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WJFW-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Wausau area as an affiliate of NBC. The station is owned by Rockfleet Broadcasting and maintains studios on County Road G (along WIS 17 ) in Rhinelander.
Offers to affiliate with the network had already been turned down by NBC affiliate WTMJ-TV (channel 4), ABC affiliate WISN-TV (channel 12, which had been affiliated with CBS from 1961 to 1977), WVTV (channel 18; which had earlier been a CBS owned-and-operated station in the 1950s), WCGV-TV (channel 24) and WJJA (channel 49, now WMLW-TV).
Channel Callsign City of license Dates Affiliation Notes 16: WWOD-TV: Lynchburg: 1952 – July 10, 1953 (CP) construction permit forfeited 20: WARL-TV: Arlington: 1956–1960 (CP) construction permit canceled 24: WBTM-TV: Danville: January 6, 1954 – December 31, 1954: ABC: 27: WTOV-TV: Norfolk: October 22, 1953 – October 3, 1954 May 25 ...
WTPX-TV (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Antigo, Wisconsin, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Wausau–Rhinelander market. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company , the station maintains transmitter facilities near Glandon, Wisconsin .
That year a newspaper called The New North began publication in Rhinelander. [3] In 1890, an Eagle River, Wisconsin newspaper called The Vindicator was formed; it later became The Rhinelander News in 1910. [3] During World War I, the publishers of The News decided they wanted daily coverage of the war, so they began publishing daily in 1917. [3]
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WISN-TV and ABC agreed to a new affiliation contract about a month later; [6] the two stations swapped networks once again on March 27, 1977; the final CBS program to air on channel 12 was an episode of The Carol Burnett Show with guest Ken Berry, which aired at 9 p.m. Central Time on the night before the station rejoined ABC (the station also ...
WTVR-TV had been on-the-air since 1948 while WXEX-TV (now WRIC-TV) had been on-the-air from Petersburg since 1955. The main competitors for the analog VHF channel 12 license were Larus and Brother Tobacco Company , owner of WRVA (AM 1140) and WRVB-FM (94.5, now WRVQ ) and Richmond Newspapers, owner of WRNL and forerunner of Media General .