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In December 1960, Valley Telecasting sold WFRV-TV to Valley Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of WAVE-TV at Louisville, Kentucky, for $1.09 million. [16] WFRV's first attempt at expanding to the Upper Peninsula, a construction permit to build channel 8 at Iron Mountain, Michigan, was scrapped at the company's request days after the sale, as was an application by the company to build a channel ...
In March 2012, Larry McCarren announced that he was resigning from his 24-year position at WFRV-TV.He proceeded to join WGBA-TV in July 2012, launching the similar show Packers Live in September 2013 over the stations in the Packers' television network (McCarren did not do a show in the 2012 season due to a non-compete clause in the Green Bay market).
Semi-satellite of NBC's then-affiliate in nearby Green Bay, Wisconsin, WFRV-TV. Disaffiliated from NBC and joined ABC in April 1983 when WFRV-TV swapped affiliations with Green Bay's ABC affiliate WLUK-TV ; WLUC-TV, NBC's original Marquette affiliate, subsequently retook a secondary affiliation with the network (with CBS (later ABC when CBS ...
In 2007, CBS-owned-and-operated WFRV-TV in Green Bay and its satellite WJMN-TV in Escanaba, ... This page was last edited on 15 January 2025, at 04:19 (UTC).
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In February 1992, the company merged with CBS, and WFRV/WJMN as well as WCCO became CBS owned-and-operated stations. [4] [5] Today, only WCCO-TV and its satellites are retained by Paramount Global. WFRV/WJMN was sold to Liberty Media in 2007, then to Nexstar Broadcasting Group in 2011.
WJMN became more autonomous from WFRV in April 2014, when station owner Nexstar Media Group (who acquired WFRV and WJMN in 2011) launched Upper Peninsula-specific newscasts from a newly-built studio in Marquette. On January 21, 2022, WJMN lost its CBS affiliation, with the network moving to WZMQ-DT2.
Jay Withington Johnson (September 30, 1943 – October 17, 2009) was an American politician and journalist who served as the 36th director of the United States Mint, and one-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin.