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WFRV-TV

January 01, 1970

WFRV-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on East Mason Street in Green Bay, and its transmitter is located north of Morrison, Wisconsin.

WFRV-TV
Channels
BrandingLocal 5
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WJMN-TV
History
FoundedJanuary 26, 1954 (1954-01-26)
First air date
May 20, 1955
(68 years ago) (1955-05-20)
Former call signs
WNAM-TV (1954–1955)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 42 (UHF, 1954–1955), 5 (VHF, 1955–2009)
  • Digital: 39 (UHF, until 2019)
  • ABC (1954–1959, 1983–1992)
  • NBC (1959–1983)
  • DuMont (secondary, 1954–1955)
Call sign meaning
"Wonderful Fox River Valley"[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID9635
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT363.9 m (1,194 ft)
Transmitter coordinates44°20′0.1″N 87°58′55.7″W / 44.333361°N 87.982139°W / 44.333361; -87.982139
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.wearegreenbay.com

WFRV-TV traces its history to WNAM-TV, a station that broadcast beginning in January 1954 from studios in Neenah. Owned by the Neenah-Menasha Broadcasting Company, it was the only ultra high frequency (UHF) outlet in northeastern Wisconsin at a time when UHF stations faced severe technical and economic handicaps against very high frequency (VHF) stations. At the end of 1954, WNAM-TV suspended operations and merged with the Valley Telecasting Company, a consortium of area investors that had obtained the construction permit for channel 5 in Green Bay. The new station, WFRV-TV, debuted on May 20, 1955, from the former WNAM-TV studios in Neenah and was ultimately owned entirely by Neenah-Menasha. In January 1957, the station opened its present studios in Green Bay. Originally an affiliate of the ABC network, the station switched to NBC in 1959.

From 1960 to 1980, WFRV-TV was owned by the Morton and Norton families of Louisville, Kentucky, under the aegis of what eventually became known as Orion Broadcasting. In 1969, the company opened WJMN-TV (channel 3) in Escanaba, Michigan, which served as a semi-satellite of WFRV for the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. When Orion Broadcasting and Cosmos Broadcasting merged, WFRV and WJMN were divested to Midwest Radio and Television, which owned WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. Midwest switched the station's affiliation back to ABC in 1983 and invested in the news department. Midwest was acquired by CBS in 1991. This resulted in another affiliation switch in Green Bay on March 15, 1992, with ABC moving to WBAY-TV (channel 2). CBS continued to own WFRV-TV until 2007, when it traded the Green Bay and Escanaba stations to Liberty Media in exchange for shares of its stock.

Nexstar acquired WFRV and WJMN in 2011. WJMN was given more local news programming; that station lost its CBS affiliation in January 2022. WFRV-TV's studios continue to house master control and some internal operations for WJMN-TV, which maintains its own studios, sales offices and engineering operations in Marquette.[3]

History edit

WNAM-TV and VHF merger edit

WNAM-TV began telecasting from Neenah on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 42 on January 26, 1954,[4] after beginning test transmissions in December 1953.[5] Owned by the Neenah-Menasha Broadcasting Company alongside radio station WNAM (1280 AM), the station carried programming from ABC as well as occasional NBC and DuMont Television Network programs.[6]

By late 1954, northeastern Wisconsin had one UHF television station—WNAM-TV—and two very high frequency (VHF) outlets, WBAY-TV on channel 2 and new sign-on WMBV-TV on channel 11. The UHF station was struggling; WOSH-TV of Oshkosh had closed down in March. Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had awarded the third and final commercial channel for Green Bay, channel 5, to the Valley Telecasting Company, a consortium of 17 area leaders,[7] in 1953. Sensing that the arrival of Valley Telecasting, which had selected the call letters WFRV-TV for its station to represent the "Wonderful Fox River Valley",[1] would economically harm its UHF station, Neenah-Menasha reached a deal in November[8] to merge with Valley and announced it would suspend operations of WNAM-TV on the evening of January 2, 1955.[9] The combined station would retain some operations at Neenah for program production in the Fox Cities, but it would use the tower and transmitter building of the former WJPG-FM on Scray's Hill near De Pere.[8]

WFRV-TV signed on channel 5 on May 20, 1955, after an appeal lodged by WMBV-TV to block the merger of Valley Telecasting and Neenah-Menasha was declined for the final time; the station aired film programming for its first ten days before beginning affiliations with ABC and the DuMont Television Network—then on its way out—on June 1.[10] While the transmitter facility was new, WFRV-TV used WNAM-TV's Neenah studios.[10] By 1956, Neenah-Menasha owned all of WFRV-TV;[11] that same year, the company announced plans to build a studio base in Green Bay.[12] Master control switched to Green Bay in December when a new tower and transmitter building were activated, and production from the station's present Mason Street studios began in mid-January 1957.[13]

WFRV-TV was the Green Bay station in the short-lived Badger Television Network, which operated in 1958 and also included Milwaukee's WISN-TV and Madison's WKOW-TV.[14] The next year, on February 1, the station changed affiliations from ABC to NBC.[15] Later that year, the station broadcast what was claimed to be the first ever coverage of a live lunar eclipse: a studio camera was wheeled out into the station parking lot.[16]

Orion Broadcasting ownership edit

In December 1960, Valley Telecasting sold WFRV-TV to Valley Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of WAVE-TV at Louisville, Kentucky, for $1.09 million.[17] WFRV's first attempt at expanding to the Upper Peninsula, a construction permit to build channel 8 at Iron Mountain, Michigan, was scrapped at the company's request days after the sale, as was an application by the company to build a channel 9 station at Wausau.[18]

Channel 5 began to broadcast local programming in color in the fall of 1965, making it the second station (behind WBAY-TV) with that capability in the market.[19] Two years later, the station began its move to build a satellite in the Upper Peninsula when it filed for channel 3 at Escanaba, Michigan, on June 20, 1967.[20] As a result of an attempt by Northern Michigan University to build an educational station on the wider-coverage channel 3 instead of the allocated channel 13, it would be nearly two years before a construction permit was granted on April 23, 1969.[21] From a transmitter site near Trenary, WJMN-TV—so designated in honor of Jane Morton Norton, chairman of the board of the company[22]—began broadcasting October 7, bringing a full NBC lineup and WFRV-TV's signal to a further 50,000 households.[23] That same year, WAVE, Inc. renamed itself Orion Broadcasting in reflection of its broadcasting holdings beyond Louisville.[24]

Midwest ownership edit

Orion Broadcasting reached a deal to merge with Cosmos Broadcasting, a subsidiary of the Liberty Corporation, in 1980. The merger would put the combined company over the limit for the number of VHF television stations it could own, prompting it to immediately announce that it would divest WFRV/WJMN.[25] In January 1981, Cosmos found a buyer: Midwest Radio-Television, owners of WCCO radio and television in Minneapolis.[26] The transaction closed in October.[27]

After taking over, Midwest made $1 million in major investments in new equipment, including a news helicopter.[28] An even larger change was in the offing. On October 25, 1982, the station announced it would end its 23-year association with NBC and return to the then-stronger ABC in 1983, after ABC began courting channel 5, which had been one of NBC's strongest affiliates.[29] One potential complication emerged when it was discovered that WFRV's affiliation agreement had just been automatically renewed through February 1985.[30] It was not until March 1983 that outgoing ABC outlet WLUK-TV and NBC reached an affiliation deal, which allowed the switch to take place on April 18.[31]

CBS purchase and affiliation switch edit

On July 23, 1991, CBS announced that it would purchase the entirety of Midwest Communications, Inc. The deal gave the company WCCO radio and television in Minneapolis, but it also gave CBS an ABC affiliate—WFRV/WJMN—in a market smaller than any in which the company was operating.[32] In the immediate aftermath of the $200 million acquisition, the network sent out mixed messages: CBS executive Peter Lund said the company had decided to keep the Green Bay station, yet an affiliate relations official told longtime CBS affiliate WBAY-TV that the network would be interested in remaining there if a buyer were to be found.[32]

The sale dislodged the existing CBS affiliates in the Green Bay and Marquette markets, WBAY-TV and WLUC-TV. The switch in Green Bay took place March 15, 1992—just over a month after CBS closed on the Midwest purchase—with WBAY becoming the ABC outlet.[33] In Marquette, where CBS angered WLUC-TV by notifying it on February 5 that it was terminating the affiliation agreement in July, that station switched to ABC on February 23, prompting WJMN to change to CBS three weeks early (and be fed CBS programs from the control room in Green Bay).[34]

WFRV would be unaffected by the 1995 switch that saw WLUK-TV and WGBA-TV swap affiliations. The station was the first in Green Bay to launch a digital television signal, in 2002.[16]

Spinoff to Liberty Media edit

In April 2007, Liberty Media (a media company unrelated to The Liberty Corporation and a spin-off of former cable television company TCI) completed an exchange transaction with CBS Corporation pursuant to which Liberty Media exchanged 7.6 million shares of CBS Class B common stock valued at $239 million for a subsidiary of CBS that held WFRV and WJMN and approximately $170 million in cash[35] As part of the transaction, Liberty Media acquired WFRV and WJMN, becoming the only over-the-air television properties to be owned by the company.[36]

WFRV-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).[37] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using virtual channel 5.[38]

WFRV under Nexstar edit

On April 7, 2011, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced it would acquire WFRV and WJMN-TV from Liberty Media.[39] The $20 million deal was approved by the FCC on June 28, 2011,[40] and closed three days later on July 1, when Nexstar tapped Joseph Denk to become vice president and general manager of both stations;[41] Denk replaced Perry Kidder, a 37-year employee of the station, who announced his retirement shortly after the sale was announced.[42] Nexstar also relaunched the station's website at a new domain, "wearegreenbay.com".[43]

Nexstar also moved to increase the local content of WJMN in the Upper Peninsula. A station that had long merely rebroadcast WFRV-TV's newscasts or maintained a minimal reporting and weather presence in northern Michigan, WJMN launched separate local newscasts at 6 and 11 pm on March 13, 2014.[44] At that time, it branded as "Local 3",[44] matching WFRV, which had taken on the "Local 5" moniker in 2012.[45]

On January 27, 2016, Media General announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nexstar.[46][47] Because Media General owned WBAY, the new company was required to sell that station or WFRV to another owner. On June 3, Nexstar announced it had opted to keep WFRV and would sell WBAY along with another merger divestiture, KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa, to Gray Television for $270 million.[48][49]

In 2022, WJMN lost its CBS affiliation in the Marquette market to WZMQ (channel 19) and replaced the lost CBS programs with programming from MyNetworkTV as well as Nexstar-owned diginets Antenna TV and Rewind TV, to fill time where CBS programming formerly resided. The station also extended its existing 6 p.m. newscast to one hour and moved its 11 p.m. newscast to 10 p.m.[50][51]

Programming edit

News operation edit

 
WFRV's primary studios and weather radar in Green Bay
 
WFRV's Fox Valley Bureau and weather radar

WFRV has typically been the second- or third-rated station for local news in the Green Bay market, led by WBAY-TV.[52][53][54]

In the early 1980s, WFRV was the first local station to start a full news bureau in the Fox Cities area, which at the time accounted for a third of the newsroom budget. Where the original news bureau was in the reporter's apartment, by 1983 the station had dedicated facilities including a microwave link for sending stories back to Green Bay.[55] In 2004, the station moved its Fox Valley facility to a site on Patriot Drive in Little Chute, equidistant from downtown Appleton and downtown Green Bay, and equipped it with the area's only Doppler weather radar.[56]

On June 23, 2011, after a six-month upgrade process, WFRV became the first station in the Green Bay market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the changeover to HD included upgraded weather systems, including real-time street-level radar.[57][58] Beginning in September 2012, WFRV would greatly expand its local news output, including the addition of an hour-long afternoon newscast at 4 p.m. and the expansion of its 6 p.m. newscast from 30 minutes to one hour; the 6 p.m. newscast was reduced to 30 minutes during the NFL season on nights when WFRV aired Packers-related programming.[59][60] The station launched an hour-long local mid-morning program, Local 5 Live!, in 2013.[61]

Sports programming edit

WFRV has historically been a major producer of programming around the Green Bay Packers. In 1988, the station hired former Packers center Larry McCarren to serve as a sportscaster.[62] By 1990, McCarren was hosting a weekly program on the team, Packers Locker Room.[63] McCarren was elevated to sports director when he signed a new long-term contract with channel 5 in 1994; this came even as CBS lost NFL rights.[64] In 2003, WFRV acquired the rights to preseason telecasts, which had belonged locally to WBAY-TV for some 40 years; McCarren appeared on the telecasts.[65]

After the Packers left WFRV for a deal with WGBA-TV (and a renewal with Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV) in 2012,[66] McCarren soon followed; he resigned his duties as sports director of WFRV to move to WTMJ/WGBA as a Packers analyst, becoming WGBA's official sports director on April 1, 2013.[67][68] McCarren left WGBA in 2015 and became a team employee.[69]

Notable former on-air staff edit

Subchannels edit

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WFRV-TV[74]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
5.1 1080i 16:9 WFRV-HD Main WFRV-TV programming / CBS
5.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV
5.3 Justice True Crime Network
5.4 4:3 Rewind Rewind TV
14.2 480i 16:9 Comet Comet (WCWF)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

WFRV gradually added several subchannels to its lineup in the 2010s. Bounce TV was added in 2016 as part of a group deal made with Katz Broadcasting,[75][76] while True Crime Network debuted in April 2020.[77]

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External links edit

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January 01, 1970
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WFRV TV channel 5 is a television station in Green Bay Wisconsin United States affiliated with CBS Owned by Nexstar Media Group the station maintains studios on East Mason Street in Green Bay and its transmitter is located north of Morrison Wisconsin WFRV TVGreen Bay WisconsinUnited StatesChannelsDigital 22 UHF Virtual 5BrandingLocal 5ProgrammingAffiliations5 1 CBSfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerNexstar Media Group Nexstar Media Inc Sister stationsWJMN TVHistoryFoundedJanuary 26 1954 1954 01 26 First air dateMay 20 1955 68 years ago 1955 05 20 Former call signsWNAM TV 1954 1955 Former channel number s Analog 42 UHF 1954 1955 5 VHF 1955 2009 Digital 39 UHF until 2019 Former affiliationsABC 1954 1959 1983 1992 NBC 1959 1983 DuMont secondary 1954 1955 Call sign meaning Wonderful Fox River Valley 1 Technical information 2 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID9635ERP1 000 kWHAAT363 9 m 1 194 ft Transmitter coordinates44 20 0 1 N 87 58 55 7 W 44 333361 N 87 982139 W 44 333361 87 982139LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr wearegreenbay wbr com WFRV TV traces its history to WNAM TV a station that broadcast beginning in January 1954 from studios in Neenah Owned by the Neenah Menasha Broadcasting Company it was the only ultra high frequency UHF outlet in northeastern Wisconsin at a time when UHF stations faced severe technical and economic handicaps against very high frequency VHF stations At the end of 1954 WNAM TV suspended operations and merged with the Valley Telecasting Company a consortium of area investors that had obtained the construction permit for channel 5 in Green Bay The new station WFRV TV debuted on May 20 1955 from the former WNAM TV studios in Neenah and was ultimately owned entirely by Neenah Menasha In January 1957 the station opened its present studios in Green Bay Originally an affiliate of the ABC network the station switched to NBC in 1959 From 1960 to 1980 WFRV TV was owned by the Morton and Norton families of Louisville Kentucky under the aegis of what eventually became known as Orion Broadcasting In 1969 the company opened WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba Michigan which served as a semi satellite of WFRV for the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan When Orion Broadcasting and Cosmos Broadcasting merged WFRV and WJMN were divested to Midwest Radio and Television which owned WCCO TV in Minneapolis Midwest switched the station s affiliation back to ABC in 1983 and invested in the news department Midwest was acquired by CBS in 1991 This resulted in another affiliation switch in Green Bay on March 15 1992 with ABC moving to WBAY TV channel 2 CBS continued to own WFRV TV until 2007 when it traded the Green Bay and Escanaba stations to Liberty Media in exchange for shares of its stock Nexstar acquired WFRV and WJMN in 2011 WJMN was given more local news programming that station lost its CBS affiliation in January 2022 WFRV TV s studios continue to house master control and some internal operations for WJMN TV which maintains its own studios sales offices and engineering operations in Marquette 3 Contents 1 History 1 1 WNAM TV and VHF merger 1 2 Orion Broadcasting ownership 1 3 Midwest ownership 1 4 CBS purchase and affiliation switch 1 5 Spinoff to Liberty Media 1 6 WFRV under Nexstar 2 Programming 2 1 News operation 2 2 Sports programming 2 2 1 Notable former on air staff 3 Subchannels 4 References 5 External linksHistory editWNAM TV and VHF merger edit WNAM TV began telecasting from Neenah on ultra high frequency UHF channel 42 on January 26 1954 4 after beginning test transmissions in December 1953 5 Owned by the Neenah Menasha Broadcasting Company alongside radio station WNAM 1280 AM the station carried programming from ABC as well as occasional NBC and DuMont Television Network programs 6 By late 1954 northeastern Wisconsin had one UHF television station WNAM TV and two very high frequency VHF outlets WBAY TV on channel 2 and new sign on WMBV TV on channel 11 The UHF station was struggling WOSH TV of Oshkosh had closed down in March Meanwhile the Federal Communications Commission FCC had awarded the third and final commercial channel for Green Bay channel 5 to the Valley Telecasting Company a consortium of 17 area leaders 7 in 1953 Sensing that the arrival of Valley Telecasting which had selected the call letters WFRV TV for its station to represent the Wonderful Fox River Valley 1 would economically harm its UHF station Neenah Menasha reached a deal in November 8 to merge with Valley and announced it would suspend operations of WNAM TV on the evening of January 2 1955 9 The combined station would retain some operations at Neenah for program production in the Fox Cities but it would use the tower and transmitter building of the former WJPG FM on Scray s Hill near De Pere 8 WFRV TV signed on channel 5 on May 20 1955 after an appeal lodged by WMBV TV to block the merger of Valley Telecasting and Neenah Menasha was declined for the final time the station aired film programming for its first ten days before beginning affiliations with ABC and the DuMont Television Network then on its way out on June 1 10 While the transmitter facility was new WFRV TV used WNAM TV s Neenah studios 10 By 1956 Neenah Menasha owned all of WFRV TV 11 that same year the company announced plans to build a studio base in Green Bay 12 Master control switched to Green Bay in December when a new tower and transmitter building were activated and production from the station s present Mason Street studios began in mid January 1957 13 WFRV TV was the Green Bay station in the short lived Badger Television Network which operated in 1958 and also included Milwaukee s WISN TV and Madison s WKOW TV 14 The next year on February 1 the station changed affiliations from ABC to NBC 15 Later that year the station broadcast what was claimed to be the first ever coverage of a live lunar eclipse a studio camera was wheeled out into the station parking lot 16 Orion Broadcasting ownership edit In December 1960 Valley Telecasting sold WFRV TV to Valley Broadcasting Company a subsidiary of WAVE TV at Louisville Kentucky for 1 09 million 17 WFRV s first attempt at expanding to the Upper Peninsula a construction permit to build channel 8 at Iron Mountain Michigan was scrapped at the company s request days after the sale as was an application by the company to build a channel 9 station at Wausau 18 Channel 5 began to broadcast local programming in color in the fall of 1965 making it the second station behind WBAY TV with that capability in the market 19 Two years later the station began its move to build a satellite in the Upper Peninsula when it filed for channel 3 at Escanaba Michigan on June 20 1967 20 As a result of an attempt by Northern Michigan University to build an educational station on the wider coverage channel 3 instead of the allocated channel 13 it would be nearly two years before a construction permit was granted on April 23 1969 21 From a transmitter site near Trenary WJMN TV so designated in honor of Jane Morton Norton chairman of the board of the company 22 began broadcasting October 7 bringing a full NBC lineup and WFRV TV s signal to a further 50 000 households 23 That same year WAVE Inc renamed itself Orion Broadcasting in reflection of its broadcasting holdings beyond Louisville 24 Midwest ownership edit Orion Broadcasting reached a deal to merge with Cosmos Broadcasting a subsidiary of the Liberty Corporation in 1980 The merger would put the combined company over the limit for the number of VHF television stations it could own prompting it to immediately announce that it would divest WFRV WJMN 25 In January 1981 Cosmos found a buyer Midwest Radio Television owners of WCCO radio and television in Minneapolis 26 The transaction closed in October 27 After taking over Midwest made 1 million in major investments in new equipment including a news helicopter 28 An even larger change was in the offing On October 25 1982 the station announced it would end its 23 year association with NBC and return to the then stronger ABC in 1983 after ABC began courting channel 5 which had been one of NBC s strongest affiliates 29 One potential complication emerged when it was discovered that WFRV s affiliation agreement had just been automatically renewed through February 1985 30 It was not until March 1983 that outgoing ABC outlet WLUK TV and NBC reached an affiliation deal which allowed the switch to take place on April 18 31 CBS purchase and affiliation switch edit On July 23 1991 CBS announced that it would purchase the entirety of Midwest Communications Inc The deal gave the company WCCO radio and television in Minneapolis but it also gave CBS an ABC affiliate WFRV WJMN in a market smaller than any in which the company was operating 32 In the immediate aftermath of the 200 million acquisition the network sent out mixed messages CBS executive Peter Lund said the company had decided to keep the Green Bay station yet an affiliate relations official told longtime CBS affiliate WBAY TV that the network would be interested in remaining there if a buyer were to be found 32 The sale dislodged the existing CBS affiliates in the Green Bay and Marquette markets WBAY TV and WLUC TV The switch in Green Bay took place March 15 1992 just over a month after CBS closed on the Midwest purchase with WBAY becoming the ABC outlet 33 In Marquette where CBS angered WLUC TV by notifying it on February 5 that it was terminating the affiliation agreement in July that station switched to ABC on February 23 prompting WJMN to change to CBS three weeks early and be fed CBS programs from the control room in Green Bay 34 WFRV would be unaffected by the 1995 switch that saw WLUK TV and WGBA TV swap affiliations The station was the first in Green Bay to launch a digital television signal in 2002 16 Spinoff to Liberty Media edit In April 2007 Liberty Media a media company unrelated to The Liberty Corporation and a spin off of former cable television company TCI completed an exchange transaction with CBS Corporation pursuant to which Liberty Media exchanged 7 6 million shares of CBS Class B common stock valued at 239 million for a subsidiary of CBS that held WFRV and WJMN and approximately 170 million in cash 35 As part of the transaction Liberty Media acquired WFRV and WJMN becoming the only over the air television properties to be owned by the company 36 WFRV TV shut down its analog signal over VHF channel 5 on February 17 2009 the original target date on which full power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate which was later pushed back to June 12 2009 37 The station s digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 39 using virtual channel 5 38 WFRV under Nexstar edit On April 7 2011 Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced it would acquire WFRV and WJMN TV from Liberty Media 39 The 20 million deal was approved by the FCC on June 28 2011 40 and closed three days later on July 1 when Nexstar tapped Joseph Denk to become vice president and general manager of both stations 41 Denk replaced Perry Kidder a 37 year employee of the station who announced his retirement shortly after the sale was announced 42 Nexstar also relaunched the station s website at a new domain wearegreenbay com 43 Nexstar also moved to increase the local content of WJMN in the Upper Peninsula A station that had long merely rebroadcast WFRV TV s newscasts or maintained a minimal reporting and weather presence in northern Michigan WJMN launched separate local newscasts at 6 and 11 pm on March 13 2014 44 At that time it branded as Local 3 44 matching WFRV which had taken on the Local 5 moniker in 2012 45 On January 27 2016 Media General announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nexstar 46 47 Because Media General owned WBAY the new company was required to sell that station or WFRV to another owner On June 3 Nexstar announced it had opted to keep WFRV and would sell WBAY along with another merger divestiture KWQC TV in Davenport Iowa to Gray Television for 270 million 48 49 In 2022 WJMN lost its CBS affiliation in the Marquette market to WZMQ channel 19 and replaced the lost CBS programs with programming from MyNetworkTV as well as Nexstar owned diginets Antenna TV and Rewind TV to fill time where CBS programming formerly resided The station also extended its existing 6 p m newscast to one hour and moved its 11 p m newscast to 10 p m 50 51 Programming editNews operation edit nbsp WFRV s primary studios and weather radar in Green Bay nbsp WFRV s Fox Valley Bureau and weather radar WFRV has typically been the second or third rated station for local news in the Green Bay market led by WBAY TV 52 53 54 In the early 1980s WFRV was the first local station to start a full news bureau in the Fox Cities area which at the time accounted for a third of the newsroom budget Where the original news bureau was in the reporter s apartment by 1983 the station had dedicated facilities including a microwave link for sending stories back to Green Bay 55 In 2004 the station moved its Fox Valley facility to a site on Patriot Drive in Little Chute equidistant from downtown Appleton and downtown Green Bay and equipped it with the area s only Doppler weather radar 56 On June 23 2011 after a six month upgrade process WFRV became the first station in the Green Bay market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition the changeover to HD included upgraded weather systems including real time street level radar 57 58 Beginning in September 2012 WFRV would greatly expand its local news output including the addition of an hour long afternoon newscast at 4 p m and the expansion of its 6 p m newscast from 30 minutes to one hour the 6 p m newscast was reduced to 30 minutes during the NFL season on nights when WFRV aired Packers related programming 59 60 The station launched an hour long local mid morning program Local 5 Live in 2013 61 Sports programming edit WFRV has historically been a major producer of programming around the Green Bay Packers In 1988 the station hired former Packers center Larry McCarren to serve as a sportscaster 62 By 1990 McCarren was hosting a weekly program on the team Packers Locker Room 63 McCarren was elevated to sports director when he signed a new long term contract with channel 5 in 1994 this came even as CBS lost NFL rights 64 In 2003 WFRV acquired the rights to preseason telecasts which had belonged locally to WBAY TV for some 40 years McCarren appeared on the telecasts 65 After the Packers left WFRV for a deal with WGBA TV and a renewal with Milwaukee s WTMJ TV in 2012 66 McCarren soon followed he resigned his duties as sports director of WFRV to move to WTMJ WGBA as a Packers analyst becoming WGBA s official sports director on April 1 2013 67 68 McCarren left WGBA in 2015 and became a team employee 69 Notable former on air staff edit Ross Becker reporter in the 1970s 70 Cindy Hsu Fox Valley anchor and reporter 1991 1993 71 Jay Johnson anchor 1980 1986 later of WLUK TV then a U S Congressman and director of the United States Mint 72 Rob Stafford reporter and weekend anchor later of Dateline NBC and WMAQ TV in Chicago 73 Subchannels editThe station s signal is multiplexed Subchannels of WFRV TV 74 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming 5 1 1080i 16 9 WFRV HD Main WFRV TV programming CBS 5 2 480i Bounce Bounce TV 5 3 Justice True Crime Network 5 4 4 3 Rewind Rewind TV 14 2 480i 16 9 Comet Comet WCWF Broadcast on behalf of another station WFRV gradually added several subchannels to its lineup in the 2010s Bounce TV was added in 2016 as part of a group deal made with Katz Broadcasting 75 76 while True Crime Network debuted in April 2020 77 References edit a b It won t be long now Green Bay Press Gazette July 12 1954 p 20 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Facility Technical Data for WFRV TV Licensing and Management System Federal Communications Commission WJMN TV3 Ad Sales Office Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved February 24 2010 WNAM TV to Make Official Bow at Tonight s Premier Oshkosh Daily Northwestern January 26 1954 p 9 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Fox Cities TV Station Gets Rigid Tests Appleton Post Crescent December 10 1953 p 25 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com WNAM TV to Telecast Live ABC Programs Appleton Post Crescent July 17 1954 p 11 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Television An Announcement of Public Interest Green Bay Press Gazette April 23 1952 p 27 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com a b Two Companies Plan Channel 5 TV Here Green Bay Press Gazette November 26 1954 p 1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Ask FCC Approval Of TV Station Merger Appleton Post Crescent December 31 1954 p 13 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com a b Valley TV Station On Air Tonight Green Bay Press Gazette May 20 1955 p 1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Ewing Named Broadcasting Firm President Green Bay Press Gazette August 10 1956 p 3 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com TV Station Here Announces Expansion Plan Green Bay Press Gazette June 8 1956 p 2 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Opening Planned Of New Television Studio Office Green Bay Press Gazette January 10 1957 p 12 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com WKOW 2 Other TV Stations Form Net Wisconsin State Journal Associated Press January 26 1958 p 14 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Channel 5 To Be Affiliate Of NBC Sheboygan Press January 30 1959 p 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com a b Matzek Marybeth May 22 2005 WFRV TV marks 50 years of innovation Appleton Post Crescent p E 3 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Seek Approval For Sale of Bay TV Station Appleton Post Crescent Associated Press December 20 1961 p A6 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com O K Withdrawal of TV Request The Capital Times Associated Press December 29 1960 p 4 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Programs by WFRV WBAY Include Color Appleton Post Crescent September 26 1965 p C 2 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com FCC History Cards for WJMN TV Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original on March 29 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 Trenary Satellite Of WFRV TV Set In Fall Bay NBC Outlet Gets FCC Okay For Channel 3 Escanaba Daily Press April 25 1969 pp 1 14 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com New Television Station Named Escanaba Daily Press July 10 1969 p 6 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Programs Start On Channel 3 Escanaba Daily Press October 7 1969 p 2 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com WAVE Hunts For New Name Chooses Orion The Courier Journal July 23 1969 p B2 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved May 9 2023 via Newspapers com WFRV bought will be resold Appleton Post Crescent June 7 1980 p A 10 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Channel 5 sold to Minneapolis firm Green Bay Press Gazette January 17 1981 p B 8 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com WFRV sold Green Bay Press Gazette October 27 1981 p B 5 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren May 10 1982 Channel 5 gets into helicopter whirl Green Bay Press Gazette p A 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Miner John October 26 1982 ABC to switch from Channel 11 to Channel 5 Appleton Post Crescent p A 8 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren October 26 1983 Channel 5 change complicated Green Bay Press Gazette p B 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren March 15 1983 Channel 11 expects OK from NBC Green Bay Press Gazette p D 4 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com a b Gerds Warren July 25 1991 WBAY waits out question of affiliation Green Bay Press Gazette p 1 B Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren February 6 1992 Get ready to flip channels Green Bay Press Gazette pp A 1 A 2 Archived from the original on March 26 2022 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren February 22 1992 Goodbye then a blitz of snow at Channel 32 Green Bay Press Gazette p D 1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved November 20 2020 via Newspapers com CBS Corporation and Liberty Media Corporation Complete Exchange Agreement April 18 2007 Archived from the original on May 1 2007 Retrieved April 11 2007 Gerds Warren Ash Jeff February 14 2007 WFRV Channel 5 Escanaba station dealt to Liberty Media Green Bay Press Gazette p B 1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com List of TV stations ending analog broadcasts NBC News Associated Press February 17 2009 Archived from the original on January 6 2023 Retrieved March 20 2023 DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds PDF Federal Communications Commission May 23 2006 Archived from the original PDF on August 29 2013 Retrieved August 29 2021 Nexstar to Acquire CBS Affiliates WFRV WJMN for 20 Mil Broadcasting amp Cable July 4 2011 Archived from the original on September 25 2013 Retrieved April 8 2011 Kreisman Barbara A June 28 2011 Re WFRV TV Green Bay WI ID No 9635 Application for Assignment of License File No BALCT 20110407ACF et al PDF Federal Communications Commission Archived from the original PDF on March 14 2012 Retrieved June 29 2011 Nexstar Closes 2 Station Buy Denk New GM TVNewsCheck July 1 2011 WFRV WJMN s Perry Kidder Calling It Quits TVNewsCheck May 20 2011 WFRV WJMN under new ownership WFRV July 1 2011 Archived from the original on November 17 2011 a b WJMN To Introduce Local News Go HD TVNewsCheck March 13 2014 Archived from the original on March 13 2014 Retrieved March 13 2014 Gerds Warren September 9 2012 WFRV ups ante on newscasts Green Bay Press Gazette p D10 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Nexstar Media General It s A Done Deal TVNewsCheck Archived from the original on October 17 2016 Retrieved January 27 2016 Picker Leslie January 27 2016 Nexstar Clinches Deal to Acquire Media General The New York Times Archived from the original on October 9 2016 Retrieved January 27 2016 Gray Buying Two Nexstar Spinoffs For 270M TVNewsCheck June 3 2016 Archived from the original on August 6 2017 Retrieved June 4 2016 Marszalek Diana June 3 2016 Gray Buys Nexstar Stations in Green Bay Davenport Broadcasting amp Cable NewBay Media LLC Archived from the original on June 5 2016 Retrieved June 18 2016 WJMN Local 3 becomes independent news station UPMatters com January 20 2022 Archived from the original on January 20 2022 Retrieved January 21 2022 WZMQ Becomes Marquette Michigan s New CBS Affiliate WZMQ January 20 2022 Archived from the original on January 21 2022 Retrieved January 21 2022 Gerds Warren December 22 1984 Diary keeper right about football Green Bay Press Gazette p A 11 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren March 31 1996 Channel 11 optimistic but still lagging Green Bay Press Gazette p D 1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren September 3 2007 TV people with local ties make news Green Bay Press Gazette p D 1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Richards Tom October 7 1983 Channel 5 at home in the Valley The Post Crescent p A 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Stein Avi May 16 2004 WFRV plans Doppler studio in Little Chute Green Bay Press Gazette p B 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com WFRV Broadcasting Local News In HD TVNewsCheck June 24 2011 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Channel 5 launches HD Behind the scenes Archived from the original on September 17 2012 Retrieved June 24 2011 Gerds Warren September 10 2012 Now ex county board member Schuller anchors new show Green Bay Press Gazette p C6 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com WFRV Hires ND Expands News Programming TVNewsCheck September 17 2012 Archived from the original on December 8 2012 Didya know Malak returns to mornings on WFRV Green Bay Press Gazette September 1 2013 p D1 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com McCarren hired as sportscaster Green Bay Press Gazette March 2 1988 p C 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren April 21 1991 Packers take fresh look at TV deals Green Bay Press Gazette p C 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com McCarren gets long term contract at Channel 5 Green Bay Press Gazette April 29 1994 p D 2 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Gerds Warren February 11 2003 Preseason TV games on move Green Bay Press Gazette pp C 1 C 3 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Wolfley Bob March 2 2012 Packers and Journal Broadcast Group announce partnership deal Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Archived from the original on March 5 2012 Retrieved March 3 2012 Gerds Warren March 28 2012 McCarren will leave WFRV no plans announced Green Bay Press Gazette pp A 1 A 2 Archived from the original on July 24 2023 Retrieved July 24 2023 via Newspapers com Kirchen Rich March 18 2013 McCarren will return to anchoring sports on Green Bay TV Milwaukee Business Journal Archived from the original on August 6 2016 Retrieved October 8 2023 Larry McCarren joins Packers Media Group as sports analyst Green Bay Packers April 9 2015 Archived from the original on July 24 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 Brumleve Jane June 25 1978 Letters 13 News Crew Popular The Indianapolis Star p TV Week 2 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Cindy Hsu makes big career move The Post Crescent June 3 1993 p B 7 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Ryman Richard October 19 2009 Former congressman Green Bay TV news anchor dies Jay Johnson spent 32 years working in journalism Green Bay Press Gazette p A 3 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com Gerd Warren August 3 2009 Fall start for FM news talk station Green Bay Press Gazette p A 3 Archived from the original on October 8 2023 Retrieved October 8 2023 via Newspapers com RabbitEars TV Query for WFRV RabbitEars Archived from the original on March 3 2016 Retrieved September 18 2013 WFRV Adding Bounce TV To Its Multicast Lineup TVNewsCheck August 30 2016 Archived from the original on January 21 2019 Retrieved March 3 2017 Lafayette John June 16 2016 Bounce TV Grit Escape Laff Multicast Deal Covers 81 Stations 54 Markets Broadcasting and Cable Archived from the original on June 18 2016 Retrieved June 19 2016 WFRV debuts channel 5 3 viewers may need to rescan WFRV April 24 2020 Archived from the original on April 26 2020 Retrieved April 25 2020 External links editOfficial website nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title WFRV TV amp oldid 1221892230, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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