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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.
WDIV-TV 4 Simulcasted NBC Sports coverage of the 1968 World Series in which the Detroit Tigers participated due to Major League Baseball regulations at the time allowing participating teams' television flagships to broadcast World Series games. (WJBK-TV was the Tigers' television flagship at the time.) WKBD-TV 50
Eliot started broadcasting Detroit weather on WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV on channel 4) from the 1947 to 1980. [7] He later forecasted for WJBK-TV (channel 2) Detroit from 1980 to 1983, [8] and also hosted a movie series on WKBD-TV (channel 50). [9] [10] He was known for his jokes during his weather broadcast and combining words together.
WKBD-TV (channel 50), branded as CW Detroit 50, is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with The CW.It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside WWJ-TV (channel 62), a CBS owned-and-operated station.
He joined WDIV as a reporter in 1995, and took an anchor position in 1996. Scillian retired from WDIV on December 13, 2024. [2] Scillian has appeared as a television journalist in several films, including Scream 4, The Double, and Mooz-lum, as well as a recurring role on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as a news anchor in a "Breaking News" skit. [3]
Mort Crim (born July 31, 1935) [1] is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 (soon to be named WDIV-TV) in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before retiring from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997.
Paul P. Gross is a meteorologist at WDIV-TV Channel 4, the NBC affiliate station in Detroit, Michigan.. Gross studied meteorology at the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science, and he interned with WDIV during his sophomore year, eventually being hired in an off-air position in his senior year.
Longtime WDIV-TV broadcasters Smilovitz, Meloni, MacDonald may be taking buyouts. Gannett. Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press. May 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM.