Indiana's NewsCenter

Indiana's NewsCenter is the collective brand name of the television and news operations in Fort Wayne, Indiana owned and/or managed by Granite Broadcasting Corporation and Malara Broadcast Group under a local marketing agreement.

Granite and Malara run a very similar operation with their Duluth, Minnesota stations under the moniker Northland's NewsCenter.

History

Indiana's NewsCenter, began on March 9, 2005 but not completed until November 29, 2005, is a collective name for news for the Fort Wayne, Indiana area's NBC, ABC, My Network TV and The CW stations all operated or owned by Granite Broadcasting. It was originated from WPTA-TV's (21Alive) newscasts but now provides content for all of the channels listed above. After WISE-TV (Fort Wayne's NBC affiliate) was sold to Granite Broadcasting in March 2005, Granite maintained operations at WPTA through a local marketing agreement (LMA). WISE-TV (NBC 33)'s newscasts are now very similar to WPTA's newscasts and generally have the same anchors and reporting staff. Slow changes to WPTA were made and now a multi-channel format is in place called Indiana's NewsCenter. Now all of the newscasts on these channels have the same look, except one anchor (Linda Jackson)from the original WISE-TV that still currently appears only on WISE-TV. To make clearer which channel each newscast is on, The NewsCenter logo is rotated with the respective station's logo.

"The Networks of Indiana's NewsCenter"

* WPTA, Channel 21, an ABC affiliate owned by Malara and operated by Granite
* WISE-TV, Channel 33, an NBC affiliate owned and operated by Granite.
* Fort Wayne's CW, WPTA's digital subchannel carrying CW programming
* MyNetworkTV Fort Wayne, WISE's digital subchannel carrying MyNetworkTV programming
* Indiana's NewsCenter Weather Plus, WISE's local variant of NBC Weather Plus

Affiliates

* WDFM-LP, channel 26, a Clear Channel-owned independent station in Defiance, Ohio (in the Toledo DMA) that uses some of Indiana's NewsCenter's weather resources
* WOWO AM 1190, a Federated Media-owned talk radio station that uses some resources

References

External links

* [http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.fortwaynescw.com/ The FortWayneCW.com Website]
* [http://www.mytvfw.com/ "My TV Fort Wayne" website]
* [http://www.granitetv.com/gbc/pressrelease/99021.htm press release about WBFW launch]