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Founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by Dr. William V. Banks and the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons as an extension of WGPR (107.5 FM), channel 62 in Detroit was the first Black-owned television station in the continental United States. Though its ambitious early programming plans catering to the Black community were not entirely ...
Station Listings/Dial Pages: Michigan's Broadcast Guide This page was last edited on 5 February ... Dabl on 62.3, Fave TV on 62.4 Detroit: Mount Clemens: 38 27
Channel 62 was first proposed to be constructed in Hammond, Indiana, in the 1960s. Aben E. Johnson Jr. of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, proposed to build channel 56 but saw his application shifted to channel 62. [3] Johnson hoped to build the Action Network with the Hammond station, which was given the call sign WAXN-TV, and WXON-TV near Detroit. [4]
(WBTS-CD transmits over full-power WGBX-TV's spectrum, but is excluded as it is classified as a low-power license). A blue background indicates a station transmitting in the ATSC 3.0 format over-the-air; details about the station's alternate availability in the original ATSC format are contained in its article.
Television historians Castleman and Podrazik (1982) believe the 1961–62 season marked a comeback for television, as the networks rearranged their schedules to accommodate the critics. They point out CBS 's high-quality legal drama The Defenders , NBC 's medical drama Dr. Kildare , CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show , and ABC 's medical drama Ben ...
All of them are labeled in virtual channel number and cable channel number. Current affiliates ... Detroit: WWJ-TV: 62.3 21: CBS: CBS News and Stations: September 9 ...
The New Dance Show is a television series in Detroit, Michigan, which ran on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS affiliate known as WWJ-TV) and W68CH 68 (now WHPS-CD 15). Hosted by R.J. Watkins, The New Dance Show was a local version of Soul Train and featured regular dancers, including a man who dressed like a Gypsy and who wore a cape, and a woman who dressed as a boxer.
Founded in 1968 as WXON on channel 62 and relocated to channel 20 in 1972, the station was an independent focusing primarily on syndicated programs and classic reruns ...