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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).
In 1969, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to impose restrictions on the common ownership of print and broadcast media in the same market.The combination of the Detroit News and WWJ-AM-FM-TV was given grandfathered protection from the new regulations, but by the mid-to-late 1970s, the Evening News Association was under pressure to break up its Detroit cluster voluntarily.
Currently, Abel helms the 5 p.m. newscast on 7 Action News on Detroit's ABC affiliate and the 10 p.m. 7 Action News that airs on TV20. He also covers politics and has led several major breaking ...
Prior to that, he was a sports columnist for ClickOnDetroit.com and a regular commentator on WDIV-TV's Sunday night sports show. [2] Parker previously served as a sports columnist for The Detroit News and was a member of ESPN'S First Take program. Parker currently co-hosts The Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio with Chris Broussard.
He regularly covers the Detroit Lions, Red Wings, Tigers, Pistons, as well as Michigan, Michigan State, and high school athletics. He is featured during the week on 7 News Detroit at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. Galli can also be seen on TV20 Detroit. [1] Brad was named Sportscaster of the Year in Michigan by the National Sports Media Association for 2018 ...
She was the first female news anchor in American history to anchor the 6:00pm and 11:00pm broadcasts in March 1973 while anchoring the news at WILX-TV in Lansing, Michigan. After four years at WILX-TV in Lansing, she was offered a job working as a reporter and 11pm news anchor for WJBK-TV (CBS) in Detroit, where she worked for six years. In ...
Whenever he’s on, he lightens up the rest of the Channel 7 anchor team,” wrote former Free Press TV critic Mike Duffy in 1982. Two years later, columnist Bob Talbert put Kress at the top of ...
A native of Detroit, Hodak graduated from Guardian Angels Elementary School and Denby High School in Detroit, and studied mass communications at Wayne State University, also located in Detroit. [1] After traveling to Orlando, Florida, as a news reporter for WDBO-TV, Hodak returned to Detroit in 1965 as a weathercaster for WJBK-TV on Channel 2 ...