WEEK-TV
  
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Peoria/Bloomington/ Normal, Illinois United States |
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| Branding | WEEK 25 (general) HOI ABC (on DT2) CW 4 (on DT3) 25 News (newscasts on DT1) HOI News (newscasts on DT2) |
| Slogan |
Hello, Illinois! Your Home Team |
| Channels |
Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 25 () |
| Subchannels | 25.1 NBC 25.2 ABC 25.3 CW+ |
| Owner |
Quincy Media (WEEK License, LLC) |
| First air date | February 1, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Derived from former sister station WEEK-AM (now WOAM) |
| Former channel number(s) | 43 (UHF analog, 1953–1964) 25 (UHF analog, 1964–2009) 57 (UHF digital, 2003–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NBC Weather Plus AccuWeather all on DT2 |
| Transmitter power | 246 kW |
| Height | 211.6 m (694 feet) |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 24801 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°37′46.3″N 89°32′52.5″W / 40.629528°N 89.547917°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WEEK-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for North-Central Illinois that is licensed to Peoria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 25 from a transmitter at its studios on Springfield Road (along I-474) in East Peoria, a section of Groveland Township. Owned and operated by Quincy Media, it formerly operated and shared its facility with WHOI (owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group) through joint sales and shared services agreements until the agreement was terminated on October 1, 2016 and WEEK took over its ABC and CW affiliations permanently on its second and third digital subchannels.
WEEK-TV signed-on February 1, 1953 transmitting an analog signal on UHF channel 43. It has always been an NBC affiliate. It was owned-and-operated by the Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Publishing Company along with WEEK radio (1350 AM now WOAM) through its broadcasting subsidiary, West Central Broadcasting Company. Edward K. Gaylord was President, and the chairman of the board was United States Senator Robert S. Kerr (and former governor of Oklahoma and half of the Kerr-McGee Corporation). The original Chief Engineer of WEEK-AM-TV was Wayne Lovely, who supervised the construction of the stations' technical facilities and equipment installation in 1953 (he would remain employed by WEEK-TV until 1974).
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