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Detroit's WWJ was the team's flagship station prior to 1998 and continued to simulcast WXYT (AM)'s broadcasts prior to the team's move to WKRK. [citation needed] Prior to 1989, WJR had served as the Lions' radio flagship. [citation needed]
WKBD-TV (channel 50), branded as CW Detroit 50, is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with The CW.It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside WWJ-TV (channel 62), a CBS owned-and-operated station.
In 2015, Burleson was also a member of the Detroit Lions preseason broadcast team as a color commentator for the Detroit Lions Television Network. [19] In 2016, Good Morning Football debuted on NFL Network with Burleson, Kay Adams , Kyle Brandt , and Peter Schrager as co-hosts. [ 20 ]
In 1985, Makupson was appointed co-anchor of WKBD's newly-launched Ten O'Clock News; beginning in 2001, she also began to anchor 62 CBS Eyewitness News at 11 on WKBD's sister station, WWJ-TV (ironically, the former WGPR). [2] Amyre left the duopoly following the closure of the two stations' news department in December 2002. [3]
WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.It is owned and operated by the CBS television network via its CBS News and Stations division, alongside WKBD-TV (channel 50), an affiliate of The CW.
Along with sister stations WWJ 950 AM and WXYT 1270 AM, 97.1 The Ticket is the flagship station of all four of Detroit's professional sports teams and two college teams: the Detroit Tigers baseball team, [4] the Detroit Pistons basketball team, [5] the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, [6] the Detroit Lions football team, [7] and the Michigan Wolverines football and men's basketball (NCAA) teams.
The Tigers have spent most of their broadcast televised history across two of Detroit's heritage "Big Three" network stations, WJBK (Channel 2, Fox; formerly with CBS from 1948 to 1994) and WDIV (Channel 4, NBC; originally WWJ-TV from 1947 to 1978), as well as two of the market's former legacy independent stations, WMYD (Channel 20, formerly ...
He played in three Pro Bowls and was once selected as a first-team All-NFL player. After the 1972 season, he retired as a player and was a sports broadcaster for CBS and the sports director for KPIX-TV in San Francisco from 1974 to 1994. Walker was a weekend sportscaster during the off-season during his later years as a Detroit Lion.