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The studios were originally located at 9345 Lawton in Detroit, along with the studios of WRCJ; WTVS moved to the former WJBK studio facility in the New Center area of Detroit in 1971. [5] [6] WTVS vacated the facility in the 1990s, and the building would be used for its fixed satellite services [7] [8] until 2009, when it was sold to the Mosaic ...
Area served City of license Call Sign VC RF Network Notes Detroit: WHNE-LD 3 3 Light TV: getTV on 3.2, Corner Store TV on 3.3, HSN2 on 3.4, SBN on 3.5, Movies! on 3.6, Retro TV on 3.7, Jewelry Television on 3.8, NewsNet on 3.9, Rev'n on 3.10, Fun Roads on 3.11, Heartland on 3.12
Comcast later moved the station to channel 18 in Detroit to make room for the Michigan feed of the Big Ten Network, which now occupies channel 65. Due to the 2008 bankruptcy of Equity Broadcasting, WUDT was sold at auction to the Daystar Television Network on April 16, 2009; the sale closed in July 2009. [5]
The newscast was canceled in late 2004 due to poor viewership (WKBD and WWJ-TV later resumed local newscasts with the former using the CBSN Local streaming service for Detroit News Now from January 2020 to August 2023 and the latter launching CBS News Detroit in January 2023).
On September 15, 1968, WXON-TV began broadcasting on channel 62. [3] Licensed to nearby Walled Lake, Michigan, WXON-TV operated on channel 62 for four years.In 1970, it purchased the construction permit of WJMY, a channel 20 station that was built out but which its owner, United Broadcasting, had no financial resources to operate, for $413,000 in United's expenses related to the permit. [4]
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 .
The ON TV service in Detroit quickly gained 15,000 subscribers within three months [37] and snared the rights to Detroit Red Wings hockey, Detroit Tigers baseball (consisting of 20 weeknight games a year from Tiger Stadium), and Michigan Wolverines athletics (including tape-delayed football games). [38]
WHPS-CD was the Detroit area's first Black-owned TV station since WGPR (channel 62, now WWJ-TV) became a CBS affiliate. The station was owned until 2015 by R. J. Watkins, who, between 1988 and 1996, hosted and produced a dance program for WGPR-TV, The New Dance Show, which moved to WHPS-CD in 1995 [2], and reruns still air on the station at various evening timeslots.