MILWAUKEE, WI -- A longtime TV news anchor is leaving the airwaves after 21 years for a career change. In 1980, it aired The Young and the Restless on a one-day delay at 9 a.m. [66][67] Occasionally as time permits, TV-6.2 may air the station's 9:00p.m. newscast whenever it is unable to run it on the station's main channel in the event of sports overruns or extended movie broadcasts aired by Fox as well as to simulcast the station's severe weather coverage, including closings and weather warning graphics. 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). Even though I graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology, I had no intention of being a broadcast meteorologist. Since 2010, programs distributed by Fox have been reduced to only a small portion of channel 6's syndicated lineup (including various repeat packages of COPS until it was pulled in 2020), and shows produced by other distributors such as Sherri, a program which already has FTS as its major affiliate base. And despite some solid work at those various stops, it was the one time I dressed up as the Cat in the Hat to read to kids (okay, second time the first was a starring role in Seussical the Musical back in high school) that caught the eye of the folks here at FOX6. TV6 reports from Social Distortion riot at Odd Rock Cafe . DuPont described the violent attack during an Oct. 9 podcast on the Channel 6 website. When I was 9 or 10 years old I used to "broadcast" weather reports in our basement. Storer had very good relations with CBS; company founder George Storer was a member of the CBS board, and most of its stations were CBS affiliates. Carl Deffenbaugh Anchor, Reporter # # # # I am thrilled to be one of the anchors for FOX6 WakeUp, Milwaukee's No. I grew up in the Chicago suburb of Lombard watching local broadcast meteorologist Harry Volkman. WITI (channel 6) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. Barack Obama. That support began when we decided to accept the job offer at Channel 6. On December 31, 2010, the subchannel became an affiliate of Antenna TV (as part of network owner Tribune Broadcasting's co-management agreement with Local TV's stations), and was rebranded as TV 6.2 (using a modified version of the "TV 6" logomark that WITI used from 1973 to 1995). After Gillett defaulted on some of its financing agreements in the early 1990s, its ownership was restructured and the company was renamed SCI Television. The passage of time is often difficult to grasp. I would write him letters and he would write back to me, which I thought was pretty cool. On December 3, 2007, the station's midday newscast was moved from its longtime noon slot to 11:00a.m. Two days prior on December 1, the Saturday edition of Wake-Up News was expanded to two hours beginning at 7:00a.m.; the Sunday edition was also moved to 7:00a.m., but remained one hour long. [71] The station formerly served as Milwaukee's "Love Network" affiliate for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. The rebroadcast with WMIL-HD3 was eventually ended down the line for one of iHeartRadio's automated formats. They can edit on their laptops and send the video back to the station via any local wireless connection. University School of Milwaukee is firing back after being hit with a lawsuit from Craig Robinson, the brother of Michelle Obama, and his wife. However, since CBS obtained the partial over-the-air network television rights to the league in 1990, WITI has carried most national and regional Major League Baseball (MLB) game telecasts involving the team (with the exception of a three-year break in coverage between CBS' 1993 loss of the MLB broadcasting contract and Fox's acquisition of national television rights to the league). This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Sharing powerful, compelling stories with our audience is what I enjoy most. Storer purchased KCST the following year, but ABC was not happy with being forced to surrender an affiliation with VHF station in favor of a UHF outlet. That is the feeling I have today as I celebrate my 30th anniversary at WITI-TV Channel 6. Angelica Duria is an American former Anchor and Reporter. (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. It was not an easy decision. Lauren Harksen While she was born in Texas, Lauren is an Alabama native. Eventually, OLTL, Bandstand, and ABC News were later cleared by WITI until the switch to CBS. And I'm honored to say I've won multiple Emmy Awards for my feature reporting including for a series on what life is like for Wisconsin sailors aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. WITI's digital signal ran at low power until November 2009, due to the digital antenna being located lower than the former analog antenna on the WITI Tower (this setup was common during the digital transition among Fox O&O-turned-Local TV stations; the station had originally transmitted its HD signal on low power from its STL tower in Brown Deer until HD equipment was installed on the main tower in late 2004). 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. In 2018 and 2019, to tie into high-profile Packer games ending in prime time Sunday nights, the station delayed The Simpsons to air in late night to carry extended local postgame coverage. A Saukville World War II soldier is being honored half a world away. It continues to broadcast one channel in a 480i 4:3 format, unusual for a station licensed as full power. ), On July 17, 1996, News Corporationwhich separated most of its entertainment holdings into 21st Century Fox in July 2013announced that it would acquire New World in an all-stock transaction worth $2.48 billion. Will climate-conscious viewers take it seriously? Only on WISN 12 News. They liked the way the graphics system looked and they also liked how I looked. Fox News host Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was the last straw for two network commentators. [16] WITI-TV was among the stations involved in the Fox agreement, which also initially included four of New World's other existing CBS-affiliated stations WJBK-TV, WJW-TV, WTVT and WAGA-TV and four additional stations CBS affiliate KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, ABC affiliates WBRC-TV in Birmingham and WGHP in GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point, North Carolina, and NBC affiliate WDAF-TV in Kansas City that were part of New World's concurrent $360-million acquisition of Great American Communications's television properties. (The New World Communications name continues in use as a licensing purpose corporationas "New World Communications of [state/city], Inc." or "NW Communications of [state/city], Inc."for WITI and its sister stations under Fox ownership, extending, from 2009 to 2011, to the former New World stations that Fox sold to Local TV in 2007.) 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. [86] WITI is one of the few stations that had broadcast on VHF channel 6 prior to the digital transition to restore its audio feed legally; WRGB in Albany, New York attempted an audio subcarrier service after the transition that was subsequently pulled at the FCC's request. 0. WITI obtained the local syndication rights to the show in 1992 after a long and successful run on WISN-TV, where it likewise ran first-run locally until the end of its fifth season. [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. 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. Nicole Koglin is an American journalist and anchor, better recognized as an anchor in Fox Fox 6's show Real Milwaukee, WakeUp. Studio A was again redesigned in the summer of 2019, with updated technology and design tying into a new graphics package (debuted by former sister station WDAF-TV in Kansas City) introduced in October 2019, and by coincidence Arnold's new "Beyond" package mainly utilized by the Fox-owned stations since 2018. However, Storer Broadcasting had developed a bitter relationship with the network stemming from ABC's June 1976 decision to move its affiliation in the San Diego market from Storer-owned KCST-TV (now KNSD) to former NBC outlet KGTV. [78] The new Studio A was partially introduced on February 11, 2013, with modifications to the secondary set continuing for a couple of weeks after. Jonathan Hardison anchors WBRC FOX6 News Live at Five, 5:30, 6 and 10 p.m. He's worked at television stations in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana, before joining the WBRC FOX6 News team in October 2007. For fans of Fox 6 news, you may have noticed something this week. A third subchannel for HSN's over-the-air service was added before the end of 2021 for antenna viewers, with no pay-TV carriage pursued by either FTS or HSN. The next time youre on a flight, think about this do you know who actually built the plane? How did we do it? WITI shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, 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. On July 23, 2009, after a series of tests of a new digital subchannel, WITI began carrying programming from the Retro Television Network on digital channel 6.2, featuring a customized schedule heavy on public domain programs as much of RTV's program rights were held locally by Weigel Broadcasting-owned MeTV on WBME-TV (channel 49, now WMLW-TV) at the time, which was then independently programmed before Me-TV's December 2010 national launch. Sun-Times Media Wire. Every year in the lead up to Veterans Day, the names are read aloud of the 58,281 people listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. 1 morning newscast. Nearly 40 years later I was honored by the American Meteorological Society as their Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year. Although WCGV had become a formidable competitor to rival independent WVTV, Fox found the prospect to having its programming carried on a VHF station too much to resist, considering that WITI had a relatively stronger market position despite its then-third place placing behind WTMJ-TV and WISN-TV in total day and news viewership, though its news department has been long-respected and well-awarded. (In addition, channel 6 continues to share news footage and other resources with Fox's Chicago O&O WFLD through the Fox NewsEdge affiliate service.) (Times Mirror Co. to sell four stations to Argyle Communications Inc.)", "Argyle socks away profit. Now she is doing a new job at CBS 58 as Director of Strategic Initiatives at CBS 58. The situation was difficult for the on-air talent, according to Sid Armstrong, who worked at WITI as a news reporter during the station's early years. As an owned-and-operated station or affiliate of Fox, which obtained the partial (now exclusive) over-the-air network television rights to the league in 1996, WITI has carried certain Brewers games that have been regionally televised (and, since 2013, select national telecasts scheduled during prime time) by the network during the league's regular season and postseason. The Milwaukee TV star initially posted about her condition on social media over the summer. The television pace in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s was slower than today. In the front of the book she had written: "May we see you someday replacing Harry Volkman on TV." 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. The station then transitioned to the standard FTS on-air graphics package on October 28, 2020. 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