WILX-TV

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WILX-TV
Onondaga / Lansing / Jackson, Michigan
Branding	WILX
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 57 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2
Owner	Gray Television
Founded	1959
Call letters meaning	W Ingham County/Lansing 10 (X)
Former affiliations	None
Transmitter Power	316 kW/299 m (analog) 500 kW/280 m (digital)
Website	WILX.com

WILX-TV is the NBC television affiliate serving the Lansing/Jackson, Michigan market of the United States. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 10, and its digital signal on UHF channel 57. The station's transmitter is located in Onondaga, Michigan, its city of license. Under exceptionally good weather conditions (particularly at dawn), one can receive the station as far away as Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, although very weakly.

[edit] History

The station was founded in 1959. It was owned by Jackson Telecasters, along with WJCO-AM 1510. Jackson Telecasters was 50% owned by Lansing Broadcasting which owned WILS-AM 1320. It was a part-time signal, and shared the channel 10 frequency with WMSB, an educational station owned by Michigan State University. WMSB was originally WKAR-TV, broadcasting on UHF channel 60. However, it had difficulty getting viewers because television sets were not required to have UHF tuning until 1964. Viewers had to buy an expensive converter to watch WKAR-TV, and the picture wasn't clear even with one. Looking for a way to increase its viewership, MSU agreed to share channel 10 with WILX. As such, WMSB was located on MSU's campus in East Lansing, while WILX was licensed to Onondaga and broadcast from the second largest city in the area, Jackson.

WILX was on the air for 70 percent of the broadcast day, including all of prime time. However, both stations shared the same tower and transmitter in Onondaga. This arrangement continued until WKAR resumed broadcasting on channel 23 in 1972.

WILX-TV was later sold to Figgie Communications. The station went through several more ownership changes (Adams Television, Brissette Broadcasting, Forward Communications and Benedek Broadcasting) before it was acquired by current owners Gray Television.

Unlike most two-station markets, WILX did not have a secondary affiliation with ABC. This was because WJRT-TV in Flint decently covered most of Lansing. The city would not have an ABC affiliate of its own until WLAJ signed on in 1990. Since the late 1980s WILX has been the dominant television station in Lansing.

For many years, the station's main studios were located at 1510 Springport Road in Jackson, while its newsroom was located in downtown Lansing. In the early 1990s, under the ownership of Brissette Broadcasting, the station's operations were consolidated into a studio complex in Lansing, located at 500 American Road.

In 2005, WILX entered into a news production agreement with Fox affiliate WSYM-TV. Under this agreement WILX produces two newscasts for WSYM (5:30-6:00 p.m. M-F; 10-11 p.m. M-Su). The stations use one set of reporters but maintain unique anchors and primary meteorologists.

Those People are:

• David Andrews (News 10 Anchor)
• Adela Uchida (News 10 Anchor)
• Andy Provenzano (News 10 Meteorologist)
• Darrin Rockcole (News 10 Chief Meteorologist)

• Jason Colthorp (Fox 47 Anchor)
• Todd Klaassen (Fox 47 Meteorologist)

On occasion, such as severe weather, the stations may carry the primary feed from WILX in which weather anchors appear on the other station. Darrin Rockcole has also substituted on WSYM from time to time.

In 2006,WILX became the new OTA affiliate of the Detroit Tigers for the Lanisng/Jackson Area

[edit] News Staff

News 10 Today

Anchor - Emille Voss

Darren Rockcole - Sky Team 10 Chief Meteorologist

News 10 @ 5:00

Anchor - David Andrews

Andy Provenzano - Sky Team 10 Meteorologist

News 10 @ 6:00 & 11:00

Anchor - David Andrews

Anchor - Adela Uchida

Andy Provenzano - Sky Team 10 Meteorologist

Tim Staudt - Sports Director

News 10 Today Weekend

Anchor - John Tramontana ^[1]

Dennis Drummond - Sky Team 10 Meteorologist

News 10 @ 6:00 & 11:00 Weekends

Anchor - varies reporters and anchors share this job

Dennis Drumond - Sky Team 10 Meteorologist

Jeremy Sampson - Weekend Sports Anchor

News 10 Reporters

Jessica Aspiras - Medical Reporter

Tony Tagliavia - Reporter

Beth Shayne - Reporter

Lori Dougovito - Reporter

Lauren Zakalik - Reporter

John Tramontana - Reporter

AJ Hilton - Reporter

Tim Skubick - News 10 Capital Correspondent

Dan Hedman - Sports Reporter

Tim Nester - Sky Team 10 Forecaster

[edit] External links

• WILX.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WILX-TV

Broadcast Television in the Lansing/Jackson market  (Nielsen DMA #110)
WLNS 6 (CBS) - WILX 10 (NBC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2) - WHTV 18 (MyNetworkTV) - WKAR 23 (PBS) - W27CN 27 (TBN / TCT) - WPXD 31 (ION) - WZPX 43 (ION) - WSYM 47 (Fox) - WLAJ 53 (ABC/The CW on DT2)
Local cable television channels JTV 21 (Jackson) - WBL 5 (The CW)