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A Tumultuous Year For Turnover In Detroit TV
I know we have a lot of Windsor & London area members here and they may be interested in this story from the Detroit Free Press, reviewing a remarkable year of change in Motown media.
Detroit said so long to some old friends in 2024 as TV news stars retired or moved on
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Most of the changes were at NBC affiliate WDIV, which I believe is the highest rated local news outlet in Metro Detroit. They packaged out or retired most of their senior on air staff, many of them are featured in the article. A lot of talk about WWJ CBS Detroit and their news. This is the station that had no local newscasts for over 20 years. The owned and operated CBS affiliate brought back local news about two years ago. Apparently the ratings have been very poor in a extremely competitive local news market..
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When my parents were alive they had a Shaw satellite dish and received their U.S. network feeds from Detroit and Spokane. I could never understand why in a city the size of Detroit, the CBS affilliate had no local news at Noon, 6pm and 11pm. I am not overly familiar with the Detroit television market but I am sure when CBS was on WJBK ch 2 there were local newscasts. Perhaps things changed in 1993 when FOX was awarded the rights to all NFC NFL games and WJBK became the local FOX affilliate. This left CBS scrambling to find a source in Detroit to air their programming. The best they could do was a much weaker signalled WWJ ch 62.