WHO-DT (known on air as WHO-HD) is a television station that broadcasts on Channel 13 in Des Moines, Iowa. It is affiliated with the NBC television network and serves most of central Iowa. The station transmits from the WOI Tower in Alleman, Iowa, which is actually owned by WHO-DT's owners. WHO-DT brands itself as WHO-HD on air, indicating its high definition broadcasts, though the legal call letters are WHO-DT.

WHO-DT is repeated on K27CV channel 27 in Ottumwa and was repeated on K66AL channel 66 in Clarinda. The Ottumwa translator is operated by a local non-profit organization, and the Clarinda translator was owned by the City of Clarinda.

Digital television[link]

In 2002, WHO-TV launched digital television programming on channel 19 as WHO-DT. On February 17, 2009 (the original analog television shutdown date^[1]), WHO turned off its analog signal in favor of full-time digital broadcasting (joining KDSM-TV as the only 2 Des Moines stations to turn off analog signals on that date). At that time, WHO moved its digital signal from channel 19 back to channel 13 and with it retired the longtime WHO-TV call sign in favor of WHO-DT, a move opposite to what most other TV stations across the country have done (competitor WOI retained its "-DT" suffix as well). In the spring of 2011, the station unofficially changed its call letters to "WHO-HD". As of February 8, 2011, the WHO-HD signal is multiplexed in the following manner: Even TV stations in Canada have never switched to the -TV suffix after becoming digital, opting to retain the -DT suffix.

History[link]

WHO-TV signed on the air on April 15, 1954 as the second television station in Des Moines. It was owned by the Palmer family, owners of WHO radio (AM 1040 and FM 100.3, now KDRB). The Palmers had competed with KIOA for the channel 13 license and won it after reaching a settlement.^[2] It has always been an NBC affiliate.

The Palmers sold off their broadcast holdings in 1996, with WHO-TV and sister station KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City going to The New York Times Company. Earlier that year, a joint plan by the Sinclair Broadcast Group (at the time in the process of purchasing Oklahoma City's then-UPN affiliate KOCB) and River City Broadcasting (then owner of Fox affiliate KDSM-TV) to purchase Palmer Communications, the Palmer family's holding company, fell through: Sinclair would have purchased WHO outright while River City would have received KFOR. However, River City was in the process of being merged into Sinclair, which would have resulted in duopolies, which were at the time prohibited by Federal Communications Commission ownership rules, in both the Des Moines and Oklahoma City markets. Up to that time, channel 13 had been the last locally owned commercial station in Des Moines. WHO-AM, which was eventually acquired by Jacor Communications (which later merged with Clear Channel Communications), continued to occupy the same building until it moved to another building in 2005. While WHO-TV was co-owned with WHO-AM, it used an owl as its mascot, as WHO-AM still does today.[1]

Until the 1980s, WHO-TV frequently preempted NBC programming in favor of local shows. For instance, it didn't pick up Days of Our Lives until the soap's 20th season; in the 1960s and 1970s, the station aired a 90-minute movie between 12:30 and 2 p.m.

In 2003, WHO-TV began airing select UPN programs which KPWB had dropped. WHO-TV aired various UPN programs from midnight-1:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings and WWE Friday Night SmackDown (then called WWE Smackdown) on Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. This lasted until 2006, when UPN amalgamated with The WB Television Network to form The CW and affiliated with then-WB station KPWB (now KCWI).

On January 4, 2007, the New York Times Company entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to affiliates of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners. On May 7, 2007, Local TV LLC, a new broadcasting company owned by Oak Hill, officially became the owner of the former New York Times stations.^[3]

On December 20, 2007, Local TV and Tribune Company entered into a letter of intent to create a third-party broadcast management company to provide shared services to all of the stations Local TV and Tribune Company own respectively. The company will function as a wholly owned subsidiary of Tribune Company, and will provide back-office services, administration, and a number of other functions to the stations. The most noticeable byproducts of this partnership are the redesigned websites of WHO-TV and Local TV's other stations, which were launched during late January and into February 2009, using the Tribune Interactive platform also used by the websites of Tribune-owned stations. However, on March 7, 2012, following the lead of Local TV's Fox-affiliated stations, WHO-DT became the first of Local TV's "Big Three" network-affiliated stations to migrate its Web site away from Tribune Digital (successor to Tribune Interactive) to a new host, WordPress.com VIP.

In 2008, WHO-TV introduced Iowa's Weather Plus, a 24-hour weather channel affiliated with NBC Weather Plus. This station airs on Digital Channel 13.2 and Mediacom Digital channel 246. Although the national feed of NBC's Weather Plus has been discontinued, Channel 13 continues to air its own weather forecasts and radar loops.

On May 19, 2010, WHO-DT began broadcasting complete broadcasts in 1080i high definition. All video, in-studio and field reports, and graphics began origination in high definition and the station began to refer to itself WHO-HD. The noon broadcast was Iowa's first complete high definition broadcast (KWWL in Waterloo had been the first station in Iowa to launch an HD newscast; however, the field video from that station is not in HD).^{[citation needed]}

News operation[link]

WHO's main anchor since 1987, John Bachman, was one of three reporters who interviewed Ronald Reagan, announcer for WHO-AM in the 1930s at the end of his presidential term. The other two were Larry King and Barbara Walters. WHO-TV previously produced a short-lived prime-time newscast for PAX TV (now ION Television) affiliate KFPX (channel 39) in 2001, during a time when NBC and Pax had a brief news partnership.

On September 2, 2008, WHO-TV entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliate KDSM-TV (owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group). The big three station then began producing a Des Moines-based prime time newscast known as Channel 13 News at Nine on Fox 17. KDSM previously had its 9 p.m. broadcast produced by Sinclair sister outlet KGAN in Cedar Rapids. Originating from WHO-TV's primary set at its facilities on Grand Avenue in Downtown Des Moines (with separate duratans indicating the Fox show), the nightly prime time program currently airs for an hour on weeknights and thirty minutes on weekends. KDSM features the majority of WHO-TV's on-air team but maintains a separate news anchor on weeknights. Unlike other outsourced news arrangements at Sinclair-owned television stations, KDSM uses the same music and graphics package scheme as seen on this NBC affiliate.

In recent history, Channel 13 has been a close second-place to CBS affiliate KCCI in the ratings. But as of the May 2011 ratings period, WHO-TV surged ahead as Iowa's news leader, claiming a ratings victory in the majority of weekday newscasts (morning, 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.) KCCI continues to hold a narrow lead at 10 p.m.^[4]

WHO-TV has many firsts in the market. It was the first area station to use videotape and the first to broadcast from news events live. It was also the first station to use live Doppler radar and the first to broadcast in high definition (during the 2002 Winter Olympics) and air local news segments in high definition. On April 22, 2009, Channel 13 became the second station in Des Moines broadcasting all in-studio news in widescreen standard definition.^[5] On May 19, 2010, WHO-HD became the first commercial station in Des Moines to launch fully into high definition television.^[6]

News/station presentation[link]

Newscast titles[link]

• WHO-TV News (1954–1961)
• Newsroom (1961–1966)
• Colorvision 13 News (1966–1970)
• TV-13 News (1970–1974)
• Eyewitness News (1974–1977)
• NewsWatch 13 (1977–1980)
• NewsCenter 13 (1980–1998)
• WHO-TV 13 News (1998–2003)
• Channel 13 News (2004–present)

Station slogans[link]

• "Colorful Channel 13" (1966–1974)
• "WHO-13, Your Eyewitness News Station" (1974–1977)
• "The News Source" (1982–1985)
• "Your 24-Hour News Source" (1989–1993)
• "Where the News Comes First (24 Hours a Day)" (1993–1998; also used on sister station KFOR in Oklahoma City around same time period)
• "Coverage You Can Count On" (1998–2004)
• "See the Difference" (2004–2010)
• "Iowa's High Definition Leader" (2010–present)

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On-air staff[link]

[edit] Current on-air staff^[7]

Anchors

• John Bachman - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m. (father of John Bachman, anchor at WSB-TV in Atlanta)
• Brooke Bouma - weekday mornings Today In Iowa
• Patrick Dix - weekday mornings Today In Iowa
• Sonya Heitshusen - weeknights at 5 p.m.; also 6 and 10 p.m. reporter
• Erin Kiernan - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Lynn Melling - weeknights at 9 p.m. (on KDSM)
• Dave Price - Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5 and weekends at 10 p.m.
• Jannay Towne - weekend mornings Today In Iowa; also weeknight reporter
• Dan Winters - weekend mornings Today In Iowa; also weeknight reporter

First Alert Weather Team

• Ed Wilson - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Brett McIntyre - meteorologist; Thursday-Fridays at noon, Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5 and weekends at 10 p.m.
• Jeriann Ritter - meteorologist; weekday mornings Today In Iowa
• Megan Salois (AMS Seal of Approval; member, NWA) - meteorologist; Monday-Wednesdays at noon and weekend mornings Today In Iowa

Sports team

• Keith Murphy - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
• Chris Hassel - sports anchor; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5 and weekends at 10 p.m.;
• Zach Borg - sports reporter and photographer

Reporters

• Aaron Brilbeck - general assignment reporter
• Emily Carlson - general assignment reporter
• Brad Ehrlich - weekday morning traffic reporter
• Andy Fales - general assignment and sports reporter; also host of SoundOff
• Krystle Kacner - multimedia journalist
• Stephanie Moore - multimedia journalist
• Megan Reuther - weekday morning reporter

Former on-air staff[link]

• Gary Amble (now morning meteorologist at KCTV in Kansas City)
• Jeff Barndfor
• Steve Danehy
• Courtney Green
• Lori Groves
• Loren Halifax (now at sister station WDAF-TV in Kansas City)
• Tim Hedrick (now at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati)
• Elias Johnson
• Kim Kerrigan
• Jason Parkin
• Susie Robinette
• Rick Silvestrini
• Kathy Soltero
• Jim Strickland
• Mark Tauscheck
• Shawn Terrell
• Cal Woods

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Station management and production[link]

• Rod Peterson - news director
• Paul Lepert - executive and 10 p.m. producer
• Matt Baker - assignment editor
• Aaron Creech - assignment editor
• Lisa 'DeKryuff' Felton - producer; "Today In Iowa"
• Dan Hendrickson - noon and 6 p.m. or 10 p.m. producer
• Jenny Hettmann - weekend mornings and "Today In Iowa" producer
• Kelly Kaspaire - 5 p.m. producer
• Brenna Kriger - weekend evening producer, and weekday noon and 6 p.m. producer
• MaCay Weisemann - Fox News at 9 weeknight producer

See also[link]

Television portal

• The Floppy Show, a long-running children's television series on WHO-TV

References[link]

External links[link]

• WHOTV.com (Official Website)
• WHO-TV historical artifacts at DesMoinesBroadcasting.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WHO-DT
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for K27CV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHO-HD

Tommy Kelly

No. 93     Oakland Raiders
Defensive tackle
Personal information
Date of birth: (1980-12-27) December 27, 1980 (age 31)
Place of birth: Jackson, Mississippi
Height: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Weight: 300 lb (136 kg)
Career information
College: Mississippi State
Undrafted in 2004
Debuted in 2004 for the Oakland Raiders
Career history
Oakland Raiders (2004-present)
Roster status: Active
Career highlights and awards
Pro Bowl Alternate (2010)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2011
Tackles 374 Sacks 33.0 Forced fumbles 9 Interceptions 1 Stats at NFL.com

Tommy Kelly (born December 27, 1980 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American football player who currently plays defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders.

Early years[link]

After a standout basketball career at Jackson's Provine High School, he signed a football scholarship with Mississippi State University, where he played in 22 games and earned 16 starts, making 82 tackles, including 15 for loss and two quarterback sacks. He was signed as a free agent in 2004 by the Oakland Raiders.

Professional career[link]

2004 season[link]

After being signed in 2004 as an undrafted rookie free agent, Tommy Kelly alternated between 3-4 DE and 4-3 DT. In the very few plays that he saw action, he was able to rack up 4 sacks, including 3 weeks in a row from week 7 through week 9.

2005 season[link]

In 2005, the Raiders moved away from the 3-4 defense, with Tommy Kelly finding a spot as the RE. Lacking the prototypical size and speed for an RE, Tommy Kelly still fared well in his sophomore season, doing well to stop the run. However, it wasn't until he began to see time at DT that he saw the sacks starts coming once again. In week 9 alone, Kelly racked up a total of 3 quarterback sacks—reaching Kansas City veteran Trent Green. In each instance, Kelly had lined up as a DT rather than the RE that he had been playing as previously in the year. By the end of the season, Kelly had a total of 4.5 sacks.

2006 season[link]

In the offseason between the 2005 season and the 2006 season, Raider DT Ed Jasper told reporters that Tommy Kelly would be an absolute monster once he fully realized his talents and abilities. Due to these comments, as well fellow Raider DT and Pro Bowler Warren Sapp taking Kelly under his wing, expectations were high for the young defensive lineman as the Raiders entered the 2006 season. News that he would become a full-time defensive tackle also perked up the ears of the Raider Nation considering the success that he had been experiencing on the interior line his 1st two seasons.

However, the 2006 season came and went without those hopes and dreams of greatness being realized. Tommy Kelly only managed a meager 3.5 sacks, the lowest total of his professional career. This was not what was expected. He had received consistent playing time all season and he was playing the interior line, the spot where his pass rushing skills were his strength. Not only did he fail to reach the QB as many times as hoped, but Kelly also looked weak at the point of attack—many times being pushed backward on running plays. Much of the Raiders' woes against the run were, in fact, blamed on Kelly.

2007 season[link]

Kelly played in 7 games in 2007, recording 30 tackles and 1 sack^[1] before suffering a season ending knee injury while playing against the Tennessee Titans.^[2] He was placed on injured reserve by the Oakland Raiders on October 31, 2007.^[3]

2008 Offseason[link]

On February 28, 2008, the Oakland Raiders signed Kelly to the largest contract ever given to a defensive tackle on the eve of free agency. Kelly, a defensive end moving to defensive tackle in 2008, signed a seven-year, $50.5 million contract with $18.125 million in guarantees and$ 25.125 million in the first three years .^[4]

Kelly can play every spot on the defensive line, but he replaced retired Warren Sapp at the three technique for the 2008 season.

2008 Season[link]

On September 15, 2008, Kelly was arrested for driving under the influence. Kelly finished the 2008 season with 55 tackles (31 solo) and just 4.5 sacks matching his career high set in 2005. The 2008 came once again and went, once again, without Kelly realizing his talents and abilities. He failed to live up to the contract he signed almost 12 months earlier.

2009 season[link]

Kelly finished the season with just 55 tackles again (37 solo) and a career low 1 sack. Kelly earned the label underachiever because of his lack of success of stopping the run and sacking the quarterback.

2010 season[link]

Tommy Kelly's career appears to have taken a course for better things with the fortunate announcement of moving 6-time Pro Bowler Richard Seymour from defensive end to defensive tackle. Seymour's successes stopping the run and pass rushing on the left side no doubt helped Kelly at right defensive tackle. At the end of the season, Kelly had 60 tackles and 7 sacks and was named as an alternate in the 2011 Pro Bowl.

2011 season[link]

On opening day of the 2011 NFL season, still at right defensive tackle next to Seymour, he recorded 2 tackles and a sack as the Raiders defeated the Denver Broncos. In week 10, he recorded 3 tackles, a game-ending sack and a forced fumble as the Raiders beat the San Diego Chargers. The next week, when the Raiders won against the Minnesota Vikings, he recorded 3 tackles, two sacks and an interception off of a deflected pass.

References[link]