WNEM-TV

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WNEM-TV is the CBS television affiliate for the Flint–Saginaw–Bay City–Midland, Michigan television market. It is currently owned by the Meredith Corporation. Although licensed to Bay City, WNEM currently maintains its main studios in downtown Saginaw at 107 Franklin Street. The station operates with 100 kilowatts of power from its 308-meter (1010-foot) tower at 5700 Becker Road in Indiantown, Michigan. The transmitter site was also originally the studios for WNEM from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. Today, the Becker Road complex is home to Delta College's Buena Vista Campus, in addition to WNEM's transmitter.

On cable, WNEM can be seen on Comcast Flint channel 5 and on Charter Tri-Cities channel 7. Service on Dish Network for the region is also available.

WNEM's digital subcarrier will show programming from My Network TV in September 2006.

History

WNEM was founded by its namesake, the Northeastern Michigan Corporation, and signed on the air on February 16, 1954, as a NBC affiliate. Originally, its main studios were at Bishop International Airport in Flint, with auxiliary studios in its city of license, Bay City; after a few years, it moved its main studios to the transmitter site in Indiantown, an unincorporated community just east of Saginaw. During its first four years, WNEM had a secondary affiliation with ABC, sharing ABC programming with WKNX (now WEYI-TV) until 1958, when WJRT-TV signed on and took the ABC affiliation.

Gerity bought WNEM later in the 1950s, selling it to Meredith in 1969.

By the late 1980s, mirroring a trend in many other television markets, WNEM was the dominant station in Mid-Michigan. However, on January 16, 1995, WNEM and WEYI traded networks, and WNEM has been a CBS affiliate since.

According to Nielsen ratings, WNEM still has the highest-rated news operation in Mid-Michigan.

WNEM dropped CBS's soap opera Guiding Light in 1996 due to low ratings, making it one of two CBS stations that do not carry the program (the other is KOVR in Stockton-Sacramento, California).

WNEM has also televised three home games of the local OHL hockey team, the Saginaw Spirit.

WNEM News on On April 10, 2006, Sinclair Broadcasting, parent company of local Fox affiliate WSMH-TV (Fox 66), announced that WNEM will be producing the 10PM newscast for Fox 66, to be titled, TV5 News at 10 on FOX66, beginning April 24, 2006. The newscast will feature only anchors and staff presently working for WNEM's news department. After the final Fox 66 News at 10 broadcast on April 21, some WSMH news employees are expected to be laid off. As of May 2006, former WSMH employees David Custer and Tara Edwards have joined WNEM's newscasts.

WNEM-AM

In the Summer of 2004, the parent company of WNEM-TV, Meredith Corporation, purchased WKNX-AM, AM-1250 (formerly on AM-1210). Soon after the purchase, the call sign was changed to "WNEM-AM" and shifted its studios to the television studio building in Saginaw. Unlike its TV counterpart, however, the AM station does not serve Flint or areas south of Saginaw County, due to the directional antenna array beamed towards the north.

From the late-1950s through the early-1990s, the 1250AM frequency was occupied by Bay City's WXOX-AM; the calls has since been recycled for a Cleveland low-powered TV station, WXOX-LP.

The AM station is currently 1000 watts daytime, 129 watts at night, with a construction permit pending for 5000 ways day, 1100 watts night, also directed towards the north. WNEM-AM's primary programming are repeats and simulcasts of channel 5's newscasts, plus syndicated regional sports and additional programming. AM-1250 picked up Detroit Red Wings hockey coverage in late 2005, making it mid-Michigan's only source of NHL hockey. Saginaw-based AM-790 has decided to pick up the Red Wings in the fall, leaving some question whether AM-1250 will continue to air the team.

Previous Logos

Image:Wnem0558.jpg|WNEM logo from 1958, from a TV Guide ad, with NBC's xylophone logo and ABC's "a" logo, because WNEM aired programs from both networks during the 1950's. The "hand" logo would be used under Gerity ownership, until the sale to Meredith in 1969. Image:Wnem1970.jpg|Short-lived WNEM logo, from about 1969 to 1971, on a promotional coffee cup. Image:Wnem0584.jpg|WNEM logo from 1984, from a TV Guide ad, with NBC's Be There slogan. The "5" in this logo was used in various forms from 1971 to 2004, and used at other Meredith stations like KPHO-TV Phoenix and former sister WTVH Syracuse Image:Wnem1996-2.jpg|WNEM logo from 1996; variant of above logo. Image:Wnem1996-1.jpg|Variant from 1996, with the slogan "Together, TV5 and You". Image:Wnem1997.jpg|WNEM logo from 1997, with the "TV" part dropped. Variations of this logo were used until 2004, when it was replaced with the current logo.

External links

• [WNEM-TV 5]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WNEM]
• [Query the FCC's AM station database for WNEM]

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Television>Broadcast television in the Mid-Michigan (Flint / Saginaw / Bay City / Midland) market  [(Nielsen DMA #65)]
WNEM 5 (CBS) - WBKB 11 (CBS) - WJRT 12 (ABC) - WCMU 14 / WCML 6 (PBS) - WDCP 19 / WDCQ 35 (PBS) - WEYI 25 (NBC) - WFUM 28 (PBS) - WHNE-LP 32 (A1) - WBSF 46 (The WB) - W46CR 46 (3ABN) - WAQP 49 (TBN / TCT) - WXON 54 (Ind) - WSMH 66 (FOX)
Broadcast television available on cable only:
CBMT 6 (Montreal, CBC) - CBET 9 (Windsor, CBC) - WKBD 50 (Detroit, UPN - to be The CW )

 

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