WWTV
Encyclopedia
WWTV is the CBS
-affiliated television station
for the northern Lower
and eastern Upper
Peninsulas of Michigan
. Licensed to Cadillac
, it broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter at its studios on 130th Avenue, northeast of Tustin
, in Osceola County
. At 1,631 feet (497 m) high, the station's transmitter tower is the tallest in the state. When atmospheric conditions are right, WWTV's signal can be picked up as far south as Lansing
and the northern suburbs of Detroit (when CBET
in Windsor, Ontario
is off the air), and as far southwest as the communities on Wisconsin
's eastern shore of Lake Michigan
.
Like other network affiliates serving this vast and rural area, the station operates a full-time repeater
station, WWUP-TV channel 10. Licensed to Sault Ste. Marie
, this station's transmitter is approximately 30 miles SSE of Sault Ste. Marie near Goetzville in Chippewa County
.
including Sault Ste. Marie's Canadian sister city
. The stations are owned by Heritage Broadcasting Group, which operates FOX affiliate WFQX-TV
and its full-time satellite, WFUP, through a shared services
agreement (SSA). That station is owned by Cadillac Telecasting. WWTV airs syndicated
programming such as Live with Regis and Kelly
and Ellen
. The stations broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
At one point, WWTV (not WWUP) was seen on cable in the Canadian Sault
. However, local cable provider Shaw Communications
switched its CBS feed to WWJ-TV
from Detroit
. For many years, WWTV was the only in-market
station on cable from the American
side of the locks as other American
stations were fed from Flint
and Detroit. WWTV is also available on cable television
in much of Michigan north of Lansing
as well as Charter
cable systems in Midland
. Persona systems (now EastLink
) in Sudbury, Ontario
carried the station until around 2009 when it was replaced by Buffalo
's WIVB-TV
. WWTV was also originally seen on the Cablevision
systems in Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or, Quebec
until the early-2000s when it was replaced with WBZ-TV
from Boston, Massachusetts.
in 1954. The station was on channel 13 and was owned by Jackson
radio manufacturer Sparton Corporation. It was Michigan's first television station north of Lansing, predating Traverse City's WPBN-TV
by several months. WWTV has been a CBS affiliate from its first day, but initially carried secondary affiliations with ABC
and DuMont
(the latter shut down in 1956). When WPBN signed on, WWTV shared ABC programming with that station until 1971, when WGTU
signed on and became the area's ABC affiliate. WWTV aired some of ABC's soap operas and game shows while WPBN aired ABC's sports programming on the weekends.
In 1958, broadcast pioneer John Fetzer
purchased WWTV. Fetzer also owned the Detroit Tigers
and the purchase brought Tigers games to Northern Michigan for the first time. In 1961, a fire at the station's transmitter spread to the studio and destroyed the building. The building was quickly rebuilt, complete with new equipment. In 1962, WWTV swapped channel locations with WZZM in Grand Rapids
and moved to its current location on channel 9. The move to channel 9 allowed WWTV to boost its broadcasting power to cover the entire northern half of the Lower Peninsula. On June 15 of that year, Fetzer signed on WWUP in Sault Ste. Marie as a full-time satellite of WWTV. The stations were known collectively as "TV 9&10" from 1962 to the late-1990s when the stations dropped "TV" from their name and began referring to themselves as "9&10 News". Many viewers, however, continue to refer to the station as "TV 9&10".
In 1967, TV 9&10 broadcast in color for the first time (as CBS was the last network to convert to color broadcasting). In 1978, Fetzer sold TV 9&10 to Buffalo Bills
owner Ralph Wilson. In 1988, the stations were sold to Heritage Broadcast Group, headed by Detroiter
Mario Iacobelli. 9&10 News has long been one of the most technologically advanced small-market television stations in the country. Legend has it that when the station broadcasted in color for the first time, CBS was jealous because 9&10's color picture was of higher quality than the rest of the network. Under Iacobelli's ownership, the station has frequently made commercials that many claim to have the look and feel of Detroit-based stations.
On May 10, 2007, it was announced that the area's Fox Network affiliate, WFQX-TV
, was being sold by current owner Rockfleet Broadcasting
to Cadillac Telecasting. The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) gave regulatory approval in late-October. After the closing of the sale, Cadillac Telecasting entered into a shared services agreement (SSA) with 9&10 News.
On June 12, 2009, WWTV and WWUP closed down their analog signals and moved their digital signals to the previous analog channels.
On September 29, 2010, the FCC granted WWTV a construction permit for a digital fill-in translator on their pre-transition channel 40. This translator will primarily serve the Traverse City area. This repeater began operation on December 1, 2011.
9&10 News has long been the highest-rated television station in the market, especially in news. However, longtime runner-up NBC
affiliate WPBN-TV
(TV 7&4) has closed the gap in recent years. 9&10 News has always made a large investment into its news department resulting in a higher-quality product than conventional wisdom would suggest for a station based in the 116th market. All told, 9&10 News airs 30 hours of news every week, a very large amount for a small-market station.
One of the station's best-known faces belongs to John McGowan, who joined the station's on-air roster in 1977. He has served as Sports Director and currently anchors the station's weekend newscasts. McGowan also reports for Sports Overtime. Other 9&10 News alumni include WTVG
weatherman Bill Spencer, Jeopardy!
"Clue Crew" member Sarah Whitcomb, WOOD-TV
reporters Larry Figurski and Dee Morrison, and former KPSP
anchor Trish O'Shea.
9&10 News courted controversy when it polled viewers asking if they wanted the station to air a CBS special about the career of CBS Evening News
anchor Dan Rather
, who was stepping down from his broadcast. After much attention from both local and national press, the poll was dropped and the special was aired.
On October 31, 2007, 9&10 News began producing a weeknight 10 o'clock newscast on new sister station WFQX. On January 7, 2008, CBS began requiring affiliates to carry The Early Show
in its entirety. The third hour of Michigan This Morning, which had been running from 7 to 8 in the morning, was moved to WFQX and expanded to two hours. That evening on WFQX, 9&10 News launched the market's first 7 o'clock newscast.
In addition to its main studios, 9&10 News operates two news bureaus in Traverse City (located on Aero Park Drive, near Cherry Capital Airport
) and Petoskey
. During its weather forecasts, 9&10 News uses live, NOAA National Weather Service
radar data from several regional sites. This data is presented on-screen as the "Doppler 9&10 Radar Network". The main signal comes from the radar located at the NWS Local Forecast Office in Gaylord
. Mondays through Thursdays after the 11 o'clock news
, the station airs Sports Extra, an extended sportscast. During high school
sports season, Friday night 11 o'clock newscasts devote over 20 minutes to Sports Overtime. Known as "the original big show", it regularly features highlights from more than a dozen area high school sporting events and has won numerous awards for the station. 9&10's website features video content from news and sports. It also offers the first and only wireless news website of the Northern Michigan television market.
Doppler 9&10 weather team
Sports
Reporters
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the northern Lower
Lower Peninsula of Michigan
The Lower Peninsula of Michigan is the southern of the two major landmasses of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, which it shares with Ohio and Indiana. Geographically, the Lower Peninsula has a recognizable shape that many people...
and eastern Upper
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan. It is also known as the land "above the Bridge" linking the two peninsulas. The peninsula is bounded...
Peninsulas of Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. Licensed to Cadillac
Cadillac, Michigan
Cadillac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,000. The city is situated at the junction of US 131, M-55 and M-115...
, it broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter at its studios on 130th Avenue, northeast of Tustin
Tustin, Michigan
Tustin is a village in Osceola County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 237. The village is within Burdell Township.-Geography:...
, in Osceola County
Osceola County, Michigan
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 23,197 people, 8,861 households, and 6,415 families residing in the county. The population density was 41 people per square mile . There were 12,853 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile...
. At 1,631 feet (497 m) high, the station's transmitter tower is the tallest in the state. When atmospheric conditions are right, WWTV's signal can be picked up as far south as Lansing
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...
and the northern suburbs of Detroit (when CBET
CBET
CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan area across the international border in the United States, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of...
in Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...
is off the air), and as far southwest as the communities on Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
's eastern shore of Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...
.
Like other network affiliates serving this vast and rural area, the station operates a full-time repeater
Repeater
A repeater is an electronic device that receives asignal and retransmits it at a higher level and/or higher power, or onto the other side of an obstruction, so that the signal can cover longer distances.-Description:...
station, WWUP-TV channel 10. Licensed to Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie is a city in and the county seat of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the north-eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the Canadian border, separated from its twin city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, by the St. Marys River...
, this station's transmitter is approximately 30 miles SSE of Sault Ste. Marie near Goetzville in Chippewa County
Chippewa County, Michigan
-National protected areas:* Harbor Island National Wildlife Refuge* Hiawatha National Forest * Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge-Demographics:...
.
Overview
Together the two stations, which are known on-air as 9&10 News, serve 23 counties in the northern Lower and three counties in the eastern Upper Peninsula. In addition, WWUP's signal can be received by viewers in Northern OntarioNorthern Ontario
Northern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron , the French River and Lake Nipissing. The region has a land area of 802,000 km2 and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it contains only about 6% of the population...
including Sault Ste. Marie's Canadian sister city
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in...
. The stations are owned by Heritage Broadcasting Group, which operates FOX affiliate WFQX-TV
WFQX-TV
WFQX-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the northern Lower and eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. Licensed to Cadillac, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32 from a transmitter at studios on 130th Avenue/Dighton Road in Tustin on Grove Hill...
and its full-time satellite, WFUP, through a shared services
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
agreement (SSA). That station is owned by Cadillac Telecasting. WWTV airs syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming such as Live with Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
and Ellen
Ellen (TV series)
Ellen is a U.S. television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from March 29, 1994 to July 22, 1998, producing 109 episodes.The theme song, "So Called Friend" is by Scottish band Texas...
. The stations broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
At one point, WWTV (not WWUP) was seen on cable in the Canadian Sault
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in...
. However, local cable provider Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
switched its CBS feed to WWJ-TV
WWJ-TV
WWJ-TV, virtual channel 62 , is the CBS-owned and operated television station in Detroit, Michigan. It is co-owned with Detroit's CW station, WKBD-TV , and the two stations share a studio in Southfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb....
from Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
. For many years, WWTV was the only in-market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
station on cable from the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
side of the locks as other American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
stations were fed from Flint
Flint, Michigan
Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...
and Detroit. WWTV is also available on cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
in much of Michigan north of Lansing
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...
as well as Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
cable systems in Midland
Midland, Michigan
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan in the Tri-Cities region of the state. It is the county seat of Midland County. The city's population was 41,863 as of the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Midland Micropolitan Statistical Area....
. Persona systems (now EastLink
EastLink (company)
EastLink is a Canadian cable television and telecommunications company. In 1970, EastLink was established in Amherst, Nova Scotia, when it was issued one of the first cable licences granted by the CRTC...
) in Sudbury, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
carried the station until around 2009 when it was replaced by Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
's WIVB-TV
WIVB-TV
WIVB-TV, virtual channel 4, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Western New York that is licensed to Buffalo. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter on Center Street in Colden. Owned by the LIN TV Corporation, the station is sister to CW...
. WWTV was also originally seen on the Cablevision
Cablevision (Canada)
Cablevision du Nord du Québec is a cable television and Internet provider in Canada. The company predominantly serves the Abitibi-Témiscamingue area, though it serves other parts of Quebec and Ontario as well....
systems in Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
until the early-2000s when it was replaced with WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WBZ-TV's studios and office facilities, shared with sister station WSBK-TV , are located in the Allston-Brighton section of Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham,...
from Boston, Massachusetts.
Digital television
The digital signals of WWTV and WWUP are multiplexed.| Channel | Video | Aspect | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.1 / 10.1 | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main WWTV/9&10 News programming / CBS |
| 9.2 / 10.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
WFQX "FOX 32" |
History
WWTV began broadcasting on New Year's DayNew Year's Day
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome...
in 1954. The station was on channel 13 and was owned by Jackson
Jackson, Michigan
Jackson is a city located along Interstate 94 in the south central area of the U.S. state of Michigan, about west of Ann Arbor and south of Lansing. It is the county seat of Jackson County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 33,534...
radio manufacturer Sparton Corporation. It was Michigan's first television station north of Lansing, predating Traverse City's WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Northern Lower and Eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan that is licensed to Traverse City. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter east of Kalkaska...
by several months. WWTV has been a CBS affiliate from its first day, but initially carried secondary affiliations with ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
and DuMont
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...
(the latter shut down in 1956). When WPBN signed on, WWTV shared ABC programming with that station until 1971, when WGTU
WGTU
WGTU is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Northern Lower and Eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan that is licensed to Traverse City. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 29 from a transmitter east of Kalkaska. Like other network affiliates in this vast rural...
signed on and became the area's ABC affiliate. WWTV aired some of ABC's soap operas and game shows while WPBN aired ABC's sports programming on the weekends.
In 1958, broadcast pioneer John Fetzer
John Fetzer
John Earl Fetzer was a radio and television executive who was best known as the owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1961 through the early 1980s.- Biography :...
purchased WWTV. Fetzer also owned the Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
and the purchase brought Tigers games to Northern Michigan for the first time. In 1961, a fire at the station's transmitter spread to the studio and destroyed the building. The building was quickly rebuilt, complete with new equipment. In 1962, WWTV swapped channel locations with WZZM in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located on the Grand River about 40 miles east of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of 774,160 and a combined statistical area, Grand...
and moved to its current location on channel 9. The move to channel 9 allowed WWTV to boost its broadcasting power to cover the entire northern half of the Lower Peninsula. On June 15 of that year, Fetzer signed on WWUP in Sault Ste. Marie as a full-time satellite of WWTV. The stations were known collectively as "TV 9&10" from 1962 to the late-1990s when the stations dropped "TV" from their name and began referring to themselves as "9&10 News". Many viewers, however, continue to refer to the station as "TV 9&10".
In 1967, TV 9&10 broadcast in color for the first time (as CBS was the last network to convert to color broadcasting). In 1978, Fetzer sold TV 9&10 to Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
owner Ralph Wilson. In 1988, the stations were sold to Heritage Broadcast Group, headed by Detroiter
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
Mario Iacobelli. 9&10 News has long been one of the most technologically advanced small-market television stations in the country. Legend has it that when the station broadcasted in color for the first time, CBS was jealous because 9&10's color picture was of higher quality than the rest of the network. Under Iacobelli's ownership, the station has frequently made commercials that many claim to have the look and feel of Detroit-based stations.
On May 10, 2007, it was announced that the area's Fox Network affiliate, WFQX-TV
WFQX-TV
WFQX-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the northern Lower and eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. Licensed to Cadillac, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32 from a transmitter at studios on 130th Avenue/Dighton Road in Tustin on Grove Hill...
, was being sold by current owner Rockfleet Broadcasting
Rockfleet Broadcasting
Rockfleet Broadcasting is a broadcasting company based in New York City. The company has three stations in its family.A fourth station is no longer under Rockfleet ownership. On May 10, 2007, it was announced that Rockfleet Broadcasting was planning to sell Fox affiliate WFQX-TV to Cadillac...
to Cadillac Telecasting. The Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) gave regulatory approval in late-October. After the closing of the sale, Cadillac Telecasting entered into a shared services agreement (SSA) with 9&10 News.
On June 12, 2009, WWTV and WWUP closed down their analog signals and moved their digital signals to the previous analog channels.
On September 29, 2010, the FCC granted WWTV a construction permit for a digital fill-in translator on their pre-transition channel 40. This translator will primarily serve the Traverse City area. This repeater began operation on December 1, 2011.
News operation
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Northern Lower and Eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan that is licensed to Traverse City. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter east of Kalkaska...
(TV 7&4) has closed the gap in recent years. 9&10 News has always made a large investment into its news department resulting in a higher-quality product than conventional wisdom would suggest for a station based in the 116th market. All told, 9&10 News airs 30 hours of news every week, a very large amount for a small-market station.
One of the station's best-known faces belongs to John McGowan, who joined the station's on-air roster in 1977. He has served as Sports Director and currently anchors the station's weekend newscasts. McGowan also reports for Sports Overtime. Other 9&10 News alumni include WTVG
WTVG
This is about the TV station in Toledo, Ohio for the former WTVG-TV in Newark, New Jersey see WFUT-DT.WTVG, channel 13, is the ABC-affiliated television station for Northwest Ohio and licensed in Toledo, Ohio. WTVG's studios and offices are located in Toledo and its transmitter is located in...
weatherman Bill Spencer, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
"Clue Crew" member Sarah Whitcomb, WOOD-TV
WOOD-TV
WOOD-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Southwestern Michigan licensed to Grand Rapids. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter in Middleville near the Barry and Allegan County line. The station can also be seen on Comcast and Charter channel...
reporters Larry Figurski and Dee Morrison, and former KPSP
KPSP-LP
KPSP-CD is a CBS-affiliated Class A low-power television station serving California's Coachella Valley . It is officially licensed to Cathedral City. Its studios and offices are in Thousand Palms, California...
anchor Trish O'Shea.
9&10 News courted controversy when it polled viewers asking if they wanted the station to air a CBS special about the career of CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
anchor Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
, who was stepping down from his broadcast. After much attention from both local and national press, the poll was dropped and the special was aired.
On October 31, 2007, 9&10 News began producing a weeknight 10 o'clock newscast on new sister station WFQX. On January 7, 2008, CBS began requiring affiliates to carry The Early Show
The Early Show
The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...
in its entirety. The third hour of Michigan This Morning, which had been running from 7 to 8 in the morning, was moved to WFQX and expanded to two hours. That evening on WFQX, 9&10 News launched the market's first 7 o'clock newscast.
In addition to its main studios, 9&10 News operates two news bureaus in Traverse City (located on Aero Park Drive, near Cherry Capital Airport
Cherry Capital Airport
Cherry Capital Airport is a public-use airport located two nautical miles south of the central business district of Traverse City, in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States...
) and Petoskey
Petoskey, Michigan
Petoskey is a city and coastal resort community in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 6,080. It is the county seat of Emmet County....
. During its weather forecasts, 9&10 News uses live, NOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...
radar data from several regional sites. This data is presented on-screen as the "Doppler 9&10 Radar Network". The main signal comes from the radar located at the NWS Local Forecast Office in Gaylord
Gaylord, Michigan
Gaylord is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,681. It is the county seat of Otsego County. The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord; it is by far the smallest settlement serving as the location of an active Roman...
. Mondays through Thursdays after the 11 o'clock news
11 o'clock news
The 11 o'clock news is a term used for news programs that are broadcast at 11:00 p.m. local time. This is the traditional hour for the late local news broadcast on CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliated stations in the United States that are in the Eastern Time Zone or the Pacific Time Zone.By contrast,...
, the station airs Sports Extra, an extended sportscast. During high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
sports season, Friday night 11 o'clock newscasts devote over 20 minutes to Sports Overtime. Known as "the original big show", it regularly features highlights from more than a dozen area high school sporting events and has won numerous awards for the station. 9&10's website features video content from news and sports. It also offers the first and only wireless news website of the Northern Michigan television market.
Current on-air staff
Anchors- Robyn Haines - weekday mornings
- Scott Michael Trager - weekday mornings
- weekday morning executive producer
- Kevin Essebaggers - weekdays at noon, 5, 5:30, 7 (on Fox 32)
- Michelle Dunaway - weeknights at 5, 5:30 and 6
- Phil Buehler - weeknights at 6, 10 (on Fox 32) and 11
- Crystal Oko - weeknights at 7 and 10 (on Fox 32)
- John McGowan - weekends and reporter
- Sports Overtime reporter
Doppler 9&10 weather team
- Tom O'Hare (Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
) - Chief seen weeknights - Michael Stevens - Meteorologist weekday mornings
- Jim Lehocky - Meteorologist weekends, Monday through Wednesday noon & 5:30p.m.
- Katie Dupree - Meteorologist
Sports
- Aaron Mills - Director seen weeknights at 6, 7, 10 and 11
- Jeff Johnson - weekend sports
Reporters
- Christina Vecchioni - Petoskey Bureau
- Ryan Raiche - Traverse City Bureau
- Corey Adkins - Chief Photojournalist seen weekday mornings
- Michael Kasiborski - MTM On the Road reporter
- Chivon Kloepfer
- Alex Jokich
- Kelly Davis
- Jennifer Profitt
- Kyle Mitchell
- Eric Lloyd
Newscast titles
- 9&10 NewsCenter (1970s-1980s)
- 9&10 NewsFirst (1980s-1991)
- NewsFirst (5:30pm), The Six O'Clock Report, TV 9&10 Nightside Report (11:00pm) (1991–1998)
- 9&10 News (1998–present)
Station slogans
- Where You Belong (1970s)
- First in Michigan (1980s)
- The News Leader (1990s)
- Northern Michigan's News Leader (1998–present)
Newscast Music
- Where You Belong by TM Productions (1976–1980)
- Meco's Theme / 3 W. 57 by Meco Monardo (1980–1986)
- The News Image & The News Image Plus by Tuesday Productions (1986–1989)
- Action News by Tuesday Productions (1989–1992)
- Palmer News Package by Shelly Palmer Company (1998–2002)
- Overture by Stephen Arnold MusicStephen Arnold MusicFounded in 1993 by Stephen Arnold, Stephen Arnold Music is a Dallas-based music production company, specializing in Television news music. With additional offices in San Diego, California and a studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the company services television networks, cable channels, TV stations,...
(2002–2007) - Momentum News by Non-Stop Music (2007–present)