WRCB

WRCB
WRCB
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Chattanooga, Tennessee/Walhalla, South Carolina
Branding Channel 3
Channel 3 Eyewitness News
Slogan Channel 3, More Colorful (general)
Coverage You Can Count On (newscasts)
Channels Digital: 13 (VHF)
Subchannels 3.1 NBC
3.2 RTV
Affiliations National Broadcasting Company
Owner Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
First air date May 6, 1956
Call letters' meaning Rust Craft Broadcasting
(former owners)
Former callsigns WRGP-TV (1956-1963)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
3 (1956-2009)
Transmitter power 34.8 kW (digital)
Height 335 m (digital)
Facility ID 59137
Transmitter coordinates 35°9′40″N 85°18′51″W / 35.16111°N 85.31417°W / 35.16111; -85.31417
Website www.wrcbtv.com

WRCB is an NBC affiliate television station based in Chattanooga, serving southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia, northeastern Alabama, Southwestern North Carolina, and three Upstate South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens. Its transmitter and tower are located in the unincorporated town of Walden on Signal Mountain. Syndicated programming on WRCB includes: Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Ellen, The Nate Berkus Show, and Degrassi: The Next Generation.

WRCB uses the branding "Channel 3 Eyewitness News" and the slogan "Coverage You Can Count On."

The station is carried on Comcast cable channel 4 in the Chattanooga area.

Contents

History

The station began broadcasting on May 6, 1956 on analog Channel 3 as WRGP-TV, the initials of its founder Ramon G. Patterson. It picked up the NBC affiliation from WROM-TV (now WTVC). This made Chattanooga one of the smallest cities in the country, and the first in East Tennessee, with three VHF stations. Its studios were first located on McCallie Avenue, between downtown and Missionary Ridge.

The station has belonged to several owners over the years. When the local group decided to sell in 1959, Friendly Broadcasting, owner of WSTV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio (now WTOV-TV) bought WRGP. In 1961 WSTV and WRGP were sold to the Massachusetts-based United Printers And Publishers, who later became Rust Craft Broadcasting, named after its greeting card line, which has since been acquired by American Greetings. These owners changed the station's call letters to WRCB-TV in 1963, to reflect the initials of the licensee. In 1968 the station moved to new facilities on Whitehall Road, on Chattanooga's north side, across the Tennessee River from downtown. Those new studios and equipment enabled channel 3 to begin broadcasting in color. In 1979, Rust Craft merged with magazine publisher Ziff Davis, who, in turn, sold WRCB to current owner Sarkes Tarzian, Inc. of Bloomington, Indiana, in 1982.

On November 1, 2008, WRCB added Retro Television Network on its second digital subchannel; the station had previously aired NBC Weather Plus on the subchannel, but that network was shut down by the end of the year.[1]

Digital television

Channel Programming
3.1 Main WRCB programming / NBC
3.2 Retro Television Network

On June 12, 2009, WRCB's digital signal remained on channel 13 when the analog to digital conversion completed.[2]

News

WRCB produces four hours of news a day weekdays, and an hour of news on weekends. The station is known for its School Patrol and I-Team reports, which have been popular features on its newscasts for years.

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

Station Slogans

  • Southeast Tennessee`s Leading News Station (early 1980s-1984)
  • Making a Difference (1989-1995)
  • Coverage You Can Count On (1995-present)

Current on-air staff

ANCHORS

  • David Carroll, 5PM and 6PM Anchor/School Patrol Reporter (1987-present)
  • Greg Glover, Reporter/5:30 & 11PM Anchor (2003-present)
  • Antwan Harris, Reporter/Weekend Anchor (2009-present)
  • Callie Starnes, 11 p.m. Anchor/Reporter (2008-present)
  • Jed Mescon, Morning Anchor (1989-present)
  • Latrice Currie, Morning Anchor/Eye On Health Reporter (1995-present)
  • Cindy Sexton, 5PM, 5:30PM, 6PM Anchor (1985-present)

WEATHER

  • Paul Barys, Chief Meteorologist (1985-present)
  • Nick Austin, Weekend Meteorologist (2010-present)
  • David Karnes, Morning Meteorologist (2007-present)

SPORTS

  • Keith Cawley, Sports Anchor (2007-present)
  • Paul Shahen, Multimedia Reporter/Weekend Sports Anchor(2009-present)

REPORTERS

  • Megan Boatwright, Reporter (2010-present)
  • Gordon Boyd, Reporter (2010-present)
  • Julie Edwards, Host (2007-present)
  • Paul Shahen, Multimedia Reporter(2009-present)
  • Antwan Harris, Reporter(2009-present)
  • Greg Glover, Reporter(2003-present)

References

  1. ^ "Television Network Moves to Chattanooga". wrcbtv.com. 2008-10-23. http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9228450. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 
  2. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-138A2.pdf

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