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WLFI-TV presently broadcasts 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours each weekday, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays); unlike most CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, the station's early evening newscast at 5 p.m. runs only for a half-hour, with the station opting to run syndicated programs during the 5:30 p.m. half-hour.
WAND (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of NBC.Owned by Block Communications, the station maintains studios on South Side Drive in Decatur, and its transmitter is located along I-72, between Oreana and Argenta.
It was also the first station to use live Doppler radar and the first to broadcast in high definition (during the 2002 Winter Olympics) and air local news segments in high definition. On April 22, 2009, channel 13 became the second station in Des Moines broadcasting all in-studio news in widescreen standard definition. [33]
The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. [1] [3] It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles.
During weather segments, the station does feature live NOAA National Weather Service radar data from several regional sites presented on-screen in a system known as "ESP: Live Doppler" (with "ESP" meaning Exclusive Storm Prediction). The station uses the "Tower V.4" news music package from 615 Music. The station's anchors dually serve as field ...
The radar is branded as "Live Precision Doppler 2" (formerly known as "Live Doppler 2000" prior to 2000), and utilizes street-level mapping and storm-tracking capabilities. [ 44 ] In February 2010, WGRZ unveiled a new weather set that includes HD flat panel displays, improved lighting, and graphics and technology upgrades which would be phased ...
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Guest announcer for Saturday Night Live. Danny Dark (1938–2004) announcer; Ray Forrest (1916–1999) radio staff announcer for NBC, pioneered TV announcing and news broadcasting; Howard Reig (1921–2008) announcer for NBC Nightly News since the Tom Brokaw era. Was replaced by actor Michael Douglas.