WCTN

WCTN is an ABC affiliate. It broadcasts on channel 11 and serves the Coast City, NY area.
==History==
===As WMXN-TV (1952-1974)===
WCTN signed on for the first time as WMXN-TV on November 1952 as a low powered station owned by City Broadcasting for the Coast City market, notably being the first station in said market to sign on following the end of the FCC's license freeze. While the signal covered the entirety of Coast City, signal reception was inconsistent, meaning that it could either fluctuate or function normally, depending on the distance one's antenna was. The station's newscast would debut at the end of 1952, It wasn't the butt-of-the-joke in Coast City news, but it wasn't really taken seriously. That quickly changed in 1969 when they started to make a name for themselves with the hiring of news director Quentin McDouglas.
It finally started to gain traction by the '70s with the rise in success for the ABC television network (which the station is affiliated with), this allowed WMXN to upgrade their transmitters from Low-Power to High-Power.
===As WCTN-TV (1974-Present)===
One other big change was when WMXN changed its call-sign to WCTN (Coast CiTy New York) on April 12, 1974, the following year, WCTN debuted "The Good Lookin' 11" branding (later shortened slightly to "Good Lookin' 11) and with it, a new logo encased in a circle. That would last only 5 years before being replaced with a stylized "11" logo which was used until 1983, before being replaced a new variant of the "Circle 11 Logo". Around 1984, City Entertainment decided to opt-out of broadcasting and sold both KOCA and WCTN (KOCA went to the Cox Media Group before being sold to Sinclair in 2013). Hearst Broadcasting (now Hearst Television) would finalize its acquisition of WCTN on January 8, 1985 after announcing it 6 months prior. In 1992, it was announced that WCTN would produce a 10PM newscast for WKBC (then owned by Meredith Corporation). 
On January 1996, Coast City, along with the Northeastern United States was hit with by nor'easter blizzard that ended up obscuring WCTN's studio entrance door, and even caused one part of the studio's roof to collapse. While the blizzard didn't damage the transmitters of the time, it did make reception a nightmare. Following this, WCTN became more alert and always planned ahead of a dangerous situation/storm. 
Starting in 1998, WCTN became the one of the first television stations in Coast City to sign-on new Digital Signals. Around 2008, WCTN announced that they would go High-Definition, and move to a new studio in the future. WCTN would move there on August 7, but wouldn't go HD until January 1, 2009, due to multiple technical issues. 
Hurricane Sandy greatly devastated a good amount of the Eastern United States and Coast City was no exception. While WCTN planned ahead after the 1996 nor'easter blizzard, they did not consider their digital transmitters being destroyed, and as such, those transmitters had suffered severe damage. Said transmitters still functioned, but had to be repaired due to severe structural damage. This did not affect people viewing from a cable service, as programming had been received through optical fibers.
==Announcer(s)==
*Dude Walker (1990-1995)
*Scott Chapin (1995-2001)
*Chris Clausen (2001-2003)
*Paul Turner (2003-2013)
*Chris Corley (2014-2016)
*David Kaye (2016–Present)
==Newscast Presentation==
WCTN produces 39 hours of local news every week (6 hours every weekday, and 4.5 hours every weekend). It has been leading in the weekday 6:00 & 11:00 P.M. timeslot since 2006 and has constantly competed with WBTV in the weekday 12:00 & 5:30 P.M. slot
===Notable Current On-Air Staff===
*Bates Rommel - Sports Anchor; Weekday Morning & Noon Newscasts (2006–Present)
*Brent Woodward - Traffic Reporter; Weekday Morning Newscasts (2016–Present)
*Cassidy Palmer - Sports Anchor/Director; Weekday 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (1997–Present)
*Cody Parker - Chief Meteorologist; Weekday 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (1989–Present)
*Elena Hodgkins - Anchor; Weekend 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (2010–Present)
*Jamie Grant - General Assignments Reporter (1981–Present)
*Jessica Santiago - Anchor; Weekday 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (1997–Present)
*Kevin Benz - Meteorologist; Weekend 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (2008–Present)
*Lass Ward - Anchor; Weekend 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (1994–Present)
*Patrica Staten - General Assignments Reporter (2003–Present)
*Ryan Portman - Sports Anchor; Weekday 5 P.M. Newscasts (2012–Present)
*Sandra Francis - Reporter (2017–Present)
*Scott Sculley - Traffic Reporter; Weekend Morning Newscasts (2008–Present)
*Steve Miller - Special Assignments Reporter (1996–Present)
*Trent Zine - Meteorologist; Weekday 5 P.M. Newscasts (2015–Present)
*Wendell Frank - Anchor; Weekday 6 & 11 P.M. Newscasts (1994–Present)
===Notable Former On-Air Staff===
*Aimee Allenby - Anchor (1984-1998. Now with KOCA)
*Don Friz - Chief Meteorologist (1967-1991)
*Bob Hymer - Meteorologist (1955-1970, retired)
*Carl Levine - Anchor (1999-2013, now with KSCW)
*Kane Stevens - Traffic Reporter (1993-1994, now with WNBS)
*Len Micheals - Anchor (1982-1994, now with KCMH)
*Quentin Devin - Reporter (1973-1992, later with WDWF from 1992-1996 & WMCW from 1996-2009, retired 2009)
*Tracy Parson - Sports Anchor (1952-1986, retired 1986, passed away 2006)
*Jason Campbell - Sports Director (1982-2000, later with KMOO, retired 2014)
===Newscast Music/Themes===
*Will-O'-The-Wisp - Passport (1979-1983)
*KTLA 1982 News Theme (1983-1988)
*Palmer News Package - Shelly Palmer Company (1988-1993)
*Brave New World - Shelly Palmer Company (1993-1995)
*Image News - Gari Media Group (1995-2001, March–September 2003)
*Revolution - Gari Media Group (2001-2003)
*Hearst TV News Music Package: Live Local Late-Breaking - Newsmusic Central (2003-2005)
*Hearst TV News Music Package: Coverage You Can Count On - Newsmusic Central (2005-2013)
*Strive - inthegroovemusic (2013–Present)
===Newscast Titles===
*WCTN News (1952-1969)
*The Big 11 News (1969-1972)
*Newswatch (1972-1979)
*The Coast City News (1979-1982)
*The Channel 11 News (1982-1988)
*WCTN 11 News (1988-1995 & 2013–Present)
*WCTN News 11 (later shortened to "News 11", 1995-2013)
===News Voiceover History===
*Channel 11 News. The Northeast's look on the news that's happening right now. Presented by (anchor), (anchor), (and) (meteorologist), (and) ((sportscaster)'s sports), (and) (commentary by (commentator)). And now, Channel 11 News at X A.M./P.M. (1984-1988)
*WCTN-TV brings you (anchor), (anchor), (and) (meteorologist) with weather, (and) ((sportscaster) with sports), (and) (commentary from (commentator)). Live and serving the Northeast, this is WCTN 11 News. (1988-1992)
*For Coverage You Can Count On, 24/7. (anchor), (anchor), (meteorologist), (sportscaster), (commentator). WCTN 11 News, Morning Edition/at X (1992-1995)
*WCTN-TV. Coast City. This WCTN News 11! Live. Local. Late-Breaking! (1995-1997)
*WCTN-TV Coast City. Live. Local. Late-Breaking. This is WCTN News 11. (1997-1998)
*This, is WCTN-TV! Channel 11, Coast City! News that's Live. Local. Late-Breaking! Throughout Coast City and the Northeast. This, is WCTN News 11, Morning Edition/at X! (1998-2001)
*This is WCTN Television in Coast City. Covering Northeast New York & Home of SkyCam11, this is WCTN News 11 In The Morning/at X. Live. Local. Late-Breaking. (2001-2005)
*Leading the way, with Important Local Coverage, and covering all of Northeastern New York. This, is WCTN News 11 In The Morning/at X. (2005-2009)
*Leading the way, with Important Local Coverage. And. In High-definition. This is News 11 In The Morning/at X.(not counting 11PM) (2009-2011)
*Leading the way, with Important Local Coverage. And. In High-definition. News 11 at 11, starts now! (2009-2011)
*Leading the way, with Important Local Coverage. News 11 Nightteam, starts now! On Coast City's My 9. (2009-2011)
*Important. Local. Coverage. This is News 11 this Morning/at X. (2011-January 2013)
*Important Local Coverage, this is News 11 Nightteam on Coast City's My 9. (2011-January 2013)
*Important Local Coverage. This is WCTN 11 News this Morning/at X (January–December 2013)
*This is WCTN 11 News, Nightteam. On Coast City's My 9 (2013–Present)
*Leading the way. With Important Local Coverage across Northeast New York. This is WCTN 11 News this Morning/at X (2014-2016)
*With Important Local Coverage, this is WCTN 11 News this Morning/at X (2016-2020)
*Covering major news across the Northeast. This, is WCTN 11 News this Morning/at X. (2020–Present)
==Gallery==
File:WCTN 11 News 1983-1988 logo.png|Channel 11 News logo prior to 1988
File:WCTN 11 News 1988-1991 logo.png|First WCTN 11 News logo from 1988-1991
File:WCTN 11 News 1991-1995 logo.png|2nd WCTN 11 News logo (1991-1995)
WCTN 11 News.png|Logo used for newscasts
File:WCTN 11 News 1992 open.png|News open from 1992-1995
WCTN News 11 1995 open.png|Old news open (1995-1998)
File:WCTN Storm Tracker Open.png|Storm Tracker open from 1995-2001
WCTN News 11 Ice Storm 1998 Special Open (VHS).png|Special news open used exclusively during the 1998 ice storm
WCTN open 1998-2000.png|Pre-2001 version of the 1998-2005 news open
WCTN 2000 open.png|2001-2005 variant of the 1998 news open
WCTN 11 News open 2004.png|Former news open from 2005-2009
WCTN 2009-2011 open.png|News open from when WCTN went HD (2009-2011)
WCTN 2011 open.png|Previous news open from 2011-2013, before the switch to the "Diagrid" graphics
WCTN 11 Studios.png|WCTN's former news studio from 1992-2008
WCTN 11 Studios 2008.png|WCTN's current studio of operations since 2008
WCTN 1996 ID.png|1995-1998 Station ID that plays before Newscasts
WCTN 1998 ID.png|1998-2004 Station ID that plays before newscasts
WCTN 1998.png|Screencap of WCTN News 11 from 1998, showing the lower thirds and on-screen bug (Both date back to 1995) at the time.
WCTN 11 boxed 1995.png|Old boxed version of the current logo, used until 2008.
WCTN 11 2008 Boxed.png|Slightly modified version of the 1995 boxed logo with added ABC logo of the time (2008-2013)
WCTN 11 boxed 2013.png|2008 variant of the boxed logo, with 2013 ABC logo. Used since 2013.
WCTN 1983.png|Circle 11 logo used by WCTN from 1983-1995 (This particular one is from 1983-1991)
WCTN Studio.png|Mock-up of one part of the interior of the studio
WCTN watermark.svg|Watermark, used during syndicated programming
File:WCTN 1988-1996 EBS Test.png|Emergency Broadcast System test slide from C. December 1996 (This particular slide was a logo plaster of one that had been in use starting in 1988)
File:WCTN EAS Test (1997-2000).png|EAS Test slide from 1997-2000
Category:Coast City
Category:New York
Category:Channel 11
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Hearst Television
Category:Hearst Communications
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1952