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WTHR (channel 13) is a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with NBC.It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside low-power, Class A MeTV affiliate WALV-CD (channel 46).
WTTV first signed on the air on November 11, 1949, originally broadcasting on VHF channel 10. It was the second television station to sign on in the state of Indiana, debuting almost 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 months after WFBM-TV (now WRTV) signed on in May 1949.
Under Capital Cities, KTRK increased its focus on local news programming. After channel 13 expanded its local newscasts to 30 minutes in January 1967, in the final months under Houston Consolidated, [28] in 1969, the station adopted the Eyewitness News name for its newscasts; [29] at the time, it was a distant third place behind KPRC and KHOU. [30]
It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside NBC affiliate WTHR (channel 13). The two stations share studios on North Meridian Street (south of I-65) in downtown Indianapolis; WALV-CD's transmitter is located near Ditch Road and West 96th Street (near I-465) in Carmel. The MeTV programming is mirrored on WTHR's third digital subchannel.
Ward, a personal friend of Marvin Zindler, helped Zindler obtain his position at Channel 13, by urging the station to hire him after Zindler had been fired from his job at the sheriff's department. [7] In May 2019, Ward published his memoir, “Good Evening, Friends.” The title reflects the salutation he used to begin each newscast at KTRK. [8]
Then in 1991, she headed to Indianapolis where she began reporting for WISH-TV's 11 p.m. newscast and anchored the CBS affiliate's 5:30 p.m. newscast, with colleague Scott Swan. From 2000 to 2004, Tiernon was a news anchor at WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio , as the anchor of the 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts, alongside veteran anchor Dave Wagner.
Gaston left MSNBC in 2000. In 2001, she returned to channel 13 to anchor and report the 6 and 10pm newscast, replacing long-time anchor Shara Fryer. Prior to joining KTRK-TV, she worked at WTSP in Tampa, Florida, WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KLTV in Tyler, Texas. [3]
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