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WTVH is the CBS network affiliate in Syracuse, New York. It also serves the Utica/Rome area. Its transmitter is located in La Fayette, New York.

This station broadcasts on VHF channel 5 and in high definition on UHF channel 47 as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission, and is owned and operated by Granite Broadcasting Corporation.

History

WTVH debuted on December 1, 1948 as WHEN-TV on channel 8. It went on the air as Syracuse's first television station and the first station ever owned and operated by Meredith Corporation. Meredith had entered broadcasting only two years before after buying WAGE (620 AM) and changing the calls to WHEN. It has always been a CBS affiliate, though at first it also carried secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. When WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV) signed on two months later, WHEN only had ABC as a secondary until WNYS-TV (later WIXT and now WSYR-TV) signed on in 1962. WHEN's affiliation with DuMont ended in 1956, when that network ceased operations. In July 1961, WHEN moved to channel 5, swapping channel locations with WROC-TV in Rochester.

In 1976, Meredith sold the WHEN stations to Park Communications, but kept WHEN-TV. It had to change the TV station's calls. It originally wanted the new call letters WTVF (for TV Five, the station's on-air identity), but those went to the former WLAC-TV in Nashville, Tennessee At this point, Meredith chose WTVH as the new calls, the H being a link to its WHEN heritage.

In June 1993, Meredith announced the sale of WTVH and sister station KSEE-TV in Fresno, California to Granite Broadcasting with the sale closing on December 23 of that year. With that deal, WTVH became Granite's oldest television station, based on the date and time the station began its broadcasting operation. Granite would soon increase its northeast holdings with their purchase of WKBW-TV in Buffalo in 1995 purchased WBNG-TV in Binghamton in July 2006.

As part of the WBNG purchase, Les Vann (formerly President & General Manager) was promoted to Executive Vice President of Central & Southern NY Operations with regional responsibilities over both WBNG and WTVH. At the same time Matthew Rosenfeld (formerly General Sales Manager) was promoted to Vice President/Station Manager of WTVH. On December 22, 2006, Nancy Duffy, a General Assignment Reporter for WSYR-TV died. The reporter had been away from work since August. Throughout her career, Nancy led the way for women in journalism. She became the first woman police reporter in Central New York after joining the Syracuse Herald-Journal in 1966. She was Syracuse’s first TV female reporter when she moved to WHEN-TV (now WTVH-TV) in 1967. She became the first woman to join the Syracuse Press Club, and later served as its president. In 1970, Nancy served as press secretary at Syracuse City Hall. She returned to Channel 5 after a year, and moved to NewsChannel 9 as a reporter and morning anchor in 1977.

On April 6, 2008, Jean Daugherty passed away at age 84. Jean Daugherty was known to many Baby Boomer children as The Play Lady on the station's locally produced children's program, "The Magic Toy Shop", from 1955 to 1982. She wrote more than 6,000 episodes of the program, which, when it ended its run, was the longest running local children's show in the country. Only a handful of episodes survive on tape. She continued on as the station's Community Service director, producing local documentaries on culture and local issues, until she was fired.

Utica Market

Since its inception, WHEN-TV/WTVH has also served as the CBS affiliate for the majority of the Utica television market (namely Herkimer and that market's portion of Oneida counties; Otsego County has WBNG as its default). In past years, WTVH was extremely protective of this status having barred WUTR from affiliating with CBS on at least one occasion. Under Granite's ownership, this status has not necessarily been taken advantage of in terms of advertising and targeting the station towards the Utica market as well.

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The Five on 5 morning logo.
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CBS 5 News This Morning virtual studio.

Newscasts

Weekday

  • CBS 5 News This Morning (5-7 AM)
  • CBS 5 News at Noon (12:00-12:30 PM)
  • CBS 5 News at 5:00 (5:00-5:30 PM)
  • CBS 5 News at 5:30 (5:30-6:00 PM)
  • CBS 5 News at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 PM)
  • CBS 5 News at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 PM)

Morning Format

  • CBS 5 News This Morning delivers five minutes of news, weather, and sports at the top and bottom of both hours of the show (5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30 AM) called Five on 5.
  • CBS 5 News This Morning doesn't use the traditional anchor desk. It is filmed using virtual studio.

Weekend

  • CBS 5 News at 6:00 (6:00-6:30 PM)
  • CBS 5 News at 11:00 (11:00-11:35 PM)

Logos

News Music

  • Part of Your Life (?-?)
  • You've Got a Friend - Gari Communications, Inc. (?-1986)
  • Turn To News - Gari Communications, Inc. (1986-1989)
  • WTVH 1989 News Theme (1989-1991)
  • Symphony - Stephen Arnold Music (1991-1993)
  • Signature - Stephen Arnold Music (1993-1996)
  • Total News - Non-Stop Music (1996-1999)
  • KHNL 1995 News Theme (1999-2002)
  • Counterpoint - Stephen Arnold Music (2002-2005)
  • News Edge - Stephen Arnold Music (2005-2007)
  • In-Sink V3 - 615 Music (2007-present)

NFL controversy

In 1997, CBS gained the rights to the American Football Conference of the NFL. The league determined that portions of Yates County, New York, a fairly narrow county only a few miles wide at certain points, was both within 75 miles of Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of the Buffalo Bills, and in the Syracuse television market (it has bounced between the Syracuse and Rochester markets a couple of times). Therefore, WTVH is forced to blackout Bills games if they do not sell out. With WTVH's control over the Utica market, unless the Bills are hosting an NFC team or the game is a Sunday or Monday night game, the game would be blacked out there as well.

This was not the case when NBC held the rights to AFC games; WSTM was allowed to broadcast Bills games even when they didn't sell out. However, the NFL and Bills apparently had not checked the regional television market boundaries for a number of years before the switch from NBC to CBS.

Games at the Rogers Centre would not be subject to blackout in Syracuse, as no part of the market is within 75 miles of Toronto, Ontario.

The CBS 5 Team

Anchors

Reporters

Weather

  • John DiPasquale (Meteorologist; This Morning 5-7 AM and Noon)
  • John Gerard (Weather Anchor; Weekend 6 and 11 and Weekday Reporter)
  • Tom Hauf (Chief Meteorologist; 5, 5:30, 6, 11 PM)

Sports

Former Personalities

  • Liz Ayers, now of WCNY-TV (1986-2006)
  • Joe Bartosik, now of WeatherBug (2001-2005)
  • Mark Cooper (?-?)
  • Ron Curtis, deceased 2000 (1959-1999)
  • Susan Davies, now of KOAA-TV
  • Tracy Davidson, now of WCAU-TV (?-1996)
  • Kristin Donnelly, now of WGRZ-TV (2004-2007)
  • Thomas Esterguard, currently unemployed (2006-2008)
  • John Eves, now of WXHC radio (?-?)
  • John Fisher (?-?)
  • Steve Flamisch, now of WRGB-TV (2006-2008)
  • Maureen Green (1983-2007)
  • Jamie Guirola, now of WKMG-TV (2002-2004)
  • Bob Kirk (?-?)
  • Frank Kracher, left station due to TBI (2005-2007)
  • Lyra Manning, now of WBTW-TV (?-?)
  • Matt Mulcahy, now of WSTM-TV/WSTQ-LP (1997-2005)
  • Janelle Reichert, now of KREM-TV (2005-2007)
  • Larry Sparano, now of WICZ-TV (?-?)

Notable Alumni

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