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8°′″N124°18′″N

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WKTV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Mohawk Valley area of Central New York State licensed to Utica. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 29 from a transmitter in the Eatonville section of Fairfield and Herkimer. The station is seen on Time Warner channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 863. Owned by Smith Media, it has studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield (address says Utica). Syndicated programming on WKTV includes: ''Jeopardy!'', ''Wheel of Fortune'', ''Dr. Phil'', and ''Judge Judy''.

Digital programming

It operates the area's CW affiliate on a second digital subchannel. This can also be seen on Time Warner channel 11 (hence the ''Central New York CW 11'' branding). WKTV-DT2 gets all of its programming from The CW Plus.

1080i 29.2

VirtualChannel	! PhysicalRF Channel	Video resolution>Video	Aspect ratio>Aspect	! Programming
2.1	29.1	|	16:9	main WKTV programming/NBC HD
2.2	|	480i	4:3	WKTV-DT2 "Central New York CW 11"

History

WKTV began broadcasting on December 1, 1949 on VHF channel 13 affiliated with NBC and DuMont. It was the 93rd television station in the country to sign-on. This made Utica one of the smallest cities in the nation with its own television station. Soon after, it also picked up CBS and ABC giving it the interesting situation of being a local network affiliate for all major television networks for a period of time. The DuMont affiliation ended in the mid-1950s with that network's closure and, due to a dispute with CBS, that affiliation ended soon after. WHEN-TV (now WTVH) in Syracuse would become the default affiliate for the Utica area.

On New Year's Day 1959, WKTV moved to VHF channel 2 in a dial realignment. This change involved a station located on channel 13 in Hamilton, Ontario switching channel positions to add a channel 13 allotment in Rochester. This in turn allowed a relocation of a channel 13 in Albany. With the change, WKTV upgraded its signal and began to cover a fairly wide area stretching from as far south as the Catskills, as far east as the Berkshires, and into Canada. In the mid-1950s, a young local radio announcer named Dick Clark joined the staff of announcers at WKTV.

He was a talented good looking announcer and quickly gathered a following. Mr. Clark’s father was the manager of Utica radio station WRUN-FM (now WAMC-FM in Albany) and the son wanted to avoid the name recognition factor. To avoid confusion, Dick Clark became known on-air as "Dick Clay". Eventually, Dick Clark would anchor the evening newscasts on WKTV replacing Robert Earle who would later host the ''GE College Bowl''.

WKTV enjoyed a monopoly in the Utica television market until February 28, 1970 when WUTR signed-on as an ABC affiliate. WKTV then became an exclusive NBC station resulting in the channel being one of the oldest affiliates of the network today. In 1980, Kallet Television would sell WKTV to Harron Communications (owner of a chain of cable companies in the Northeast) along with WMTW in Portland, Maine. During this time, it was carried on cable systems in areas as far away as Schenectady and for a time in Syracuse. In the mid-1980s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled on cross ownership of broadcast, cable, and print media in the same communities.

Harron Communications owned both WKTV and Harron Cable Television in Utica. It was required that Harron divest itself of one or the other. As a result in 1992, an agreement was reached between Harron and Smith Broadcasting. One year later, after Harron purchased the cable system in Utica (later sold to Adelphia and now part of Time Warner), Smith Broadcasting acquired WKTV. Today, the station is owned by Smith Media, LLC which is a successor to Smith Broadcasting as well as a subsidiary of Boston Ventures.

In 1998, the creation of The WB 100+ led WKTV to partner with the group to launch a cable-only WB affiliate. This new service replaced WPIX from New York City on Time Warner systems and used the "WBU" call sign in a fictional manner. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that the networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be known as The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. On September 18, WKTV added a new second digital subchannel to simulcast WBU and offer non-cable subscribers access to CW programming. That station then began using the WKTV-DT2 calls in an official manner.

Originally, the CW subchannel was known as "Central New York CW" but in recent times was re-branded "Central New York CW 11" to reflect its location on Time Warner systems. The station has been broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 29 since May 2006 and in high definition starting with the 2008 Summer Olympics. On February 18, 2009, WKTV turned-off its analog transmitter and began broadcasting exclusively in digital. This left some viewers without a signal and others looking for an outdoor UHF antenna. To continue serving those areas, WKTV began simulcasting its weekday newscasts at noon and 5 on WADR-AM 1480/WUTQ-AM 1550/W238CA-FM 95.5.

The station shares some management, including a Vice President, with sister stations WFFF-TV and WVNY in the Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York market. Due to an ongoing retransmission dispute, Time Warner systems replaced WKTV with WBRE-TV from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on December 16, 2010. Its CW subchannel on WKTV-DT2 was also dropped eventually replaced by HBO Family. On the same date, rival WUTR began to be seen in the Burlington/Plattsburgh areas on Time Warner after WVNY was dropped for the same reason. Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owners of WBRE and WUTR, opposed the use of their stations as replacement programming and requested that Time Warner's cable franchise for the affected regions be revoked. (Incidentally, Nexstar's sister company, Atlantic Broadband, is the only other company with operations in upstate New York.) WKTV and Time Warner reached an agreement, the terms of which both sides refuse to reveal, on January 8, 2011, allowing WKTV to return to air the next day.

Local programming

America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk

WKTV hosts a telethon for the American Heart Association every March during the same weekend as America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk. The telethon is aired live from Utica College and usually begins the Friday evening before the run/walk. It continues on Saturday during the event with live coverage from various points along the course. Ironically, the telethon usually out-raises the WIBX-AM 950 Heart Radiothon by more than tenfold even though the radiothon was the original event from the entire Heart Weekend.

Boilermaker Road Race

For many years, WKTV has provided live coverage of the Boilermaker Road Race, a 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) road race that begins near Utica Boilers and ends at the F.X. Matt Brewery. Coverage is anchored primarily from the finish line and supplemented by live trucks positioned at key points along the course, portable transmitters on the race's media truck, motorcycles (driven by volunteers), and formerly a helicopter. The coverage is unique in that it begins by covering the race itself following the leaders throughout the race with interviews after they reach the finish line. Then, the focus shifts to the local angles of the race, with stories of life on the volunteers who make the race happen, local notables running the race (usually including current WKTV on-air staff), and former on-air staff who come back home to run. There is also coverage of post-race events.

Christmas cards

WKTV is popular in its coverage area for its Christmas cards where station personnel gather with their families. Each person (or group/family) gets about 7–10 seconds of face time and various shots are spliced together to create a sixty second spot. In order to include every employee, several versions are created and are rotated throughout the holiday season. The song "Christmas is Paintin' The Town" by The Oak Ridge Boys is played in the background every year. WUTR does a similar feature every year with "Winter Wonderland" playing in the background.

News operation

The station has been a ratings stronghold for its entire history facing no local competition until the sign-on of WUTR and the launch of the area's second news department. Since the June 1993 acquisition of WTVH by the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, that channel has not really taken advantage of its status as this market's de-facto CBS affiliate in terms of advertising opportunities and providing coverage to Utica. WSTM-TV in Syracuse, which took over WTVH's news operations in 2009, carries substantial news stories from Herkimer County but WKTV is currently the only locally-based station to offer newscasts.

Starting in 2002, WUTR began to downsize its news operation resulting in the regionalism of newscasts with some content coming from then sister station WSYR in Syracuse. Eventually, its local broadcasts were canceled altogether with the news department being shut down completely in August 2003. In 2002, the channel began producing prime time news weeknights at 10 on WFXV called ''NewsChannel 2 on Fox''. This broadcast was supposed to originate live from WKTV's studios in Utica but problems beaming the show to the former's facilities (then based in Rome) via microwave sometimes required WKTV to pre-record the newscast and physically deliver the videotape to WFXV every night which was a thirty minute drive.

When the contract ended in 2004, that station decided not to renew the news share agreement and the show was moved to cable-only WBU where it remains to this day. The broadcast is currently known on WKTV-DT2 as ''NewsChannel 2 at 10''. Like all CW Plus affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, that station also airs the nationally syndicated morning show ''The Daily Buzz'' on weekdays from 6 until 9. In January 2006, WKTV added a weekend morning show. During weather forecasts, it uses live NOAA National Weather Service radar data from several regional sites. On-air this is known as "StormTracker 2 Live Doppler".

Newscast titles

''World News'' (1949-1964)

''WKTV News'' (1964-1970)

''NewsCenter 2'' (1970-1974)

''TV-2 News'' (1974-1992)

''WKTV 2 News'' (1988-1992)

''NewsChannel 2'' (1992-present)

Station slogans

"Central New York's 24 Hour News Channel" (1989-1992)

"Central New York's #1 Rated Newscast" (1992-1997)

"Where the News Comes First" (1997-present)

News team

Anchors

Megan Koskovich - weekday mornings

Don Shipman - weekday mornings and noon

Steve McMurray - News Director seen weeknights at 5 and 5:30

Kristen Copeland - weeknights at 5 and 5:30 (also producer weeknights at 5 and 5:30)

Bill Worden - weeknights at 6, 10, and 11

Gary Liberatore - weekend mornings and reporter

Aaron Keller - weekend evenings and reporter

Richard Enders - ''Mohawk Valley Living'' host

''StormTracker 2 Meteorologists''

Adam Musyt (NWA Seal of Approval) - weeknights

Bill Kardas (NWA Seal of Approval) - weekday mornings and noon

Jill Reale - weekends

Sports (both seen on ''Sports Express'')

Jason Powles - Director seen weeknights at 6, 10, and 11

Mike Levin - weekend evenings and sports reporter

Reporters

David Dellecese - Assistant News Director and Assignment Editor (also fill-in news anchor)

Art Ginsburg - "Mr. Food" segment producer

Andrew Donovan - website

Caroline Gable - nightly

Joleen Ferris

References

External links

WKTV "NewsChannel 2"

WKTV mobile

WKTV-DT2 "Central New York CW 11"

Category:Television stations in New York Category:NBC network affiliates Category:Channel 29 digital TV stations in the United States Category:Channel 2 virtual TV stations in the United States Category:Channel 11 branded TV stations in the United States Category:Television channels and stations established in 1949

Coordinates	8°′″N124°18′″N
name	Michael Arcuri
birth date	June 11, 1959
birth place	Utica, New York
state	New York
district	24th
term start	January 3, 2007
term end	January 3, 2011
preceded	Sherwood Boehlert
succeeded	Richard L. Hanna
party	Democrat
spouse	Sabrina Deon-Arcuri
children	Carmen Joseph ArcuriDominique Arcuri
religion	Roman Catholic
residence	Utica, New York
occupation	attorney
alma mater	SUNY at Albany, New York Law School }}

Michael Angelo "Mike" Arcuri (born June 11, 1959) is the former U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party. He lost re-election on November 2, 2010, to Republican Richard L. Hanna.

The district encompasses a large swath of central New York, including Utica, Auburn, Rome and most of the suburbs of Binghamton.

Early life, education and career

Arcuri's father was Carmen Arcuri. His mother, Elizabeth, retired as a stenographer. Arcuri graduated from Thomas R. Proctor High School, in Utica, New York in 1977.

In 1981, Arcuri graduated from the State University of New York at Albany where he majored in history and minored in economics. In 1984, he graduated from New York Law School in New York City and was admitted to practice law in New York state in 1985. Arcuri returned to Utica to open a law office in 1986.

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

*Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management

*Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

*Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials

Committee on Rules

*Subcommittee on Rules and the Organization of the House

A member of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition, Arcuri was named by the National Review (March 2010) as one of the most Centrist members of the House, with a voting record of 50.2% liberal and 49.8% conservative, a distinction he shares with only one other member of Congress.

Political campaigns

1993

In 1993, Arcuri was elected District Attorney of Oneida County, home to Utica. He was only the third Democrat ever to hold the post, and the first in 40 years.

2006

In November 2006, Arcuri defeated State Senator Ray Meier for the 24th District congressional seat left open by the retiring Sherwood Boehlert. Arcuri won by 54 percent of the vote to Meier's 45 percent, becoming only the second Democrat to represent the area in 106 years.

2008

In his bid for re-election in 2008, Arcuri faced a closer-than-expected challenge from businessman Richard L. Hanna but prevailed. Arcuri won 52 percent of the votes to Hanna’s 48 percent

2010

In a rematch of the election two years prior, Arcuri faced off again against Hanna but lost to the Republican as the GOP made gains across the country. Republican Richard Hanna beat incumbent Mike Arcuri 101,599 to 85,624, according to figures from the state Board of Elections.

Personal life

Arcuri has two children from his first marriage with Brooklyn Technical High School teacher Laura Arcuri (divorced 2005), Carmen and Dominique. He married his second wife, the former Sabrina Deon, in August 2007.

References

External links

Arcuri for Congress ''official campaign site''

Profile at SourceWatch

Profile at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

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