WNEM-TV
 
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Bay City / Saginaw / Flint, Michigan United States |
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| Branding |
.1: TV 5 .2: My 5 |
| Slogan | Coverage you can count on |
| Channels |
Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP) |
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| Owner | Meredith Corporation |
| First air date | February 16, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | NorthEastern Michigan Corporation |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 275.3 metres (903 ft) |
| Facility ID | 41221 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°28′14.6″N 83°50′35.6″W / 43.470722°N 83.843222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wnem |
WNEM-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. It is licensed to Bay City, and broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (PSIP virtual channel 5). Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station has studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, as well as a second newsroom in downtown Flint. Its 1,000-kilowatt, 275.3-metre-high (903 ft) transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw. On cable, the station is carried on channel 5 on most systems, except on Charter Spectrum, where it is carried on channel 7.
The station also operates the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate, "My5", on a second digital subchannel. WNEM-TV is the only station in the Flint/Tri-Cities market headquartered in the city of Saginaw, and in turn focuses its local news stories on Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, with a secondary focus on Flint.
WNEM-TV was founded by the NorthEastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on February 16, 1954 as a NBC affiliate. Originally, its main studios were located on rented space at Bishop International Airport in Flint with auxiliary studios in its city of license, Bay City. In the 1960s, it moved its main studios to the transmitter site in Indiantown, after flirting with the idea of co-locating the television station on the WSAM tower in Saginaw. During its first four years, WNEM-TV had a secondary affiliation with ABC sharing programming from that network with WKNX-TV (channel 57, now WEYI-TV channel 25) until 1958 when WJRT-TV signed-on and took that affiliation. WNEM-TV also aired programming from DuMont until that network dissolved.
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