About: WWJ-TV

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WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by the CBS television network. Under common ownership with CW affiliate WKBD-TV under the network's CBS News and Stations group, both stations share studios on Eleven Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, while WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park.

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  • WDIV-TV est une station de télévision américaine de langue anglaise affiliée au réseau CBS située à Détroit dans l'État du Michigan appartenant à CBS Corporation. Elle diffuse à partir de Oak Park (Michigan) sur le canal UHF 44 (virtuel 62.1) d'une puissance de 425 kW et son signal couvre naturellement Windsor (Ontario). (fr)
  • WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by the CBS television network. Under common ownership with CW affiliate WKBD-TV under the network's CBS News and Stations group, both stations share studios on Eleven Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, while WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park. Founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by Dr. William V. Banks and the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons as an extension of WGPR (107.5 FM), channel 62 in Detroit holds the distinction of being the first Black-owned television station in the continental United States. Though its ambitious early programming plans catering to the Black community did not fully pan out, the station still produced several locally notable shows and housed a fully-staffed news department. WGPR-TV helped launch careers of multiple local and national Black television hosts and executives, with Pat Harvey, Shaun Robinson, Sharon Dahlonega Bush, and Amyre Makupson among the most notable of alumni. In 1994, when a major affiliation switch threatened to leave CBS without an affiliate in the Detroit market after multiple failures to secure a more successful station, the network bought WGPR-TV and dropped all existing programming in favor of CBS and syndicated programs, later changing the call letters to WWJ-TV. The station has made multiple unsuccessful attempts at producing local newscasts in its more than 25 years under CBS ownership. From assuming the affiliation in 1994 until 2001, from 2002 to 2009 and again from 2012 onward, WWJ-TV has held a dubious distinction as the only station directly owned by either of the "Big Three" networks not to have any significant local news presence. (en)
  • WWJ-TV는 미국 미시간주 디트로이트를 방송 권역으로 하는 CBS 계열 방송국이다. (ko)
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  • Top row of text shows "WWJ TV", "WWJ" in black and "TV" in red, with the CBS eye logo next to the "V". Bottom row of text is "CBS Detroit" in a smaller size. (en)
  • A two-story building composed of two formerly separate brick structures. The first floor has a front wall dominated by glass block. A large sign above the first floor includes the phone number and logo of WGPR radio. There are two sets of double doors and a historical marker. Next to the building is visible the bottom part of a steel lattice mast. A sign on the side of the building announces the existence of the William V. Banks Broadcast Museum and Media Center. (en)
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  • George Mathews (en)
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  • Howard Rontal (en)
  • James Panagos (en)
  • Joe Flint (en)
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  • WWJ-TV logo used from 2008 to 2012 (en)
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  • We don't believe anybody else can do as well presenting black culture as we ourselves. (en)
  • Channel 50 has actually used the same approach for three years on its 10 p.m. newscast, but nobody noticed because that hour pulls the approximate ratings of a 3 a.m. infomercial about chinchilla breeding on The Discovery Channel. (en)
  • I remember when I told my [parents] I wanted to go into journalism, but they had other ideas. They were used to women being in positions of... being a nurse, a very honorable profession, or a teacher, which is what my mother was. I told my father a broadcast journalist, he looked at me strangely, and said, 'well Pat I don't know about that. I mean, you don't look anything like Walter Cronkite...' (en)
  • You start losing people, and you lose the history. It's a story that needs to be told. Without Karen and Joe , it would never have happened. They're the Esther Gordy Edwards of Motown. (en)
  • My mother looked at me, and I told her I was going to do television and she says, "You're strange. You're weird. What do you mean you're going to do TV?" Because when we grew up, black people were not on television that much unless they made the news. True story. (en)
  • There are some places where we're going into markets where there are literally no news department and the channel position is like almost triple digits. Where that's happening, we're obviously going to take a hit. (en)
  • It's difficult to part with anything you love. But we don't have the financial capabilities to do what we'd like to here. And we take pride in the fact that we're now making it possible to bring some new jobs to the City of Detroit. (en)
  • After a year on the air, the fanfare and some of the more ambitious goals have been lost in the dust. In retrospect the station has done better than some expected—simply by surviving. But it has not lived up to all the rhetoric of those first weeks. (en)
  • The idea was they could be a black entry onto the airwaves. But Channel 62 has fallen far short of what the black community hoped for in Detroit. I hope something happens to get them off dead center. There won't be any change, however, until the black community approaches management and says, 'We want change and are willing to support you.' (en)
  • is a city of 1.4 million people, more than half of whom are Black. Yet, if you watch the other stations, you find that the programming is only about one or two percent Black. We felt that there was room for another station one that speaks to a Black audience. (en)
  • The demand now is to be able to consume content when and where viewers want it. And this is a great opportunity to do that and really offer them content that flows like water, from streaming to linear and to digital and to social platforms. (en)
  • They can move Murder, She Wrote, revamp the entire primetime lineup and hire Leslie Moonves as entertainment chief, but there's one thing CBS can't change: Channel 62 in Detroit. (en)
  • The station has no news and no history in the market. It's amazing. (en)
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  • CBS News vice president, on potential rating declines for the CBS Evening News (en)
  • on the "straight to the point" format of WWJ-TV's local news (en)
  • WGPR-TV vice president (en)
  • describing WGPR-TV (en)
  • former WXYZ-TV reporter (en)
  • writing for Variety (en)
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  • Guided tour of the William V. Banks Broadcast Museum/WGPR-TV Studios (en)
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  • WDIV-TV est une station de télévision américaine de langue anglaise affiliée au réseau CBS située à Détroit dans l'État du Michigan appartenant à CBS Corporation. Elle diffuse à partir de Oak Park (Michigan) sur le canal UHF 44 (virtuel 62.1) d'une puissance de 425 kW et son signal couvre naturellement Windsor (Ontario). (fr)
  • WWJ-TV는 미국 미시간주 디트로이트를 방송 권역으로 하는 CBS 계열 방송국이다. (ko)
  • WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by the CBS television network. Under common ownership with CW affiliate WKBD-TV under the network's CBS News and Stations group, both stations share studios on Eleven Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, while WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park. (en)
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