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WBNS stopped receiving Nielsen ratings seven years ago, Cardenas saying the return on investment for the station just was not there. WBNS, for its part, has the coach’s shows for Ohio State football and basketball. “Ohio State is part of our DNA here,” D’Angelo said. “We can’t lose to Michigan three times in a row,” said Cardenas.Īffiliated with both Fox and ABC, WSYX gets the lion’s share of Buckeye games, and has the Football Fever pre- and post-game shows. 1 Georgia on New Year’s Eve, and a rough loss to rival Michigan in late November - almost exactly a year after another heavy loss to Michigan.

Residents are slowly recovering from a 42-41 Buckeye loss to No. “People root for the Bengals and the Browns, but the first love in the city is the Buckeyes.”

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“We don’t have a pro football team, but one could argue that the Buckeyes are our professional football team,” Freedman said. The university is a giant source of local pride, and its Buckeyes are a beloved football team. Ohio State, or The Ohio State University, as Columbus residents like to put it, drives the market in a number of ways. “We’re consistently looking for ways to increase the amount of content we think our community wants.” College Town Pride “We look for the opportunity to be on when maybe our competitors are not,” said Ken Freedman, WCMH VP/general manager. WCMH, with a Local 4 You brand, goes live at 4 a.m. WSYX news director Jamie Justice was bumped up to Sinclair group news director last year, with Nicole Hogensen taking over the newsroom after a run at WPTV-WFLX West Palm Beach, Florida.ĭ’Angelo boasted of “the largest news staff in the marketplace, and more news programming than any of our competitors.” He also mentioned “very little turnover on the air.” “No debate.”ĭ’Angelo’s father Gene ran WBNS from 1972 to 1993, and Tony noted how there’s been a D’Angelo in Columbus broadcast since the mid-’50s. news,” Tony D’Angelo, VP and general manager, said. With ABC on channel 6.1 and Fox on 6.3, the ABC station is live 4:30 to 7 a.m., while the Fox affiliate is live 6:30 to 10 a.m. The only way to truly differentiate yourself is with true enterprise reporting.” “It’s always been a 10TV mantra but it’s more important now than ever. “Enterprise or breaking stories, not the news of the day that everyone covers,” he said.

With users getting news all day from a range of mobile sources, he said enterprise reporting will make 10TV stand out. hour.Ĭardenas was the WBNS news director from 1999 to 2010 and took over as GM in 2013.

WBNS has Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune in the 7 p.m. “We’re highly focused on creating new content, including historical,” Cardenas said, mentioning the “vault” of vintage local programming that documents Columbus’s history.

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WBNS, known as 10TV, introduced mobile product 10TV Plus in the fall, and aims to feature original programming on the platform. Industry watchers in the market said WBNS was the default station viewers reflexively turned to, but the game is wide open now. In the November Comscore race, WSYX won households and 25-54 at 6 a.m. households, in impressions, and WCMH won 25-64. households, with WCMH again scoring a very narrow win over WBNS in 25-64. households, with WCMH edging out WBNS in 25-64. (Image credit: WSYX)įor 2022, according to Nielsen, WSYX had the top score in impressions at 6 a.m., in both households and viewers 25-64 (25-54 ratings were not available). Bob Kendrick and Stacia Naquin on the set for Sinclair's WSYX.

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