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WJBK had a tradition of producing its own morning news shows instead of airing CBS' morning news programs, beginning with a 7:30 a.m. newscast in 1969. The newscast would soon expand to an hour starting at 7 am. It became a mix of news, interviews and features and would be renamed Good Morning, Detroit and eventually moved to 8 am. [19]
The CBS Morning News title was originally used as the name of a conventional morning news program that served as a predecessor to the network's current CBS Mornings.For most of the 1960s and 1970s, the program aired as a 60-minute hard news broadcast at 7:00 a.m., preceding Captain Kangaroo and airing opposite the first hour of NBC's Today.
However, it opted to title its newscasts Action News, since rival WJBK-TV was already using the Eyewitness News brand. Under the direction of general manager Jim Osborn and news director Phil Nye, the station would lure popular news personalities from rival stations, WJBK-TV and WDIV-TV (then known as WWJ-TV) to join its already well-known ...
A Detroit news anchor hoping the rain would clear up on Wednesday used a poor choice of words. WJBK's Amy Andrews was discussing the weather with her co-workers Wednesday (jokingly referred to as ...
Gordon was born in Detroit, Michigan.His father Ed Gordon Jr. (1908–1971) was a schoolteacher who won gold in the 1932 Summer Olympics for competing in the long jump, and his mother Jimmie (née Hunt) (1920–2015) was also a teacher.
Lee Thomas (born September 15, 1967) is an author and an Emmy award winning [1] [2] entertainment reporter for WJBK Fox 2 News in Southfield, Michigan. Personal life
Maureen Maher started her broadcasting career with Chicago-based radio station WLUW (FM) as morning-drive news anchor in 1991. Maher then moved to Detroit in 1992, where she worked as a reporter for Detroit-based TV station WJBK-TV and CBS-owned radio stationWWJ (AM) until 1995.
WJBK 2: 1948–1994 Fox (O&O) WWJ-TV 62 (O&O) (previously with CBS (secondary) as WGPR-TV from 1975-1994) Disaffiliated from CBS in December 1994 as a result of a groupwide affiliation agreement between New World Communications, then-owner of WJBK-TV, and Fox. [2] Mount Clemens-Detroit, Michigan: WADL 38: 1992-1994 (secondary) MyNetworkTV