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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.
As Timmons career as a news anchor in Detroit took off, Jim Brandstatter began working in the Sports Department of WDIV-TV in Detroit. They were married in 1980. Timmons has six Emmy awards for reporting and anchoring, two Silver Circle awards, and in 2013 was enshrined in the Michigan Association of Broadcaster's Hall of Fame.
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).
Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. ... John DeLorean [62] Horace Elgin Dodge [63] John Francis Dodge [64]
Eliot started broadcasting Detroit weather on WWJ-TV (now WDIV-TV on channel 4) from the 1947 to 1980. [7] He later forecasted for WJBK-TV (channel 2) Detroit from 1980 to 1983, [8] and also hosted a movie series on WKBD-TV (channel 50). [9] [10] He was known for his jokes during his weather broadcast and combining words together.
"Heartbroken by the news of the passing of John Lomax," longtime News 5 (WLWT-TV) anchor Courtis Fuller wrote. "A good man and a Cincinnati broadcast legend. "A good man and a Cincinnati broadcast ...
Real Detroit Weekly (often called just Real Detroit) was a weekly newspaper distributed free of charge every Wednesday from 1999 to 2014, that focused mainly on entertainment news from metro Detroit. It had a proportion of advertisements similar to the Metro Times (and some of the same advertisers). Both publications were usually available at ...
WJBK (channel 2) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Owned and operated by the Fox network through its Fox Television Stations division, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities on West 9 Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield.