WSEE-TV
Encyclopedia
WSEE-TV, channel 35, is an CBS
-affiliated television station
located in Erie, Pennsylvania
, USA. WSEE-TV is owned by Lilly Broadcasting, and is operated by NBC
affiliate WICU-TV
(channel 12) through a local marketing agreement
. The two stations both share studios on State Street in downtown Erie, and a transmitter located in Greene Township, Pennsylvania
.
channel 3 and WICU's second digital subchannel. WSEE-DT2 gets all of its programming from The CW Plus
.
programming was shared by WSEE and WICU until WJET-TV
signed-on in 1966. UPN
content was aired on weekends by WSEE beginning January 16, 1995. In 1998, this station launched a cable-only WB affiliate as part of The WB 100+
. It had the fictional call sign "WBEP". On January 24, 2006, UPN and The WB announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. On September 18 of that year, WSEE launched a new second digital subchannel to simulcast "WBEP" allowing non-cable subscribers access to the new network. That station began official use of the call sign WSEE-DT2 and became part of The CW Plus. This service is similar to The WB 100+.
Back in 2002, WICU entered into a local marketing agreement with WSEE. From that point until June 1, 2009, this station continued to operate from its own studios on Peach Street
(U.S. 19
) in Downtown Erie. On that date, WSEE merged into WICU's facilities on State Street. On February 17, 2009 at noon, WSEE-TV's digital signal remained on channel 16 when the analog to digital conversion was completed. On May 14, Lilly Broadcasting advised all off-air staffers at WSEE that their services would no longer be required. Most on-air personnel have continued to work through the duration of the contracts although at least one (WICU reporter Kelsie Smith) was moved to sister station WENY-TV
in Elmira, New York
; two vacant WICU meteorologist positions were eliminated; and another (WSEE news anchor Raychel Vendetti) was laid-off outright.
Its over-the-air digital broadcast
signal covers Erie
, Warren
, and Crawford
counties in Pennsylvania; reaches east to Jamestown, New York
, west to Ashtabula, Ohio
, north to London
and Hamilton
in Ontario, and south to Clarion, Pennsylvania
. The station can also be seen via satellite in North America
and the Caribbean
through C band
. It is available in Costa Rica
through one of the country's major cable providers, Cabletica, and in Puerto Rico
on all three cable companies serving the island as well as part of the locals package on Dish Network
. WSEE currently only distributes CBS's prime time and most daytime programming in HD. All news and syndicated programming are broadcast in standard definition even though some of the network and syndication companies have made HD feeds of those shows available.
in London, Ontario until September 2005 when it was replaced by Detroit's WWJ-TV
. It was also offered on many cable systems in the Hamilton, Niagara, and Grand River regions of Ontario. The station was dropped in these areas by the late 1990s. WSEE is still available on some cable systems in Canada
that serve communities on Lake Erie
. Atlantic Broadband
, the cable provider that serves McKean County, Pennsylvania
and portions of Cattaraugus County, New York
, announced that WSEE would replace Buffalo's WIVB-TV
in January 2009. That station has had several high-profile compensation disputes with that cable company. Though an agreement was eventually reached with WIVB, WSEE was kept on the Atlantic Broadband lineups. However, Time Warner Cable announced it would remove WSEE (along with WICU) from its cable lineups in Westfield
and Dunkirk, New York in favor of CFTO-TV
from Toronto
and the new YNN Buffalo
despite the fact that Westfield and Dunkirk are arguably within WSEE's must carry territory.
This station has been part of the Primetime 24
lineup since November 1997 when it replaced Raleigh
's WRAL-TV
due to that station's regular pre-emptions of CBS programming. The service provides American
network television service to C band satellite and some cable viewers in Latin America
, the Caribbean
, and in rural parts of the United States
where local signals are not available. This feed of WSEE varies from its local one where local commercials are replaced with ads directed towards the Caribbean
(especially direct response ads). Also, the station's local newscasts are replaced with infomercials although there is a taped Caribbean weather forecast by WSEE's weather staff (often in tropical garb) nightly at 11, which is available through a WSEE-managed website specific to Caribbean weather and is branded as "One Caribbean Weather".
The WICU and WSEE facilities are currently unable to air two live broadcasts at the same time because there is only one control center. When WSEE moved into the state street building, the WICU studio was split in two and it was anticipated that a similar (one man) control center operation would be built for WSEE to allow live separate newscast to exist. Since the move, the WSEE "Morning's Live" show airs for an hour weekday mornings at 6 by pre-recording the newscast at 4am. The branding continues to be used despite not being live because the history that WSEE used to pre-tape the shows during the 11 o'clock broadcast and re-air it the following morning. The WSEE 6 o'clock broadcast is usually recorded during the mid afternoon but on occasion is aired live with WICU pre-taping part of the 90 minute newscast they present. WICU's midday newscast airs at 12:30 p.m. as opposed to the traditional noon to accommodate WSEE's live noon newscast but weather segments on both stations are usually pre-taped earlier in the morning. During times of breaking news, weather or election night coverage both WICU and WSEE simulcast the newscasts and occasionally even include the CW channel as well.
Frequently the WSEE weather person does fill in when the WICU weather person is on vacation for the morning shows. The evening newscasts on WICU, WSEE and CW always uses the same weather person for newscasts since the semi-retirement of Joey Stevens.
The two stations share weekend broadcasts which can be delayed on one station due to network programming. WICU and WSEE continue to consolidate news operations by sharing reporting, sports and weather staff. New personnel continue to be hired to replace those who leave contrary to early indications that once a personality left a position he or she would not be replaced and the newscasts would instead be merged.
WICU and WSEE merged their Web sites in June 2011.
WSEE Newswatch Storm Team Meteorologists
Sports
Reporters
Notable former staff
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
located in Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie is a city located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Named for the lake and the Native American tribe that resided along its southern shore, Erie is the state's fourth-largest city , with a population of 102,000...
, USA. WSEE-TV is owned by Lilly Broadcasting, and is operated by NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate WICU-TV
WICU-TV
WICU-TV, channel 12, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. WICU-TV is owned by SJL Broadcasting, which also operates CBS affiliate WSEE-TV and its CW subchannel through a local marketing agreement...
(channel 12) through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
. The two stations both share studios on State Street in downtown Erie, and a transmitter located in Greene Township, Pennsylvania
Greene Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
Greene Township is a township in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,706 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...
.
Digital programming
WSEE operates the area's CW Television Network affiliate on its second digital subchannel. Known on-air as The CW Erie, this can also be seen on Time WarnerTime Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
channel 3 and WICU's second digital subchannel. WSEE-DT2 gets all of its programming from The CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
.
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main WSEE-TV programming / CBS |
| 35.2 | 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 | WSEE-DT2 "The CW Erie" |
History
WSEE-TV began broadcasting on April 24, 1954 as a CBS affiliate. ABCAmerican Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
programming was shared by WSEE and WICU until WJET-TV
WJET-TV
WJET-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Pennsylvania's Northwest Region. Licensed to Erie, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter at its studios on US 19/Peach Street in Summit Township. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable...
signed-on in 1966. UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
content was aired on weekends by WSEE beginning January 16, 1995. In 1998, this station launched a cable-only WB affiliate as part of The WB 100+
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
. It had the fictional call sign "WBEP". On January 24, 2006, UPN and The WB announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. On September 18 of that year, WSEE launched a new second digital subchannel to simulcast "WBEP" allowing non-cable subscribers access to the new network. That station began official use of the call sign WSEE-DT2 and became part of The CW Plus. This service is similar to The WB 100+.
Back in 2002, WICU entered into a local marketing agreement with WSEE. From that point until June 1, 2009, this station continued to operate from its own studios on Peach Street
Peach Street
Peach Street, part of U.S. Route 19, is a main artery serving downtown Erie, Pennsylvania. Once surrounded by nothing but rolling hills and farmland, "Upper Peach Street" , is the most significant center of urban sprawl in Erie and is now home to numerous strip plazas, a major shopping mall and...
(U.S. 19
U.S. Route 19 in Pennsylvania
U.S. Route 19 in Pennsylvania closely parallels Interstate 79 for its entire length. US 19 enters Pennsylvania in Greene County near Mount Morris. Its northern terminus is in the city of Erie. Part is named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie.-Route description:In...
) in Downtown Erie. On that date, WSEE merged into WICU's facilities on State Street. On February 17, 2009 at noon, WSEE-TV's digital signal remained on channel 16 when the analog to digital conversion was completed. On May 14, Lilly Broadcasting advised all off-air staffers at WSEE that their services would no longer be required. Most on-air personnel have continued to work through the duration of the contracts although at least one (WICU reporter Kelsie Smith) was moved to sister station WENY-TV
WENY-TV
WENY-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Central and Western Southern Tier of New York State and Northern Pennsylvania licensed to Elmira. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Higman Hill in Corning. The station can also be seen on...
in Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York
Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, USA. It is the principal city of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses Chemung County, New York. The population was 29,200 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Chemung County.The City of Elmira is located in...
; two vacant WICU meteorologist positions were eliminated; and another (WSEE news anchor Raychel Vendetti) was laid-off outright.
Its over-the-air digital broadcast
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
signal covers Erie
Erie County, Pennsylvania
Erie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 280,566. Its county seat is the City of Erie.- Geography :...
, Warren
Warren County, Pennsylvania
Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 41,815. It was formed in 1800 from parts of Allegheny and Lycoming counties; attached to Crawford County until 1805 and then to Venango County until Warren was formally organized in 1819. Its county...
, and Crawford
Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 88,765.Crawford County was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Allegheny County and named for Colonel William Crawford...
counties in Pennsylvania; reaches east to Jamestown, New York
Jamestown, New York
Jamestown is a city in Chautauqua County, New York in the United States. The population was 31,146 at the 2010 census.The City of Jamestown is adjacent to Town of Ellicott and is at the southern tip of Chautauqua Lake...
, west to Ashtabula, Ohio
Ashtabula, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 20,962 people, 8,435 households, and 5,423 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,775.9 people per square mile . There were 9,151 housing units at an average density of 1,211.8 per square mile...
, north to London
London, Ontario
London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, situated along the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 352,395, and the metropolitan area has a population of 457,720, according to the 2006 Canadian census; the metro population in 2009 was estimated at 489,274. The city...
and Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
in Ontario, and south to Clarion, Pennsylvania
Clarion, Pennsylvania
Clarion is a borough in Clarion County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, about 100 miles north-northeast of Pittsburgh and part of the Pittsburgh DMA. Clarion was settled in 1839 and incorporated in 1841. In the past, the surrounding area produced natural gas, oil, lumber and coal. Merely 2,004...
. The station can also be seen via satellite in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
through C band
C band
The C band is a name given to certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, including wavelengths of microwaves that are used for long-distance radio telecommunications. The IEEE C-band - and its slight variations - contains frequency ranges that are used for many satellite communications...
. It is available in Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
through one of the country's major cable providers, Cabletica, and in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
on all three cable companies serving the island as well as part of the locals package on Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
. WSEE currently only distributes CBS's prime time and most daytime programming in HD. All news and syndicated programming are broadcast in standard definition even though some of the network and syndication companies have made HD feeds of those shows available.
Out-of-market coverage
WSEE was carried on Rogers CableRogers Cable
Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Manitoba, Southern & Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.The...
in London, Ontario until September 2005 when it was replaced by Detroit's WWJ-TV
WWJ-TV
WWJ-TV, virtual channel 62 , is the CBS-owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan. It is co-owned with Detroit's CW station, WKBD-TV , and the two stations share a studio in Southfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb....
. It was also offered on many cable systems in the Hamilton, Niagara, and Grand River regions of Ontario. The station was dropped in these areas by the late 1990s. WSEE is still available on some cable systems in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
that serve communities on Lake Erie
Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...
. Atlantic Broadband
Atlantic Broadband
Atlantic Broadband is a privately held cable company with headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts. The company has over 700 employees and 285,000 customers in four operating regions: Florida, Maryland/Delaware, South Carolina and Central Pennsylvania...
, the cable provider that serves McKean County, Pennsylvania
McKean County, Pennsylvania
As of the census of 2000, there were 45,936 people, 18,024 households, and 12,094 families residing in the county. The population density was 47 people per square mile . There were 21,644 housing units at an average density of 22 per square mile...
and portions of Cattaraugus County, New York
Cattaraugus County, New York
Cattaraugus County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 80,317. The county seat is Little Valley.-History:...
, announced that WSEE would replace Buffalo's WIVB-TV
WIVB-TV
WIVB-TV, virtual channel 4, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Western New York that is licensed to Buffalo. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter on Center Street in Colden. Owned by the LIN TV Corporation, the station is sister to CW...
in January 2009. That station has had several high-profile compensation disputes with that cable company. Though an agreement was eventually reached with WIVB, WSEE was kept on the Atlantic Broadband lineups. However, Time Warner Cable announced it would remove WSEE (along with WICU) from its cable lineups in Westfield
Westfield, New York
Westfield, New York may refer to:*Westfield , New York*Westfield , New York...
and Dunkirk, New York in favor of CFTO-TV
CFTO-TV
CFTO-DT, broadcast on channel 9 and cable 8, is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, owned by Bell Media. Currently branded as CTV Toronto, it is the flagship station of the CTV Television Network, and was one of the charter members of the network when it was launched in 1961. It...
from Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and the new YNN Buffalo
YNN Buffalo
YNN Buffalo is the Your News Now affiliate for Western New York. The 24-hour commercial cable news television station is carried on Time Warner Cable channel 9 throughout most of the region. It was initially seen in the city of Buffalo, New York on channel 14, then moved to channel 9 on the Buffalo...
despite the fact that Westfield and Dunkirk are arguably within WSEE's must carry territory.
This station has been part of the Primetime 24
Primetime 24
Primetime 24 is a special package offered on C band satellite sent out to viewers who mainly live in Latin America, the Caribbean, and very rural areas of the United States and Canada; urban areas could receive the package as well, though reception is subject to Federal Communications Commission ...
lineup since November 1997 when it replaced Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...
's WRAL-TV
WRAL-TV
WRAL-TV, virtual channel 5 , is a television station in Raleigh, North Carolina. WRAL-TV has been the flagship station of Capitol Broadcasting Company since its inception, and is currently the CBS affiliate for the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Fayetteville area, known collectively as the Triangle...
due to that station's regular pre-emptions of CBS programming. The service provides American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
network television service to C band satellite and some cable viewers in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
, the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
, and in rural parts of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
where local signals are not available. This feed of WSEE varies from its local one where local commercials are replaced with ads directed towards the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
(especially direct response ads). Also, the station's local newscasts are replaced with infomercials although there is a taped Caribbean weather forecast by WSEE's weather staff (often in tropical garb) nightly at 11, which is available through a WSEE-managed website specific to Caribbean weather and is branded as "One Caribbean Weather".
News operation
On May 28, 2009, WSEE aired its final newscast from its Peach Street studios. After moving into WICU's facilities and going without local broadcasts for nearly four days, news returned to the air. WSEE's weeknight 11 o'clock broadcast moved to 10 on WSEE-DT2 so it would no longer compete with this channel. It is then re-aired on WSEE at 11. WSEE-DT2 simulcasts the first hour of WICU's weekday morning show, airs the nationally syndicated morning broadcast The Daily Buzz from 6 to 9, simulcasts WICU's 12:30 newscast, and re-airs for a third time the 10 p.m. broadcast early the next morning.The WICU and WSEE facilities are currently unable to air two live broadcasts at the same time because there is only one control center. When WSEE moved into the state street building, the WICU studio was split in two and it was anticipated that a similar (one man) control center operation would be built for WSEE to allow live separate newscast to exist. Since the move, the WSEE "Morning's Live" show airs for an hour weekday mornings at 6 by pre-recording the newscast at 4am. The branding continues to be used despite not being live because the history that WSEE used to pre-tape the shows during the 11 o'clock broadcast and re-air it the following morning. The WSEE 6 o'clock broadcast is usually recorded during the mid afternoon but on occasion is aired live with WICU pre-taping part of the 90 minute newscast they present. WICU's midday newscast airs at 12:30 p.m. as opposed to the traditional noon to accommodate WSEE's live noon newscast but weather segments on both stations are usually pre-taped earlier in the morning. During times of breaking news, weather or election night coverage both WICU and WSEE simulcast the newscasts and occasionally even include the CW channel as well.
Frequently the WSEE weather person does fill in when the WICU weather person is on vacation for the morning shows. The evening newscasts on WICU, WSEE and CW always uses the same weather person for newscasts since the semi-retirement of Joey Stevens.
The two stations share weekend broadcasts which can be delayed on one station due to network programming. WICU and WSEE continue to consolidate news operations by sharing reporting, sports and weather staff. New personnel continue to be hired to replace those who leave contrary to early indications that once a personality left a position he or she would not be replaced and the newscasts would instead be merged.
WICU and WSEE merged their Web sites in June 2011.
Newscast titles
- WSEE News (1954–1968)
- Eyewitness NewsEyewitness NewsEyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
(1968–1976) - News 35 (1976–1984)
- Newswatch 35 (1984-Summer 2005)
- WSEE Newswatch (Summer 2005–present)
Station slogans
- "Erie's Choice for News!" (1970–1972)
- "Erie's Number One News Team" (1972–1975)
- "News Where You Live" (1975–1979)
- "We're Looking Good on 35" (1979-1980; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "Looking Good Together, 35" (1980-1981; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "Reach for the Stars on 35" (1981-1982; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "Erie's Number One Source for News" (1979–1982)
- "Great Moments on 35" (1982-1983; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "We've Got The Touch, You and 35" (1983-1984; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "You and 35, We've Got The Touch" (1984-1985; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "In Touch with Erie" (1982–1985)
- "We're Looking out for You!" (1985–1988)
- "We've Got The Touch on SEE-TV" (1985-1986; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "Share the Spirit with 35" (1986-1987; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "35 Spirit, Oh Yes!" (1987-1988; local version of CBS ad campaign)
- "Keeping Us Strong" (1988–1993)
- "Accurate. Fair. Dependable." (1993–1997)
- "People You Can Count On" (1997–2002)
- "The Team You Trust" (2002–2006)
- "Watching out for You" (2006–present)
News team
Anchors- Eva Mastromatteo - weekday mornings
- Venessa Herring - weekdays at noon and reporter
- Scott MacDonnell - weeknights and reporter
- Lisa Weismann - weeknights and reporter
- Lisa Adams - weekends and weekend producer
WSEE Newswatch Storm Team Meteorologists
- Rob Wilson (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Seal of Approval) - WICU/WSEE chief meteorologist, weeknights - Ed Russo- weekday mornings and noon
- Julie Coates - weekends
Sports
- Gary Drapcho - Director seen weeknights and Sportswatch Magazine host
- Jay Puskar - weekends
Reporters
- Art Ginsburg - "Mr. Food" segment producer
- Kara Coleman - weekday mornings
- Paul Wagner - weeknights
- Amanda Post - education
- John Rupolo - nightly
- Jamison Hixenbaugh
- John Last
- Tim Mello
Notable former staff
- Micah JohnsonMicah Johnson (journalist)Micah Johnson is an American broadcast journalist. He is the Chief Executive Officer of - , headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. He attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter was awarded the University's . In 1987, Johnson became one of the youngest male anchors at CNN...
- reporter and news anchor (1984–1985)- now CEO of Entegy Group
- Leila FeinsteinLeila FeinsteinLeila Feinstein is an American television news anchor based in Los Angeles working for Tribune-owned KTLA.- Biography :...
- reporter (1995–2000)- now at KTLA-TV
- Lloyd NewellLloyd D. NewellLloyd David Newell is the voice of the oldest continuous nationwide network radio broadcast in America, Music and the Spoken Word. He is also a professor of religion and family life at Brigham Young University and was formerly an anchor for CNN and at WSEE-TV. He is a descendant of Susannah Stone...
- primary news anchor (1984–1986)- now professor at Brigham Young UniversityBrigham Young UniversityBrigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
and host of Music and the Spoken WordMusic and the Spoken WordMusic and the Spoken Word is a weekly 30-minute radio and television program of inspiring messages and music produced by Bonneville Communications with music performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir .The radio program is distributed by the CBS Radio Network and its broadcast center is KSL...
- now professor at Brigham Young University
- Dave PriceDave PriceFor the American publisher with the same name see Dave Price .Dave Price was a reporter and weatherman for CBS's The Early Show until he and Maggie Rodriguez were let go in an effort to boost last place ratings.Before his broadcasting career, Price spent eight years as a corporate human resources...
- reporter (1997)- served as weekday weather anchor for The Early Show
- John StehrJohn StehrJohn Stehr , is an American television journalist. He currently anchors at NBC affiliate WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana weekdays at 5 pm, 6 pm and 11 pm...
- news anchor and reporter (1980)- now at WTHR-TV
- Steve ScullySteve ScullySteven L. Scully is the senior executive producer, political editor, and host of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, a three-hour early morning cable television public affairs program.-Background:Scully was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Hubert L...
- now at C-SPANC-SPANC-SPAN , an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels , one radio station and a group of websites that provide streaming...
- now at C-SPAN