After decades of competition, the Pittsburgh TV station chopper wars are over with just one helicopter left flying. The beginning of the end started two years ago when KDKA-TV and WPXI-TV decided to share one helicopter. Prior to that, each station contracted for its own chopper. Now, KDKA and WPXI
For perhaps the first time ever, two of the legacy Big Three broadcast affiliates in Pittsburgh are no longer available to DISH Network subscribers in Western Pennsylvania. WPXI-TV has been off DISH since November 2022 in a retransmission dispute between WPXI parent Cox Media Group and DISH. Now, WTAE-TV is
Pittsburghers love TV, and data from a January 2023 Nielsen Insights report proves it. Even though Pittsburgh is now the 26th largest TV market nationally, it’s No. 1 in TV viewing in the top U.S. markets with the most advanced Nielsen measurement. Pittsburgh viewers ages 18 and older spend an
Q: For more than a year, WTAE-TV has used three anchors on its morning newscasts and when one of the anchors is off, they never use a substitute anchor in order to keep three people at the anchor desk at any one time. Why don’t they ever use a substitute
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: I haven’t seen Josh Taylor on weekend sports on Channel 2 or heard him on 93.7 The Fan in a while. Where has he been?