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WUSA (TV)

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"WUSA-TV" redirects here. For the Minneapolis television station that is sister to WUSA, which formerly used the WUSA-TV callsign, seeKARE (TV).
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WUSA
Channels
BrandingWUSA 9
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
January 16, 1949(75 years ago)(1949-01-16)
Former call signs
  • WOIC (1949–1950)
  • WTOP-TV (1950–1978)
  • WDVM-TV (1978–1986)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:9 (VHF, 1949–2009)
  • Digital:34 (UHF,1998–2009)
Call signmeaning
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID65593
ERP52kW
HAAT235.6 m (773 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°57′1″N77°4′47″W/ 38.95028°N 77.07972°W/38.95028; -77.07972(WUSA)
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wusa9

WUSA(channel 9) is atelevision stationinWashington, D.C.,affiliated withCBS.It is theflagshipproperty ofTegna Inc.,which is based in suburbanMcLean, Virginia.WUSA's studios and transmitter are at Broadcast House onWisconsin Avenueinnorthwest Washington'sTenleytownneighborhood.[3]Among CBS affiliates notowned and operatedby the network, WUSA is the third-largest by market size (afterGray Television'sWANFinAtlantaand Tegna'sKHOUinHouston).[4]

The station's signal is relayed on alow-powerdigitaltranslator station,W27EI-D, inMoorefield, West Virginia[5](which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative). It has a channel-sharing agreement withSilver Spring, Maryland–licensedWJAL(channel 68, owned byEntravision Communications).

History

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Early years (1949–1978)

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The station first went on the air on January 11, 1949, as WOIC. It began full-time operations on January 16.[6]The fourth-oldest station in the nation's capital, channel 9 was originally owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, a subsidiary ofR. H. Macy and Company.[7]Bamberger also ownedWOR-AM-FMinNew York City,and was working to put WOR-TV (channel 9, nowWWOR-TVinSecaucus, New Jersey) on the air at the same time. Nine days later, WOIC broadcast the first televised American presidential inaugural address, given byPresidentHarry S. Truman.WOIC picked up theCBSaffiliation upon signing on, replacing WMAL-TV (channel 7, nowWJLA-TV) as the network's Washington outlet. WOIC/WTOP/WUSA has been a CBS affiliate since its inception, and is currently the network's longest-tenured affiliate. However, WOR was a shareholder in theMutual Radio Network,which had plans to enter television with WOIC and WOR-TV as the flagship stations of its network; these plans never came to fruition. However, during the late 1940s, when Mutual was considering the possibility of launching a TV network, WOIC and WOR were decorating their respective station's letterhead with the "Mutual Television"subheading. At the start of 1950, Bamberger Broadcasting changed its name to General Teleradio.[8]

In June 1950, a joint venture of CBS andThe Washington Postpurchased WOIC from Bamberger/Macy's for $1.4 million. The new owners, WTOP Incorporated (thePostowned 55%, with CBS holding the remaining 45% stake), changed the station'scall signto WTOP-TV, after its new sister stationWTOP radio(then at1500 AM).[9][10]In July 1950, WTOP-TV became the first television station in Washington authorized to broadcastcolor televisionin the 405-line field sequential color standard, which was incompatible with the black-and-white 525-lineNTSCstandard. Color broadcasts continued 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 bebackwards compatiblewith the existing black-and-white televisions.[citation needed]

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 ofBroadcasting House,home of theBBCinLondon.The building was well known to WTOP's president, since he had spent much ofWorld War IIassigned 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 theWarner Theatre), and WTOP-TV had operated out of the small WOIC studios at the same location. 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. The building with the tower remains in the middle at the same location, although it is now an office building and retail store front.

The WTOP-TV tower was known in Washington for two things. First, atChristmastime, the tower was strung with Christmas lights and glowed brightly on top of Mount Reno, the tallest point in the District of Columbia. 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.

In October 1954, CBS sold its share of WTOP Inc. to theWashington Postto comply with the FCC's new seven-station-per-group ownership rule. CBS's partial ownership of WTOP radio,KQV radioinPittsburghandWCCO radioinMinneapolisexceeded the FCC's limit for AM radio stations.[11]CBS opted to sell its share of WTOP, which it had purchased in whole in 1932 before selling controlling interest to thePostin 1949.

After the sale closed, thePostmerged the WTOP stations with its other broadcast property, WMBR-AM-TV inJacksonville, Florida,and changed the name of the licensee from "WTOP Inc." to "Post Stations, Inc." WMBR radio was sold off in 1958, and WMBR-TV becameWJXT.ThePostrenamed its broadcasting group "Post-Newsweek Stations"in 1961 after thePostboughtNewsweekmagazine. Post-Newsweek acquired its third television station, WLBW-TV (nowWPLG) in Miami in 1970 and in 1974 added WTIC-TV (nowWFSB) inHartford, Connecticut,to the group. In 1972, WTOP-TV joined with the Evening Star Broadcasting Company (owned by thePost'srival, the now-defunctWashington Starand licensee of WMAL-TV) to build the Joint Tower, a 1,040-foot (320 m), three-sided tower across the alley from Broadcast House at 4010 Chesapeake Street NW. 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 toHoward Universityin 1971). The old tower continued to serve as the backup antenna for channel 9 until the station sold Broadcast House in 1996.

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. The slogan no longer appears on-air, but was revived in a sense when channel 9 adopted its slogan in the mid-2000s,First and Only with Local News in HDTV.

Later years (1978–present)

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On June 26, 1978,[12]Post-Newsweek exchanged WTOP-TV with theEvening News Association's WWJ-TV (nowWDIV-TV) inDetroit.That same day, WTOP-TV changed its call letters to WDVM-TV, with the new call letters representing the initials of the areas which channel 9 serves: the District of Columbia,VirginiaandMaryland.Post-Newsweek parentthe Washington Post Company,and the Evening News Association, which published theDetroit News,decided to swap their stations for fear that 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 forbiddingownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the same market.[13][14]The call letter was changed as per a now-repealed FCC rule stating that TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership had to use different callsigns.

Logo used from 2000 to January 2013. An earlier variant, which replaced the 1980s-era "square 9", which dated to the days of WDVM, was colored yellow with a black numeral and was used from 1995 to 1998.

In 1985, theGannett Companypurchased the Evening News Association.[15][a]This marked the group's first CBS station since the company had sold then-network affiliateWHEC-TVinRochesterin 1979.[17]OnJuly 4,1986, Gannett changed channel 9's call letters to WUSA both in honor of the station being located in the nation's capital and Gannett's ownership ofUSA Today.[18]The WUSA callsign had previously been used by Gannett's station (previously WTCN-TV) in Minneapolis for a year, which simultaneously changed its callsign toKARE.TheWDVM-TVcallsign is now in use on an unrelated station inHagerstown, Maryland.

At the time, particularly in Gannett press releases, the station's callsign was commonly printed as "W★USA". However, theasteriskorstarbetween the "W" and "U" is not part of the call sign. The star device was used to denote its connection toUSA Today.The star was replaced on-air with the CBSEye Device,which is also not part of the call sign, in the late 1990s as CBS began to considerably relax their formerly strict branding guidelines for their affiliates (which had not allowed blending the logo into call letters), and to reduce confusion with the now-defunctWomen's United Soccer Association,which was also visually represented as "W★USA" within their logo.

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. WTOP radio departed in 1978; thePosthad sold it a year earlier to theOutlet Company.The move to the more modern building was tinged with sadness due to the death from a brain tumor of popular sportcasterGlenn Brennerjust days before the move. In 1998, WUSA launched its website, wusatv9, but later removed the "TV" reference in the domain name to become wusa9.

In 2001, WUSA made the decision to preempt CBS' national coverage of theSeptember 11 attackswith its own local coverage.[19]At 9:41 a.m., just four minutes after the impact, WUSA broke into the CBS national coverage anchored byDan Ratherand showed smoke billowing fromthe Pentagon.National coverage remained available on multipleViacom-owned cable networks, includingMTVandVH1.Their local coverage, like that of other Washington-area affiliates, included reporters on the phone and on camera, eyewitness accounts, and analysis. WUSA continuously stayed on the air, covering the exodus of the District, school closures, and traffic issues until 12:42 p.m. Throughout the rest of the afternoon, WUSA provided local news updates and press conferences, alternating between their local coverage and the national feed.Washington Posttelevision criticTom Shalestook issue with this decision, writing that "the city was subjected to a CBS blackout by the local affiliate, Gannett-owned Channel 9. The station chose to view this, incredibly enough, as a local story and reported it initially as if it were a winter snow day and school closings were of the utmost importance."[20]

Around the first week of October 2012, Gannett entered adisputeagainstDish Networkregardingcompensationfees and Dish's AutoHop commercial-skip feature on its Hopperdigital video recorders.Gannett ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is having a negative effect on advertising revenues for WUSA. Gannett threatened to pull all of its stations (such as WUSA) should the skirmish continue beyond October 7 and Dish and Gannett fail to reach an agreement.[21][22]The two parties eventually reached an agreement after extending the deadline for a few hours.[23]

On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. WUSA was retained by the latter company, namedTegna.[24]

Websites

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In July 2007, WUSA launched a second website atDVMmomsArchivedJuly 4, 2008, at theWayback Machine.The site focused on topics relating to young mothers in the Washington, D.C. area. Gannett also rolled out similar sites targeted at moms in other select markets where it owns a television and/or newspaper properties. In February 2008, WUSA launched a third website atDVMOurTime.The site is fronted by noon anchor J. C. Hayward and provides local restaurant and business discounts as well as news and events targeted towardsbaby boomers.

In 2008, Gannett and theTribune Companypartnered to expand theMetromixbrand that has been successful for many years in Chicago at theChicago Tribune.WUSA's local Metromix site launched in July 2008.[25]There are 35 other Gannett and/or Tribune properties that have a Metromix site. In August 2008, Gannett revamped its moms sites, and DVMmoms was renamed MomsLikeMe. Like the previous versions, the site features topics related to young moms and includes technology from Ripple 6, which was recently acquired by Gannett. There were MomsLikeMe sites in 85 other markets throughout the country. MomsLikeMe was phased out in 2012.

In September 2008, WUSA's fifth website was launched, calledHighSchoolSports.net.The site features, among other things, high school sports rankings, schedules, and scores for high schoolfootball,soccer,basketballandbaseballgames around the United States. The site is also a Gannett-owned property that was launched in many markets throughout the country.

In June 2010, Gannett Broadcasting and DataSphere Technologies announced a partnership to create community-focused websites in 10 of their television station markets. WUSA was one of the first to launch these sites in August 2010. The sites are integrated within the existing website and feature hyperlocal news and user-generated content about area happenings and events. In addition to powering the community websites, DataSphere provides enhanced functionality, including market-leading site search, coupons, a business directory and ad targeting. WUSA created 53 different neighborhood sites in the Metro D.C. area.

Programming

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WTOP was one of the few CBS stations that declined to carry the popular game showThe Price Is Rightduring the early years of the program's run (although Washington, D.C. ABC station WMAL-TV/WJLA-TV (channel 7) did carryThe Price Is Rightand some other CBS daytime game shows uncleared by WTOP during the mid-1970s).

From May 2008 until the end of its original run in 2016, WUSA served as the production studio for the programThe McLaughlin Groupwhich was also broadcast on some select CBS stations (including its New York City owned-and-operated stationWCBS-TV) beginning in May 2007 and on somePBSmember stations (locally viaWETA-TVandWHUT-TV); the show was distributed byWTTWout ofChicago,with the production facilities moved over fromNBCowned-and-operated stationWRC-TV,where the show had been based since its premiere in 1982.

Sports programming

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Then-WTOP-TV was the first television partner of theWashington Capitals,signing a three-year contract to broadcast 15 road games per year at the team's debut in the1974–75 NHL season.Warner Wolfcommentated for the first season before being replaced by a simulcast ofRon Weber's call for WTOP radio.[26]WTOP-TV treated the games as an afterthought and often relegated them to joins-in-progress or tape-delays to late night. AlthoughWashington Postbeat reporter Robert Fachet called the team's state of television affairs "revolting" by the contract's end, station management openly stated they received far more complaints about the preempted CBS shows than from Capitals fans. The Capitals moved toWDCA(channel 20) for 1977.[27]The then-Washington Bulletsalso signed their first television deal with WTOP-TV when they moved to the city in1973,concurrent with the start ofnational broadcastsof the league on CBS. The Bullets moved their local games to WDCA as well in 1977.[28]Additionally, the station aired select weekendWashington Nationalsgames produced byMASNfrom2013until2017.In 2024, WUSA and theWashington Commandersannounced a partnership, with the network holding exclusive rights to broadcast the team's non-national preseason games.[29]

News operation

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WUSA's offices in Tenleytown, Washington, D.C.

WUSA presently broadcasts 40 hours, 35 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours, 5 minutes each weekday; 2 hours, 5 minutes on Saturday; and 3 hours, 5 minutes on Sunday[30]); in addition, the station produces a sports highlight program calledGame On!,which airs Sunday evenings after the 11 p.m. newscast. WUSA was the launchpad for several well-known news anchors.Sam Donaldsonand Warner Wolf are among WUSA's most successful alumni.Max Robinsonwas co-anchor ofEyewitness NewswithGordon Petersonfrom 1969 to 1978 before he became the first black anchorman on network television and one of the original anchors ofABC World News Tonight.James BrownofCBS Sportswas a sports anchor at the station in the 1980s.

In 1989, WUSA debuted an hour-long newscast at 4 p.m. (replacingThe Oprah Winfrey Show,which the station chose not to continue carrying due to the program's licensing fees, it then moved to WJLA-TV), which created a three-hour local news block from 4 to 7 p.m., resulting in ahalf-hour delayof theCBS Evening Newsto 7 p.m. The 4 p.m. newscast was dropped in 2000, with WUSA also cutting a half-hour off the end of its 4–7 p.m. news block, moving theCBS Evening Newsto 6:30 p.m., the recommended timeslot for the network newscast for CBS stations located in theEastern Time Zone.WUSA was the only major station in the Washington market that did not carry a 4 p.m. newscast until the station revived it in September 2023. As of that date, all four major stations—including WUSA—now air a 4 p.m. newscast.

On May 2, 2005, WUSA became the first television station in the Washington market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts inhigh definition.[31]

In February 2012, WUSA launched its investigative unit with Chief Investigative ReporterRuss Ptacek.[32]Ptacek's investigations led to reform after uncovering millions in unreported government bonuses, a utility allowed to charge customers during disconnections caused by storms, taxis refusing passengers based upon race, and potentially deadly restaurant food safety risks.[33]Ptacek and WUSA9 parted ways in 2016 when the station announced changes to its investigative direction.[34]

Anchor and consumer correspondent Lesli Foster reported on a petition filed by the Center For Auto Safety asking government safety regulators to recall millions of older modelJeep Grand Cherokees.The consumer group believes the placement of the plastic gas tanks in those vehicles can lead to fires and deaths when they are struck from behind. The gas tank is located behind the rear axle—literally in the crush zone of the vehicle.Chryslersays the vehicles are safe and not defective. The automaker points out that in the 26 fatal accidents cited byNHTSAwhere they can calculate kinetic energy, the deaths in all those vehicles involved speeds that exceed today's crash test requirements. But the company agreed to recall over 1 million of the remaining 1993–1998 models, along with 2002–2007 Jeep Liberty's back in June of last year. Lesli Foster was acknowledged for her hard hitting investigative report in 2013 with a NCCB-NATASEmmy Award.

Beginning with the noon newscast on January 17, 2013, WUSA unveiled a new graphics package for the station's newscasts designed for Gannett's news-producing stations by design firm The Mill; the new graphics are designed to reduce on-screen clutter, which viewers complained about prior to the change to the new standardized graphics. With the change, WUSA began using theAFD#10 broadcast flag to present their newscasts inletterboxedwidescreenfor viewers watching oncable televisionthrough4:3television sets. Additionally, the station unveiled its new logo, which was stylized as "wusa⋆9",in lower-case lettering.

Beginning withWake Up Washingtonon April 26, 2018, WUSA unveiled a new set to replace the previous one used since the May 2, 2005, HD launch, along with a new station logo which ended the use of any stars and/or asterisks in WUSA's branding. It also rolled out a new standardized graphics and music package for the station's newscasts designed for Tegna's news-producing stations.

Notable current on-air staff

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Notable former on-air staff

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Technical information

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Subchannels

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Subchannels of WUSA and WJAL[35]
License Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
WUSA 9.1 1080i 16:9 WUSA-HD CBS
9.2 480i Crime True Crime Network
9.3 Quest Quest
9.4 NEST The Nest
9.5 QVC QVC
WJAL 68.1 720p Merit Merit Street Media
68.2 480i DEFY Defy

On November 1, 2011, WUSA signed an affiliation agreement to addBounce TV,[36]which launched on WUSAdigital subchannel9.2, on December 16, 2011.[37]

In August 2017, WUSA temporarily stopped carrying its subchannels due to technical considerations involving their channel sharing arrangement withWJAL(virtual channel 68), which moved its signal to WUSA's transmitter on October 1, 2017, and moved itscity of licensefrom Hagerstown, Maryland, toSilver Spring.In the interim, Bounce arranged a new affiliation agreement withUnivisionto be carried onWFDC-DT,and moved its Capital Region affiliation to WFDC-DT4. Justice Network (now True Crime Network) returned later in the month on WUSA-DT2 once the move was completed.

Analog-to-digital conversion

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WUSA stopped transmitting on its analog signal, overVHFchannel 9, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transitionUHFchannel 34 to VHF channel 9 for post-transition operations.[38][39]

Translator

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Notes

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  1. ^By 2005, the Evening News Association had been renamed "Detroit Free Press,Inc. ", after that Gannett subsidiary simultaneously bought theFree Pressand sold theNews.The station's license remained under Detroit Free Press, Inc. until early 2015, shortly before Gannett was split into separate publishing andbroadcastingcompanies.[16]

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  28. ^Attner, Paul (September 29, 1977)."McKinley, Bullet Rookie From Towson, Realizes He's Defying Longshot Odds".The Washington Post.
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