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The station first signed on the air on October 9, 1948, with 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of programming [2] as the second television station in both Detroit and Michigan, over a year behind WWJ-TV (channel 4, now WDIV-TV) and 15 days ahead of WJBK-TV (channel 2).
WJBK is the only American television station in the Detroit–Windsor television market that broadcasts its digital signal on the VHF band. Canadian station CBET-DT, broadcasting from McGregor, Ontario, is on VHF channel 9. All other Detroit–Windsor DTV stations are on the UHF band, which includes channels 14 to 36 after the FCC repack.
A native of Detroit, Hodak graduated from Guardian Angels Elementary School and Denby High School in Detroit, and studied mass communications at Wayne State University, also located in Detroit. [1] After traveling to Orlando, Florida, as a news reporter for WDBO-TV , Hodak returned to Detroit in 1965 as a weathercaster for WJBK-TV on Channel 2.
Currently, Abel helms the 5 p.m. newscast on 7 Action News on Detroit's ABC affiliate and the 10 p.m. 7 Action News that airs on TV20. He also covers politics and has led several major breaking ...
During the 1980s and 1990s, Bonds hosted an interview segment on the 5 p.m. news called "Up Front" in which he confronted newsmakers with tough questions.
Three weeks later she was the anchor for WJBK-TV for the 11:00pm news. [2] As Timmons career as a news anchor in Detroit took off, Jim Brandstatter began working in the Sports Department of WDIV-TV in Detroit. They were married in 1980.
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
Wilson also followed Kilpatrick around the country, at one point booking a plane ticket directly next to the Mayor in an attempt to corner him for an interview. The City of Detroit later prepared and broadcast a video attacking Wilson on its city-controlled Public-access television cable TV channel, entitled Steve Wilson, the Inventive Reporter ...