WPSD-TV is the NBC

NBC

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-affiliated television station

Television station

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 for Western Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

's Jackson Purchase

Jackson Purchase

The Jackson Purchase is a region in the state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east. Although technically part of Kentucky at its statehood in 1792, the land did not come under definitive U.S. control until 1818, when...

, Southern Illinois, and the Missouri Bootheel. Licensed to Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah is the largest city in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase Region and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Ohio River, halfway between the metropolitan areas of St. Louis, Missouri, to the west and Nashville,...

, the station broadcasts a high definition

High-definition television

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 digital signal on UHF channel 32 (or virtual channel

Virtual channel

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 6.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky

Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky

Monkeys Eyebrow is an unincorporated rural community in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. It is generally the northwesternmost community in the Jackson Purchase area of western Kentucky that is identified on the highway maps distributed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet...

. The station can also be seen on Comcast

Comcast

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 channel 5, Mediacom

Mediacom

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 channel 6, and Charter

Charter Communications

Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...

 channel 10. There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 432, Mediacom digital channel 706, and Charter digital channel 785.

Owned by the Paxton Media Group

Paxton Media Group

Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah. David M. Paxton is president and CEO....

, WPSD has studios on Television Lane in Paducah. Syndicated

Television syndication

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 programming on the station includes Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)

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, Inside Edition

Inside Edition

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, Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

, and Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil (TV series)

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among others. It operates a low-powered repeater

Broadcast relay station

A broadcast relay station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator , rebroadcaster , or repeater is a broadcast transmitter which relays, repeats, or reflects the signal of another radio station or television station, usually to an area not covered by the signal of the originating station...

, W10AH channel 10, in Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, in the state of Illinois, within the Southern Illinois region. It is located at the junction of Illinois Route 13 and U.S. Route 51, southeast of St. Louis, Missouri, on the northern edge of the Shawnee National Forest...

 from a transmitter (sharing the WSIU-TV

WSIU-TV

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-FM

WSIU (FM)

WSIU is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk/information format. Licensed to Carbondale, Illinois, the station serves Southern Illinois...

 tower) on the Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...

 campus.

Digital programming

On WPSD-DT2, Mediacom digital channel 109, Charter digital channel 158, and Comcast digital channel 233 is the Retro Television Network

Retro Television Network

The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...

 (RTV). On WPSD-DT3, Mediacom digital channel 110, Charter digital channel 127, and Comcast digital channel 232 is a 24-hour local weather channel.

Channels	Name	Video	Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...	Programming
6.1	WPSD-HD	1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...	16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...	Main WPSD programming / NBC
6.2	WPSD-DT2	480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...	4:3	"RTV 6.2"
6.3	WPSD-DT3	480i	4:3	"The Weather Authority 24/7 Weather Channel"

History

The station signed-on as WPSD on May 28, 1957

1957 in television

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 with an analog signal on VHF channel 6. It has been and NBC affiliate and owned by the Paxton family for its entire existence alongside Western Kentucky's major newspaper, The Paducah Sun

The Paducah Sun

The Paducah Sun is a daily newspaper in Paducah, Kentucky owned by the family-run Paxton Media Group. The paper was formerly known as the Paducah Sun-Democrat. The publisher is Jim Paxton. Gary Adkisson is the general manager. Duke Conover is the executive editor.The Sun is the most-read newspaper...

. The station would add the -TV suffix to its call sign on April 23, 1979. The "PSD" letters in the calls stands for Paducah Sun-Democrat which was the paper's name at the time the station launched in 1957.

News operation

WPSD serves more than fifty counties in its large four state territory including all of Southeastern Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

, Southern Illinois

Illinois

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, Western Kentucky, and some of Western Tennessee. Among the area's big three outlets

Big Three Television Networks

The Big Three Television Networks are the three traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: ABC, CBS and NBC...

, the station has traditionally focused more on the Western Kentucky side since it is based in Paducah. In addition to its main studios, WPSD operates a bureau on South Illinois Avenue in Downtown Carbondale.

With headquarters in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau is a city located in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in Southeast Missouri in the United States. It is located approximately southeast of St. Louis and north of Memphis. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 37,941. A college town, it is the home of Southeast Missouri...

, CBS

CBS

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 affiliate KFVS-TV

KFVS-TV

KFVS-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southeastern Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois that is licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter north of the city in rural Cape...

 primarily features coverage of Southeastern Missouri although it also maintains a bureau in Southern Illinois. Meanwhile, the market

Media market

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's ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate WSIL-TV

WSIL-TV

WSIL-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Southern Illinois, Southeastern Missouri, and the Purchase area of Western Kentucky that is licensed to Harrisburg, Illinois. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter in Creal Springs, Illinois. Locally...

 focuses almost exclusively on Illinois from studios in Carterville

Carterville, Illinois

Carterville is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, in the United States, and is geographically situated between Carbondale, Illinois and Marion, Illinois. The city is located next to Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge's of land and water contain a wide diversity of flora and...

. This is despite the presence of full-time satellite KPOB in Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Poplar Bluff is a city in Butler County located in Southeast Missouri in the United States. It is the county seat of Butler County and is known as "The Gateway to the Ozarks" among other names. As of the 2000 U.S...

. In fact, WSIL does not even mention the region's other two main cities (Paducah and Cape Girardeau) in its on-air identifications.

For several years, WPSD produced a nightly prime time newscast on Fox affiliate KBSI

KBSI

KBSI is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Missouri Bootheel, Southern Illinois, and Western Kentucky's Jackson Purchase. Licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in rural Cape Girardeau County north of the...

 (owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group

The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...

) through a news share agreement. The thirty minute show was known as Local 6 News at 9 on Fox 23 and featured a regional summary of headlines because KBSI is based in Cape Girardeau. For awhile, the broadcast competed with KFVS' own nightly prime time news at 9 seen on the area's low-powered CW affiliates WQTV-LP/WQWQ-LP

WQTV-LP

WQTV-LP is a low-powered television station in Murray, Kentucky. Licensed to the city, the station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter along U.S. 641 between Murray and the Tennessee state line. WQWQ-LP is another low-powered television station in Paducah, Kentucky...

.

That newscast, however, was produced specifically for Southeastern Missouri viewers. It would eventually be cancelled on July 29, 2007. WPSD's outsourcing arrangement with KBSI expired on September 30, 2010. The next day, the latter entered into a new partnership with KFVS presumably to refocus the prime time production to the Missouri Bootheel area and expand it to sixty minutes every night. With that addition, KFVS now offers more than thirty hours of local news each week and continues to retain its market dominance as the most watched outlet. On October 3, 2010, WPSD brought back its own newscast at 9 to its RTV and 24-hour local weather subchannels. Known as The Nine and seen every night for a half-hour, this is simulcasted on those two services.

On October 6, 2010, WSIL became the first station in the region to offer local news in high definition. KFVS has made plans to complete an upgrade to HD at some point in the near future. Broadcasts on WPSD remain in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition and it is unknown when the station intends to upgrade to either 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen

Widescreen

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 or full high definition level. Like all RTV affiliates in the Central Time Zone

Central Time zone

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, WPSD-DT2 airs the nationally syndicated show Daytime weekday mornings at 8 for an hour. Sam Champion

Sam Champion

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, who is the current weekday weather anchor on ABC's Good Morning America

Good Morning America

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, got his start at the station.

News team

Anchors

• Mike Mallory - weekday mornings and noon (also "Gourmet Minutes with Mallory" segment producer)
• Johnette Worak - weekday mornings and weeknights at noon (also medical reporter)
• Marissa Hollowed - weekday 4:30am anchor & weekday mornings reporter
• Scott McGee - weeknights at 5, 6, and 10
• Jennifer Horbelt - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 (also reporter)
• Gerran Thomas - weeknights at 9 also reporter weeknights at 5 and 6
• Julie Collins - Saturday mornings and weekday morning reporter
• Todd Faulkner - weekend evenings and Sundays at 9 (also reporter three days a week)
• TBD - Saturdays at 9
• Robert Shrader - Bluegrass & Backroads host
• Matt Hilton - Bluegrass & Backroads host
• Jason Lindsey - "Hooked on Science" Host

Weather Authority Meteorologists

• Jennifer Rukavina - Chief seen weeknights at 6 and 10
• Kyle Mounce (AMS
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   and NWA
  National Weather Association
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   Seals of Approval) - weeknights at 5 and 9
• John Champion - weekday mornings
• Trent Okerson - weekdays at noon and weekends

Sports (all seen on Gridiron Glory)

• Jeff Bidwell - Director
  Sports Director
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  seen weeknights at 6, 9, and 10
• Tom Annino - weekend evenings and sports reporter
• Brandon Davidow - sports reporter

Reporters

• Kelli Colwell - "Gourmet Minutes with Mallory" segment producer
• Robert Bradfield - Southern Illinois weeknights at 5 and 6
• Jonathan Warren - multimedia journalist
• Jason Hibbs - weeknights at 10
• Lauren Adams