WLAJ-DT2

WLAJ-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for Lansing, Michigan. It is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and/or over-the-air on a digital signal. The station is a second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WLAJ that is owned by Freedom Communications. Over-the-air, WLAJ-DT2 broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 53.2 from a transmitter northeast of Tompkins Township on the Jackson and Ingham County line. it can also be seen on Comcast channel 5 (hence the Lansing CW 5 branding). WLAJ-DT2's parent station has studios on South Pennsylvania Avenue in Lansing. However, master control and some internal operations are located at the facilities of CBS affiliate WWMT on West Maple Street in Kalamazoo.

History

From 1998 until September 18, 2006, WLAJ-DT2 was affiliated with The WB as part of The WB 100+. It was only available on Comcast channel 30, had its own logo, and used the WBL call sign in a fictional manner. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. On February 22, News Corporation announced that it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV.

This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. MyNetworkTV launched on September 5 and former UPN affiliate WHTV joined the network. This left WBL to affiliate with The CW via The CW Plus, a service similar to The WB 100+, on September 18. On that date, WLAJ created a new second digital subchannel to simulcast WBL which then officially began using the WLAJ-DT2 call sign. It also relocated to Comcast channel 5.

Newscasts

Like all CW Plus affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, the station airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz weekdays from 6 until 9. From September 24, 2007 until September 25, 2009, WLAJ produced a weeknight 10 o'clock newscast on WLAJ-DT2 called ABC 3 News Live at 10 on CW 5. This competed with the nightly prime time broadcast on Fox affiliate WSYM-TV.

The Daily Buzz
(weekday mornings 6 to 9)

• Anchors:
  • Andy Campbell
  • Holly Hannula
• News Updates:
  • Kia Malone
• Weather:
  • Mitch English

External links

• WLAJ-DT2 "CW 5"
• WLAJ "ABC 3"
• The CW