On March 31, 2009, WITI had its first network preemption outside of children's programming since it joined Fox in 1994 when it opted to delay Osbournes: Reloaded to 1:05a.m., due to its inappropriate content, in favor of airing the locally produced special Dealing with Drugs (a discussion about the effects of drug abuse on southeastern Wisconsin teens) in the former's evening slot.[70]. Three years earlier KCST, a UHF independent station, won a long battle to strip the market's ABC affiliation from Tijuana, Mexico-based VHF outlet XETV. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. (The agreement would subsequently be amended to include four additional stations that New World acquired later that month from Argyle Television Holdings. After more than 15 years of helping Milwaukeeans get their day started on the right foot on FOX 6's WakeUp, Nicole Koglin . An. It's a special show and promises to be the most. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 33. Studio A ended on July 8, 2016, with the 4 p.m. hour converted to a traditional newscast the next Monday, though some Studio A segments and elements will remain. Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee girl was arrested for shooting a boy on the city's south side Wednesday, March 1. Subsequently, WITI refused to carry Fox's Saturday morning Weekend Marketplace infomercial block (as have WCGV and WMLW), in deference to the longtime local home contractor/subdivision programming that has aired on channel 6 in that time period since the late 1980s; the block was never aired at all in the Milwaukee market. It was a move we have never regretted. It was one of the few Storer stations which used a more modern and open design for its studio building, compared to Storer's traditional use of Georgian and Colonial facades on its other studio facilities. From there, I took the morning anchor job at News10 ABC and FOX23 (WTEN/WXXA) in Albany, NY allowing me to get closer to my now husband, Joe. Among the NTA programs aired by WITI were The Passerby, Man Without a Gun and This is Alice. I became his Lombard weather observer and would call the TV sta. I would love to hear from you so if you have a story idea or would just like to say hi, please do! After growing up in suburban Maryland, I first landed in the Midwest as an undergrad at Northwestern majoring in journalism but specializing in Ultimate Frisbee (and meeting my wonderful wife, Kim, along the way). She lived in Madison for three months trying to sell the house while I lived here, working every day. Its newscasts and Real Milwaukee then temporarily originated from the Studio B set that houses the station's morning newscast (WakeUp News). In the fall of 2015, TV-6.2's presentation was converted to 16:9 to allow local advertising and news promotions to be presented in their native format, along with carrying Fox NFL Kickoff on Sunday mornings as mentioned below. FOX6 News Milwaukee | Brown Deer WI In addition, Mike is . Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, WITI maintains studios on North Green Bay Road in Brown Deer (though with a Milwaukee postal address), and its transmitter is located on East Capitol Drive (just north of WIS 190) in Shorewood. Now she is doing a new job at CBS 58 as Director of Strategic Initiatives at CBS 58. WITI resumed the Saturday and Sunday morning newscasts (which now aired from 7:00 to 9:00a.m. on both days) after a two-year absence on April 2, 2011. CBS first entered into discussions with WTMJ for a contract; that station was subsequently eliminated as an option as NBC decided to approach Journal Communications to renew its contract with WTMJ. [3] The station was originally licensed to the North Shore village of Whitefish Bay on a technicality in order to address short-spacing concerns with Davenport, Iowa station WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV, which also broadcast on channel 6) before the FCC fully finessed spacing among television station signals in different markets. My cousin played the part of the news anchor, reading sections of the Chicago Tribune out loud. (Cleveland sister station WJW used a very similar branding technique at that same period, branding itself as "ei8ht is News" and "Fox is ei8ht", playing off the on-air branding that the station used as a CBS affiliate during the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to expanding its local news programming at the time it joined Fox, the station replaced CBS daytime and late night programs that migrated to WDJT with an expanded slate of syndicated talk shows as well as some off-network sitcoms, game shows and documentary-based reality series, and also acquired some syndicated film packages and first-run and off-network syndicated drama series for broadcast in weekend afternoon timeslots on weeks when Fox did not provide sports programming; most notably it still holds the rights to a package of colorized RKO Pictures films (now a part of the Warner Bros. On September 7, 2010, WITI debuted a local talk show, titled Real Milwaukee, which aired after the station's morning newscast at 9:00a.m.; it was produced by WITI's news department, and focused on current events and community issues. Fox Kids and its successors remained on WCGV from December 1994 to September 2004, when the blockby that time, known as 4Kids TVmoved to WMLW-CA (channel 41, now WBME-CD), where it remained until Fox discontinued the block in December 2008 due to a contractual dispute with 4Kids Entertainment. I took a circuitous route to Milwaukee. This one, however, is worth celebrating for Suzanne Spencer of Fox 6 News in Milwaukee, WI. I've covered the Packers and Brewers in the playoffs, performed on stage with Milwaukee's wonderful arts organizations, flown with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, made a fool of myself on live TV and eaten all manner of food (even bugs) while most viewers are still sitting down to their breakfast. And when I first went on the air in Milwaukee on the TV6 News at Noon with John Drilling on Monday, February 22, 1982, I had no idea what the future would hold.I feel fortunate to have worked in local television during the time period when so many technological changes took place. On May 23, 1994, as part of a broad deal that also saw News Corporation acquire a 20% equity interest in the company, New World Communications signed a long-term agreement to affiliate its nine CBS-, ABC- or NBC-affiliated television stations with Fox, which sought to strengthen its affiliate portfolio after the National Football League (NFL) accepted the network's $1.58 billion bid for the television rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) a four-year contract that began with the 1994 NFL season on December 18, 1993. By Mohammad Samra. [71] The station formerly served as Milwaukee's "Love Network" affiliate for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. Seven people died because of that day, but many more likely would have if it wasnt for one Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy. [9] Without hesitation, WISN-TV aligned with ABC, officially reversing the earlier 1961 affiliation swap;[10] the two stations switched networks once again on March 27, 1977; the final ABC program to air on channel 6 was a rerun of the two-part Starsky & Hutch episode "Murder at Sea", which aired at 8:00p.m. Central Time on the night before the station rejoined CBS.[11]. MILWAUKEE, WI -- A longtime TV news anchor is leaving the airwaves after 21 years for a career change. [12] On February 17, 1993, one day after SCI purchased WTVT in Tampa from Gillett Holdings in a separate agreement for $163 million, New World Pictures purchased a 51% ownership stake in SCI Television from Gillett for $100 million and $63 million in newly issued debt. MILWAUKEE, WI -- A longtime WISN 12 television news anchor died Wednesday evening, according to media reports, According to a KUSI San Diego report, David Davis was killed in a crash near Dallas . When I was 9 or 10 years old I used to "broadcast" weather reports in our basement. That is the feeling I have today as I celebrate my 30th anniversary at WITI-TV Channel 6. We moved to Milwaukee, WI in the fall of 2014 and have loved life in the Badger State. University School of Milwaukee is firing back after being hit with a lawsuit from Craig Robinson, the brother of Michelle Obama, and his wife. Short on time and against the odds, one selfless act changed everything. Harry Volkman was at the awards ceremony and it was a full circle moment to have my picture taken with him. From Blue Ridge Cable-11 (deep in the heart of Pennsylvanias Amish country), I then immersed myself in the ACC with the great team at WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia (with a healthy dose of NASCAR on the side). Sinclair had already announced that it had sold WCGV's spectrum in April in the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction and it would cease operations in technicality, albeit with WCGV's main schedule and subchannel moving to WVTV's DT2 subchannel on January 8, 2018; that move effectively would have alleviated any regulatory complications involving the sale for the Milwaukee stations, outside any physical and employee assets that would have been sorted out prior to the deal's closure. October 9, 2020. Storer also applied to move the channel 6 allocation from Whitefish Bay to Milwaukee; the request was granted on July 30, 1959.[6]. ADVERTISEMENT. I was working for Weather Central, a private forecasting company that also developed cutting edge graphics for TV weather. In its first period as a Fox-owned station, WITI's syndicated programming inventory largely came from 20th Television and it has served as a test station for many of the distribution unit's series, a role it has resumed with Fox First Run; 20th Television was absorbed into Disney-ABC Domestic Television in 2020. Previously, Angelica worked for WITI-TV Fox 6 News based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They liked the way the graphics system looked and they also liked how I looked. The tower went into operation in 1963, finally putting WITI's signal on equal footing with Milwaukee's other television stations. Dogs, like humans, sometimes need a little help from a friend -- and yes, we are talking about another poochs blood. Milwaukee Night . We now have two kiddos Jack and Harper and a furrier one, Rileigh (Portuguese Water Dog) . We even brought in several desk lamps and pointed them at us to simulate the studio lights!So I suppose this career in broadcast meteorology was predetermined at a young age. Perhaps in protest, Storer announced on September 26, 1976, that it would re-affiliate WITI with CBS. CBS 58 - Mike Strehlow joined the CBS 58 News Team in 1996. I am thrilled to be one of the anchors for FOX6 WakeUp, Milwaukee's No. I shouldn't have been surprised. (to be merged into New World Group)", "CBS, NBC Battle for AFC Rights // Fox Steals NFC Package", "COMPANY NEWS; GREAT AMERICAN SELLING FOUR TELEVISION STATIONS", "Times Mirror sells stations, part 1. Would you want to? The station also carries Builder's Showcase, which is also carried on Madison Fox affiliate WMSN and Green Bay/Fox Cities NBC affiliate WGBA, and a longtime fixture of the station produced since July 2000 by the station's advertising department where homebuilding services are offered. Additionally, Court TV's carriage with Scripps' WTMJ-TV as under sister ownership meant WITI would not carry that network despite Tribune/Nexstar's deal with that network to launch carriage at the end of October 2019. While at least one station offered a separate broadcast on 87.7,[85] WITI opted to restore the audio feed via an HD Radio subchannel of WMIL-FM (106.1) in August 2009 through an agreement to provide news and weather content for WMIL owner Clear Channel Communications's Milwaukee radio cluster (a forecast-only content agreement between WITI and Entercom's three local stations and occasional check-ins during WakeUp News on WXSS and WSSP's morning shows continues without any audible forecasts from channel 6's weather staff). I also love to learn and have a deep sense of curiosity even a cat would envy. In many ways it seems like yesterday when I first walked in the door for my job interview in early January 1982. Angelica Duria is an American former Anchor and Reporter. As of January 2021, WITI currently broadcasts 66 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11 hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays, and five hours of Real Milwaukee on each weekday; this does not count 90 minutes of news replays in overnights); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output among Milwaukee's broadcast television stations, and in the state of Wisconsin overall. The station then transitioned to the standard FTS on-air graphics package on October 28, 2020. In keeping with the branding conventions of most of the other New World-owned stations affected by the affiliation agreement with Fox, WITI-TV retained its longtime "TV-6" branding (which it adopted in 1973 as an ABC affiliate) upon the affiliation switch, with references to the Fox logo and name limited in most on-air imaging as well as the news branding it had been using before it joined Fox in its case, TV-6 News, the base moniker of which the station adopted in November 1984 as a CBS affiliate. I grew up a competitive figure skater so I was used to performing since the age of six. Former CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes and longtime host Bill O'Reilly are among the most notable to have been forced out of the organization after being accused of sexual harassment. Today there are dozens of sources for news, and you can get it right now - no waiting. She currently fills in as a primary weekday anchor. Under this same agreement, WITI has also carried certain public interest programming carried by other Tribune/Local TV stations such as a May 6, 2011 telethon produced by Huntsville sister station WHNT-TV, which was carried by WITI over digital subchannel 6.2, to raise funds for organizations helping victims of the April 27 Super Outbreak that affected Alabama). Two months after being diagnosed and treated for a benign brain tumor, the 'Fox 6 Wake Up News' anchor returned to the airwaves this past week. Ive been in the TV business since before I even graduated from Penn State University, but I definitely didnt start my college career thinking this is where Id end up. WITI began serving as the primary television station for the Green Bay Packers as a CBS affiliate in 1959, when the network obtained the television rights to the pre-AFL merger National Football League; after the switch to ABC, no games aired until 1970 when Monday Night Football premiered on the network. WITI (channel 6) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. Lori Waldon (left, with news producer. Despite Tribune's purchase of the station, it never carried This TV; Tribune had assumed Weigel Broadcasting's operational responsibilities for that network on November 1, 2013 (the network was carried on WYTU-LD2 from January until September 2018 after several years on WMLW-DT3, before WIWN agreed to carry the network for their fifth subchannel in November 2018 and its sale to Entertainment Studios in 2020). WCGV temporarily converted into an independent station in the run-up to affiliating with the upstart United Paramount Network (UPN) the following month (on January 16, 1995), though retaining Fox Kids, as WITI held no interest in carrying the network's children's lineup due to a successful weekday afternoon and Saturday morning lineup, as most New World stations did. 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