WWJ-TV
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Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| Branding | CBS 62 (general) First Forecast (weathercasts) |
| Slogan |
WWJ-TV Detroit (general) Weather, Without the Wait (weathercasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 62 () |
| Subchannels | 62.1 CBS 62.2 Decades |
| Affiliations | CBS (O&O) |
| Owner |
CBS Corporation (CBS Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 29, 1975 |
| Call letters' meaning | derived from sister station WWJ radio |
| Sister station(s) | WDZH, WKBD-TV, WOMC, WWJ, WXYT, WXYT-FM, WYCD |
| Former callsigns | WGPR-TV (1975–1995) |
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| Former affiliations | Independent (1975–1994) |
| Transmitter power | 425 kW |
| Height | 323 m (1,060 ft) |
| Facility ID | 72123 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°26′52.5″N 83°10′23″W / 42.447917°N 83.17306°WCoordinates: 42°26′52.5″N 83°10′23″W / 42.447917°N 83.17306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | detroit |
WWJ-TV, channel 62, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CW owned-and-operated station WKBD-TV (channel 50). The two stations share studio facilities in the Detroit suburb of Southfield; WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park, Michigan.
The station is carried on several Canadian cable providers, predominately in the province of Ontario, and is one of five local Detroit television stations seen in Canada on satellite provider Shaw Direct.
WWJ was notable for its brief weather forecast at 11 pm, which begun with the meteorologist saying "Two and a Half Men, starts in two and a half minutes." However, WWJ has since dropped Two and a Half Men; it has been replaced by reruns of The Big Bang Theory. At one point, viewers were invited to submit videos of themselves saying the phrase, which were then played in a montage before each forecast.
The station first signed on the air on September 29, 1975, as WGPR-TV (the callsign standing for "Where God's Presence Radiates"). The station was originally owned by WGPR Incorporated, formed by the Detroit-based International Free and Accepted Modern Masons. WGPR was the first wholly African American-owned television station in the United States, and was marketed towards Detroit's urban audience. At the time, WGPR's emergence was hailed as an advance for African-American enterprise, with the "color line" having been broken by the station's establishment. Station president William V. Banks, together with Jim Panagos and George White, sales and programming managers respectively of co-owned WGPR radio (107.5 FM), were the management team at the station's outset. Prior to WGPR-TV's sign-on, the channel 62 frequency had been used by WXON (now WMYD channel 20), which had originally broadcast on that channel when it signed on in 1968 before moving to channel 20 in 1972.
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