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tracked through the WETM TV viewing area Sunday night, and continued into Monday morning. The icy mix prompted the The National Weather service to post a Winter Weather Advisory for the morning commute.

Ice accumulations remained thin enough not to cause any major damage to trees or power lines, but roadways did turn slippery. Most paved surfaces will remain slick until treated. Extra caution should be taken by pedestrians and motorists this morning.

Much of the patchy drizzle and mist will taper near midday today. The majority of the ice will melt during the early afternoon hours.


Horseheads family is mourning the loss of their son. The twenty one year old was killed Sunday morning after a fight at Alfred University. Right now police are still trying to figure out exactly how Thomas Argentieri died.



Police say a fight broke out at 57 North Main Street around 3 Sunday morning in Alfred. When emergency officials arrived they found Argentieri unconscious. He was later pronounced dead at Saint James Hospital in Hornell. WETM-TV
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WETM-TV

Elmira, New York
Branding WETM 18
Slogan Coverage You Can Count On
Channels Analog: 18 (UHF)
Digital: 2 (VHF)
Affiliations NBC
Owner Clear Channel Communications
(sale pending to Providence Equity Partners)
Founded September 10, 1956
Call letters meaning W Elmira Times Mirror (former owner)
Former callsigns WSYE-TV (1956-80)
Website www.wetmtv.com

WETM-TV (Channel 18) is the NBC affiliate for Elmira, New York. The station broadcasts on UHF channel 18 analog while its digital signal, WETM-DT, signed on in 2005 broadcasting on VHF channel 2.

Contents
1 History
2 News Team Line-Up
3 General Assignment Reporters
4 Meteorologists
5 Sports Anchors
6 WETM-2
7 References
8 External link



[edit] History
WETM debuted on September 18, 1956; as WSYE-TV. It was owned by Newhouse Communications, who also owned WSYR-TV in nearby Syracuse. It is Elmira's oldest surviving station; WTVE had signed on channel 24 a few years earlier, but went dark after a hurricane blew through the Elmira area in 1954 and took out the station's tower.

WSYE was largely a semi-satellite of WSYR-TV. However, it originated its own news programming at 6 and 11PM. The local news team consisted of anchors Bruce Flaherty and Carl Proper, anchor/weather reporter Rod Denson and others. Morning news cut-ins during "The Today Show" were originated from the Hawley Hill studio and a ladies informational show, "The Dana Near Show" was also broadcast from the station. Channel 18 began originating its own color programming in 1969 by adding color film capabilities with an RCA TK-27 and shortly thereafter from the studio with RCA TK-42's. Videotape rounded out the color upgrades and became a part of the station in 1972.

WETM has continually outrated WENY-TV, the market's ABC affiliate that signed on in 1969.

In 1980, WSYR-TV and WSYE owner Newhouse Communications sold the stations to the Times Mirror Company which changed the call letters to WSTM-TV and WETM respectively. Over the next several years, Times Mirror would cut the last ties between it and WSTM and would later sell the station to Smith Broadcasting in the late 1980's. Under Smith's ownership, a reversal of the station's origins would take place with the launch of partial-satellite WBGH in Binghamton in 1996. Set up in the wake of established NBC affiliate WICZ defecting to FOX, WBGH (originally called NBC 5 and seen only on Time Warner Cable in the Binghamton TV market) would soon split off on its own outside of simulcasting WETM's newscasts.

In 2000, Smith Broadcasting sold WETM, WBGH, and WWTI in Watertown to The Ackerley Group, which maintained a cluster of stations throughout New York state. With this purcase, the last ties between WETM and WBGH were cut given Ackerley's ownership of ABC affiliae WIVT in the Binghamton market. Ackerley itself would be bought out by Clear Channel Communications in late 2001.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners.[1]

In 2007, WETM became one of four stations in upstate New York to stream its noon newscast live on an Internet video stream (the other three being WKBW-TV in Buffalo and sister stations WHAM-TV in Rochester and WSYR-TV in Syracuse).


[edit] News Team Line-Up
WETM-18 News Today Anchor: Ana Liss
WETM-18 News at Noon Anchor: Camille Williams
WETM 18 News at Five Anchor: Zach Wheeler
WETM 18 News at Six Anchor: Jeff Stone
WETM 18 News at Ten Anchor: Zach Wheeler
WETM 18 News at Eleven Anchor: Jeff Stone
WETM 18 News Weekends Anchor: Staci-Lyn Honda

[edit] General Assignment Reporters
Naveen Dhaliwal
Katie Graham
Reagan Medgie
Camille Williams

[edit] Meteorologists
Scott Mayer Chief Meteorologist, WETM 18 News at 5, 6, and 11
Joe Pasquarelli WETM-18 News Today and WETM-18 News at Noon
Matt Szwejbka Weekend Meteorologist

[edit] Sports Anchors
Steve Vesey Sports Director
Emerson Lotzia Weekend Sports Anchor
Chuck Brame substitute sports reporter

[edit] WETM-2
WETM also operates an independent station on digital channel 18.2, which identifies on-air as "WETM-2". The station airs local sports, movies, as well as a 10:00 p.m. newscast. Time Warner Cable carries WETM-2 on channel 11 in Elmira, Corning, and Watkins Glen.

Until September 2006, it was affiliated with UPN, and from September 2004 to July 2006, it was also available on an analog low-power station, WTTX-LP, which operated on UHF channel 30 (the former W30AA, a WSKG-TV translator), identifying on air as UPN 30. The station's launch gave the Elmira market its first 10:00 p.m. newscast.

With the merger of UPN and The WB into The CW, WTTX had been expected to compete for the affiliation as well as for the Fox-owned MyNetworkTV. However, the inability to get either affiliation (The CW affiliated with a cable-only station operated by WENY-TV; MyNetworkTV went to WJKP-LP) and WSKG's launch of a full-power digital-only satellite (WSKA) on channel 30 in Corning led Clear Channel to shut down the WTTX transmitter and take channel 18.2 independent. WETM-2 won a New York State Broadcasters Association Award for its coverage of high school sports in 2006.


No arrests have been made, but police say they've talked to the student who was involved in the fight with Argentieri. They're not releasing his name and say he's no longer in police custody.
"I don't believe this individual is a threat to the public at large. This is an unfortunate incident, obviously, but I don't think he's a threat to the general public," says Chief Tim O'Grady

The Monroe County Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy Monday. Argentieri graduated from Horseheads High School in 2004, where he played lacrosse and football. He's also the cousin of Steuben County Legislator Richard Argentieri.


A spokeswoman for Alfred University says they have no comment, but she says counselors will be made available for those students who need them.