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Appropriately for a station founded by a newspaper, WMC-TV has a strong local news tradition. For the better part of its first four decades on the air, it was the dominant station in Memphis. However, rival WREG closed the gap in the late 1980s, and for the next two decades the two stations waged a spirited battle in the Nielsen ratings .
Prior to the switch, it was only producing half-hour newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m. [325] Coinciding with the switch, its weekday news output quadrupled with the introduction of a two-hour morning newscast, Mornings on Fox, and the reinstatement of a noon newscast after nearly three years; the early evening news was moved to 5 p.m. and the late ...
WREG was the only CBS affiliate that preempted CBS Saturday Morning since its September 1997 debut, airing a three-hour Saturday morning newscast in its place. The station began airing the program in January 2025. [citation needed] WREG preempts the Sunday edition of the CBS Weekend News in order to air an
Watchers of News 5 Cleveland will see two familiar faces in different roles in the New Year: Tiffany Tarpley and Damon Maloney.
A Memphis Police Department Bomb Unit vehicle is parked near the WMC Action News 5 station in Midtown Memphis on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The station was evacuated due to a bomb threat.
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This is a list of full-service television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., WOCV-CD, W16DQ-D and WIFR-LD—have not been included.
One exception was Brian Teigland, a weatherman cut by WREG-TV in a dispute over disability benefits. [63] News Watch 24 newscasts debuted on December 1, 1995, the same day the station switched to ABC. The newsroom initially offered local news at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. on channel 24, as well as a 9 p.m. newscast known as News Watch 30 on WLMT.