WDIV-TV (channel 4) is a

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, United States, affiliated with NBC. It serves as the

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broadcast property of the Graham Media Group subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company. WDIV-TV maintains studio facilities on West Lafayette Boulevard in Detroit, making it the only major television station in the market with offices and studios within the Detroit city limits. Detroit's other television stations are all based in the suburb of Southfield; WDIV's transmitter is, however, located on Greenfield Road in Southfield.

History

Early history

The station first signed on the air as WWDT on October 23, 1946, for one day of demonstrative programming; regular programming commenced on March 4, 1947. It was the first television station in Michigan and the tenth station to sign on in the United States overall. The station was originally owned by the Evening News Association, parent company of ''

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'', along with WWJ radio (

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and FM 97.1, now

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). On May 15, 1947, the television station changed its call letters to WWJ-TV to match its radio sisters. Channel 4 has always been an NBC affiliate owing to WWJ radio's longtime affiliation with the

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, but also aired some programs from the

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prior to WJBK-TV (channel 2)'s sign-on in October 1948. Channel 4 had a number of broadcasting firsts in Michigan including the first telecast of

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, Red Wings and

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games as well as the state's first televised newscasts. The station's studios were originally located at 600 West Lafayette, across the street from the ''Detroit News'' building in downtown Detroit (and next door to its present studio location). In 1954, the station moved its transmitter from the

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to the intersection of Greenfield and Lincoln roads in Southfield. Network programming was broadcast in

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starting in 1954. The station began broadcasting its newscasts and other locally produced programs in color in 1960, when it purchased new studio camera equipment. Over the years, the Evening News Association acquired several other broadcasting outlets, such as KTVY (now

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) in

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, KOLD-TV in

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, and WALA-TV in

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. Eventually, the Evening News Association created Universal Communications Corporation as a holding company for its broadcasting interests, with WWJ-AM-FM-TV as the

stations.

Trade to The Washington Post Company

In 1969, the

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(FCC) began to impose restrictions on the common ownership of print and broadcast media in the same market. The combination of the ''Detroit News'' and WWJ-AM-FM-TV was given grandfathered protection from the new regulations, but by the mid-to-late 1970s, the Evening News Association was under pressure to break up its Detroit cluster voluntarily. Fearing that an FCC-forced divestiture was imminent, the Evening News Association agreed to trade WWJ-TV to the Washington Post Company in return for that company's flagship station, WTOP-TV (later WDVM-TV and now WUSA). On July 22, 1978, due to an FCC regulation in place at the time that forbade TV and radio stations in the same market but with different ownership groups from sharing the same call signs, channel 4 changed its call letters to the present WDIV-TV, for "Detroit's IV" (representing the

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for 4). Additionally, in a series of promotional announcements with news anchor Dwayne X. Riley, the new call letters were said to represent the phrase, "Where Detroit Is Vital". The WWJ-TV call sign was later adopted for use by the former WGPR-TV (channel 62) after its 1995 purchase by CBS, which had acquired WWJ radio in 1989 (CBS sold off its radio unit in 2017); the current

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is a separate entity and not related to WDIV. Ultimately, the FCC never imposed any limitations on ownership of television stations and newspapers in the same market and the exchange of stations between the Evening News Association (eventually subsumed by the

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'' in 2013) became somewhat unusual in television broadcasting. In 1982, WDIV moved out of its facility (which had been built in 1936 for WWJ radio and expanded in 1948 and today is known as the Walker-Roehrig Building) adjacent to the headquarters of the ''Detroit News'' and moved one block to its current broadcast facility at West Lafayette Boulevard. The building has also housed the headquarters of Graham Media Group since 1997; the "Local" branding now utilized by most of the group's stations began at WDIV alongside its acquiring of flagship status in 2000. The station later became available outside the Detroit market when it was selected for inclusion on many Canadian cable providers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. WDIV's signal has been uplinked on C-band satellite since at least 1988. In 2004, the station bolstered local programming by securing broadcast rights to several Detroit Pistons basketball games (Fox Sports Detroit—now called

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—became the Pistons' sole broadcaster in 2008) as well as returning as the host television station for the

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. The station airs the auto show's charity preview,

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(both in

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), the Ford Fireworks on the Detroit International Riverfront, and the charity event "The Hob-Nobble Gobble" which is held the night before the

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parade. On April 15, 2005, former WDIV employee John Owens was shot in the station's lobby by Epifanio Rivas, Jr., a man with a history of harassing WDIV employees. Rivas was charged with attempted murder, while Owens remained in the hospital in critical but stable condition. On November 21, 2006, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge James Callahan sentenced Rivas to 16 to 32 years in prison for the shooting; he was also sentenced to two years for a felony firearm conviction. In December 2008, WDIV began streaming its newscasts online as part of a redesign o
the station's website
On June 21, 2010, The 52nd Annual Target Fireworks were produced and aired entirely in high definition. On August 6, 2010, WDIV-TV and WXYZ-TV (channel 7) became the first stations in Detroit to offer

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feeds. On the evening of April 14, 2011, a suitcase containing a suspected

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was left in the WDIV studio lobby after the person who planted the device was denied entry by the station's security guard, prompting the Detroit Police Bomb Squad to evacuate the studio as well as the

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across the street. That night's 11 p.m. newscast was broadcast from the corner of Lafayette and Howard streets; the evacuation resulted in master control operations being inaccessible, preventing the broadcast or editing of news stories, and the broadcast of commercials. The station's PSIP

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temporarily reverted to 45.1 (the station's physical digital channel), with HD content downconverted to

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. The device was detonated minutes later, with police giving the all-clear at 11:15 p.m. for the news crew to re-enter the studio. Upon re-entering the studio, anchor

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explained that WDIV has a policy of not immediately reporting bomb threats unless there is a true threat of an explosion or loss of life. However, because staff was barred access into the studio for the 11 p.m. newscast, an explanation as to why they were on the street, broadcasting from the station's mobile truck instead of the studio, needed to be given. The news was first reported by the

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and

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accounts of WDIV's news staff; WJBK, WXYZ-TV and WMYD (channel 20) reported on the situation while during the lockout, before the WDIV mobile truck could return to the studios from its assignments. A sweater and some empty soda cans were later found in the briefcase which was left by a homeless man that had followed a WDIV employee in for warmth and

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; the man was brought to Detroit Receiving Hospital for observation the next day. The Detroit Police Department and Post-Newsweek's management said that no charges would be filed, calling it "just a big misunderstanding".

Programming

Syndicated programming

Syndicated programs carried on WDIV-TV include ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Rachael Ray'' and '' Inside Edition''. WDIV-TV is one of the few television stations in the United States to have aired ''Wheel'' and ''Jeopardy!'' from the beginning of their respective syndication runs in 1983 and 1984. WDIV-TV used this as leverage for its decision to pull the programs from the schedule of CBC

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CBET-DT in Windsor during the 2011–12 season, a year before the CBC decided to cancel their broadcasts of the shows entirely.

Programming preemptions

In the 1970s and 1980s, WDIV preempted one to two hours of NBC's daytime programming every day. The station also refused to air ''

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'' and its successor, '' Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' at 12:35 a.m. for many years, and initially did not clear the Letterman-era program at all. Instead, until 1999, the station opted to rebroadcast '' The Jenny Jones Show'' in that timeslot, along with off-network syndicated programs such as ''

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''. During the 1978–79 season, it aired ''This Morning'', a locally based talk show hosted by Cathie Mann, in place of the game shows '' Card Sharks'' and '' All Star Secrets'', while for many years, NBC's 12:30 p.m. programming was preempted in favor of a newscast. During the 1983–84 season, the newscast was expanded to an hour, preempting NBC's noon programming (most notably '' Super Password''). That season, WDIV also preempted the 1983 revival of '' Dream House'' in favor of the much more popular syndicated game show '' Tic-Tac-Dough''. From its debut until September 9, 2022, WDIV has also delayed the fourth hour of ''Today'' (which nationally airs at 10 a.m.), airing it generally at 11 a.m., save for a period from 2013 to 2015 when it aired at 2 p.m. after the launch their own local talk show ''Live In The D''. In its place, WDIV has aired '' The Ellen DeGeneres Show'', ''

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'' and ''Rachael Ray'' at 10 a.m., with ''Live In The D'' airing in that timeslot. The station did not carry NBC's late night

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of the fourth hour of ''Today'' until 2019, preferring to carry an encore of the 11 p.m. newscast, paid programming, and a second run of ''Inside Edition''. Along with all other Post-Newsweek stations, WDIV refused to air any of NBC's televised poker programming, including ''

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'', the ''

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'' and ''

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''. From 1999 to 2002, WDIV did not clear the soap opera '' Passions'' at 2 p.m. Instead, it aired on WADL (channel 38) at noon on a day-behind basis, while WDIV aired daytime talk shows at 2 p.m.;

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sister station

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did this as well until August 30, 2004, when it became the last NBC station to carry ''Passions'' at 2 p.m. These two stations were the only NBC affiliate holdouts to the show; the issue was rendered moot when NBC canceled the soap opera in 2007. Those same two NBC stations also never carried '' Sunset Beach''; the soap was seen on

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affiliates

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and KTXH, respectively. NBC programming is still occasionally preempted for special events, including the annual Ford Fireworks and America's Thanksgiving Parade (whose coverage, incidentally, preempts the live

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broadcast on the station, though it does carry the later tape-delayed broadcast) and on occasion, infomercials. Rebroadcasts of

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from This TV also air several times a year in prime time on WDIV's main channel (usually on Saturday nights or immediately after

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periods so no new network programming is affected) to recover revenue from developing news and weather events where sustained coverage preempts commercials, and to fulfill "make goods" for local advertisers.

Local programs and personalities

WDIV was the launching pad for several locally produced shows that went national. The station broadcast the talk show ''Sonya'' (hosted by Dr. Sonya Freidman) live at 4 p.m. It was so popular that the station under the banner of Post-Newsweek Stations, syndicated it on a delayed basis to

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(which is now co-owned with NBC under NBCUniversal). WDIV also produced the afternoon variety show ''The Tony Orlando Show'' at 4 p.m. However, the station's management canceled the program after one year to run the syndicated daytime talk show ''The Jenny Jones Show''. WDIV later signed

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(104.3 FM) morning radio host Dick Purtan to perform live segments during a 4–5 p.m. comedy block called ''Purtan's People''. It was followed by WOMC's Tom Ryan with a monthly special that showed

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s with comedy skits (in which Ryan played a character known as ''Count Scary''). This was during the heyday of NBC's late-night success ''

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'' and

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's ''Count Floyd''. Eventually, ''Count Scary'' was dropped by WDIV and moved on to WKBD-TV (channel 50)'s ''Shocktoberfest''. One local program idea that almost cost the station was for a Detroit-based comedy-drama called ''Hamtramck'' which aired only once. It created a storm of controversy with the Hamtramck/ Polish American community. The program's executive producer, Alan Frank, apologized to the community. Meteorologist Chuck Gaidica hosted the

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's game shows and his own show. Sports director Bernie Smilovitz also hosted a couple of shows including ''The Chuck and Bernie Show'' in which featured then Detroit Pistons coach

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, and ''The Sparky and Bernie Show'' with Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson. Smilovitz also hosted ''Bernie's Bloopers/Weekend at Bernie's''

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s specials.

Sports

WDIV was the over-the-air television flagship station of the Detroit Tigers, a relationship that lasted twenty seasons, from

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, and previously from

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. During the majority of WDIV's second tenure as the Tigers' broadcast outlet, Hall of Famers George Kell and Al Kaline served as play-by-play announcer and color analyst, respectively, on the telecasts. Bernie Smiltovitz hosted the station's pregame show, ''Tigers 'XX'' ( '84, '85, etc.) during most of WDIV's time as the TV home of the Tigers. As a result of the station's carriage of Tigers games (which usually ranged between 40 and 50 telecasts per season, the majority of them on weekends), WDIV preempted or rescheduled any affected NBC programming that was displaced. The station also carried any Tigers games when they were featured nationally as part of NBC's MLB coverage from its 1947 sign-on until

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; this included

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victories in

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and

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. WDIV and WDWB/WMYD shared the over-the-air broadcast rights to the Detroit Pistons, from

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. After the 2007–08 season, the Pistons' local telecasts became exclusive to Fox Sports Detroit. As the co-flagship of the Pistons' television network, WDIV was the local outlet that televised the "

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" between the Pistons and the

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on the night of November 19, 2004, which led to the most infamous brawl in NBA history near that game's conclusion; the station also aired any Pistons games via NBC's broadcast contract with the NBA from 1990 to 2002. The station has also carried the NFL's Detroit Lions, but not as an "official station" partner where it broadcast pre-season and team programming. From

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, via NBC's broadcast contract with the

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, home interconference contests were aired on channel 4 (which included the Thanksgiving games in some years). Since

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, Lions games are shown on the station as part of NBC's '' Sunday Night Football'' package. Additionally, through NBC's broadcast contract with the NHL, Detroit Red Wings games were carried until the deal's end in

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, including the team's winning run through the

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, though it often had to compete with CBC Television's CBET-DT across the river in Windsor, which also carries NHL playoff coverage.

News operation

WDIV-TV presently broadcasts 36½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays and 3½ hours on Sundays). The station uses a Eurocopter A350 helicopter for newsgathering, which is also shared with WJBK and WXYZ-TV through a

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agreement with those stations' respective owners Fox Television Stations and the

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. This helicopter features a completely digital HD video system and is quite noticeable from the ground with its large front camera pod and distinctive red paint (hence the callsign "Red Bird"). WDIV also purchases services from Metro Traffic, which provides traffic reporting from its analog SD video platform, aloft on a Bell 206 airframe. This helicopter is blue and white with a smaller camera pod. Both helicopters are operated by HeliInc, which provides aircraft services to broadcasters in many markets. WDIV's news department operates a fleet of 14 newsgathering vehicles, including 11 standard news ENG ( electronic news-gathering) Ford E350 vans with two-band digital microwave transmitters and video editing platforms. One of these trucks is a dual-purpose microwave truck and digital satellite uplink package. The station has one micro-ENG E150 van capable of rapid deployment short-range broadcasts and one additional satellite uplink vehicle with a much larger 1.8-meter antenna. On January 8, 2007, the station added a half-hour late afternoon newscast at 4 p.m. In the spring of 2007, WDIV received an

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, one of the highest honors in broadcast journalism. "The China Syndrome", reported and produced by Devin Scillian, was named Best Documentary. On August 19, 2007, starting with the 11 p.m. newscast, WDIV became the second television station in Detroit to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. In August 2013, WDIV dropped its noon newscast and converted it into an online-only broadcast in order to attract viewers who are at work during that timeslot. Viewer demand resulted in the station relaunching the noon newscast on the television station on January 13, 2014. In August 2014, WDIV unveiled a new studio, designed in-house and constructed by the

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-based company EWI Worldwide. On November 11, 2016, Carmen Harlan retired after 38 years at the station to spend more time with her grandchildren. On September 12, 2022, WDIV expanded its noon newscast to a full hour full-time.

Notable current on-air staff

– weeknights anchor

Notable former on-air staff

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– consumer reporter (1990–1993, went to

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) * Asha Blake – weekend anchor/health reporter (1993–1996, went to

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; later at

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and

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, now with

WFAA WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur-licensed Estrella TV affiliate KMPX (channel 29), ...

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–

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) *

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– sports producer and reporter (1970s) *

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– reporter (now at '' Extra'') *

Mort Crim Mort Crim (born July 31, 1935) is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 (soon to be named WDIV-TV) in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before retiring from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997. Previously, ...

– news anchor/radio reporter (1978–1997, now runs Mort Crim Communications and spokesperson for Majic Windows) *

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– reporter (1993–1994, most recently at

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in New York City) *

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– television personality and noon anchor (1960s–1970s; left for

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, now retired) *

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– morning anchor (2000–2003, left

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in New York City in April 2006; now with WFAA in Dallas–Fort Worth) * Chris Hansen – investigative reporter/anchor (1988–1993, later at

) *

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– TV host and news personality (1950–1960s) *

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– sports anchor (1984–1985, also worked at

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and

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, now at WVLA-TV in Baton Rouge, LA) * Doug Hill – meteorologist (1980–1982, later at WJLA-TV in

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, now deceased) *

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– film critic (1978–1987, also worked at WUSA in Washington, D.C.) (now deceased) * Fred McLeod – weekend sports anchor/host of ''Sports Final Edition'' on Sunday nights (1989–2006; later the TV play-by-play voice of the

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, now deceased) * Dean Miller – news anchor (1970s), now deceased * Rob Parker – sports anchor, also co-host of ''Sports Final Edition'', now retired * Anne Thompson – reporter (1986–1997; now at NBC News as correspondent for '' NBC Nightly News'') * Reynolds Wolf – meteorologist (1999–2002, joined

; currently on The Weather Channel) *

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– sports anchor (1993–1996, was lead announcer of NBC's 2008 revival of '' American Gladiators'')

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WDIV's second

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formally carried programming from

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, which folded in November 2008. WDIV-TV also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 4.1, labelled "Local 4", broadcasting at 1.83 Mbit/s. WDIV-DT2 is one of the few affiliates of This TV to have been affiliated with the network through most of its entire history, even as it was dropped in several other markets before

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purchased the network in 2021. On July 30, 2015, WDIV-TV became the market's affiliate for

Weigel Broadcasting Weigel Broadcasting Co. is an American television broadcasting company based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26), at 26 North Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood. It currently owns 25 television sta ...

's MeTV network through their third subchannel. WDIV-DT3 is used as an overflow feed for network and syndicated programming if the latter is pre-empted by

breaking news Breaking news, interchangeably termed late-breaking news and also known as a special report or special coverage or news flash, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming or current news in orde ...

and severe weather coverage on 4.1. On January 3, 2020, WDIV-TV activated a fourth subchannel, which broadcasts

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, a network owned by NBC's parent company

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. This makes WDIV-TV the third station in the Detroit market to have been affiliated with Cozi TV, which was previously on WMYD and on WADL.

Analog-to-digital conversion

WDIV-TV signed on its digital high-definition signal on UHF 45 on March 1, 1999. The station shut down its analog signal over

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channel 4 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 continued to broadcast on its pre-transition

UHF Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...

channel 45. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 4. As part of the

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, WDIV kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the

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. In March 2017, the station announced that it would move its physical RF channel to UHF channel 32.

Out-of-market coverage

WDIV's over-the-air signal can be picked up as far away as

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, Lapeer, and

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in Michigan, as well as

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and even

London, Ontario London (pronounced ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River, approximate ...

. WDIV is also one of only three American stations that mention Windsor and London as among their primary viewing areas, alongside WMYD and WJBK. WDIV is carried on most cable providers in Southeast Michigan,

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and

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. It is also carried on several other Canadian cable providers including

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in the

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well away from the range of its signal. It is one of five Detroit area television stations seen in Canada on satellite provider Shaw Direct and was the original affiliate offered by CANCOM (now Shaw Broadcast Services) starting in September 1983. WDIV is also carried on some cable providers in the

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in communities such as Seney,

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and Grand Marais. CANCOM/Shaw's carriage of WDIV stretches outside of Canada with cable carriage in places as varied as far northern

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(including

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and

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), all of

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, parts of

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and for a time in the early 1990s, some parts of

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(with a delay). Matt Lauer, on NBC's '' The Today Show'' (May 2, 2007) In addition, WDIV is carried on some cable providers in

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, via Shaw Broadcast Services, such the

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system in

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, which offers WDIV instead of fellow NBC affiliate KTSM-TV in nearby

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. From 1985 to circa 1998, WDIV was the NBC affiliate carried by Cable Atlantic (now Rogers Cable) in

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including in St. John's before the provider switched to the network's

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affiliate WHDH (which was affiliated with NBC from 1995 to 2017). Coverage on cable providers outside the Detroit–Windsor market may be subject to

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and network blackouts in the United States and simsubbing in Canada.

References

External links

*
Official ''This TV Detroit'' website
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