WNEM-TV
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| Bay City / Saginaw / Flint, Michigan | |
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| Branding | TV 5 (general) TV 5 News (newscasts) My 5 (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels | Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | 5.1 CBS (1995-present) 5.2 MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | Meredith Corporation |
| First air date | February 16, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | NorthEastern Michigan Corporation |
| Sister station(s) | WNEM Radio WNEM-DT2 |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 5 (VHF, 1954-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Primary: NBC (1954-1995) Secondary: ABC (1954-1958) DuMont (1954-1956) UPN (1995-2006) [1][2][3] The WB (1995-2000) [1] |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 275.3 metres (903 ft) |
| Facility ID | 41221 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°28′14.6″N 83°50′35.6″W / 43.470722°N 83.843222°W |
| Website | wnem.com |
WNEM-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. It is licensed to Bay City, and broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (PSIP virtual channel 5). Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station has studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, as well as a second newsroom in downtown Flint. Its 1,000 kilowatt, 275.3 metres (903 ft) high transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw.
The station also operates the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate on a second digital subchannel. WNEM-TV is the only station in the Flint/Tri-Cities market headquartered in the city of Saginaw, and in turn focuses its local news stories on Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, with a secondary focus on Flint.
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[edit] Digital programming
The station's signal is multiplexed.
| Channel | Name | Programming |
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| 5.1 | WNEM-HD | main WNEM-TV programming / CBS HD |
| 5.2 | WNEM-DT2 | "My 5" (MyNetworkTV) |
WNEM-TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 [4], as part of the DTV transition in the United States. The station remained on its pre-transition channel 22 [5] using PSIP to display WNEM-TV's virtual channel as 5. However, channel 5 analog did remain on-the-air for a short period afterward with a nightlight slide with phone numbers and information about the switch.
[edit] WNEM-DT3
Every March since the time WNEM-TV activated its digital signal up through 2009, it temporarily activated a third digital subchannel on 5.3, used for additional NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament games. Standby title cards with a loop of the game schedules was shown between games. WNEM-TV followed the lead of other CBS affiliates in providing "March Madness" games on additional subchannels. However, WNEM-TV did not present a special March Madness subchannel during the 2010 tournament. This will not happen from 2011 on, since all games will now be televised nationally on CBS and Turner Broadcasting System owned channels. WNEM-DT3 remains a blank screen with no audio.
[edit] History
WNEM-TV was founded by the NorthEastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on February 16, 1954 as a NBC affiliate. Originally, its main studios were located on rented space at Bishop International Airport in Flint with auxiliary studios in its city of license, Bay City. In the 1960s, it moved its main studios to the transmitter site in Indiantown. During its first four years, WNEM-TV had a secondary affiliation with ABC sharing programming from that network with WKNX-TV (channel 57, now WEYI-TV channel 25) until 1958 when WJRT-TV signed-on and took that affiliation. WNEM-TV also aired programming from DuMont until that network dissolved.
The family of James Gerity, a professional violinist, bought the station in 1961[6] and sold it to the Meredith Corporation in 1969. In the mid-1980s, the station moved its primary studios to their current location in downtown Saginaw. Today, the Becker Road complex is home to Delta College's Buena Vista Campus in addition to WNEM-TV's transmitter. By the late 1980s, mirroring a trend in many other television markets, WNEM-TV was the dominant station in Mid-Michigan, helped by NBC's then-dominant prime time lineup.
On January 16, 1995, WNEM-TV and WEYI swapped networks, and WNEM-TV became a CBS affiliate (announced June 30, 1994).[7] The move came because Detroit's longtime CBS affiliate, WJBK, had switched to the Fox network, and CBS was unable to get WXYZ-TV or WDIV to switch networks. Eventually, the network landed on WGPR-TV (now WWJ-TV) which did not have an adequate signal to much of the Detroit market until a signal upgrade in 1999. WNEM's signal penetrated further into the northern portion of the Detroit market than did WEYI. Channel 5 provides city-grade coverage in Lapeer County and grade B coverage in St. Clair, northern Oakland, and extreme northern Macomb as well as Sarnia, Ontario. Until 1999, the outer parts of the market relied on WNEM-TV, WLNS-TV in Lansing, and WTOL in Toledo, Ohio for CBS programming.
Also on January 16, 1995, WEYI took on secondary affiliations with both UPN [2][3] and The WB and aired programming from the two networks late at night.[1] The station relinquished the secondary WB affiliation in 2000 to WBSF. It dropped CBS's daytime soap opera Guiding Light in 1996 due to low ratings which made it one of two CBS stations in the nation that did not carry the program for what would turn out to be its final 13 years (the other was KOVR in Sacramento, California). However, by 2007 the show was aired instead on My5 at 10am, and stayed there for the rest of its run.
Although Guiding Light ended its run and Tyra moved to WBSF in September 2009, WNEM-TV opted not to air Let's Make a Deal which is being aired instead on My5. The Nate Berkus Show premiered on WNEM-TV on September 13, 2010, replacing Martha Stewart's former timeslot. Nate currently airs at 10 am weekday mornings Monday thru Thursday. WNEM-TV is one of three television stations in Michigan (WJBK in Detroit and WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids are the others) that currently do not clear their networks' entire schedules.
During its entire official run, The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on TV5 weekday afternoons at 4 pm. Although the show officially ended on May 25, 2011, WNEM-TV continued temporarily airing reruns of Oprah, even after swapping hours with Dr. Phil in June 2011, which previously aired in the 3 pm timeslot, and currently airs at 4 pm weekday afternoons. Anderson, a new talk show starring news personality Anderson Cooper, premiered September 12, 2011[8], airing weekday afternoons at 3 pm on TV5.
As of April 1, 2011, Comcast Cablevision subscribers in Holly, MI recently had WNEM-TV replaced with WWJ-TV as the main CBS network affiliate. My5 was also replaced with WMYD as the main My Network TV affiliate.
[edit] Sports
WNEM-TV televises regional and national sports from CBS Sports. Local sports include games of the Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State Spartans men's basketball teams (via the College Basketball on CBS contract), and Detroit Lions home games vs AFC opponents (via the NFL on CBS contract). The station is also an affiliate of the Detroit Lions Television Network which airs preseason games. [9] Since WNEM-TV's normal coverage area reaches within 75 miles of the Lions' home Ford Field, it is part of the Lions' blackout area; this applies to both preseason and regular season games. Channel 5 has also televised three home games of the local Ontario Hockey League hockey team the Saginaw Spirit.[when?]
[edit] News operation
On April 24, 2006, WNEM-TV entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliate WSMH which resulted in a nightly prime time broadcast at 10 on that station. This came about after that station's owner, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, shut down its News Central operation as well as WSMH's news department. Originally entitled TV 5 News at 10 on Fox 66, the WNEM-TV-produced program recently added new graphics and was renamed Fox 66 News at 10. On Monday nights during the newscast, the "Fugitive Files" segment airs. In August 2009, the station began carrying obituaries following its weekday morning, Noon and 6 o'clock shows. This service began after local major newspapers in the region including The Bay City Times, The Saginaw News, and The Flint Journal reduced publication to three times a week in June 2009. At first a free service when it was launched, WNEM-TV began charging $100 per obituary in September 2009. Since that month, as of November 3, 2010, over 2,945 obituaries appeared on the channel and its website "obitmichigan.com".[10] WNEM-TV became the second television in both Michigan and the United States, after WJBK, to air obituaries on a daily basis.
WNEM-TV produces news segments for sister radio station WNEM 1250. In addition to its main facilities, the station operates a Genesee County Bureau at the Wade Trim Building on Saginaw Street in Downtown Flint. This had been located in Mundy Township's Gateway Center until December 2008. The channel airs a local lifestyle magazine show called Better Mid-Michigan, hosted by Aisha Howard, Catherine Bodak and Sarah Jaeger, weekday mornings at 9 with a replay on WNEM-DT2 weeknights at 6. On weekday mornings, that station airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz from 6 to 9. WNEM-DT2 also rebroadcasts the main channel's weeknight 6 o'clock newscast at 7. WNEM-TV operates their own weather radar, known as "First Warn 5 Doppler", on the eastern side of MBS International Airport which is also streamed live on its website.
On October 14, 2010, WNEM-TV began broadcasting its newscasts in a 16:9 standard definition widescreen format; becoming the second station in the market to do so behind WJRT. The WSMH shows were not included in the upgrade because they are broadcast from an older secondary set that currently lacks widescreen-capable cameras. In addition, WSMH lacks a high-definition-capable master control at its separate studios to transmit the newscast in widescreen.
[edit] Newscast titles
- WNEM-TV 5 News (1970s-1980s)
- News 5 (1980s-late 1990s)
- WNEM-TV 5 News (2000–2003)
- TV-5 News (2005–2009)
- WNEM-TV 5 (2009-present)
[edit] Station slogans
- The Full Color Station (1960s)
- Part of Your Life (1970s)
- When seconds count, we're only minutes behind (1985 - present)
- You're First With 5 (1987–1990)
- Together With You (1995–1999)
- Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1999–2007)
- Coverage You Can Count On (2007–present)
- When seconds count, we're only minutes behind (1985 - present)
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.[edit] Controversies
On November 21, 2011 WNEM-TV aired allegations of sexual abuse against US Representative Dale Kildee that were criticized as politically-motivated and a breach of journalistic ethics. An attorney for the station said that the broadcast was protected as it involved a public official and that no actual malice was intended.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Michiguide.com
- ^ a b UPN AFFILIATES BY STATE
- ^ a b upn.com Archived Michigan Affiliates
- ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
- ^ FCC.gov - Appendix B: All Full Power Television Stations by DMA, Indicating Those Terminating Analog Service on or before February 17, 2009
- ^ The Saginaw News: "Memories of Saginaw's 'Beautiful Music' spark WGER 102.5 FM Historical Society", March 6, 2011.
- ^ "Meredith Shifts Stations to CBS. New York Times June 30, 1994; p6
- ^ Katz, Emily (June 29, 2011). "Anderson Cooper Discusses New Daytime Talk Show 'Anderson'". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/anderson-cooper-discusses_n_887217.html. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
- ^ Preseason TV Detroit Lions official site
- ^ Advertising Age: "Local TV Garners Revenue From Obituaries", 19 October 2009.
- ^ Decades-old claims against Kildee don't hold up, Jack Lessenberry, Toledo Blade, November 25, 2011
[edit] External links
- Station's sites
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