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49-673: The ownership corporation, Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp., was a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times Company (publisher of The New York Times and The Boston Globe ) from 2000 to 2013. In 2013, the New York Times Company sold both the T & G and the Globe to John W. Henry , owner of the Boston Red Sox , although Henry told staff at the Worcester paper he intended to sell it as soon as possible. In 2014, Henry sold

98-466: A $ 1.32 billion group deal with Tegna and the E. W. Scripps Company . The sale was completed on September 19, 2019. Until the 1980s, WHO-TV frequently preempted NBC programming in favor of local shows. For instance, it only ran Days of Our Lives for 37 of its 57 years on NBC, beginning with the soap opera 's 20th season and ending with its move to the streaming service Peacock in September 2022; in

147-726: A 40% interest in the Popcorn Channel, a theatrical movie preview and local movie times, in November 1994. In 1996, it expanded upon its broadcasting by purchasing Palmer Communications, owners of WHO-DT in Des Moines and KFOR in Oklahoma City . The company completed its purchase of The Washington Post 's 50 percent interest in the International Herald Tribune ( IHT ) for US$ 65 million on January 1, 2003, becoming

196-520: A children's E/I programming block on Saturdays from 7 to 10 a.m. On August 22, 2016, WHO-DT began broadcasting This TV on digital subchannel 13.4. In October 2019, subchannel 13.4 flipped to Court TV . In May 2023, "Iowa's Weather Channel" returned, but this time on 13.4, effectively dropping Court TV from its subchannel lineup. WHO-TV launched digital television programming on channel 19 as WHO-DT on January 10, 2001. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on February 17, 2009,

245-504: A letter of intent to create a third-party broadcast management company to provide shared services to all of Local TV and Tribune's stations. The company functioned as a wholly owned subsidiary of Tribune Company, and provided back-office services, administration, and a number of other functions to the stations. The most noticeable byproducts of this partnership were the redesigned websites of WHO-TV and Local TV's other stations, which were launched during late January and into February 2009, using

294-697: A local lifestyle magazine. Before their sale to Community Newspaper Company in 1993, the T&;G also owned the Hudson Sun and Marlboro Enterprise daily newspapers and Beacon Communications Corporation weekly newspapers in western Middlesex County, Massachusetts . The New York Times Company The New York Times Company is an American mass-media company that publishes The New York Times and its associated publications and other media properties. Its headquarters are in Manhattan , New York City . The company

343-525: A move opposite to what most other TV stations across the country have done (competitor WOI retained its "-DT" suffix as well). In the spring of 2011, the station unofficially changed its call letters to "WHO-HD". WHO-DT was previously repeated on analog translators K27CV (channel 27) in Ottumwa and K66AL (channel 66) in Clarinda . The Ottumwa translator was operated by a local non-profit organization , while

392-635: A news share agreement with Fox affiliate KDSM-TV (owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group). The big three station then began producing a Des Moines-based prime time newscast known as Channel 13 News at Nine on Fox 17 . KDSM previously had its 9 p.m. broadcast produced by Sinclair sister outlet KGAN in Cedar Rapids. Originating from WHO-TV's primary set at its facilities on Grand Avenue in Downtown Des Moines (with separate duratrans indicating

441-426: A prime time newscast for Pax TV (now Ion Television ) owned-and-operated station KFPX-TV in 2001, and later reran its 10 p.m. news on that station. For the better part of its history, WHO-TV was a solid, if usually distant, runner-up to CBS affiliate KCCI in the ratings. It managed to close the gap somewhat at the turn of the century. In February 2010, WHO-TV overtook KCCI in the mornings and at 6 p.m. The latter

490-513: A third of the company's board. As of June 2024: The company sponsors a series of national and local awards designed to highlight the achievements of individuals and organizations in different realms. In 2007, it inaugurated its first Nonprofit Excellence Award, awarded to four organizations "for the excellence of their management practices". Only nonprofits in New York City, Long Island , or Westchester were eligible. Jointly with

539-454: Is multiplexed : In 2008, WHO-TV introduced Iowa's Weather Plus, a 24-hour weather channel affiliated with NBC Weather Plus . This station airs on digital channel 13.2 and Mediacom digital channel 246. Although the national feed of NBC's Weather Plus has been discontinued, the format continues with the new branding of "Iowa's Weather Channel". Besides the rolling weather coverage, it airs a repeat of WHO-DT's midday newscast at 2 p.m., as well as

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588-484: Is a television station in Des Moines, Iowa , United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Nexstar Media Group . The station's studios are located on Grand Avenue in downtown Des Moines, and its transmitter is located in Alleman, Iowa . Although WHO-DT's call letters sound like "who" if pronounced as a word, the station is never referred to in that manner; it is always mentioned on air as "W-H-O". WHO-TV signed on

637-511: Is the largest local newscast output among any station in Des Moines and the state of Iowa. It was in 1976 that WHO-TV formed its most popular news team: Jack Cafferty , Phil Thomas, Jerry Reno and Jim Zabel all were hired for the Des Moines variation of the Eyewitness News format. By 1977, Cafferty had become one of the nation's most sought after local TV anchors, even being represented by

686-662: The American Library Association . The award has been given to ten exceptional librarians annually since that date. In May 2009, the company launched The New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award to honor an American playwright who had recently had his or her professional debut in New York. The first winner was Tarell Alvin McCraney for his play "The Brothers Size". In 2010, Dan LeFranc won for his play "Sixty Miles to Silver Lake". WHO-DT WHO-DT (channel 13)

735-534: The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association , the New York Times Company sponsors an award to honor librarians "for service to their communities". The I Love My Librarian! award was given to ten recipients in December 2008, and presented by the New York Times Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson , Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian , and Jim Rettig, president of

784-658: The Evening Gazette in the afternoon—were published by the same company, with separate editorial staffs in some departments. The two were merged into a single Telegram & Gazette upon their acquisition by Chronicle Publishing Company , publishers of the San Francisco Chronicle , in 1986. The Chronicle sold the Telegram & Gazette to The New York Times Company in 1999. The paper's previous owners also owned Worcester radio station WTAG until selling it after

833-621: The NBC Radio Network . Palmer Communications , which since the 1970s had been the name of the Palmer family's holding company, sold off their broadcast holdings in 1996, with WHO-TV and sister station KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City going to The New York Times Company . Up to that time, channel 13 had been the last locally owned commercial station in Des Moines. WHO radio, which was eventually acquired by Jacor Communications (which later merged with Clear Channel Communications ), continued to occupy

882-571: The William Morris Agency . Cafferty left WHO that year to join NBC's flagship station WNBC-TV in New York City and was with CNN until 2012. Knowing of his departure, WHO-TV ran a transitional ad where he was photographed next to Phil Thomas, who was in the foreground. Following Cafferty's departure, his place was taken by Greg Burden, a former college basketball player from Los Angeles who

931-508: The 1960s and 1970s, the station aired a 90-minute movie between 12:30 and 2 p.m. For its first 23 years on the air, WHO-TV had a competing station in KQTV/KVFD-TV in Fort Dodge . WHO-TV presently broadcasts 36 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the numbers of hours devoted to programming, it

980-863: The City", etc. The local news section also includes local news stories and obituaries. All editorials and letters to the editor appear in the regional opinion and op-ed pages of the main news section. The Sunday Telegram includes the county's largest classified ad listings, Business Matters section, News, Local and Editorial pages, Living and Homes, and Cars sections, a tabloid-sized comic section and an in-house created Arts, Culture and Travel Section, which replaced similar sections that used to be reprinted in full from The Boston Globe . The Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corporation owns Coulter Press , which publishes several weekly newspapers in suburban towns northeast and east of Worcester. The Telegram staff also produces Worcester Living (formerly Worcester Quarterly ),

1029-454: The Fox show), the nightly prime time program currently airs for an hour on weeknights and thirty minutes on weekends. KDSM features the majority of WHO-TV's on-air team but maintains a separate news anchor on weeknights. Unlike other outsourced news arrangements at Sinclair-owned television stations, KDSM uses the same music and graphics package scheme as seen on this NBC affiliate. WHO had also produced

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1078-482: The New York Times Company acquired subscription-based audio app, Audm. In July 2020, the New York Times Company acquired podcast production company Serial Productions . The same month, the company appointed chief operating officer Meredith Kopit Levien to the position of CEO. In February 2022, the New York Times Company bought The Athletic , a subscription-based sports news website, for $ 550 million. Its founders, Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, stayed with

1127-639: The New York Times Company sold The Boston Globe and other New England media properties to John W. Henry , the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox . According to the Times Company, the move was made in order to focus more on its core brands. After forming an editorial partnership with the New York Times in 2015, The Wirecutter was acquired by the Times in October 2016 for a reported $ 30 million. In March 2020,

1176-594: The Tribune Interactive platform also used by the websites of Tribune-owned stations. However, on March 7, 2012, following the lead of Local TV's Fox-affiliated stations, WHO-DT became the first of Local TV's "Big Three" network-affiliated stations to migrate its Web site away from Tribune Digital (successor to Tribune Interactive) to a new host, WordPress.com VIP. On July 1, 2013, Local TV announced that it would be acquired outright by Tribune Broadcasting, making WHO-DT and KFOR Tribune's first NBC affiliates. The sale

1225-578: The air on April 15, 1954, as the third television station in Des Moines, after WOI-TV (channel 5) and KGTV (channel 17). It was signed on by the Tri-City Broadcasting Company, which was owned by the Palmer family, owners of WHO radio ( AM 1040 and FM 100.3, now KDRB ). The Palmers had competed with KIOA for the channel 13 license and won it after reaching a settlement. It has always been an NBC affiliate, having inherited this affiliation from WOI-TV and owing to WHO's long affiliation with

1274-580: The company announced that WQXR was to be sold to WNYC , which moved the station to 105.9 FM and began to operate the station noncommercially on October 8, 2009. This US$ 45 million transaction, which involved Univision Radio 's WCAA moving to the 96.3 FM frequency from 105.9 FM, ended the Times' 65-year-long ownership of the station. In December 2011, the company sold its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Group , owners of The Daytona Beach News-Journal , for $ 143 million. The Boston Globe and The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester were not part of

1323-574: The company announced that its About.com web information service was acquiring Consumersearch.com, a Web site that compiles reviews of consumer products, for $ 33 million in cash. In 2007, the company moved from 229 West 43rd Street to the New York Times Building at 620 Eighth Avenue, on the west side of Times Square , between 40th and 41st streets across from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Bus Terminal . On July 14, 2009,

1372-491: The company owns The New York Times International Edition and related digital properties including NYTimes.com, as well as various brand-related properties. Since September 25, 1997, the company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYT. From April 27, 1967, until January 13, 1969, the company's Class A common stock traded over the counter. From January 14, 1969, until September 24, 1997,

1421-473: The company to 8.1% of Class A shares, and again in 2015, when he exercised stock options—acquired as part of a repayment plan on the 2009 loan—to purchase 15.9   million Class A shares, making him the largest shareholder. As of March 7, 2016, Slim owned 17.4% of the company's Class A shares, according to annual filings submitted by the company. While Slim is the largest shareholder in the company, his investment only allows him to vote for Class A directors,

1470-538: The deal and sue Sinclair for breach of contract . Following the Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Media Group of Irving, Texas , announced its purchase of Tribune Media on December 3, 2018, for $ 6.4 billion in cash and debt. As Nexstar already owned ABC affiliate WOI-DT and CW affiliate KCWI-TV (channel 23), the company agreed on March 20, 2019, to divest the WOI/KCWI duopoly to Tegna Inc. as part of

1519-448: The digital operating center". The New York Times reported on January 4, 2007, that the company had reached an agreement to sell all nine local television stations to the private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners , which then created a holding company for the stations, Local TV LLC . The company announced that it had finalized the sale of its Broadcast Media Group on May 7, 2007, for "approximately $ 575 million". On May 7, 2007,

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1568-404: The first commercial station in Des Moines to launch fully into high definition television. On September 8, 2014, the station premiered a 4 p.m. newscast with Ellen ' s move to KCCI. The station decided not to fill the timeslot with syndicated programming as all the ad revenue in the hour goes to the station, especially during popular political advertising seasons. The station's signal

1617-463: The market. It was the first area station to use videotape and the first to broadcast from news events live. It was also the first station to use live Doppler radar and the first to broadcast in high definition (during the 2002 Winter Olympics ) and air local news segments in high definition. On April 22, 2009, channel 13 became the second station in Des Moines broadcasting all in-studio news in widescreen standard definition. On May 19, 2010, WHO-HD became

1666-447: The newspaper company finance its businesses". The New York Times Company later repaid that loan ahead of schedule. Since then, Slim has bought large quantities of the company's Class A shares, which are available for purchase by the public and offer less control over the company than Class B shares, which are privately held. Slim's investments in the company included large purchases of Class A shares in 2011, when he increased his stake in

1715-557: The newspapers were divested, in 1987. In 2018, owner GateHouse Media acquired Holden Landmark Corporation, owner of the alternative weekly Worcester Magazine . The weekday Telegram & Gazette contains national, state and local news, as well as sports, business, and a feature stories. On Thursdays Worcester Magazine is inserted in the paper highlighting local artists and events in the area. The paper's regular reporters also contribute regular or occasional columns with names such as "Barnestorming", "City Hall Notebook", "Politics and

1764-477: The original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 19 to VHF channel 13. With the conversion to digital, the station also retired the longtime WHO-TV call sign in favor of WHO-DT,

1813-467: The paper to Halifax Media Group . In 2015, Halifax was acquired by New Media Investment Group . On January 22, 1913, the Worcester Telegram ran a story ("Thorpe with Professional Baseball Team Says Clancy"), soon picked up by other papers, that led to Jim Thorpe being stripped of his 1912 Olympic titles, medals and awards. Until the 1980s, two papers—the Worcester Telegram in the morning and

1862-726: The publication, which is run separately from the Times . Later that month, it acquired Wordle , an Internet word puzzle game that grew from 90 players in October 2021 to millions at the time of purchase. ValueAct Capital took a stake in the company in August 2022. ValueAct aims to encourage the company to more actively pursue the sale of "bundled" subscriptions to its various offerings. The paper bought AM radio station WQXR (1560   kHz) in 1944. Its "sister" FM station, WQXQ, became WQXR-FM (96.3   MHz). Branded as "The Stereo Stations of The New York Times ", its classical music radio format

1911-486: The sale. In 2011, the Times sold Baseline StudioSystems back to its original owners, Laurie S. Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, majority shareholders of Project Hollywood LLC . Facing falling revenue from print advertising in its flagship publication in 2011, The New York Times , the company introduced a paywall to its website. As of 2012, it had been modestly successful, garnering several hundred thousand subscriptions and about $ 100 million in annual revenue. In 2013,

1960-508: The same building until it moved to another building in 2005. While WHO-TV was co-owned with WHO radio, it used an owl as its mascot. On January 4, 2007, The New York Times entered into an agreement to sell its entire television division, including WHO-TV, to private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners . Oak Hill created Local TV LLC as a holding company for the former New York Times stations. The sale closed on May 7, 2007. On December 20, 2007, Local TV and Tribune Company entered into

2009-584: The shares were traded on the American Stock Exchange . Of the two categories of stock, Class A and Class B, the former is publicly traded and the latter is held privately—largely (over 90% through The 1997 Trust) by the descendants of Adolph Ochs , who purchased The New York Times newspaper in 1896. On January 20, 2009, The New York Times reported that its parent company, the New York Times Company, had reached an agreement to borrow $ 250   million from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim , "to help

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2058-561: The sole owner. On March 18, 2005, the company acquired About.com , an online provider of consumer information, for US$ 410 million. In 2005, the company reported revenues of US$ 3.4 billion to its investors . The Times, on August 25, 2006, acquired Baseline StudioSystems, an online database and research service on the film and television industries for US$ 35 million. The company announced on September 12, 2006, its decision to sell its Broadcast Media Group, consisting of "nine network-affiliated television stations, their related Web sites and

2107-476: The then-budding comedian Steve Martin and bloopers from the news were on the inaugural show of NBC's Real People . (Said bloopers aired as part of the show locally on WHO-TV and have been uploaded to YouTube .) By 1979, Phil Thomas had risen to become the news director at the station, as reported in the Guthrie Center Times , where he began his news career. On September 2, 2008, WHO-TV entered into

2156-546: Was completed on December 27. Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has owned KDSM-TV since 1996, entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $ 3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $ 2.7 billion in Tribune debt. The deal received significant scrutiny over Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties, prompting the FCC to designate it for hearing and leading Tribune to terminate

2205-511: Was finally purchased by Disney ; in late 2014, it was sold to Family Radio (a religious radio network) and became WFME . In 2009, WQXR-FM was sold to the WNYC radio group and, on October 8, moved from 96.3 to 105.9   MHz (swapping frequencies with Spanish-language station WXNY-FM , which wanted the more powerful transmitter to increase its coverage) and began operating it as a noncommercial, public radio station. Alongside its namesake newspaper,

2254-468: Was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. The first edition of the newspaper The New York Times , published on September 18, 1851, stated: "We publish today the first issue of the New-York Daily Times, and we intend to issue it every morning (Sundays excepted) for an indefinite number of years to come." The company moved into the cable channel industry, purchasing

2303-537: Was hired away from KMOX-TV (now KMOV ) in St. Louis . Although his personality clicked with fellow newscasters, Thomas complained that the fact that Burden was bigger than him had made him look like a circus midget. Later in the decade the humor on Eyewitness News , combined with the two anchors' constant ribbing, was a source of annoyance for the Palmers, particularly when audience research showed that viewers compared Phil Thomas to

2352-507: Was significant, as it was the first time that channel 8 had lost the lead at 6 in decades. In the May 2011 ratings period, WHO-TV surged ahead as central Iowa's news leader, claiming a ratings victory in the majority of weekday newscasts (morning, 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.) KCCI retained a narrow lead at 10 p.m. WHO-TV held the lead in most timeslots until February 2013, when KCCI beat WHO-TV by a decisive margin in every timeslot. WHO-TV has many firsts in

2401-508: Was simulcast on both the AM & FM frequencies until December 1992, when the big-band and pop standards music format of station WNEW (1130   kHz – now WBBR /"Bloomberg Radio") was transferred to and adopted by WQXR; in recognition of the format change, WQXR changed its call letters to WQEW (a "hybrid" combination of " WQ XR" and "WN EW "). By 1999, The New York Times was leasing WQEW to ABC Radio for its " Radio Disney " format. In 2007, WQEW

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