WFRV-TV
Encyclopedia : W : WF : WFR : WFRV-TV
- WJMN-TV redirects here. For other uses, see WJMN.
Early history
The station began as WNAM-TV in Neenah, Wisconsin on May 20, 1955. It soon moved to Green Bay and changed its call letters to fit the phrase "Wisconsin's Fox River Valley." It started as an ABC affiliate before switching to NBC in 1959. As an NBC affiliate, it became the first station in Northeast Wisconsin to broadcast in color.Among the station's claims is that it was the first to cover a live lunar eclipse, in 1959, when a studio camera was wheeled into the parking lot and aimed at the moon.
The station changed affiliations again in 1983, when it became an ABC affiliate for the second time, with NBC going to WLUK (Channel 11).
The station's original owners sold the station to the Morton Norton family of Kentucky, owners of Louisville, Kentucky's WAVE, in the mid-1960s.
WJMN (Channel 3)
In 1968, a satellite station, WJMN-TV, began operation on Channel 3 in Escanaba, Michigan; the station also serves Iron Mountain, Marquette, and the rest of the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. WJMN airs Channel 5's entire schedule, except for UP-specific weather and news cut-ins, ads, and differing promotions identifying the station as CBS 3, time-adjusted for the Eastern Time Zone. The transmitter for WJMN is located 30 miles north of Escanaba in the town of Trenary, Michigan. WJMN's antenna is 1,310 feet high.WJMN-TV is not related to the Clear Channel-owned WJMN (FM) in Boston, Massachusetts.
Since there is no over-the-air WB affiliate in Marquette, WJMN may add a digital subchannel for the CW Network when UPN and the WB merge in Fall 2006, as CBS will own a 50% stake in the network.
Later History and WFRV Today
Orion Broadcasting, the Mortons' company, merged with Cosmos Broadcasting (a subsidiary of The Liberty Corporation) in 1981. A few years later, WFRV/WJMN were sold to the Murphy and McNally families, owners of Minneapolis-St. Paul's WCCO-TV (Channel 4) and WCCO-AM (830). CBS then acquired all four stations in 1992 when the families sold the stations. New FCC rules had allowed networks to own more stations, so CBS decided to keep WFRV/WJMN and convert them to CBS stations, which in 2005 were in the No. 69 market nationally. With this move, WBAY (Channel 2) became Green Bay's ABC affiliate. The move also made WFRV/WJMN among the few stations in the U.S. to have been an affiliate of all of the "Big Three" television networks - ABC, NBC and CBS.The station now follows the CBS Mandate in every way. Previously, the graphics used on its newscasts were green and gold, as a connection to the Green Bay Packers. On July 10, 2006, they unveiled a blue and yellow graphic scheme, as well as new sets, to coincide with the return of anchor Tammy Elliott.
In 2003, the stations became the first in the Green Bay market to broadcast digitally.
Station Logo History
CBS5 News Team
News Anchors
- Erin Davisson
- Tammy Elliott
- Lisa Malak
- Kris Schuller
- Tom Zalaski
- Chelly Boutott
- Paul Evansen
Storm Team 5 Weather
- Tom Mahoney
- Dave Miller
- Kristin Moore
- Dana Tyler
Sports
- Burke Griffin
- Larry McCarren
- Kirk Parker
- Ryan Popkey
References
External links
- [WFRV Website]
- [Query the FCC's TV station database for WFRV]
- [Query the FCC's TV station database for WJMN]
| Broadcast television in the Green Bay market [(Nielsen DMA #69)] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| WBAY 2 (ABC) - WFRV 5 (CBS) - WLUK 11 (FOX) - WIWB 14 (WB/The CW 9/2006) - WGBA 26 (NBC) - W30BU 30 (3ABN) - WACY 32 (UPN/MyNet 9/2006) - WPNE 38 (PBS/WPT) - W49CB 49 (TBN) - WWAZ 68 (FamilyNet) |
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| Broadcast television in the Marquette market [(Nielsen DMA #180)]''' | ||
|---|---|---|
| WJMN 3 (CBS) - WBKP 5 / WBUP 10 (ABC) - WLUC 6 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WDHS 8 (EWTN) - WNMU 13 (PBS) - WMQF 19 (Fox) - W40AN 40 (Fox) | ||
| Broadcast television available on cable only: | ||
| CBMT 6 (CBC) (Montreal) - WLUK 11 (Fox) (Green Bay) - WFQX 33 (Fox) (Cadillac) | ||
| WJMN 31 () - WWMT 3 () - WNEM 5 () - WLNS 6 / W67AJ 67 ( / ) - WWTV 9 / WWUP 10 () - WBKB 11 () - WWJ 62 () | |
| 1Satellite of WFRV-TV, | |
| See also: , , , , , and stations in Michigan and , , , and stations in Ontario | |
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