WTEN
WTEN is the call letters for a television station in Albany, New York. Its transmitter is located in the Heldeberg Mountains in Albany County, New York.
History
WTEN first signed on in 1954 as WROW-TV on UHF channel 41. It was originally an affiliate of the CBS television network. It then became WCDA broadcasting on VHF channel 10. It later changed call letters and network affiliation in 1977, switching to WTEN and ABC, respectively. The stations could once be received on WCDB in the Montgomery County hamlet of Hagaman on UHF channel 29. It has since gone off the air and the call letters now belong to the student-run radio station at the University at Albany. WTEN is simulcast on WCDC, UHF channel 19, with transmitter located on top of Mount Greylock near Adams, Massachusetts. In 2002, WCDC became the Capital District's first HDTV station when WCDC-DT signed on the air on channel 36. ABC10, as its parent is informally known locally, signed on its own high-definition service the following year on channel 26.
Newscast TitlesAction News (mid-1970s)10 Eyewitness News (1980s-1996?)News 10 (1996-present)
External linksWTEN (ABC10) website
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