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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.
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.
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]
Count Scary was a character (portrayed by Detroit, Michigan-area radio disc jockey Tom Ryan) who hosted monthly specials presenting B movie horror films with comedy skits on Detroit television station WDIV from 1982 to the early 1990s. Count Scary was a comically stereotypical vampire.
Certain American television events in 2024 have been scheduled. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; information on controversies, business transactions, and carriage disputes; and deaths of those who made various contributions to the medium.
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.
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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.