WFRV-TV

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WFRV-TV & WJMN-TV
WFRV: Green Bay, Wisconsin WJMN: Escanaba, Michigan
Branding	CBS 5 and CBS 3
Slogan	Working For You
Channels	5, 3 (VHF) analog, 39, 48 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS (since 1992)
Owner	CBS Corporation
Founded	WFRV: May 20, 1955 WJMN: 1970
Call letters meaning	Wisconsin's Fox River Valley W-Jane Morton Norton
Former affiliations	ABC (1955-1959, 1983-1992) NBC (1959-1983) DuMont (secondary, 1950s)
Website	WFRV.com

WJMN-TV redirects here. For other uses, see WJMN.

WFRV-TV (CBS 5) is the CBS owned and operated television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and also in Escanaba, Michigan over sister station WJMN-TV (CBS 3). WFRV's transmitter is located in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Contents 1 Early history 2 WJMN (Channel 3) 3 Later History and WFRV Today 4 Station Logo History 5 CBS5 News Team 5.1 News Anchors 5.2 Storm Team 5 Weather 5.3 Sports 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Early history

The station began as WNAM-TV Channel 42 in Neenah, Wisconsin on May 20, 1955. It soon moved to Green Bay, changed its frequency to Channel 5 and changed its call letters to fit the phrase "Wisconsin's Fox River Valley." It started as an ABC affiliate before switching to NBC in 1959. As an NBC affiliate, it became the first station in Northeast Wisconsin to broadcast in color.

Among the station's claims is that it was the first to cover a live lunar eclipse, in 1959, when a studio camera was wheeled into the parking lot and aimed at the moon.

The station changed affiliations again in 1983, when it became an ABC affiliate for the second time, with NBC going to WLUK (Channel 11).

The station's original owners sold the station to the Morton Norton family of Kentucky, owners of Louisville, Kentucky's WAVE, in the mid-1960s.

[edit] WJMN (Channel 3)

In 1968, a satellite station, WJMN-TV, began operation on Channel 3 in Escanaba, Michigan; the station also serves Iron Mountain, Marquette, and the rest of the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. WJMN airs Channel 5's entire schedule, except for UP-specific weather and news cut-ins, ads, and differing promotions identifying the station as CBS 3, time-adjusted for the Eastern Time Zone. The transmitter for WJMN is located 26 miles north of Escanaba, and 4 miles south of the town of Trenary in Masonville Township. WJMN's antenna is 1,310 feet high, which made it the second tallest construction in the state of Michigan upon its completion.

WJMN-TV is not related to the Clear Channel-owned WJMN (FM) in Boston, Massachusetts.

[edit] Later History and WFRV Today

Orion Broadcasting, the Mortons' company, merged with Cosmos Broadcasting (a subsidiary of The Liberty Corporation) in 1981. A few years later, WFRV/WJMN were sold to the Murphy and McNally families, owners of Minneapolis-St. Paul's WCCO-TV (Channel 4) and WCCO-AM (830). CBS then acquired all four stations in 1992 when the families sold the stations. New FCC rules had allowed networks to own more stations, so CBS decided to keep WFRV/WJMN and convert them to CBS stations, which in 2005 were in the No. 69 market nationally. With this move, WBAY (Channel 2) became Green Bay's ABC affiliate. The move also made WFRV/WJMN among the few stations in the U.S. to have been an affiliate of all of the "Big Three" television networks - ABC, NBC and CBS.

The station now follows the CBS Mandate in every way. Previously, the graphics used on its newscasts were green and gold, as a connection to the Green Bay Packers. On July 10, 2006, they unveiled a blue and yellow graphic scheme, as well as new sets, to coincide with the return of anchor Tammy Elliott.

In 2003, the stations became the first in the Green Bay market to broadcast digitally.

[edit] Station Logo History

Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 1992-2000. The '5' (or a '3' in the same font) had been used since at least 1975.	Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 2000-2003. It did not follow guidelines for the CBS eye device and its usage.	Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 2003-2006.	Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 2006-present.
Combination image of WFRV and WJMN's current logos from the station's sign-on sequences.

[edit] CBS5 News Team

[edit] News Anchors

• Erin Davisson
• Tammy Elliott
• Lisa Malak
• Kris Schuller
• Tom Zalaski
• Chelly Boutott
• Paul Evansen

[edit] Storm Team 5 Weather

• Tom Mahoney-Chief Meteorologist
• Dave Miller
• Kristin Moore
• Dana Tyler

[edit] Sports

• Burke Griffin
• Larry McCarren
• Kirk Parker
• Ryan Popkey

[edit] References

• Channel 5 hits Big 5-0. Green Bay News-Chronicle article. Retrieved on May 20, 2005.

[edit] External links

• WFRV Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WFRV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WJMN