WFRV-TV
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| WFRV-TV / WJMN-TV | |
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| WFRV: Green Bay, Wisconsin WJMN: Escanaba, Michigan-Marquette, Michigan |
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| Branding | CBS 5 and CBS 3 |
| Slogan | Working For You |
| Channels | 5, 3 (VHF) analog, 39, 48 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | CBS (since 1992) |
| Owner | CBS Corporation (sale pending to Liberty Media Corporation) |
| Founded | WFRV: May 20, 1955 (Began on Channel 42 & Moved to Channel 5 afterwards) WJMN: March 2, 1968 |
| Call letters meaning | Wisconsin's Fox River Valley W-Jane Morton Norton |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1955-1959 and 1983-1992) NBC (1959-1983) DuMont (secondary, 1955) |
| Website | www.wfrv.com/ |
- WJMN-TV redirects here. For other uses, see WJMN.
WFRV-TV, channel 5, is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS television network, based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station's studios are located in Green Bay, and its transmitter is in De Pere, Wisconsin. WFRV's signal is rebroadcasted over satellite station WJMN-TV (channel 3) in Escanaba, Michigan.
On February 13, 2007, CBS Corporation announced it would sell WFRV and WJMN to Liberty Media Corporation as part of a stock-swap transaction, subject to final approval by the Federal Communications Commission. [1]
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[edit] Early history
The station began as WNAM-TV Channel 42 in Neenah, Wisconsin on May 20, 1955. It soon moved to Green Bay, changed its frequency to Channel 5 and changed its call letters to fit the phrase "Wisconsin's Fox River Valley" as known today as WFRV-TV. It started as an ABC affiliate before switching to NBC in 1959. As an NBC affiliate, it became the first station in Northeast Wisconsin to broadcast in color.
Among the station's claims is that it was the first to cover a live lunar eclipse, in 1959, when a studio camera was wheeled into the parking lot and aimed at the moon.
The station changed affiliations again in 1983, when it became an ABC affiliate for the second time, with NBC going to WLUK (Channel 11).
The station's original owners sold the station to the Morton Norton family of Kentucky, owners of Louisville, Kentucky's WAVE, in the mid-1960s.
[edit] WJMN (Channel 3)
In 1968, a satellite station, WJMN-TV began operation on Channel 3 in Escanaba, Michigan; the station also serves Iron Mountain, Marquette and the rest of the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. WJMN airs Channel 5's entire schedule, except for UP-specific weather and news cut-ins, ads and differing promotions identifying the station as CBS 3, time-adjusted for the Eastern Time Zone. The transmitter for WJMN is located 26 miles north of Escanaba and 4 miles south of the town of Trenary in Masonville Township. WJMN's antenna is 1310 feet high, which made it the second tallest construction in the state of Michigan upon its completion.
WJMN-TV is not related to the Clear Channel-owned WJMN (FM) in Boston, Massachusetts.
[edit] Later History and WFRV Today
Orion Broadcasting, the Mortons' company, merged with Cosmos Broadcasting (a subsidiary of The Liberty Corporation) in 1981. A few years later, WFRV/WJMN were sold to the Murphy and McNally families, owners of Minneapolis-St. Paul's WCCO-TV (Channel 4) and WCCO-AM (830). CBS then acquired all four stations in 1992 when the families sold the stations. New FCC rules had allowed networks to own more stations, so CBS decided to keep WFRV/WJMN and convert them to CBS stations, which in 2005 were in the No. 69 market nationally. With this move, WBAY (Channel 2) became Green Bay's ABC affiliate. The move also made WFRV/WJMN among the few stations in the U.S. to have been an affiliate of all of the "Big Three" television networks - ABC, NBC and CBS.
The station now follows the CBS Mandate in every way. Previously, the graphics used on its newscasts were green and gold, as a connection to the Green Bay Packers. On July 10, 2006, they unveiled a blue and yellow graphic scheme as well as new sets to coincide with the return of former anchor Tammy Elliott.
In 2003, the stations became the first in the Green Bay market to broadcast digitally.
On February 13, 2007, CBS Corporation announced that they would sell WFRV and WJMN to Liberty Media for $170 million [2]. The stations are expected to remain CBS affiliates after the sale is finalized.
[edit] CBS5 News Team
[edit] News Anchors
- Erin Davisson
- Tammy Elliott
- Lisa Malak
- Kris Schuller
- Tom Zalaski
- Chelly Boutott
- Paul Evansen
[edit] Storm Team 5 Weather
- Tom Mahoney-Chief Meteorologist
- Dave Miller
- Dana Tyler
[edit] Sports
- Burke Griffin
- Larry McCarren
- Kirk Parker
- Ryan Popkey
- Nick Goddard
[edit] References
- Channel 5 hits Big 5-0. Green Bay News-Chronicle article. Retrieved on May 20, 2005.
[edit] External links
- WFRV Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WFRV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WJMN
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WJMN 31 (Escanaba) - WWMT 3 (Kalamazoo) - WNEM 5 (Bay City) - WLNS 6 / W67AJ 67 (Lansing / Ann Arbor) - WWTV 9 / WWUP 10 (Cadillac / Sault Sainte Marie) - WBKB 11 (Alpena) - WWJ 62 (Detroit) |
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1Satellite of WFRV-TV, Green Bay, Wisconsin |
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| See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, UPN, WB and Other stations in Michigan and CBC, CTV, Global, SRC and Other stations in Ontario | |
Categories: Television stations in Green Bay / Appleton | Television stations in Marquette | Television stations in Wisconsin | CBS network affiliates | Television stations in Michigan | CBS Corporation television stations | Television channels and stations established in 1955 | Channel 5 TV stations in the United States
