E.W. Scripps Television Stations - Wxyz-TV, Wews-TV, Knxv-TV, Wcpo-TV, Wfts-TV, Wmar-TV, Kshb-TV, Wptv-TV, Kjrh-TV, Kmci-TV (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: WXYZ-TV, WEWS-TV, KNXV-TV, WCPO-TV, WFTS-TV, WMAR-TV, KSHB-TV, WPTV-TV, KJRH-TV, KMCI-TV. Excerpt: WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property. The station's studio/office facility and transmitter are located at Broadcast House, located at 20777 West 10 Mile Road in Southfield, Michigan. Its signal transmits to the Metro Detroit area and the southeast lower Michigan counties. It also covers neighboring Windsor, Ontario and Toledo, Ohio, and can be viewed on cable and satellite systems in both the United States and Canada. WXYZ has the strongest signal outside of Metro Detroit (compared to the other VHF Detroit television stations) near Flint and Lapeer. Its signal can be reached with a good antenna in these areas. WXYZ includes Lapeer County in its service area, even though the station can be viewed in Flint. From its sign-on in 1948 until 1986, WXYZ-TV was owned and operated (O&O) by ABC, and was one of their strongest O&O stations. In the Detroit area, the station can be seen on Comcast channel 7 and HD channel 231 and WOW channel 7 and HD channel 200. WXYZ-TV Action News remote vanWXYZ-TV began broadcasting October 9, 1948, from studios in the Maccabees Building in downtown Detroit, on Woodward Avenue across from the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was the second television station in both Michigan and Detroit, after the Detroit News-owned (original) WWJ-TV (channel 4, now WDIV). Channel 7 was also the third of the five original ABC-owned and operated television stations to begin operations, after New York City and Chicago, and before San Francisco and Los Angeles. WXYZ-TV was created out of ABC-owned radio station WXYZ (1270 AM, now WXYT), which produced the popula...