WMTV NBC 15
Gabriella Rusk is an experienced news anchor and reporter with a background in sports journalism. At WMTV 15 News since September 2018, Gabriella serves as the Morning News Anchor and previously held the role of Weekend Morning Anchor/Reporter. Prior experience includes positions at KWQC TV-6 News as an Anchor/Reporter and Sports/News Video Journalist, where responsibilities encompassed anchoring, producing, and creating stories from concept to completion. Gabriella also worked at CitrusTV in various roles including On-Air Talent and Associate General Manager, while gaining experience as a Sports Assistant Field Producer/Social Media Director at WSVN CHANNEL 7. An intern for NBC Olympics, Gabriella contributed to event coverage during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Gabriella holds a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast and Digital Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Textual Studies from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
WMTV NBC 15
Leading Broadcast affiliate in Madison Wisconsin. WMTV signed on the air in July 1953 on channel 33 and was an affiliate of ABC, DuMont, and NBC. In 1956, WKOW-TV, which had the CBS affiliation, picked up the ABC affiliation from WMTV after losing CBS to then-new VHF station WISC-TV, thus resulting in WMTV becoming solely affiliated with NBC. In 1960, WMTV switched channels from 33 to 15, where it remained until analog broadcasting ceased just before midnight on February 17, 2009. The station's over-the-air broadcasts are now on digital channel 19, though it is found through PSIP protocol on virtual channel 15. WMTV's digital signal initially had 2 subchannels, 15.1 (NBC) and 15.2 (The AccuWeather Channel); a third subchannel, 15.3, formally launched on April 1, 2013, affiliated with the classic TV and movie network Antenna TV.[1] On October 16, 2010, WMTV became the second commercial TV station in Madison to produce all of its newscasts in high-definition, the first being WISC-TV. On October 18, 2010, the station also began airing its flagship syndicated programs Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune in HD.