WJAC provides news, weather and sports information for Johnstown, Altoona, State College and DuBois, Pennsylvania. WJAC and new sister station WTOV-TV in the Steubenville, OhioWheeling, West Virginia market were sold to Cox Enterprises in 2000. As WWCP's long-standing local marketing agreement to operate ABC affiliate WATM-TV (channel 23) was part of the deal, it would have resulted in the major commercial television stations in the market being controlled by just two companies. These counties include Armstrong, eastern Butler, Clarion, Mifflin and the central to eastern portion of Westmoreland. In Maryland, it is carried in Allegany County. The couple celebrated their 5th anniversary on June 15, 2019. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WJAC-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Tim Rigby is the 5 and 6 co- anchor and 11 PM solo anchor for WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pa. WJAC-TV/6 News is the NBC affiliate serving 10 counties in west-central Pennsylvania. Dorcas she worked there from Apr 2018 until Mar 2019. Lindsay has been there for 2 years 7 months since Apr 2019. At the time, it was the third-smallest television station in the country market-wise to be granted a commercial license on or before December 31 behind CBS affiliate WNBF-TV in Binghamton, New York and fellow NBC affiliate WICU-TV in Erie. WJAC-TV gained a reputation for its locally produced programs at the station throughout the years. JOURNALISTS, USA JOURNALISTS' BIOS [33] This repeater is owned by Valley TV Cooperative. Yazmin Rodriguez Morning Anchor Connect With Yazmin Rodriguez Yazmin Rodriguez is super excited to join the 6 News Morning Team as the newest co-anchor. Prior to that, Lindsay was a WJAC Morning and Noon News Anchor. She worked there from Aug 2008 to Aug 2009. The sports segment had a separate theme and was called "Sports Nitecap". She worked there from Sep 2011 to Sep 2017. [citation needed]. On September 18, WJAC-DT4 adopted its current "Alleghenies CW6" branding.[18][19][20]. Lindsay married her lovely husband called Tonny Nanni. Upon its sign-on, it aired programming from all four networks of the time (NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont). Prior to joining her current network, Lindsay was a Freelance Reporter for Cox Media Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WTOV-TV already began using the package in 2014. Prior to that, Lindsay was a News Anchor and Reporter for WLNN in North Carolina. Together, Lindsay and Tony shared a very gorgeous son whom they call Sebastian. When KYW-TV switched to CBS on September 10, 1995, WJAC officially became the longest-tenured NBC affiliate in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. However, this is no longer an option after the digital conversion. Together, Lindsay and Tony shared a very gorgeous son whom they call Sebastian. WJAC-DT4, branded on-air as Alleghenies CW6, is the CW-affiliated fourth digital subchannel of WJAC-TV, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 6.4. WJAC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the JohnstownAltoonaState College market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. [6] On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four stations to Sinclair Broadcast Group. Her parents still live in the house where Lindsay was born and they are her role models and source of inspiration. She joined Penns Manor High School in 1991 and earned her high school diploma in 2004. This old slogan was used in various ways in the station's broadcasts and mixed with the station's then-current slogan "Coverage You Can Count On" to form "Coverage You Can Count On Across the Alleghenies" the year before. From January 2008 until March 2011, WJAC simulcasted its nightly newscast at 11 on WATM under the ABC 23 News branding. In addition to its main studios, it also operates bureaus in Altoona (on Beale Avenue), State College (on West College Avenue/PA 26) and DuBois (on East DuBois Avenue/PA 255; building is shared with WIFT 102.1 FM). Originally from New Jersey, Yazmin. Since WJAC has prior commitments with local news and weather cut-ins during Today, WATM offers taped news updates that are seen Tuesday through Saturday mornings (at :25 and :55 past the hour) during Good Morning America. Yes. The couple celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary on June 15, 2021. [21] In January 2016, to reflect the station's ownership by Sinclair, WJAC-TV stopped using "The Tower" and WPXI's former on-air look and updated their package and music to the generic "Sinclair News Package." She was born in 1986, in Penn Run, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America. WJAC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Johnstown-Altoona-State College market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus.It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Johnstown-licensed Fox affiliate WWCP-TV, channel 8 (owned by Sinclair partner company Cunningham Broadcasting) and Altoona . Prior to joining her current network, Lindsay was a Freelance Reporter for Cox Media Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [13] Before its closure in December 2008, WJAC-TV carried NBC Weather Plus on the second digital subchannel. Its 6 o'clock newscast was known as The News Tonight and the 11 p.m. broadcast was entitled 11th Hour News. Prior to that, Lindsay was a WJAC Morning and Noon News Anchor. However, on February 20, 2014, Horseshoe Curve informed the FCC that the sale of WWCP had fallen through. In West Virginia, it is carried in Petersburg (93 miles (150km) away), Dorcas, Moorefield and Keyser. She currently serves as an Anchor and Reporter for KDKA/ CBS News based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Previously, Lindsay was a WVVA Morning and Noon News Anchor, she also served as a Reporter for Quincy Newspapers Incorporated in Bluefield, West Virginia. Scholastic Quiz, a game show featuring local high school students, and Seniors Today (a public affairs program targeted to those 65 and older) would become mainstays of the station's programming and make host Ron Lorence (who would later build WADJ, now WBHV, at 1330 AM and then buy WYSN-FM 101.7, now WCCL in Somerset County) a local household name. WWCP-TV and WATM-TV maintain separate facilities on Lulay Street in the borough of Geistown (also with a Johnstown postal address). The Indiana County native is a proud IUP graduate. It features a separate news anchor on weeknights, who does not appear on WJAC, in addition to a different music and graphics package from broadcasts seen on the NBC outlet. Prior to that, Lindsay was an Intern at WNEP-TV 16 in Moosic, PA. She served there from May 2008 until Aug 2008. The station was also one of the stations across the country to produce a local version of the children's TV show Romper Room. [14], On September 1, 2022, MeTV was replaced by Charge!.[15]. I cover breaking news and I keep viewers informed on the latest news stories of the day. Lindsay Ward is an American journalist. On September 15, 2009, WJAC-TV celebrated its 60th year of broadcasting. Therefore, this means that they walked down the aisle on June 15, 2014. In addition to the new branding, WJAC updated their on-air graphics and theme music to those of its former sister station, WPXI, in Pittsburgh. [7] The FCC granted its approval of the sale on April 29,[8] and it was consummated on May 2. She has accumulated good wealth from her journalism career. ys xm ik lu I am a reporter at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. she worked there from Apr 2018 until Mar 2019. Most of the graphics introduced to WJAC-TV after the acquisition were used until October 2011, when WJAC-TV updated to WPXI's current look. [12] Along with then-sister station WPXI, WJAC-TV 6.2 transitioned to MeTV at midnight on June 13, 2011, immediately following an episode of Ellery Queen, at which point the channel was switched to the MeTV feed for the start of Hogan's Heroes. On August 21, 2019, Sinclair announced in a letter to the National Cable Television Cooperative that WJAC-TV's fourth subchannel would switch from TBD to The CW Plus, giving The CW its first full-time affiliate in the JohnstownAltoona market. Lindsay Ward Wjac. She is a woman of above-average stature. The two stations and WPXI in Pittsburgh were occasionally marketed together as a result. There, she had extensive exposure to social media strategies to grow viewership for the network. four years later, in 2008, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Communication and Media Studies ( Political Science). [16] The affiliation was launched on September 16 at 6 a.m.[17] Prior to this, Pittsburgh's WPCWwhich itself was a Johnstown station for much of its historyserved the market via cable. She is a married woman who has been spending a happy married life with her lovely husband called Tonny Nanni. On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox purchased four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television, Cox put WJAC-TV, WTOV-TV, and sister stations in El Paso, Texas and Reno, Nevada, plus several radio stations in medium to small markets, on the selling block. Our coverage area includes Bedford, Everett . The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34. Prior to joining her current network, Lindsay was a Freelance Reporter for Cox Media Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their weekday morning newscast began as a half-hour broadcast at 6:30 in 1985. Before that, Lindsay was a Freelance Reporter at WPXI-TV. Lindsay is currently 36 years old. 0. [9] This made WJAC-TV a sister station to nearby WPGH-TV and WPMY in Pittsburgh though it is still connected to WPXI-TV through a news-share agreement. WJAC-TV and WTOV were updated to WPXI's on-air graphics after being acquired by Cox, despite WPXI changing its own look in 2004. [31][32] During the 1990s, WJAC was available on cable in portions of Warren County, despite that county being a part of the Erie market. Then, in July 2012, this outlet became the first station in the market to broadcast local news in full high definition. The pair welcomed their first baby, a son whom they named Sebastian Nanni on June 28, 2019. Through aggressive statistical multiplexing, CW+ programming on WJAC-DT4 is broadcast in 720p high definition (albeit in a highly-compressed variation of that video resolution). The couple celebrated their 5th anniversary on June 15, 2019. 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