CBS 58 is seen on Channel 58, Spectrum/Time Warner Channel 1005, Spectrum/Charter 605, DirecTV 58, Dish Network 58, U-Verse 1005. The station's E/I requirements are fulfilled by the Xploration Station block offered by Fox. With only a few months before WITI was set to switch to Fox, CBS began making plans to find a new Milwaukee affiliate and approached all of the market's major television stations to potentially reach an agreement, which was hampered partly because of the network's then-faltering ratings and an older-skewing programming slate. After growing up in suburban Maryland, I first landed in the Midwest as an undergrad at Northwestern majoring in journalism but specializing in Ultimate Frisbee (and meeting my wonderful wife, Kim, along the way). Since there wasn't The Weather Channel to watch continuously, like some weather fans do now, I would check out weather books from the library, and my parents would buy me weather books for my birthday and Christmas. October 9, 2020. [77] Weekend early evening newscasts were subsequently restored on April 7, 2012. I got promoted to morning anchor and after about a year took a job at WSAZ Newschannel 3 in Huntington, WV. 2:08 Brad Hicks, who has been a nighttime news anchor at WITI-TV (Channel 6) for nearly 15 years, has left the station, the Fox affiliate has confirmed. All of which is to say: Im up for whatever this area has to offer. On May 23, 1994, as part of a broad deal that also saw News Corporation acquire a 20% equity interest in the company, New World Communications signed a long-term agreement to affiliate its nine CBS-, ABC- or NBC-affiliated television stations with Fox, which sought to strengthen its affiliate portfolio after the National Football League (NFL) accepted the network's $1.58 billion bid for the television rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) a four-year contract that began with the 1994 NFL season on December 18, 1993. It also carried the team's Thursday Night Football games involving the Packers from NFL Network locally early on in that package's life before it began simulcasts on CBS (2014 and 2015), along with NBC starting in 2016, before returning to Fox exclusively in the 2018 season until the end of the 2021 season. Notably, channel 6 is the only commercial television station in the Milwaukee market never to have held the local broadcast rights to the Milwaukee Brewers. [28][29][30][31] Through a management company formed between Local TV and the Chicago-based Tribune Company formed the day prior to the Fox station purchase (December 21) to handle the operation of its existing broadcast television properties and the Local TV stations as well as provide web hosting, technical and engineering services to stations run by the latter group, WITI began sharing newsgathering resources between WITI and Tribune's television flagship WGN-TV in the adjacent Chicago market. On December 3, 2018, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group announced it would acquire Tribune's assets for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. I would make colorful weather symbols such as clouds and the sun (just like Harry Volkman used on TV) and attach magnets to the back of them. I wasnt born in Wisconsin nor have I ever lived in the Badger State until now. 10. Currently, she serves as Marketing and Communications Officer for the Department of Employee Relations in the City of Milwaukee. Nicole Koglin, a shorthaired woman with a love of animals almost as great as her love of the Packers, is a renowned TV anchor and reporter. In October 1956, the station affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which provided the station with 52 films from the 20th Century Fox library and syndicated programs. Generally, Real Milwaukee led or placed a strong second in the ratings to all other programs in the 9:00a.m. time period. Sinclair had already announced that it had sold WCGV's spectrum in April in the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction and it would cease operations in technicality, albeit with WCGV's main schedule and subchannel moving to WVTV's DT2 subchannel on January 8, 2018; that move effectively would have alleviated any regulatory complications involving the sale for the Milwaukee stations, outside any physical and employee assets that would have been sorted out prior to the deal's closure. It's all gone by in the blink of an eye, but I couldn't be luckier. CBS sold WXIX to Cream City Broadcasting president Gene Posner; WITI-TV then began its first stint as a CBS affiliate on April 1, 1959. Cheers! (New World Communications Group Inc. acquires Argyle Television Holdings)", "New World Vision: Murdoch's News Corp. to Buy Broadcast Group", "THE MEDIA BUSINESS;Murdoch's News Corp. 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The passage of time is often difficult to grasp. Nicole Koglin is the latest hire at Milwaukee's CBS affiliate WDJT-TV (Channel 58) with ties to Milwaukee Fox network affiliate WITI-TV (Channel 6). Among the NTA programs aired by WITI were The Passerby, Man Without a Gun and This is Alice. Crime and Public Safety. [16] WITI-TV was among the stations involved in the Fox agreement, which also initially included four of New World's other existing CBS-affiliated stations WJBK-TV, WJW-TV, WTVT and WAGA-TV and four additional stations CBS affiliate KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, ABC affiliates WBRC-TV in Birmingham and WGHP in GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point, North Carolina, and NBC affiliate WDAF-TV in Kansas City that were part of New World's concurrent $360-million acquisition of Great American Communications's television properties. The trend started in July 2020 . CHICAGO - Former President Barack Obama . On August 28, 2014, WITI's affiliation with Fox officially became the longest network affiliation the station held, passing the station's 7,200 days (or near 19 years) over its two separate stints as a CBS affiliate. The station's morning newscast, Fox 6 Wake Up News, usually places first in the 4:30a.m. to 10:00a.m. time period against the national morning programs airing on WTMJ, WISN and WDJT during the 7:00 to 9:00a.m. slot, whereas WITI's newscast serves as a local alternative to those programs; it competes with a WDJT-produced newscast on WMLW-TV. The main anchor at WITI-TV (Channel 6) has not been on the air all week for its 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts.. That . Woman shot and killed near 26th and Clayton Crest, police investigating. [25][26][27], On January 26, coinciding with Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XXXI (Fox's first Super Bowl telecast, in which the Packers defeated the New England Patriots), WITI-TV changed its branding from the "Fox is Six/Six is News" moniker to simply "Fox Six" (with its newscasts concurrently rebranding as Fox Six News), using a logo that matched the design language of the logo for the NFL on Fox, with "SIX" in place of "NFL". Seven people died because of that day, but many more likely would have if it wasnt for one Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy. Three years earlier KCST, a UHF independent station, won a long battle to strip the market's ABC affiliation from Tijuana, Mexico-based VHF outlet XETV. As a result, WITI-TV and WISN-TV swapped networks: channel 6 became an ABC affiliate on April 2, 1961. Josh Elliot was abruptly fired by CBS News on Monday and escorted out of the building by security. In 1978, WITI moved its operations to a new facility located on North Green Bay Road in Brown Deer, just outside Milwaukee; the upstart WCGV-TV (channel 24), which would eventually air programming from CBS that WITI refused, purchased WITI's former studios and used them from 1980 until 1994. FOX6 News Milwaukee. I took a circuitous route to Milwaukee. This left the market's lower-rated independentscommercial outlets WJJA (channel 49, now independent station WMLW-TV) and WDJT-TV (channel 58) or religious outlet WVCY-TV (channel 30)as the only viable options with which CBS could reach an affiliation agreement; WVCY owner VCY America would eliminate itself from the running after the owner of its parent licensee, Vic Eliason (in consultation with the VCY America board), declined a $10 million offer by CBS Inc. to acquire that station directly on grounds that the bid was "unreasonably" below market value in a letter that also objected to racy programming content carried by the major U.S. broadcast networks. And when I first went on the air in Milwaukee on the TV6 News at Noon with John Drilling on Monday, February 22, 1982, I had no idea what the future would hold.I feel fortunate to have worked in local television during the time period when so many technological changes took place. According to a Milwaukee Business Journal report this week, longtime anchor and. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: In May 2012, the station activated its second audio program feed three years before FCC requirements for network-provided audio description went into effect for the Milwaukee market, which was done for all Local TV stations at the master control level. 9m ago. [8] In August 1962, the station moved to its current 1,078-foot (329m) transmission tower located in Shorewood; for a short time, the transmitter had been the tallest free-standing tower in the world. The network concluded it was better to have its programming on a VHF station, even if it was only an affiliate. Sun-Times Media Wire. By Matt. Jenna Sachs Jenna Sachs gets. In Milwaukee, Lada is probably best known from her days as a sports anchor and reporter at WITI-TV (Channel 6), but the Marquette University alum has expanded her career well beyond. Storer also applied to move the channel 6 allocation from Whitefish Bay to Milwaukee; the request was granted on July 30, 1959.[6]. After receiving her journalism degree in 1972, she served two years there as a news and sports reporter before shifting to WITI-TV in Milwaukee, where she served 5 years as a news reporter. That helped steer me towards journalism. In April 2017, she left her position reading headlines as a news anchor on Fox & Friends, the morning program the president watches religiously, to become spokesperson for the State Department. WITI aired the program until 1996, when it moved to WDJT-TV; the telethon returned to WITI in 2011,[72] although it lost the rights once again when the broadcast moved to ABC in 2013 (as a result, it was carried locally by WISN-TV until the telethon ended in 2014). Although it sounds like a cliche, this has very much been a dream job for me. WCGV temporarily converted into an independent station in the run-up to affiliating with the upstart United Paramount Network (UPN) the following month (on January 16, 1995), though retaining Fox Kids, as WITI held no interest in carrying the network's children's lineup due to a successful weekday afternoon and Saturday morning lineup, as most New World stations did. From there, I took the morning anchor job at News10 ABC and FOX23 (WTEN/WXXA) in Albany, NY allowing me to get closer to my now husband, Joe. Marty Burns-Wolfe Years active in Milwaukee: 1985-1996 On the surface, Jerry Taff and Marty Burns-Wolfe seemed like the perfect TV news team: Taff was older and measured; Burns-Wolfe was. [73] The station does carry a paid advertorial segment called Fox Focus during its daytime programming, though only within the form of an extended traditional commercial break. WITI aired its first non-network program in HD with the November 21, 2009, broadcast of the Milwaukee Downtown Christmas Parade (with training and equipment assistance from Milwaukee Public Television). The station's weather system did not transition to the same graphics system until July 20, 2022.[80]. [3] The station was originally licensed to the North Shore village of Whitefish Bay on a technicality in order to address short-spacing concerns with Davenport, Iowa station WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV, which also broadcast on channel 6) before the FCC fully finessed spacing among television station signals in different markets. On December 5, 2009, WITI became the second station in Milwaukee (behind WTMJ-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. Harry got a kick out of that. However, it expanded its weekday morning newscast from two hours to three (with an hour added from 8:00 to 9:00a.m.); the weeknight 5:00p.m. newscast was expanded from 30 minutes to one hour, forming a 90-minute news block from 5 to 6:30p.m.; and an hour-long nightly prime time newscast at 9:00p.m. was added, leading into the existing 10:00p.m. newscast. Disgraced former Fox News anchor Ed Henry's motion to dismiss allegations that he violated New York's so-called "revenge porn" statute against his sexual assault accuser was rejected by a. The station's original call letters were WTVW. [5], On August 8, 1958, Storer Broadcasting purchased WITI in hopes of affiliating the station with CBS. fox6now.com. Marc Lamont Hill. On December 31, 2010, the subchannel became an affiliate of Antenna TV (as part of network owner Tribune Broadcasting's co-management agreement with Local TV's stations), and was rebranded as TV 6.2 (using a modified version of the "TV 6" logomark that WITI used from 1973 to 1995). WITI began serving as the primary television station for the Green Bay Packers as a CBS affiliate in 1959, when the network obtained the television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League; after the switch to ABC, no games aired until 1970 when Monday Night Football premiered on the network. For many years, she worked for Fox 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63] The sale was approved by the FCC on September 16 and was completed on September 19, 2019. It was not an easy decision. As of January 2021, WITI currently broadcasts 66 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11 hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays, and five hours of Real Milwaukee on each weekday; this does not count 90 minutes of news replays in overnights); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output among Milwaukee's broadcast television stations, and in the state of Wisconsin overall. [32] On July 1, 2013, the Tribune Company announced it would acquire the assets of Local TV LLC for $2.75 billion; the sale was completed on December 27.[33][34][35]. She has worked in Milwaukee television since 2004. In many ways it seems like. WISN-TV, virtual channel 12.1 (digital channel 34), is a. Raasch-Hooten - program host, anchor and former news. Fox News host Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was the last straw for two network commentators. On Oct. 27, 1954, WISN-TV signed on for the first time. It was a move we have never regretted. For fans of Fox 6 news, you may have noticed something this week. [9] Without hesitation, WISN-TV aligned with ABC, officially reversing the earlier 1961 affiliation swap;[10] the two stations switched networks once again on March 27, 1977; the final ABC program to air on channel 6 was a rerun of the two-part Starsky & Hutch episode "Murder at Sea", which aired at 8:00p.m. Central Time on the night before the station rejoined CBS.[11]. 1 morning newscast. This allowed me to stick the symbols on the map and move them around the country as I explained the weather to our imaginary viewers. We now have two kiddos Jack and Harper and a furrier one, Rileigh (Portuguese Water Dog) . Bryan Polcyn Bryan Polcyn is part of the award-winning FOX6 Investigators team. Stephanie is an Emmy award-winning journalist and currently the weekday anchor of FOX6 News at 4, 6 & 9 p.m. Philly raised with Packers pride that may be the best way to sum up my ties to. Conversely, in a move to comply with the network's branding conventions, Fox and other entertainment programming on the station was promoted as "Fox is Six" to try to build an audience for the growing network on the stronger Milwaukee station. The UW Health chief quality officer joined FOX6 News minutes after an FDA advisory committee recommended emergency use of the Moderna vaccine. Former CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes and longtime host Bill O'Reilly are among the most notable to have been forced out of the organization after being accused of sexual harassment. Programming and some local advertising, along with program promos are still in the 4:3 format. 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