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WILX-TV
CityOnondaga, Michigan
Channels
BrandingWILX 10; News 10
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
March 15, 1959
(65 years ago) (1959-03-15)
Former call signs
WMSB (shared operation, 1959–1972)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 10 (VHF, 1959–2009)
  • Digital: 57 (UHF, until 2009)
  • NET (1959–1970, shared with WMSB)
  • PBS (1970–1972, shared with WMSB)
Call sign meaning
Derived from WILS radio and television
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID6863
ERP30 kW
HAAT298.5 m (979 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°26′33″N 84°34′21″W / 42.44250°N 84.57250°W / 42.44250; -84.57250
Translator(s)WLNM-LD 29.1 Lansing
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wilx.com

WILX-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Onondaga, Michigan, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Lansing area. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on American Road (near I-96) in Lansing, and its transmitter is located in Onondaga.

WLNM-LD (channel 29) in Lansing operates as a translator of WILX-TV, allowing homes with issues receiving WILX-TV's VHF signal or only a UHF antenna to receive WILX-TV in some form.

Allocation and construction of channel 10

In 1953, two companies—Sparton Broadcasting and the Jackson Broadcasting and Telecasting Corporation—requested that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assign channel 10 to Parma, Michigan, while a third—Triad Association—requested its assignment to the nearby community of Onondaga,[2] south of Lansing.[3] The commission made the assignment to Parma and Onondaga in January 1954, denying a competing bid to place channel 10 at Coldwater, Michigan.[4] The location was necessary to avoid spacing concerns to stations at Milwaukee; Columbus, Ohio; and London, Ontario.[5]

With the assignment in place, the FCC took applications for channel 10. Jackson radio station WIBM, Triad,[6] and Booth Radio and Television Stations all applied.[7] The fourth bid came from the Television Corporation of Michigan (TCM), a firm linked to Lansing radio station WILS. At the time, WILS was operating WILS-TV (channel 54), an early ultra high frequency (UHF) station.[8] The fifth and final applicant for channel 10 was Michigan State College, which sought approval to build a commercial station. The college was already experienced in educational television. It owned the Lansing area's other UHF television station, WKAR-TV (channel 60).[9]

In September 1954, TCM and Michigan State College combined their bids after the former company made a proposal.[10] Under the new proposal, the college would build the facility and lease it to Television Corporation of Michigan. The two groups, each with separate licenses, would broadcast at different times each day; the Michigan State station would be on air 38 hours a week, only slightly less than WKAR-TV was operating. The proposal came at a time when both groups were disappointed by their UHF television stations in Lansing. WILS was selling channel 54, while Michigan State on channel 60 was finding that set owners were not converting to view UHF stations at the rate they had hoped, crimping the effectiveness of its station.[5] In 1955, Armand L. Hunter, the director of educational television at Michigan State College, noted that the existing operation of channel 60 did not justify the $300,000 annual expense to operate it.[10] The college's entrance into the channel 10 proposal led to some concern by state legislators that Michigan State was entering into competition with private broadcasters;[11] college officials stated that the station would not be built with tax dollars and that the university would recoup its investment in the form of lease payments to Television Corporation of Michigan.[12]

FCC hearings in the long-running case concluded in October 1956.[13] Hearing examiner Annie Neal Huntting handed down her initial decision on March 7, 1957. It favored the joint bid of Michigan State University (MSU)[a] and the Television Corporation of Michigan.[15] The losing applicants mounted nearly two years of appeals to the FCC and Michigan courts. The matter was heard by the commission in April 1958;[3] Booth, Triad, and Jackson Broadcasting and Telecasting argued the proposed station would feature a "mish-mash" of cultural and commercial programs, citing the scheduling of programming on world philosophy next to The Lone Ranger.[16]

In May 1958, the FCC denied the appeals and awarded a tentative construction permit to Michigan State University for the construction of the channel 10 facility.[17] With this tentative approval in hand, MSU shut down WKAR-TV on channel 60 the next month, with president John A. Hannah announcing the university would not return to the air until channel 10 was completed.[18][19] MSU received formal FCC approval for channel 10 after a split commission decision on September 3.[20] The university signaled it would be able to provide educational television programs in a much wider area from channel 10 than it had from channel 60.[21] The companies initially planned to telecast under the call letters they had used on the UHF band—WILS-TV and WKAR-TV[22]—but the FCC assigned them the call signs WFTV and WMSB, respectively.[23] The WFTV designation was quickly changed to WILX-TV.[24]

The university swung into the process of taking bids for construction.[25] Its progress was soon halted by continued appeals from the losers, this time in Michigan courts. Acting on a petition from the Jackson Broadcasting and Telecasting Corporation, a circuit judge in Jackson enjoined MSU from awarding construction contracts in late October.[26] The Jackson firm's petition contended that the MSU plan to issue revenue bonds to finance construction and pay them back with the proceeds from the lease to Television Corporation of Michigan violated the Michigan state constitution and a condition on legislative appropriations to the university.[27] MSU emerged victorious when the circuit judge lifted his temporary restraining order,[28] and the FCC denied last appeals made by Jackson Broadcasting and Telecasting.[29][30] During construction, on January 9, 1959, a 28-year-old tower worker from Decatur, Illinois, fell 450 feet (140 m) to his death when rigging gave way.[31]

The shared-time years

Channel 10 debuted on March 15, 1959. WMSB was the first station to greet viewers with a dedication program from its East Lansing studios, but high winds caused the microwave link to be unreliable and the picture to be described as "jumpy" by the Jackson Citizen Patriot. Later that afternoon, after a 90-minute outage when wind knocked down a power line, WILX-TV made its debut from its studio in Jackson,[32][33] inside the former coffee shop of the Hotel Hayes.[34][35] WILX-TV also had a studio in Battle Creek.[36] The station was an NBC affiliate, with a schedule incorporating 30 network programs not previously seen in the Lansing area.[37] In June, the station opened its second local studio, in Battle Creek's Wolverine Tower.[38] The final appeal by Jackson Broadcasting and Telecasting against the channel 10 arrangement was dismissed by the Michigan Supreme Court in 1960.[39]

WILX received FCC approval to build a new radio station in Jackson, which began broadcasting as WJCO (1510 AM) on January 19, 1963.[40] The new radio station briefly shared channel 10's facility in the Hotel Hayes. That May, Television Corporation of Michigan broke ground on a studio complex on Springport Road in Blackman Township, to which WILX-TV moved that October.[41][42] The original broadcasting schedule between the stations was modified in 1965 to permit WILX-TV to air The Huntley-Brinkley Report while granting WMSB additional time on Sundays and Mondays.[43]

In 1968, Michigan State University and WMSB each experienced a change in leadership. Robert Page became the university station's new manager shortly before Clifton R. Wharton Jr. was named MSU's new president. By that time, circumstances in public broadcasting and UHF reception had changed. There was more programming available to public TV stations in the wake of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, while the All-Channel Receiver Act meant that all new TV sets could receive UHF stations. WMSB, barred from most evening broadcasting in its shared-time arrangement, could not reach a family audience; its early evening window, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., attracted few viewers against newscasts on competing stations. Page began to lobby Wharton and the MSU administration to return the university's broadcasting to full-time status.[44] The university filed for channel 23 in East Lansing in November 1970,[45] and the FCC approved in 1971 after the university received a federal grant. MSU agreed to sell the channel 10 physical plant at Onondaga to Television Corporation of Michigan for $1.7 million, funding the university would use for capital improvements to its television facilities.[46] On September 10, 1972, WMSB and the revived WKAR-TV broadcast 23 This Way, a special celebrating the opening of the new educational station.[47]

A-T-O and Adams ownership

Television Corporation of Michigan opted to sell its broadcast properties to separate buyers in 1978. WILX-TV was sold for $12 million to A-T-O Communications, a Los Angeles–based subsidiary of A-T-O Inc. in Willoughby, Ohio.[48] The subsidiary had been formed the year prior and given $30 million to buy broadcast stations.[49] A-T-O renamed itself Figgie International in 1981 because of confusion with French company ATO Chimie and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity,[50] and A-T-O Communications became Figgie Communications.[51]

Figgie never acquired any other broadcast stations,[51] and it sold the station in 1983 to Stephen Adams of Minneapolis. In approving the transaction, the FCC rejected petitions from the Jackson city council and new Lansing independent station WFSL.[52] The petitions concerned the relocation of the station's primary facilities from Jackson to Lansing. A clause in the sale agreement to Adams stipulated that the company build a new studio and office building in Lansing within two years. By that time, the station had long sought to move to Lansing and maintained most of its news staff there.[53]

Brissette, Benedek, and Gray ownership

The station went through two more ownership changes: Brissette Broadcasting in 1991, and finally Benedek Broadcasting in 1996 before it was acquired by current owner Gray Television. Benedek filed for bankruptcy in March 2002. In April 2002, Gray Communications indicated that they would acquire Benedek's assets. FCC granted approval of WILX transfer to Gray on August 29, 2002.[54]

WILX-TV affiliated a subchannel with The Local AccuWeather Channel in late 2006.[55] Construction permit for permanent digital equipment is granted in April 2008, and its digital signal was broadcast on channel 57.[54]

On February 14, 2020, Tri-State Christian Television agreed to sell WLNM-LD to Gray for $175,000;[56] the sale, which was completed on May 1,[57] includes a lease agreement allowing TCT to program a WLNM subchannel for five years after closing.[58][59]

Programming

News operation

As of 2021, WILX currently broadcasts 30+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5+1⁄2 hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).

WILX broadcasts news on weekdays from 5 to 7 a.m., a half hour midday newscast at 11 a.m., and in the afternoon at 4, 5 and 6 p.m. with an evening broadcast at 11 p.m.[60] Weekends from 6-8 a.m. on weekend mornings, and 6 and 11 p.m. weekend evenings.

For many years, WILX's main studios were on Springport Road in Jackson while it operated a newsroom in Downtown Lansing. In the early 1960s, it maintained one-camera studios in Battle Creek and Lansing, which originated two-minute local news segments from those cities during the late evening news broadcasts. In the early-1990s under the ownership of Brissette Broadcasting, the station's operations were consolidated into its current studio complex in Lansing on American Road.

For most of its history, WILX was a distant runner-up to long-dominant WLNS-TV in the local Nielsen ratings. Sometime in the early-2000s, however, channel 10 overtook WLNS for the first time ever and has maintained a narrow if consistent lead since.

Its weekday morning show News 10 Today was launched in 1990 as a local news segment during Today eventually expanding to the current two-and-a-half-hour-long broadcast. Since its weekday noon show was canceled in the late-1990s, the station has not offered a newscast during the midday hours unlike most other NBC affiliates until September 2021 when WILX started a midday newscast at 11 a.m.

In 2004, WILX entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliate WSYM-TV (then owned by Journal Communications). This came about after that channel shut down its news department due to financial reasons. Under the arrangement, WILX produces newscasts for WSYM weeknights at 6:30 (for a half-hour) and every night at 10 (for an hour). In October 2015, WILX began producing a two-hour morning show on WSYM titled Fox 47 Morning News at 7. Prior to this newscast's launch, on weekday mornings at 9, the previous late-night's prime time show was replayed on WSYM under the title Fox 47 Morning News Rewind. The weekend version of the Morning News Rewind continues to air at 6 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Although the two share most personnel, WILX and WSYM maintain separate weeknight anchors and meteorologists. On occasion such as severe weather, WSYM may carry the primary feed from WILX where its meteorologists appear on the other. This channel operates its own weather radar known as "Pinpoint Doppler Radar" at its studios.

On July 7, 2014, WILX launched the first 4 p.m. newscast in the Lansing–Jackson market, titled First@4. On October 1, 2018, WILX added a 5:30 p.m. newscast. At the same time, the station cancelled its 4 p.m. newscast. As a result, the station broadcasts news for 90 minutes straight, with newscasts at 5, 5:3 and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Also on that date, the 5:30 newscast that WILX had been producing on WSYM moved to 6:30 p.m.

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WILX-TV[61]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
10.1 1080i 16:9 WILX-DT Main WILX-TV programming / NBC
10.2 480i MeTV MeTV
10.3 CIRCLE Heroes & Icons
10.4 ION Ion Television
10.5 ATV The365
10.6 CRIME True Crime Network
10.7 H&I Outlaw

Analog-to-digital conversion

WILX-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, 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).[62] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 10.[63]

Notes

  1. ^ Michigan State College was renamed Michigan State University (MSU) by a bill signed into law on April 21, 1955, and effective that July 1.[14]

References

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  11. ^ "Probe of College TV Aims Slated". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. March 18, 1955. p. 3. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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  22. ^ "New Dual TV Station To Beam on Area". The Enquirer and News. Battle Creek, Michigan. September 5, 1958. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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  28. ^ "Work Set On Station". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. November 13, 1958. p. 15. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ "MSU Wins Again in TV Hassle". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. November 20, 1958. p. 2. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ "TV Delay Plea Lost". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. Associated Press. December 18, 1958. p. 1. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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  33. ^ "Channel 10 Dedicated: University-Commercial Station Is the First Of Type in Nation". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. March 16, 1959. p. 12. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ^ "TV Station Rents Space In Hayes". Jackson Citizen Patriot. November 4, 1958. p. 5.
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  39. ^ "M.S.U.-WILX: Joint TV Use Upheld". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. July 12, 1960. p. 21. Retrieved January 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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  41. ^ "TV, Radio Project Launched". Jackson Citizen Patriot. May 8, 1963. p. 36.
  42. ^ "TV Station Moving Soon To New Broadcast Center". Jackson Citizen Patriot. September 30, 1963. p. 5.
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  57. ^ Consummation Notice
  58. ^ Digital Sub-Channel Lease Agreement
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