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'''WEYI-TV''' (channel 25), branded on-air as '''NBC 25''', is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Saginaw, Michigan]], United States, serving northeastern Michigan as an affiliate of [[NBC]]. It is owned by [[Armstrong Williams#Howard Stirk Holdings|Howard Stirk Holdings]], which maintains a [[shared services]] agreement (SSA) with [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]], owner of [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]]-licensed [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[WSMH]] (channel 66), for the provision of certain services. Sinclair also operates [[Bay City, Michigan|Bay City]]-licensed [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WBSF]] (channel 46) under a separate SSA with owner [[Cunningham Broadcasting]]. The three stations share studios on West Pierson Road in [[Mount Morris Township, Michigan|Mount Morris Township]], with a Flint [[United States Postal Service|mailing]] address; WEYI-TV's transmitter is located at its former studios on West Willard Road in [[Vienna Township, Genesee County, Michigan|Vienna Township]] along the [[Genesee County, Michigan|Genesee]]–[[Saginaw County, Michigan|Saginaw]] county line, with a [[Clio, Michigan|Clio]] mailing address.
'''WEYI-TV''' (channel 25) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Saginaw, Michigan]], United States, serving the [[Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area|Great Lakes Bay Region]] of [[Central Michigan]] as an affiliate of [[NBC]]. Owned by [[Armstrong Williams#Howard Stirk Holdings|Howard Stirk Holdings]], WEYI-TV is operated by [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] via a [[shared services]] agreement ([[Local marketing agreement|SSA]]) alongside [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]]–licensed [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[WSMH]] (channel 66), owned by Sinclair, and [[Bay City, Michigan|Bay City]]–licensed [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WBSF]] (channel 46), owned by [[Cunningham Broadcasting]] and operated by Sinclair under a separate SSA. All three stations share studios on West Pierson Road in [[Mount Morris Township, Michigan|Mount Morris Township]] (with a Flint [[United States Postal Service|mailing]] address) with WEYI-TV's transmitter facilities located in [[Vienna Township, Genesee County, Michigan|Vienna Township]] along the [[Genesee County, Michigan|Genesee]]–[[Saginaw County, Michigan|Saginaw]] county line.


== History ==
== History ==

Revision as of 00:49, 28 June 2023

WEYI-TV
CitySaginaw, Michigan
Channels
BrandingNBC 25; Mid Michigan Now
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
OperatorSinclair Broadcast Group
WBSF, WSMH
History
First air date
May 2, 1953
(71 years ago) (1953-05-02)
Former call signs
WKNX-TV (1953–1972)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 57 (UHF, 1953–1965); 25 (UHF, 1965–2009)
  • Digital: 30 (UHF, 2000–2019)
  • CBS (1953–1995)
  • ABC (secondary, 1953–1958)
  • The WB (secondary, 1999–2001)
Call sign meaning
refers to prior CBS affiliation and eye logo
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID72052
ERP300 kW
HAAT393 m (1,289 ft)
Transmitter coordinates43°13′1″N 83°43′17″W / 43.21694°N 83.72139°W / 43.21694; -83.72139
Links
Public license information
Websitenbc25news.com

WEYI-TV (channel 25) is a television station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan, United States, serving the Great Lakes Bay Region of Central Michigan as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, WEYI-TV is operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group via a shared services agreement (SSA) alongside Flint–licensed Fox affiliate WSMH (channel 66), owned by Sinclair, and Bay City–licensed CW affiliate WBSF (channel 46), owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under a separate SSA. All three stations share studios on West Pierson Road in Mount Morris Township (with a Flint mailing address) with WEYI-TV's transmitter facilities located in Vienna Township along the Genesee–Saginaw county line.

History

Early years

In August 1952, the Lake Huron Broadcasting Corporation, owner of radio station WKNX (1210 AM),[a] applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a television station on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 57 in Saginaw.[4] With no other applications for the channel, the FCC granted the permit on October 1, 1952.[5]

Construction moved quickly. Work was underway in early 1953, though a plan to start in March was stymied by delays in receiving equipment. Lake Huron Broadcasting built a 500 feet (150 m) tower at a studio and transmitter site in Bridgeport Township, from which WKNX radio was already broadcast.[6] The station broadcast its first test pattern on April 5; though it had not announced it had started, phone calls reporting reception were fielded from various areas in Mid-Michigan.[7] The station began regular programming on May 4, 1953, with all four networks—CBS, NBC, ABC, and the DuMont Television Network—represented on the lineup.[8] The station increased its effective radiated power to 207,000 watts in 1954, which came as part of an expansion of the television studios in Bridgeport Township.[9] Among its local programs was a local version of the Romper Room children's franchise with "Miss Carol" J. Hermance Kennedy as the host; Miss Carol started as host in 1956.[10]

As a UHF station, the possibility of a new station in the stronger very high frequency (VHF) band presented the possibility of financial ruin for WKNX-TV. In 1954, the FCC granted a construction permit for Flint's VHF channel 12 to Detroit radio station WJR, but this was challenged at the FCC and in the courts. Lake Huron Broadcasting emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of the proposed WJRT. In 1955, it filed with the FCC, charging that WJRT had chosen a transmitter site expressly to take away its CBS affiliation.[11] The next year, it asked the FCC to designate channel 12 as belonging to the entire Flint–Saginaw–Bay City area so it could apply to move WKNX-TV there,[12] later simply applying for Flint's channel 12 itself.[13] However, the grant of channel 12 to WJRT was reaffirmed in April 1958.[14]

Lake Huron Broadcasting filed in 1963 to switch channel 57 with channel 25, which had been assigned to Midland.[15] Two years later, a supplement to an FCC order stipulated that WKNX-TV move from channel 57 to channel 25.[16] The station changed channels to 25 on September 14, 1965; however, even after a power boost to 302,000 watts in 1969, Flint remained outside of its grade-A reception area.[16][17]

Rust Craft, Ziff-Davis, and Television Station Partners ownership

In 1971, Lake Huron Broadcasting sold WKNX-TV to Rust Craft Broadcasting Corporation, a division of the Rust Craft Greeting Card Company that owned five other TV stations, for $1.6 million. The deal was induced by an impending proposed FCC policy that would have barred cross-ownership of AM radio stations like WKNX with television stations in the same markets; Lake Huron wished to "effectuate" the policy by making the sale.[18]

Rust Craft moved quickly to improve the station's facilities, announcing plans for extensive improvements along with its acquisition.[19] With the separation from WKNX radio, channel 25 changed its call sign to WEYI-TV on June 11, 1972.[20] That month, construction began on a facility near Clio in Vienna Township, including new studios and a transmitter facility with an effective radiated power of 4 million watts.[20] This would make WEYI-TV among the most powerful UHF stations in the country, broadcasting from the tallest structure in Michigan.[21] The new transmitter facility was activated on December 10, 1972; studio broadcasting did not move until January 1973 because of disputes among labor unions involved in the construction work.[22][23] However, Rust Craft soon found it did not need all that power. For 46 days in 1976, WEYI-TV operated at half power due to a technical fault; having received no comments from viewers then or during a January 1977 incident when utility Consumers Energy instructed major users to reduce their energy usage, the station applied for permanent authority to reduce its power, conserving 153,000 kilowatt-hours of energy a month.[24]

In June 1977, the Ziff Corporation, parent of magazine publisher Ziff-Davis, made a bid for Rust Craft, primarily seeking its six television stations. Ziff-Davis had previously hired I. Martin Pompadur, a former ABC executive, as part of the company's plan to acquire television stations.[25] The Rust Craft board approved of the sale that September for a total price of approximately $69 million,[26] but booming prices for broadcast properties and an objection by two Rust Craft directors and shareholders, seeking more money, caused the deal to be delayed and its price to continue to balloon. The original bid had been $25 a share;[25] the board approved at $26.50 a share.[26] By October 1978, Ziff was offering $33.50 per share.[27] The final sales price of $33.75 a share, or $89 million in total, was approved in February 1979; the transaction already had federal approval, so the new owners were able to take over the next month.[28] However, Ziff decided in 1981 to put the stations on the market, having already sold off the Rust Craft radio stations and its greeting card businesses, and focus on its publishing businesses.[29] After having sold WRCB-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and WJKS-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, Ziff then sold the remaining four outlets—WEYI; WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia; WROC-TV in Rochester, New York; and WTOV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio—to a group of investors led by Pompadur in a $56.2 million leveraged buyout. The new ownership was known as Television Station Partners.[30][31]

After briefly being represented by NABET, station workers voted in 1988 to unionize under the banner of the United Auto Workers. It was the first time the UAW organized at a television station.[32][33] A 46-day strike culminated with workers approving an agreement in August.[34] That same year, Television Station Partners put its stations on the market;[31] none of the offers were satisfactory to the owners, and in January 1989, the company announced its stations were no longer for sale.[35]

Under Lake Huron, WKNX-TV had little news infrastructure. Rust Craft immediately sought to change this by hiring Dick Fabian, who had worked for WKNX radio and television, as channel 25's full-time television news anchor in 1972.[36] WEYI-TV continued to be firmly the third-place station in the market. In 1983, it moved its lone local newscast from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.; while the station was hoping to build news ratings among CBS prime time viewers, this did not happen, and ratings at 11 p.m. instead declined. Six percent of viewers watched WEYI at 11, compared to 39 percent tuning to WNEM-TV and 32 percent watching WJRT-TV.[37] By 1987, the station had reinstated an early newscast at 5:30 p.m. and a noon newscast, but the evening news shows attracted just three percent of the viewers, a small fraction of the viewership for the competing WNEM and WJRT offerings.[38] The 11 p.m. news was dropped in 1989 due to continued low ratings; while management at the time stated a desire to restore late news within six to eight months,[39] this never came to pass, and it was newsworthy when the station aired a late newscast for one week in August 1992 to cover the Buick Open and local elections.[40]

New newscasts, new affiliation, new ownership

In January 1994, under general manager Eric Land, WEYI made a major reinvestment in its news product. Rebranded Eyewitness News, the station more than doubled its news staff, reinstated a full-length late news program, and began hourly news updates. The revamp was considerable for the station; Doug Pullen, the media columnist for The Flint Journal, noted that viewers "may be inclined to scoff" at the news and that several of his friends laughed when told of the changes.[41][42]

In June 1994, as part of a deal with WNEM-TV owner Meredith Corporation instigated by a larger realignment of network television affiliations, CBS announced it would move its affiliation to the stronger WNEM-TV.[43] NBC was rumored to be wooing WJRT, likely leaving WEYI with ABC,[44] but Capital Cities/ABC moved to buy WJRT and WTVG in Toledo, Ohio, in October.[45] This left WEYI and NBC to partner; an affiliation agreement was signed in November, leading to a network affiliation switch on January 16, 1995.[46][47]

The NBC affiliation switch provided enough of a lift in ratings that it attracted a buyer: Smith Broadcasting Group, which purchased WEYI-TV and two other stations for $63.5 million in 1995. For company president Bob Smith, a native of Bloomfield Hills, it was the first station he had owned in his home state.[48] Smith put WEYI and other stations up for sale in 1996,[49] only to sell it to a new joint venture of Smith and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a private equity firm that also held an increased involvement in radio station ownership.[50]

WEYI began broadcasting programming from The WB in overnight hours in 1999, after Superstation WGN ceased airing the network's shows nationally.[51]

In 2000, WEYI debuted its first morning newscast, a half-hour program.[52]

As a CBS affiliate, WEYI dropped the CBS soap Guiding Light in the fall of 1987, instead showing cartoons during the 3–4 p.m. hour.

In January 2002, Sunrise and LIN TV agreed that LIN would take over the station under a Local Marketing Agreement. By March, Sunrise sold the station to LIN with FCC approval granted in April 2002. LIN agreed to sell WEYI to Barrington Broadcasting in January 2004; the sale was approved by the FCC in March 2004.

In 2004, three years after WEYI ended its secondary WB affiliation, Barrington Broadcasting launched WB affiliate WBSF in the same market which was offered over-the-air on WEYI-DT2 and cable.[53] The deal was made primarily because WKBD declined to carry Detroit Pistons basketball after the games switched to WDWB which is not available on most Mid-Michigan cable systems.

WEYI was blamed for forcing competing NBC affiliate WDIV from Detroit off of Comcast's Flint system, as well as starting the syndication exclusivity controversy on Comcast Flint. For several years, WDIV was available on Comcast's Flint system. However, in 2004, WEYI filed a complaint with the FCC claiming it was losing NBC viewers to WDIV, most likely due to that station's new digital, all-high definition picture. According to WEYI's website, the station used Betacam equipment (an analog videotape technology introduced in 1982) and none of its local or syndicated programming was broadcast in HD until 2014.[54] This is because WEYI lacked an HD-capable master control to receive such programming in even 16:9 standard-definition widescreen, let alone HD. The FCC ruled in favor of WEYI[55] and for a brief period, NBC programs on WDIV were blacked out on Comcast Flint. Eventually in August 2006, Comcast Flint removed WDIV from the system completely, replacing it with the new local MyNetworkTV affiliate via WNEM-TV's second digital subchannel.[56]

Sale to Howard Stirk Holdings and Sinclair management

On February 28, 2013, Barrington announced that it would sell its entire group, including WEYI and WBSF, to Sinclair Broadcast Group. However, due to FCC duopoly regulations, since Sinclair already owns Fox affiliate WSMH, Sinclair transferred the license assets of WEYI to Howard Stirk Holdings (owned by founder and CEO of communications firm The Graham Williams Group, political commentator Armstrong Williams, whose Sunday morning talk show The Right Side is carried by WEYI) and of WBSF to Cunningham Broadcasting (WSMH took over the operations of both WEYI and WBSF through local marketing agreements when the deal was completed).[57] The sale was completed on November 25.[58]

News operation

Sinclair announced numerous layoffs at WEYI/WSMH in March 2023, which led to a major cut in news production from the stations.[59] As of April 15, 2023, WEYI presently broadcasts just five hours of locally produced newscasts each week, with half-hour shows at 6 and 11 p.m. WEYI no longer produces local weekend news.[60]

Effective April 27, 2015, WEYI took over duties of producing the 10 p.m. newscast for sister Sinclair station WSMH, FOX66 News at 10. For nearly ten years prior to that date, WNEM-TV had produced WSMH's evening newscast as part of a local agreement with WSMH. The move led to the addition of 18 new news staffers.[61]

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WEYI-TV[63]
Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming
25.1 1080i 16:9 NBC Main WEYI-TV programming / NBC
25.3 480i TBD TBD
25.4 DABL Dabl
46.1 1080i CW The CW (WBSF)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

On April 16, 2012, the station began an affiliation with the Bounce TV network on its .3 digital channel.[64][65]

On September 9, 2019, WEYI launched Dabl on its .4 subchannel.[66]

Analog-to-digital conversion

WEYI-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 25, 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. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 30,[67][68] using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 25. Also, WBSF became available on a separate digital signal on channel 46.[69]

Notes

  1. ^ This station's facilities were moved to Kingsley, Michigan, in 1997;[2] WKNX's callsign and intellectual property were transferred to WJZZ (1250 AM) in Frankenmuth, now WJMK.[3]

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  3. ^ "Format Changes & Updates". The M Street Journal. Vol. 14, no. 6. February 12, 1997. p. 2. ISSN 1052-7109.
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  6. ^ "TV And Radio Notes: Saginaw Station To Begin Telecasting By Mid-April". Midland Daily News. March 21, 1953. p. 3.
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  8. ^ "WKNX Goes On Air Monday P.M." Midland Daily News. May 2, 1953. p. 1.
  9. ^ "Boost in Power Granted WKNX; UHF Station to Have 207,000-Watt Setup". The Flint Journal. July 19, 1954. p. 4.
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  11. ^ "New Move On To Stop WJRT; Saginaw Station Sees Business Loss". The Flint Journal. May 3, 1955. p. 34.
  12. ^ "WJRT's Brief Hits at Delay: Saginaw Station's Petition Criticized". The Flint Journal. September 14, 1956. p. 25.
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  34. ^ Amspaugh, Michael B. (August 6, 1988). "Channel 25 employees end strike after approving pact". The Flint Journal. p. A4.
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  38. ^ Sanders, Doug (January 7, 1988). "News shows keep places in TV ratings". The Flint Journal. p. D1.
  39. ^ a b Gonzalez, John D. (August 3, 1989). "Channel 25 nixes 11 p.m. newscast over low ratings". The Flint Journal. p. B1.
  40. ^ Savage, Brendan (August 4, 1992). "Tournament allows WEYI to bring back 11 p.m. news". p. Buick Open '92 11.
  41. ^ Pullen, Doug (January 29, 1994). "WEYI aiming for top in local TV news coverage". pp. C1, C2.
  42. ^ Pullen, Doug (February 4, 1994). "Channel 25 newscasts look pretty good so far". The Flint Journal. pp. C16, C23.
  43. ^ Pullen, Doug (June 30, 1994). "Channel 5 to sign with CBS, drop NBC: Flint's Channel 12 for sale, staff told". The Flint Journal. pp. A1, A2.
  44. ^ Pullen, Doug (September 2, 1994). "Channel 5 adds weathercaster; Channel 25 focuses on health". The Flint Journal. pp. C16, C22.
  45. ^ Pullen, Doug (October 4, 1994). "Deal to buy Channel 12 'went quickly'; No changes expected before FCC OKs sale in early 1995". The Flint Journal. p. A6.
  46. ^ Pullen, Doug (November 22, 1994). "Two TV stations set date for switch". The Flint Journal. pp. C1, C2.
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  51. ^ "New TV station considered to accommodate WB shows". The Flint Journal. October 12, 1999. p. A2.
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