WFRV
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Green Bay, Wisconsin United States |
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| Branding | Local 5 (general) Local 5 News HD (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Keeping It Local |
| Channels |
Digital: 39 (UHF) (to move to 22 (UHF)) Virtual: 5 () |
| Affiliations | 5.1 CBS 5.2 Bounce TV |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 10, 1953 (as WNAM-TV) June 1, 1955 (as WFRV) |
| Call letters' meaning | Wisconsin's Fox River Valley |
| Sister station(s) | WJMN-TV, WLAX / WEUX |
| Former callsigns | WNAM-TV (1953–1955) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 364 m (1,194 ft) |
| Facility ID | 9635 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°20′1″N 87°58′56″W / 44.33361°N 87.98222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WFRV-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 39), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group. WFRV's studios are located on East Mason Street in the City of Green Bay, and its transmitter is located north of Morrison. On cable, WFRV is available on Charter Spectrum channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 1006.
WFRV also operates semi-satellite WJMN-TV (virtual channel 3, UHF digital channel 48), which is licensed to Escanaba, Michigan and covers the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. WFRV/WJMN's master control and all internal operations for both stations originate from WFRV's Green Bay facilities; WJMN does maintain an engineering operation and an advertising sales office in Marquette.
The station signed on the air on December 10, 1953, as ABC affiliate WNAM-TV, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 42 from Neenah and serving as sister to the radio station with the same call sign. By the late 1950s, the station had moved its city of license to Green Bay, operating from studios in Little Chute. On June 1, 1955, after a few months of inactivity, the station would also change its frequency to VHF channel 5, its callsign to WFRV, and, in 1959, network affiliation to NBC (in 1958, the station was also part of the short-lived Badger Television Network alongside Milwaukee's WISN-TV and Madison's WKOW-TV). WFRV's early claims to fame included being the first television station in Northeastern Wisconsin to broadcast in color in 1958 (doing so after joining NBC), the first station to cover a live lunar eclipse in 1959 (a studio camera was wheeled to the station parking lot and aimed at the moon), and Green Bay's first color local news broadcasts (beginning in 1965).
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