WBL (The CW Plus)
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| Lansing, Michigan | |
| Branding | CW5 |
| Channels | Cable 5 analog, WLAJ-DT 51.2 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | The CW Television Network (CW Plus) |
| Owner | Freedom Communications |
| Founded | |
| Former affiliations | The WB |
| Website | www.LansingsCW5.com |
WBL-TV "Lansings CW5" is The CW affiliate for the Lansing, Michigan television market. It is owned by Freedom Communications, originally part of the WB 100+ Station Group. Freedom Communications also owns WLAJ, Lansing's ABC affiliate.
WBL-TV is available on cable and on the digital signal of WLAJ. It joined the CW Television Network (to be formed by a merger of the WB and UPN television networks) in the fall of 2006. It also became available on WLAJ's digital. Former UPN affiliate WHTV began carrying My Network TV at the same time.
"Lansing's CW5" has only one locally produced program, the very unsuccessful "Text Me TV" which premiered on February 19th and airs mon-sun 1:30am-6am
Starting Monday,the lansing Based "TEXT ME TV" will also air on West Michigan's CW Monday-Sunday Midnight to 6am with Lansing's CW picking up the live show at the regular time.
Lansing's CW is also the NEW home of the Detroit Red Wings
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| Broadcast Television in the Lansing/Jackson market (Nielsen DMA #110) | ||
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WLNS 6 (CBS) - WILX 10 (NBC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2) - WHTV 18 (MyNetworkTV) - WKAR 23 (PBS) - W27CN 27 (TBN / TCT) - WPXD 31 (ION) - WZPX 43 (ION) - WSYM 47 (Fox) - WLAJ 53 (ABC/The CW on DT2) |
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Newspapers: Ahwatukee Foothill News | The Alton Telegraph | Appeal-Democrat | The Brownsville Herald | Clovis News Journal | The Colorado Springs Gazette | Daily News-Sun | Desert Dispatch | The Destin Log | East Valley Tribune | The Star | The Gaston Gazette | The Havelock News | Hesperia Star | The Jacksonville Daily News | Jacksonville Journal-Courier | Jones Post | The Kinston Free Press | The Lima News | Mid Valley Town Crier | The News Herald | Northwest Florida Daily News | OC Post | Odessa American | The Orange County Register | Portales News-Tribune | Porterville Recorder | The Quay County | Sedalia Democrat | The Seymour Tribune | The Shelby Star | Sun Journal | The Texas Monitor | Times-News | The Topsail Advertiser | Valley Morning Star | Victorville Daily Press | The Walton Sun | The Yuma Sun |
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ABC Network Affiliates: WLAJ1 | WLNE2 | WTVC |
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1Also a subaffiliate of The CW Television Network. 2To be sold to Global Broadcasting, LLC pending FCC approval. 3Owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. Freedom coordinates sales and provides other services for this station. |
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