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Early history. [edit] The station first signed on the air as WWDT on October 23, 1946, for one day of demonstrative programming; [ 4 ] regular programming commenced on March 4, 1947. It was the first television station in Michigan and the tenth station to sign on in the United States overall. The station was originally owned by the Evening News ...
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).
Mort Crim (born July 31, 1935) [1] is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 (soon to be named WDIV-TV) in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before retiring from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997. Previously, he served as an anchor at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago.
Tim White (newscaster) Categories: American television anchors by populated place. Television personalities from Detroit.
Mike Seidel. Michael Phillip Seidel (born January 18, 1956) is an American meteorologist best known for appearing on The Weather Channel from 1992 to 2024. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He is noted for his field reporting from breaking weather including severe weather, hurricanes, and snowstorms. He's been live on The Weather Channel in 46 states, DC and Puerto ...
August 17, 2015. Archivedfrom the original on January 12, 2020. Retrieved January 12,2020. ^Burke, Melissa Nann (February 7, 2019). "Political giant John Dingell dies at 92". The Detroit News. Archivedfrom the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved January 12,2020. ^"The Congressional Career of John David Dingell Sr".
WTVS. WTVS (channel 56) is a PBS member television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned by Detroit Public Media. Its main studios are located at the Riley Broadcast Center and HD Studios on Clover Court in Wixom, [2] with an additional studio at the Maccabees Building in Midtown Detroit. [3] The station's transmitter is located at ...
The genesis of Blues music in Detroit occurred as a result of the first wave of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the Deep South. In the 1920s, Detroit was home to a number of pianists who performed in the clubs of Black Bottom and played in the Boogie-woogie style of blues, such as Speckled Red (Rufus Perryman), Charlie Spand, William Ezell, and most prominently, Big Maceo ...