WTAE-TV is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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25 Facts About WTAE-TV
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The channel 4 frequency on which WTAE-TV began operations during the analog television era was originally allocated to suburban McKeesport, in Allegheny County; other official documents have listed the community of license as Irwin, in Westmoreland County.
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WTAE-TV is the only Pittsburgh television station affiliated with a major network not to have changed ownership.
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WTAE-TV was thus short-spaced to other channel 4 stations in Columbus, Ohio; Oak Hill, West Virginia; Buffalo, New York; and Washington, D C ; the transmitter was located southeast of the city as a result of the move.
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Shortly after signing on, WTAE-TV was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network, sharing the affiliation with KDKA-TV, WIIC-TV, and WQED.
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WTAE-TV first adopted the "Circle 4" logo in 1973, eventually adopting the current version in 1995.
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In 1986, WTAE-TV partnered with the Salvation Army and started Project Bundle Up, an operation to make sure that children and seniors receive warm clothing.
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WTAE-TV has ran the Project Bundle Up Auction where local businesses donate products to be auctioned off, and the Project Bundle Up Telethon, where viewers call in to donate money.
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WTAE-TV did not begin running Good Morning America until December 1978, and only aired an hour of the program until 1980.
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WTAE-TV preempted the Sunday morning ABC children's programming block the entire time ABC offered it, as well as a couple of hours of ABC's Saturday morning cartoons until 1979.
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WTAE-TV ran syndicated cartoons in place of the network-supplied children's programs, while the preempted Saturday morning network programs aired on WPGH during that time.
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WTAE-TV expanded its midday newscast to an hour and dropped The Home Show during 1991.
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WTAE-TV began carrying Port Charles in January 1998, but dropped the show entirely in September 2000, three years shy of its cancellation by ABC, and replaced it with Judge Hatchett, which itself was replaced by Access Hollywood in 2004.
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WTAE-TV aired select Pittsburgh Pirates games via ABC's MLB broadcast contract from 1976 to 1989, including the team's 1979 World Series championship.
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WTAE-TV was known for the "legendary" news crew of Paul Long and Don Cannon from the late 1960s into the 1990s.
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That year, WTAE-TV debuted a YouTube channel, which features stories featured on channel 4's newscasts.
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In June 2013, WTAE-TV announced that longtime anchor Sally Wiggin would host WTAE Chronicle, a series of hour-long news specials dedicated to in-depth reporting on relevant topics to Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.
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In September 2013, WTAE-TV received 21 nominations for the 2013 Regional Emmy Awards, the second most nominations among all the television stations in the state.
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WTAE-TV took home numerous awards in six categories including special coverage of the Vatican elections with Mike Clark.
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WTAE-TV competed against TV stations all across Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey; including two of the largest TV markets in the U S : New York City and Philadelphia.
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WTAE-TV was awarded the most Emmy nominations among all the television stations in Pittsburgh region.
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WTAE-TV was the first of two Pittsburgh television stations to have its newscasts available on the NewsON app due in part to its ownership group, Hearst Television, being a founding member of the NewsON group.
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WTAE-TV is among a handful of ABC-affiliated stations and one of four Hearst-owned ABC affiliates that broadcast their HDTV signals in 1080i rather than the 720p format of most other ABC stations, which allows the station's weather graphics and local advertising to be carried in a native format without a step of downscaling.
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WTAE-TV operates a 15-kilowatt digital broadcast translator on channel 22 to cover portions of the northern Pittsburgh area which were unable to receive channel 4's digital signal.
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At various times, WTAE-TV has served as the default ABC affiliate for the neighboring Johnstown–Altoona, Wheeling–Steubenville, and Clarksburg–Weston television markets .
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