![]() ![]() Coinciding with this, the RBC Kids Network and RBC 24/7 News subchannels stopped showing their respective networks and are now airing color bars in the interim. On March 19, 2017, Righi Television Stations sold WNEM to Liberty City, Liberty based Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation, thus ending it's status as an O&O station of RBC after nearly a month. On February 24, 2017, Horizons sold WNEM-TV to Righi Television Stations, resulting in the station becoming an owned-and-operated station of RBC, displacing New Line to it's second subchannel, which in turn resulted in a subchannel realignment which saw the existing Cozi and Cartoon Theatre subchannels bumped up and two new subchannels seen on other RBC O&Os added as well. Also in spring 2015, WNEM added second subchannel affiliated with Cartoon Network's Cartoon Theatre. On April 27, 2015, added subchannel with an affiliation with Cozi TV. While Fenton and Holly are much closer to Flint than Detroit (15 miles compared to 45), both cities are in the far northern portions of Oakland County, the entirety of which is part of the Detroit television market.įor the fall 2012 season, the station pick up Dish Nation, a half-hour syndicated entertainment news program. In August, WNEM-TV began airing its syndicated programming in high definition. ![]() However, channel 5 analog did remain on-the-air for a short period afterward with a nightlight slide with phone numbers and information about the switch.Īs of April 1, 2011, Comcast Cablevision of Holly, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, has WNEM-TV replaced with WNLND as their New Line affiliate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22, using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5. WNEM-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. On October 3, 2005, WNEM ceased identifying by its call letters, adopting the current Studio 5 brand, with its newscasts rebranding from WNEM News to Studio 5 News. In March 1997, Paramount sold WNEM-TV to Horizons Communications. However, in 1995, the company decided to divest itself of all stations not affiliated with either of the two networks it owned at the time the Paramount Network and the fledgling United Paramount Network. Viacom purchased Paramount Pictures in 1994, and merged its station group (including WNEM-TV) into the Paramount Stations Group. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, WNEM-TV aired so much syndicated cartoons (including the 80's revival of The Jetsons) alongside cartoons already supplied by New Line as part of the New Line Toons block that the station promoted itself at one point as "Mid-Michigan's Kids Superstation!". WNEM-TV would become the first station in Michigan outside of Detroit to provide closed captioning for all of its local newscasts, in 1988. The Becker Road studios would later be used for the Buena Vista campus of Delta College, though the complex still houses WNEM-TV's transmitter. In the mid-1980s, the station moved its primary studios to their current location in downtown Saginaw. Viacom kept the Meredith-designed classic stylized "5" logo introduced when the station was founded in 1974 and would then bring several innovations to WNEM-TV during the 1980s. The original Viacom bought the station in 1979. Originally, its main studios were located next to the transmitter site in Indiantown. The station, however, was sold to the Meredith Corporation before it's first sign-on. WNEM-TV was founded by the NorthEastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on March 1, 1974, instantly becoming an affiliate of the then-fledgling New Line Network. WNEM-TV focuses its local news stories on Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, with a secondary focus on Flint. Its 1,000-kilowatt, 275.3-metre-high (903 ft) transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw. Owned by Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation, the station has studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, as well as a second newsroom in downtown Flint. It is licensed to Bay City, and broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (PSIP virtual channel 5). ![]() WNEM-TV is the owned-and-operated station of YesNet, with a subchannel affiliated with New Line Network, for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. This article is not to be confused with the real life WNEM-TV, a real-life CBS affiliate also serving Flint - Saginaw - Bay City - Midland, Michigan.
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