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WOOD-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for West Michigan.It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Battle Creek–licensed dual ABC affiliate/CW owned-and-operated station WOTV (channel 41) and Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WXSP-CD (channel 15).
Held the title as the tallest building in Grand Rapids from 1991 until 2008. [2] 3: Amway Grand Plaza Hotel: 318 / 97: 28: 1983: Held the title as the tallest building in Grand Rapids from 1983 until 1991. [3] 4: Bridgewater Place: 272 / 83: 18: 1993: Part of Bridgewater place complex, one of two buildings. [4] 5: Studio Park Tower: 270 / 82 ...
WOTV is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Grand Rapids–licensed NBC affiliate WOOD-TV (channel 8) and Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WXSP-CD (channel 15). The stations share studios on College Avenue Southeast in Grand Rapids, while WOTV's transmitter is located on South Norris Road in Orangeville Township.
WGVU-TV (channel 35) is a PBS member television station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.It operates a full-time satellite station, WGVK (channel 52) in Kalamazoo.The two stations are owned by Grand Valley State University, and maintain studios in the Meijer Public Broadcast Center, located in the Eberhard Center on the GVSU Pew Campus in downtown Grand Rapids.
[66] [67] Another obstacle, particularly with older viewers, was that WOOD-TV predated WZZM in Grand Rapids by more than a decade. [68] In 2016, WZZM added eight and a half hours a week of new newscasts, including morning and noon news extensions and a 5 p.m. newscast. [69] In 2004, the station debuted a 5 p.m. talk show, Take Five Grand Rapids ...
In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Grand Rapids market. On January 11, 1999, WXMI started its news department and launched the market's first prime time newscast at 10 p.m. It originally aired for 35 minutes on weeknights and for a half-hour on ...
In 1961, a fire at the station's transmitter spread to the studio and destroyed the building. The building was quickly rebuilt, complete with new equipment. In 1962, WWTV swapped channel locations with WZZM in Grand Rapids and moved to its current location on channel 9. The move to channel 9 allowed WWTV to boost its broadcasting power to cover ...
Plaza Towers is a mixed-use highrise building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At 345 feet (105 m), it was the tallest building in the city until the completion of the River House Condominiums in 2008. The building contains apartments on floors 8–14, individually owned condominiums on floors 15–32, and a 214-room [ 2 ] Courtyard by Marriott hotel ...