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WTOC-TV
Savannah, Georgia
Branding	WTOC 11 / THE News
Slogan	The Southeast News Leader
Channels	Analog: 11 (VHF) Digital: 15 (UHF)
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Raycom Media
Founded	February 14, 1954
Call letters meaning	Welcome To Our City
Former affiliations	CBS/NBC/ABC/DuMont (1954-1955) CBS/NBC/ABC (1955-1956) CBS/ABC (1956-1970)
Transmitter Power	316 kW (analog) 422 kW (digital)
Height	445 m (analog) 420 m (digital)
Facility ID	590
Transmitter Coordinates	32°3′14.7″N, 81°21′0.5″W
Website	www.wtoc.com

WTOC-TV, channel 11, is the CBS affiliate in Savannah, Georgia. Its transmitter is located in downtown Savannah.

Contents 1 History 2 News Department 3 Current Personalites 3.1 Anchors 3.1.1 Weekend/Fill-In Anchors 3.2 Reporters 3.3 Weather 3.4 Sports 3.5 Former Personalties 4 External links

In October 1929, WTOC-AM signed on as the first radio station in the Savannah area, an enterprise of the Junior Board of Trade, a civic group that was the forerunner of the Savannah Jaycees. It was later purchased by William Knight, Jr.

On Valentine's Day 1954, Knight took a great financial risk and established WTOC-TV as the first television station in the Savannah area. WTOC-AM had long been Savannah's CBS affiliate, so WTOC-TV joined CBS and has been with that network ever since. It carried programming from all three networks for two years until WSAV-TV signed on in 1956 and took the NBC affiliation. WTOC then shared ABC with WSAV until WJCL signed on in 1970.

In subsequent years, both AFLAC and Raycom Media owned WTOC-TV and vastly expanded the quantity of WTOC's news operation to build an organization that refers to itself as "The Southeast News Leader."

For many years, WTOC broadcast from a studio on Abercorn Street in downtown Savannah. They moved out to their new facilities out on the west side of Savannah at Chatham Parkway in 1995, known as "The News Place." Since that time, the downtown building has become the offices for the President of Savannah College of Art and Design. The station's large triangle tower can still be seen today along Abercorn Street.

The station airs 6 hours of news a day, a considerable amount for a station in the 98th market and far more than any other station in Savannah. Unlike most stations which change their graphics and audio after a few years of use, WTOC has used versions of Frank Gari's "Newschannel" since the late 1980's.

WTOC General Manager William Cathcart follows the station's 11PM newscast every two weeks or so with an editorial that espouses extremely right-wing political commentary. Though WTOC's website and mailing address are given after each of these incendiary segments, an opposing viewpoint is never presented on-air.

WTOC has been the market leader in the areas of new technology. They were the first to broadcast in digital television to the Savannah market in May of 2002. Then in June of 2006, WTOC switched from using DVC-PRO as a storage and playback method to a new electronic video storage system.

The station won both Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for news gathering efforts in 2003. In addition, the station pulled in 11 Georgia Associated Press Awards for the 2004. In 2005 Chris Clark won an Emmy for his football special and an Edward R. Murrow award for his story about a high school football player. In 2006 an Emmy was awarded to Mike Manhattan and Zach Powers for Freedom Fighters, a story about 3rd-ID Soldiers in Iraq. In 2007 Zach Powers, Alex Monarch and Chris Clark won an Emmy for editing a special series on Rosa Parks. The same year Chris Clark won the Emmy for best sports reporter.

• Sonny Dixon - 5:00, 6:00, Co-Host of Mid-Morning Live at 10:00am.
  
• Jody Chapin - 5:00, 6:00, Co-Host of Mid-Morning Live at 10:00am.
  
• Mike Manhatton - 5:30 & 11:00.
  
• Dawn Baker - 5:30 & 11:00.
  
• Mike Cihla - Daybreak anchor, Noon, Golf Tip Reporter.
  
• Karla Redditte - Daybreak.
  
• Steven Shoob - Update (airs during Early Show from 8-10am for 5 min updates)

• Liz Flynn- 6:00 7:00 (saturday), 6:30 (Sunday) & 11:00 anchor.
  
• Andrew Davis- Daybreak (saturday)

• Andrew Davis - (military, sports reporter)
• Ron Wallace - (general assignment reporter)
• Charles Gray - (electronics reporter/exec. producer)
• Dal Cannady - (bureau chief)
• Jaime Dailey - (low country reporter)
• David Hall - (general assignment reporter)
• Christy Hutchings - (nightbeat reporter)
• Brooke Kelley - (education reporter)
• Don Logana - (investigative reporter)
• Michelle Paynter - (crime beat reporter)
• Melanie Ruberti - (health notes reporter)

• Patrick Prokop - (Chief Meteorologist, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, & 11:00 weekdays)
• Dave Turley - (Meteorologist, Daybreak, & Noon weekdays)
• John Wetherbee - (Meteorologist, 6:00, 7:00, & 11:00 Saturday, 6:30 & 11:00 Sunday)
• Ron Wallace - (Weathercaster, Daybreak weekends)
• Melanie Ruberti - (Weathercaster, Fill in Weather)

• Rick Snow (Sports Director, 6:00 & 11:00 weekdays)
• Tiffany Greene (Sports Reporter)
• Melissa Maikos (Sports Reporter, Sports Anchor for Saturday evenings)
• Andrew Davis (Sports Reporter, Sports Anchor on Sunday Evenings)

• Jim Synnott
• Dan Hogan
• Richard Lantz
• Gary Apple
• Wendy Chioji
• Mark Middleton
• Doug Weathers
• Johnny Cole
• Kim Angelastro
• Hena Daniels
• Ryan Young
• Chris Clark
• Nicole Teigen
• Dmitra Denmark
• Holly Bristow

• WTOC-TV homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WTOC

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Savannah market  (Nielsen DMA #97)
WSAV 3 (NBC) (MNTV/RTN on DT2) - WVAN 9 (PBS/GPB) - WTOC 11 (CBS) - WJWJ 16 (PBS/SCETV) - WHDS 20 (HTVN) - WJCL 22 (ABC) - WTGS 28 (Fox) - WGSA 34/50 (The CW) - WXSX 46 (MTV2) - W48CX 48 (A1) - W57CT 57 (TBN) Defunct local cable television channels WBVH 13 (The WB)

v • d • e CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Georgia
WRBL 3 (Columbus) - WCTV 6 (Thomasville) - WTOC 11 (Savannah) - WRDW 12 (Augusta) - WMAZ 13 (Macon) - WNEG 32 (Toccoa/Athens) - WSWG 44 (Valdosta/Albany) - WGCL 46 (Atlanta)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Georgia

v • d • e Raycom Media
Corporate Staff	Paul McTear (President & CEO) · Wayne Daugherty · Marty Edelman · Leon Long · Jeff Rosser · Anne Adkins · Clyde Baucom · Rebecca Bryan · David Folsom · Mary Carloe McDonnell · Billy McDowell · Susana Schuler · Melissa Thurber
Network Affiliates	ABC Network Affiliates: KAIT · KLTV · KTRE · WLOX · WTVM CBS Network Affiliates: KFVS · KOLD · KSLA · WAFB · WBTV3 · WCSC3 · WOIO · WTOC · WTOL · WTVR4 The CW Network Affiliates: WQWQ · WUPV1 Fox Network Affiliates: WDFX · WFLX · WFXG1 · WPGX · WSFX1 · WTNZ · WXIX · WXTX1 MyNetworkTV Affiliates: KFVE · WBXH · WUAB NBC Network Affiliates: KCBD · KHNL/KHBC/KOGG  · KPLC · WAFF · WALB · WAVE · WDAM  · WECT · WFIE · WIS · WLBT · WMBF2  · WMC · WSFA · WWBT3 1Raycom Media owns and operates these stations through Southeastern Media Holdings. 2Scheduled to begin broadcasting in 2008. 3Acquisition of these stations from Lincoln Financial Media is awaiting FCC approval. 4Subject to sale once a buyer is found.
Annual Revenue: Unknown at this time. · Employees: 4,200 · Stock Symbol: None, privately held. · Website: www.raycommedia.com