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WNEM-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. It is licensed to Bay City, and broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (PSIP virtual channel 5). Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station has studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw,〔 as well as a second newsroom in downtown Flint. Its 1,000 kilowatt, high transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw. The station also operates the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate, "My5", on a second digital subchannel.〔 WNEM-TV is the only station in the Flint/Tri-Cities market headquartered in the city of Saginaw, and in turn focuses its local news stories on Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, with a secondary focus on Flint. ==History== WNEM-TV was founded by the NorthEastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on February 16, 1954 as a NBC affiliate. Originally, its main studios were located on rented space at Bishop International Airport in Flint with auxiliary studios in its city of license, Bay City. In the 1960s, it moved its main studios to the transmitter site in Indiantown. During its first four years, WNEM-TV had a secondary affiliation with ABC〔 sharing programming from that network with WKNX-TV (channel 57, now WEYI-TV channel 25) until 1958 when WJRT-TV signed-on and took that affiliation.〔 WNEM-TV also aired programming from DuMont until that network dissolved. James Gerity's, a professional violinist, Gerity Broadcasting bought the station in 1961 and sold it to the Meredith Corporation in 1969.〔 In the mid-1980s, the station moved its primary studios to their current location in downtown Saginaw. 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. By the late 1980s, mirroring a trend in many other television markets, WNEM-TV was the dominant station in Mid-Michigan, helped by NBC's then-dominant prime time lineup. On January 16, 1995, WNEM-TV and WEYI swapped networks, and WNEM-TV became a CBS affiliate (announced June 30, 1994).〔 The move came because Detroit's longtime CBS affiliate, WJBK, had switched to the Fox network,〔 and CBS was unable to get WXYZ-TV or WDIV to switch networks. Also on January 16, 1995, WEYI took on secondary affiliations with both UPN and The WB and aired programming from the two networks late at night.〔 The station relinquished the secondary WB affiliation in October 1999 to WEYI. It dropped CBS's daytime soap opera ''Guiding Light'' in 1996 due to low ratings which made it one of two CBS stations in the nation that did not carry the program for what would turn out to be its final 13 years (the other was KOVR in Sacramento, California). However, by 2007 the show was aired instead on My5 at 10am, and stayed there for the rest of its run. WNEM now clears the entire CBS daytime lineup on their primary channel, having moved Guiding Light's replacement ''Let's Make A Deal'' over from My5 in 2012. It currently airs at 10am. In 2006, WNEM-TV entered into a news share agreement with WSMH. On September 10, 2007, the station dropped its 9 AM show, "Tyra Banks", for "Better Mid Michigan". By May 2008, WNEM used its MyNetworkTV affiliation to launch "My5 TV" cable channel along with some Detroit Piston games.〔 My5 TV was launched later on an over the air subchannel.〔 As of April 1, 2011, Comcast Cablevision subscribers in Holly, MI and surrounding areas recently had WNEM-TV replaced with WWJ-TV as the main CBS network affiliate. My5 was also replaced with WMYD as the main MyNetworkTV affiliate. In August, WNEM-TV began airing its syndicated programming in high definition. While Fenton, Holly and areas are much closer to Flint than Detroit (15 miles compared to 45), they are in the far northern portions of Oakland County, which is technically part of the Detroit television market. On November 21, 2011 WNEM-TV aired allegations of sexual abuse against US Representative Dale Kildee that were criticized as politically motivated and a breach of journalistic ethics. An attorney for the station said that the broadcast was protected as it involved a public official and that no actual malice was intended. On March 23, 2015, WNEM-TV announced it was adding COZI TV to its signal, occupying what will become 5.3 at some point in the spring of 2015. On April 27, 2015, WSMH dropped WNEM's news from their primary subchannel, while WNEM moved that program to its My5 subchannel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WNEM-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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