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In 1969, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to impose restrictions on the common ownership of print and broadcast media in the same market.The combination of the Detroit News and WWJ-AM-FM-TV was given grandfathered protection from the new regulations, but by the mid-to-late 1970s, the Evening News Association was under pressure to break up its Detroit cluster voluntarily.
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On September 15, 1968, WXON-TV began broadcasting on channel 62. [3] Licensed to nearby Walled Lake, Michigan, WXON-TV operated on channel 62 for four years.In 1970, it purchased the construction permit of WJMY, a channel 20 station that was built out but which its owner, United Broadcasting, had no financial resources to operate, for $413,000 in United's expenses related to the permit. [4]
(CBS DETROIT) - Al Allen, a Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame honoree who worked in broadcast news in Detroit for over 50 years, died Tuesday. He was 79. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and ...
Kennedy was born June 27, 1908, in Cleveland, Ohio.He began his media career as a staff announcer at WWJ, The Detroit News.. In 1941, he became a Warner Bros. contract player, appearing in dozens of Hollywood movies from 1941 through 1955. [1]
Pages in category "Television anchors from Detroit" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Along with Kilpatrick, Diarra From Detroit's cast includes Phylicia Rashad, Morris Chestnut, DomiNque Perry, Claudia Logan, Bryan Terrell Clark, Shannon Wallace and Jon Chaffin.
On July 14, 2008, WMYD launched a weeknight prime time newscast produced by the Independent News Network (INN) in Davenport, Iowa, competing with WJBK-TV's longer-established hour-long 10:00 p.m. newscast. The My TV20 News at 10 maintained three locally based reporters in Detroit, while the news presenters were in Iowa. [96]