[3] WISH-TV originally transmitted its signal from a tower it shared with WISH radio; the following year, the station constructed a 1,000-foot (305 m) transmitter tower, which allowed the station to improve its signal coverage in the market. More Weather . To make it even more frustrating, the “Report It” feature NEVER WORKS!
LIN later acquired low-power independent station W11BV (channel 11, now WIIH-CD channel 17) in 1992.

WOOD TV8 and Storm Team 8 are the local source for weather and live Doppler radar in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Muskegon and West Michigan. Bright House Networks, one of two major cable providers serving Indianapolis, negotiates retransmission consent contracts through Time Warner Cable. [41], After losing CBS, WISH gradually cobbled together agreements to restore sports events onto the station's schedule in order to make up for both the loss of sports coverage provided by CBS as well as the absence of such content from The CW's schedule. In its later years as a CBS affiliate, WISH-TV aired most Indianapolis Colts regular season games as well as any playoff games involving the team through CBS, via the network's broadcast rights to the NFL's American Football Conference.

Find 5 listings related to Wood Tv 8 Radar in Grand Rapids on YP.com. [51][52] The weekend 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts were also shortened to a half-hour, with the Sports Locker being moved to bookending the latter and the 11:00 p.m. news on Sunday nights, and a new sports program (Indy Sports Tonight) taking up 15 minutes of the 11:00 p.m. news. The best part of this app is the radar. Conversely that same year, WISH-TV lost the ABC affiliation to WTTV; this resulted in WLBC-TV, channel 49 in Muncie (whose allocation is now occupied by PBS member station WIPB) serving as the de facto ABC affiliate for the northern part of the market as WTTV's signal did not extend very far north outside of Indianapolis's northern suburbs as its transmitter was located farther south than the market's other stations. We expect the site to be down for approximately minutes. YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. Unlike other weather apps, you'll get a local forecast that is customized for you.Download the Storm Team 8 app for fast, accurate local and national weather at your fingertips.

Never let the weather catch you by surprise again. On September 9, 2013, WISH-TV added a half-hour to its weekday morning newscast at 4:30 a.m., becoming the last English-language news-producing station in the market to expand its morning newscast to a pre-5 a.m. timeslot (WTHR had an eight-year head start, expanding its morning newscast into the 4:30 slot in 2005; that station was later joined by WXIN in 2009 and WRTV in 2010. The station's ratings success was largely attributed to the longevity of most of its news staff, some of whom have been at the station for over 20 years.

Then, set customized alerts to keep you and your family informed and safe.Features:- Live interactive radar with many layering options lets you track the storms around you- Alerts for severe weather go to your home screen and cue an audio alert- The most accurate hour-by-hour forecast for the next day and week ahead for West Michigan- The latest video forecast from Storm Team 8- Current weather conditions for West Michigan and anywhere in the United States- Share the weather conditions via text message, email, Facebook or Twitter- You can set multiple custom locations to track forecasts, alerts, radar, and more- Closings and delays for West Michigan, including Grand Rapids, Holland, Muskegon, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek- Weather blog from Bill's Blog- News and weather headlines from WOOD TV8- Live streaming video from WOOD TV8. With its personal alert notifications, you'll know when significant weather is heading your way and when to take cover. Requires iOS 12.0 or later. In 1963, WISH-TV became the first television station in the market to provide extensive live coverage of a major local news event, when it covered the deadly explosion at the Fairgrounds Coliseum. Most existing newscasts were retained, though the 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. newscasts it produced for WNDY moved to channel 8 (the former of which is part of an expansion of Daybreak that extended the weekday edition of the program by two hours and the weekend editions by one), while the noon newscast expanded to one hour and a 6:30 p.m. newscast on weeknights was added. [1][40] The sale was completed on September 19, 2019.

The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WISH-TV originally launched digital subchannel 8.2 in 2005 as an over-the-air feed of its 24-hour weather service, LWS (or "Local Weather Station"); formatted similarly to the now-defunct SkyTrak Weather Network service previously operated by WTHR and its low-power sister station WALV-CD (channel 46), the service also began to be simulcast on low-power sister station WIIH-CA on January 1, 2009, after that station lost its Univision affiliation; WIIH-CA dropped the service when it was converted into a fill-in translator of WISH-TV in January 2011.
The station continues to utilize the format to this day (which is reinforced in the branding that the station has used for its news programming off-and-on since 1990, 24-Hour News 8, and all but one of the varying news slogans it had used from 1990 to 2014), even as stations elsewhere had discontinued the hourly update format by the early 2000s. On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would buy LIN Media in a $1.6 billion deal, described as a "merger. WISH-TV, virtual channel 8 (VHF digital channel 9), is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.The station is owned by Circle City Broadcasting, as part of a duopoly with Marion-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WNDY-TV (channel 23); it is also sister to Indianapolis-licensed low-powered, Class A getTV affiliate WIIH-CD (channel 17). Give Local. The station's "I-Team 8" investigative reports have earned the station numerous journalism awards, including Regional Emmy, Peabody[49] and Edward R. Murrow Awards (the station was awarded the latter in 1998 and 2006). Due to FCC ownership rules, Nexstar could not retain both duopolies. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. Debby Knox joined Ahern as co-anchor on the weeknight newscasts in 1980 and remained with the station until she retired on November 26, 2013. The deal for carriage of the games in Indianapolis was required after Tribune Broadcasting discontinued airing sports events involving Chicago-area teams over its WGN America cable channel at the end of 2014. It’s difficult to work around the ads and there are too many popping up. As the other major broadcast networks had existing affiliation deals with other area stations (WRTV's ABC affiliation was up for renewal around this time, though the E. W. Scripps Company reached a deal to allow WRTV and nine of the company's other stations to remain with ABC the day prior to the announcement[19]), WISH announced on December 11, 2014 that it would become an independent station upon losing CBS, filling timeslots previously occupied by network shows with additional newscasts and an expanded inventory of syndicated talk shows, newsmagazines and sitcoms,[20] including some shows relocated from sister station WNDY-TV to make up for the loss of CBS daytime and late-night programs on channel 8's schedule and a national news program from TouchVision (the latter of which was later replaced with an additional half-hour of the station's morning newscast, 24-Hour News 8's Daybreak, on July 13, 2015) to serve as a replacement for the CBS Morning News.

Forecast / 1 hour ago. In 1995, WISH-TV relocated its transmitter to a new tower built in the Augusta section of Indianapolis. By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent to our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. Weather Tools. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Live Local. Ok I Agree Learn More. It would also be nice to have the same forecasts align with the Wood TV8 app. LIN TV requested compensation for carriage of its stations in a manner similar to the deals that cable networks have with pay television providers, as other broadcast station owners began to seek compensation from cable and satellite providers for their programming. The new owners persuaded CBS to move its programming to channel 8,[3] taking that affiliation from WFBM. In 2002, WISH-TV began handling the master control operations of WANE-TV and fellow sister station WLFI-TV in Lafayette. Unlike other weather apps, you'll get a local forecast that is customized for you. [8] By 12:35 a.m. on October 3, LIN's television stations were replaced on Time Warner Cable systems in markets where the group owns stations and where either provider operates systems with programming from other cable channels. Bill’s Blog is unreadable because the Continue Reading touch bar doesn’t give you the rest of the text but instead just reloads the page. With its easy-to-use interactive radar, you can take control and see where the storm is now and where it is tracking. Create New Collection. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.


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