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On Facebook, WDIV morning anchor Jason Colthorp posted the letter from Ellis and commented: “To say July 1 will be a bittersweet day for us, is an understatement.
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.
Devin Scillian, the evening anchor on WDIV-TV for 28 years, announced his retirement during Tuesday's 6 p.m. newscast.
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).
Deadline Detroit, which reported the buyouts based on an inside source called the change a shakeup. Longtime WDIV-TV broadcasters Smilovitz, Meloni, MacDonald may be taking buyouts Skip to main ...
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Since then, the station has broadcast more morning news hours than any other Detroit television station. In September 2009, the morning newscast was expanded to 5½ hours, airing from 4:30 to 10 am. In September 2011, Fox 2 News Morning expanded to 6½ hours from 4:30 to 11 am, where it joins the station's hour-long midday newscast at 11 am ...
In late June, Scillian and Gill did similar segments during the 6 p.m. news that celebrated the careers of MacDonald, who joined Channel 4 in 2004, Meloni, who's been there since 1995, and Tutman ...