When my parents had their Starchoice dish, they had access to Detroit and Spokane for their U.S. network feeds. I could never understand why WWJ, the CBS affilliate had no local newscasts. Could it have had something to do with CBS losing the NFL broadcast rights to FOX in 1993? I know shortly after that WJBK became the FOX affilliate and CBS was left scrambling to find an affilliate for the Motor City. They ended up settling for a much weaker signalled ch 62.

Having grown up in London, Detroit news was a mainstay with their anchors such as Bill, Jack Legoff and John Kelly before he moved to a daytime talk show. If memory serves correct, Bill also had a stint doing ABC network news for a brief time - I believe it was on weekends.