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WFRV-TV, channel 5, is a CBS affiliate based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and operates as "WFRV/WJMN Televsion Stations, Inc.". 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.

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.

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.

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 [1].

The sale was completed on April 18, 2007, [2], however the station's site continued to be maintained by CBS until May 14, 2007, when WFRV launched a redesigned website powered by Clear Channel Communications subsidiary Inergize Digital Media (the same company which also operates the websites of television stations owned by Clear Channel and The E.W. Scripps Company). The site also, for the first time, has a separate page at wjmntv.com for the Michigan station. The page emphasises Upper Michigan news.

Station Logo History

CBS5 News Team

News Anchors

  • Erin Davisson
  • Tammy Elliott
  • Lisa Malak
  • Kris Schuller
  • Tom Zalaski
  • Chelly Boutott
  • Paul Evansen

Storm Team 5 Weather

  • Tom Mahoney-Chief Meteorologist
  • Dave Miller
  • Dana Tyler

Sports

References

  • "Channel 5 hits Big 5-0". Green Bay News-Chronicle article. Retrieved May 20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

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