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WBOC-TV
WBOC-TV, channel 16, is a CBS affiliate based in Salisbury, Maryland. WBOC-TV is owned by the Draper Holdings Business Trust, with its main studios in Salisbury, secondary studios/office facilities in Dover, Delaware|Dover and Milton, Delaware, and transmitter in Laurel, Delaware. The station's signal covers the Eastern Shores of Eastern Shore of Maryland|Maryland and Eastern Shore of Virginia|Virginia, as well as the southern two-thirds of Delaware, which make up the region known as the Delmarva Peninsula.
WBOC-TV also carries an affiliation with the Fox Broadcasting Company on its second WBOC-DT2|digital subchannel. This station is branded as '''Fox 21 Delmarva''', and is also available on local cable systems.
History
WBOC-TV began operations on July 15, 1954, owned originally by Peninsula Broadcasting, which started Salisbury's WBOC radio (960 AM, now WTGM) in 1940. It is the fourth-oldest television station in Maryland, the first outside Baltimore, and the oldest on the UHF band. As the only television station serving the Delmarva Peninsula, channel 16 carried programming from all four networks--CBS, NBC, American Broadcasting Company|ABC, and DuMont Television Network|DuMont. However, it has always been a primary CBS affiliate. The station also featured local programming consisting of variety shows, talent contests, and children's programs.
In 1961, Peninsula Broadcasting merged with the A.S. Abell Company, which published the ''Baltimore Sun'' and owned Baltimore's then-CBS affiliate, WMAR-TV. WBOC-TV gradually increased the CBS programming on its schedule, though it continued to "cherry-pick" the highest-rated ABC and NBC shows either in pattern (on schedule with the rest of the network) or on a tape-delayed basis.
For example, channel 16 regularly carried the ''Today (NBC program)|Today Show'' and the ''Tonight Show'' from NBC, and weekend sports coverage from all three networks. Primetime programming consisted of at least one night of all CBS; other evenings with programs from both CBS and ABC; and others with shows from CBS and NBC. Select CBS programs displaced by the scheduling method would air in times outside of primetime. Despite carrying ''Today'' (which pre-empted CBS's morning news and ''Captain Kangaroo''), WBOC-TV aired all of CBS's other newscasts, as well as most of CBS's daytime programming and Saturday morning cartoons. The cherry-picking arrangement also affected primetime network sports coverage. However, Delmarva viewers didn't have to worry about missing their favorite shows once cable came to the area. Local cable systems on the Maryland side of the market supplemented the area with the Baltimore stations, while cable systems on the Delaware side supplemented it with the Philadelphia stations. The Virginia portion of channel 16's coverage area is part of the Hampton Roads market, but WBOC has always had significant viewership in this area.
In 1980#April|April 1980, WBOC-TV received competition for the first time when WMDT (channel 47) signed on. The new station also took a dual ABC/NBC affiliation, allowing channel 16 to become a full-time CBS station.
Local ownership of channel 16 resumed in November 1980 when local entrepreneur Thomas H. Draper purchased the station. Since Draper took over, local news coverage increased, as well as local advertising revenue which allowed for technical upgrades, such as a new four million watt transmitter tower located near Laurel, Delaware.
WBOC has been the dominant news station in Delmarva for as long as records have been kept.
Example of "cherry-picking"
The following schedule grid is used to describe WBOC-TV's cherry-picking method of primetime programming. This example is from the fall of 1977:
Fox 21 Delmarva
In March 2003, WBOC-TV began carrying UPN programming on its digital subchannel 16.2 (or 21.2), known as ''UPN 21 Total TV''. In January 2006, the UPN and WB Television Network|WB networks announced they would merge into a single network called The CW Television Network|the CW. WBOC-TV did not seek the CW affiliation, which instead went to WBD, the cable-only WB affiliate for Delmarva. On May 9, 2006, WBOC-TV announced that ''UPN 21'' would become a Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox affiliate, beginning on August 21, 2006. WBOC-TV produces a newscast for the station, currently known as '''WBOC News at 10 on FOX21'''.
For viewers unable to receive the digital-only signal, both local-area cable systems, operated by Comcast and Mediacom, carry ''Fox 21 Delmarva'' on channels 5 and 10, respectively.
Analog-to-digital conversion
After the DTV transition|analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [The Digital TV Transition: What Is DTV? dtv.gov. Retrieved September 27, 2008.], WBOC-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 21. [DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds. fcc.gov. Retrieved September 27 2008, ] However, through the use of Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP, digital television receivers will display WBOC's virtual channel as 16.
Current personalities
Anchors
- '''Alice Bavis''' - Anchor/Reporter
- '''Lisa Bryant''' - Anchor/Education Reporter
- '''Don Elkins, Jr.''' http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5984209&nav=menu222_12_3 - Anchor/Managing Editor
- '''Steve Hammond''' - Anchor/Managing Editor
- '''Elizabeth Harrington''' - Anchor/Reporter
- '''Kimberly Holmes''' - Anchor/Reporter
- '''Jimmy Hoppa''' - "This Morning" Anchor
- '''Kelley Rouse''' - "This Morning" Anchor
Reporters
- '''Capt. Willie Dykes''' Chopper 16 Pilot/Reporter
- '''Cassandra Kramer'''
- '''Jesse Lanier'''
- '''Michael Lopardi''' - Chief of Milton bureau
- '''Kevin Leahy'''
- '''Kasey Messick''' - Assignment Editor
- '''Mary Mullins''' - Assistant News Director
- '''Shelly Schwartz'''
- '''Jeremy Tucker''' - Chief of Dover bureau/ Political Reporter
Sports
- '''Scott Abraham''' - Sports Director
- '''Yianni Kourakis'''
WBOC on the Web
- '''Kye Parsons''' - Managing Editor
Weather
- '''Brian Keane'''
- '''Dennis Ketterer''' - Chief Meteorologist
- '''Danielle Vollmar'''
- '''Jennifer Walker'''
Notable alumni
- Paul Butler (http://www.umes.edu/IA/Default.aspx?id=12222)
- Kerry Cavanaugh (http://www.wbaltv.com/wbalnewsteam/5574442/detail.html)
- Jackie Jennings, now a journalist for The Daily Times (Salisbury)|The Daily Times
- Melanie Lawson (http://www.news4jax.com/station/5172778/detail.html)
- Jason Newton (http://www.wisn.com/wisnnewsteam/14707954/detail.html)
- Mick O'Hearn (http://www.whtm.com/pageloader.html?js=whtm&page=talent&pagename=mick_o'hearn.html)
- Brian Olson (http://www.wkowtv.com/index.php/about/biodetails/p/pkid/5163)
- Denis Phillips (http://www.abcactionnews.com/content/about/staff/story.aspx?content_id=aa793cad-9664-453b-a879-450d956f307f)
- Lisa Scullin (http://www.whtm.com/pageloader.html?js=whtm&page=talent&pagename=lisa_scullin.html)
- Mike Seidel, now at The Weather Channel
- Steve Summers (http://www.whiotv.com/station/10199022/detail.html)
- Amy Szutowicz, now a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C. (http://www.talentapes.com/amyszutowicz/)
- Scorchy Tawes (http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6004116)
- Amber Theoharis, now at Comcast Sports Net/Washington-Baltimore
- Chris Thomas (http://www.sptimes.com/2004/02/20/Sports/_Chris_Thomas_touched.shtml)
References
External links
- WBOC-TV Website
- Fox 21 Delmarva Website
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