WPMT York Adds Weekly Sports And News Shows

Beginning this weekend, Sept. 7 and 8, Tribune Media’s Fox affiliate WPMT York, Pa. (DMA 41), will add two new local news programs to the lineup, Fox43 News Featured and Fox43 Sunday Sports Frenzy, further supporting WPMT’s “Expect More” promise to viewers.

WPMT said it currently provides more hours of local news content than any other broadcast television station in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon and York, Pa., market.

Fox43 Sunday Sports Frenzy is an all-new live program scheduled for Sunday nights at 11 p.m., immediately following Fox43 News At Ten. The half hour show will focus on both local and regional high school and college sports teams, including Penn State athletics. The Sunday Sports Frenzy will also include coverage of local dirt track and sprint car racing, an arena where the rabid fans have been underserved by local television news outlets.

To support the Sunday Sports Frenzy, WPMT has expanded the in-house roster of sports reporters and anchors. Anchor and Sports Director Todd Sadowski, who has been with WPMT since 2000, and weekend sports anchor Andrew Kalista are now joined by Lyndsay Barna and Alex Cawley.

Barna will be a familiar face to WPMT viewers, as she has been a reporter for the station since 2016. Cawley begin working for WPMT full-time this summer, following sports journalism jobs in Elmira, N.Y., and State College, Pa. All four will bring the Frenzy to life every week, not only with recaps and highlights, but with in-depth interviews with local athletes and other rising stars.

“We’re continuing to expand our Frenzy brand with the Sunday night sports show,” explained Sadowski. “We already have the High School Football Frenzy that airs from late August to late November, and focuses on one particular sport and all of the excitement that surrounds it. We feel the time is right to give our viewers an all-local sports show 52 weeks a year, and channel the energy of every sport’s season.”

Fox43 Sunday Sports Frenzy premieres this Sunday, Sept. 8, at 11 p.m. It will collect the week’s top stories into an hour-long show. The spotlight will be on the WPMT team’s latest special reports and investigations, providing a thorough look at Central Pennsylvania’s week in news. Fox43 News Featured will also re-present live interviews from earlier in the week, such as Matt Maisel’s “Capitol Beat” discussions with prominent Pennsylvania lawmakers.

“Our news staff puts in a lot of time and develops a ton of content that is both important and interesting to viewers,” says WPMT VP-GM Chris Topf. “Taking one hour each week to highlight our best reporting from the previous week is a fantastic way to give viewers another opportunity to see the work we do outside of a regular newscast.”

Fox43 News Featured premieres this Saturday, Sept. 7, at 6 a.m.