Gray owned Fort Wayne, Ind., stations WPTA (ABC) and WISE (NBC) are set to become one brand called 21Alive News in early January of 2023. A Gray spokesperson said they are combining news operations into one news brand, not one station.
WPTA Sports Anchor Hit By Vicious Tackle
Zach Groth, sports director and anchor at Gray’s WPTA in Fort Wayne, Ind., volunteered to take a tackle for a promo shoot. That was before he saw his tackler.
The station group moves him from WTVG Toledo, Ohio, to oversee WPTA and WISE in Indiana.
TV-Radio Collaboration A Win-Win In Fort Wayne
The partnership between WPTA-TV and WBOI-FM is designed to share areas of mutual expertise between the two stations that will serve a wider audience. “To me, a trade is very cost effective,” says Terra Brantley, WBOI’s president. “It is a win-win for the community.”
Exclusives
Quincy Media’s ABC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 110), sports anchor Dean Pantazi will assume a new role this summer as he marks 50 years in broadcasting and 46 […]
Quincy Media’s ABC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 110) has hiredSamantha Myers to be co- anchor of its weekday morning news. The Detroit-area native most recently was a reporter […]
Krista Miller will make her return to the Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 110), airwaves in March as the 6 and 11 p.m. co-anchor for Quincy Media’s WPTA. A Decatur, Ind., […]
WPTA Earns Emmy For Overall Excellence
WPTA’s Weather Promo Welcomes Snow
WPTA Work Safety Investigation Gets Legislature’s Attention
A 23-year-old was killed in an industrial accident. Her employer had intentionally disabled safety features on the press she operated, and was fined just $6,300. WPTA’s investigation revealed that the fines for death on the job in Indiana were so low, “it doesn’t cost that much to kill someone.”
WPTA Children Special Touches Viewers’ Hearts
WPTA Ramps Up, Scrambles To Cover Big Story
WPTA Adds Teekaram As Morning Anchor
Quincy Media’s NBC/ABC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 111), has hired Julian Teekaram as co-anchor on Fort Wayne’s NBC News Today, effective immediately. Teekaram assumes her new role from […]
75 Years Later, WW II Soldier Gets Surprise
The news group is backing WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind., in its effort to reverse a court ruling barring it from airing audio of the sentencing hearing of a doctor who pleaded guilty to sexual battery. The Quincy Media station legally obtained the recording through an open records request.
WPTA Charges Prior Restraint In Court Case
The Quincy Media-owned ABC affiliate in Ft. Wayne, Ind., is appealing a circuit court judge’s prohibition against airing an audio recording from a trial.
Judge Rejects WPTA Plea To Air Courtroom Recording
Judge Orders WPTA Not To Air Legal Audio Files
VP Pence Focus Of WPTA’s Inaugural Coverage
WPTA Names Matt Leach Chief Meteorologist
Quincy Media-owned ABC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 111), has promoted Matt Leach to chief meteorologist effective Sept. 19. Leach originally came to WPTA as its weekend meteorologist. Previously […]
Ft. Wayne NBC Names Daniels Chief Meteorologist
Quincy Media’s WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 111), has named Chris Daniels chief meteorologist for the station’s NBC affiliate 21.2 subchannel branded as Fort Wayne’s NBC. “Chris brings decades of […]
WPTA Adds Alexis Gray To Anchor Desk
Quincy Media’s ABC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 111), has hired Alexis Gray as the station’s evening news co-anchor. She joins the station from Quincy’s WSJV South Bend, Ind., […]
Jonathan Shelley New WPTA News Director
Quincy Media recruits him from WDSU New Orleans. He begins heading news operations at the Fort Wayne multi-affil on Aug. 25.
WPTA Names Tom Powell As Evening Anchor
Quincy Media’s NBC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 111), on Wednesday hired Tom Powell as its evening news anchor. He joins the station from Quincy’s sister station WSJV South […]
New Promos From Markets Large And Small
WPTA-WISE ND Peter Neumann Retiring
The news director of ABC affiliate WPTA and and NBC affiliate WISE as well as director of content and strategy for Granite Broadcasting will retire at the end of May. He has worked continuously as a news director for 31 years.
Longtime WPTA Anchor Melissa Long To Retire
Five New Local News Promos
FCC Moves Could Affect Station Sale
An upcoming Federal Communications Commission meeting could alter a deal by an Illinois media company to acquire a Fort Wayne television station and manage another.
It’s purchasing WEEK Peoria-Bloomington, Ill.; WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind.; KBJR and its satellite, KRII, Duluth, Minn.-Superior, Wis.; and WBNG Binghamton, N.Y. In addition, Quincy will provide operating services to WHOI and WAOE Peoria-Bloomington, Ill., as well as to stations to be acquired by SagamoreHill Broadcasting: WISE Fort Wayne, Ind., and KDLH Duluth, Minn.-Superior, Wis.
