lisa Colbert, Weather Anchor
- Sean Cuellar, Anchor/Reporter
- Crystal Davis, Reporter/Meteorologist
- Johnny DiLoretto, Entertainment Reporter
- Maria Durant, Reporter
- Clay Hall, Sports Director/Anchor
- Yolanda Harris, Anchor
- Kent Justice, On Your Side Reporter
- Carol Luper, Senior reporter
- Jerry Martz, Chief Meteorologist
- Shannon McCormick, Reporter
- Megan Pringle, Morning anchor
- Anthony Rothman, Sports Anchor
- Mike Rowe, Anchor/Reporter
- Dr. Marivi Soto, Checkup
- Gabe Spiegel, Anchor
- Terri Sullivan, Anchor
- Dana Turtle, Reporter/Meteorologist
- Simone Wilkinson, Reporter
Past personalities
- Donna Hanover, anchor. (ex-wife of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani)
- Bob Alan, weather.
- Terre Blair, anchor. (Married songwriter Marvin Hamlisch.)
- Kimberly Boles, anchor/reporter.
- Charlene Brown, noon/5:30 anchor (1990-2001)
- Tom Burris, anchor.
- Don Carson, chief meteorologist (1980-1986)
- Liz Claman (1989-1991) Now at CNBC
- Kirstin Cole, anchor.
- Larry Cosgrove, chief meteorologist. (1986-1989)
- Carol Costello, anchor. (1988-1990) Now at CNN
- Chad Myers, chief meteorologist. (1989-1994) Now at CNN
- Deborah Countiss, anchor.
- Wendi Craver, anchor.
- Jim Finnerty, anchor (1987-1988)
- Michele Gailiun, anchor.
- Keisha Grant, anchor/reporter.
- Earl Green, anchor (1974-1980)
- Jon Greiner, anchor.
- Lou Forrest, anchor. (1988-1992)
- Lonnie Haskins, sports director.
- Bob Hetherington, anchor.
- I.J. Hudson, anchor.
- Mike Jackson, anchor/reporter
- Bud Kaatz, sports director (-1982)
- Bruce Kirk, 5:00 anchor/reporter (1970s-1980s)
- Pat Lalama, anchor.
- Dwight Lauderdale, early 1970's, now at WPLG
- Tom Lawrence, main anchor (1992-1994)
- Tom Layson, anchor.
- Rick Lord, reporter
- Tram Mai, anchor/reporter.
- Karen Massie, anchor/reporter
- Steve Minich, sports anchor (1980's)
- Meredith Paul, anchor.
- Liz Ogletree, reporter
- Mariza Reyes, reporter
- Ralph Robinson
- Tom Ryan, anchor. (1979-1987)
- Calvin Sneed, consumer reporter (-1989)
- Lorene Wagner, anchor.
- Shelley Walcott, Reporter
- Ben Woods, meteorologist. (1994-1998)
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