Doug Quick Collection, Daytime syndicated shows from TV Guide September 1981. Long time WEEK weathercaster Bill Houlihan from 1953 from WEEKTV/HOI-ABC, Peoria. Here is his story, from Roy Starks: "I Graduated from THS (Taylorville High School) in 1951. In his free time, Croton loves to travel, hike, try new foodsand spend time with friends and family. (left: from nickelodeonDeutschland, right: from terrence mcclinton and YouTube). [8] The acquisition was completed on August 2, 2021,[9] bringing WEEK-TV under common ownership with several Gray Television stations in nearby midwestern markets, including ABC affiliates KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids and WBAY-TV in Green Bay, dual Fox/NBC affiliate KYOU-TV in Ottumwa/Kirksville, CBS affiliates KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, WSAW-TV in Wausau, KEYC-TV in Mankato, and WIFR-LD in Rockford, and fellow NBC affiliates KWQC-TV in DavenportRock IslandMoline, WMTV in Madison, WEAU in Eau ClaireLa Crosse, WNDU-TV in South Bend, WFIE in Evansville, KYTV in Springfield, Missouri, KMNF-LD in Mankato, and WOWT in Omaha. His role as sports director in Peoria would take him to do play-by-play for all of the University of Southern California football games during the 1956 season. WEEK-TV Picks Up a Regional Country Music Show. Former Thank You, Dave Bender: Longtime CBS13 Weather Anchor Says Goodbye After 25 Years. In her free time, Mitchell loves watching sports, journaling, cooking, listening to music, hanging out inChicagoand embarking on new and exciting adventures with friends and family. Through a separate joint sales agreement, WEEK-TV also controlled the market's MyNetworkTV outlet WAOE through the end of 2014. The couple, both Pacific Northwest natives (from Vancouver, British Columbia), with their son, Louis, moved to Seattle from Boston three years ago when Grace became a news anchor for KING-TV. Social Media Intern at Peoria Chiefs Community Baseball LLC, Marketing and Sales Support Intern at Social Media Intern at Peoria Chiefs Community Baseball LLC. In the late Summer of 1956 one of the more prominent personalities from WEEK-TV, Chick Hearn, would leave that station and moved to a new position in Los Angeles at KNX. WEEK's CINewsNow.com "Basically, my contract was up," he says. The catch, both grants would deny those winners actual construction permits which meant that the Commission forbade any construction on either favored owner on their granted VHF station. Mid-America would operate Channel 25 until 1985 when it was purchased by Price Communications. A new secondary set was built at the Springfield Road studios for use by WHOI to produce separate newscasts. It was later decided to keep the power output to increase the coverage area and signal penetration within its current coverage area. The FCC commissioners were ready to reconsider the move of the VHF allocations from Peoria and Springfield, Illinois after months of not considering the move. The FCC in early November of 1955 was reported to be ready to deny petitions from several cities to make those cities all UHF markets. Mark Rosenthal: former chief meteorologist (2005-2006) Josh Judge: former weekend meteorologist, now meteorologist for WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH. The studio/transmitter location was proposed at Springfield Hill Road (2907 Springfield Road) in Groveland Township, Tazewell County. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) Joe Case a NewChannel 5 alum died this week after complications from a recent . She was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago. Network feeds were filmed, processed and segments edited out. Otis Turner, a former KCRA reporter and anchor who founded a Fair Oaks newspaper, died March 26 of lung cancer, his family said. Lauren Sanchez Lauren Sanchez via instagram Lauren Wendy Snchez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. on December 19, 1969. This resulted in WHOI closing its longtime studios on North Stewart Street in Creve Coeur and sharing WEEK-TV's East Peoria facility. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Springfield Road (along I-474) in East Peoria, a section of Groveland Township, Tazewell County. I remember little from my time at WMBD-TV. "In the fall of 1959, I was hired, as a leg-man, at WEEK-TV by Bob Arthur, News Director/Anchorman. WEEK-DT2 was launched on November 15, 2004, as an affiliate of NBC Weather Plus, a 24-hour weather channel that provides local forecasts for certain areas. The country music show was also seen on stations WMT-TV, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; WHO-TV, Des Moines, Iowa; WGLO-TV, Mason City Iowa and WOC-TV, Davenport, Iowa. "My first contact with the Peoria media was a Journal-Star photographer who took a picture of me, my 1950 ford, and the large tree that fell on it during the winter of 1956, making the front page. In 1988 it was handed off to Granite Communications as WEEK-TV would have been Granite's second station in the growing chain of television and radio stations. Dean Pantazi joined WPTA TV in December 1974 as a news and sports reporter and anchor. Full-color capabilities would not occur for most stations until 10-15 years later! WREX-TV was a VHF station and the competition was a UHF. The receptionist was very hesitant to enter the studio to give Harrison the information and it took some discussion to convince her. A first-generation college graduate, she graduated cum laude from Illinois State University in 2021 with a bachelors degree in journalism and a minor in psychology. NEWS 25 TEAM Joe Sullivan Joe Sullivan has been the News Director at WXXV since 2014. A look at 5 WMBD/WYZZ-TV newcomers in 2021 Harry Croton Harry Croton is the weekend anchor for WEEK 25 News and a reporter for 25 News and Heart of Illinois ABC. WEEK-TV (channel 25) is a television station in Peoria, Illinois, United States, affiliated with NBC, ABC, and The CW Plus.The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Springfield Road (along I-474) in East Peoria, a section of Groveland Township, Tazewell County.. WEEK-TV formerly operated and shared its facility with then-ABC affiliate (now TBD . Industry . former week 25 weather anchors. She was friends with a local owner of a weekly newspaper who gave us the news he could not use because of timing. In May of 1955, it was announced that a petition was filed by the parent companies of WEEK-TV and WTVH-TV asking the FCC to postpone oral arguments on the applications of WMBD Inc. and WIRL Television Company. A look at 5 WMBD/WYZZ-TV newcomers in 2021, Where is Peoria meteorologist Jesse Guinn? Darnysha Mitchell is a multimedia journalist for WEEK 25 News and Heart of Illinois ABC. This would, however, involve the marketing of viewing glasses for the public. While at ISU, Mitchell was a student reporter for WGLT radio, an NPRstation, covering local news in Bloomington-Normal. These glasses would be necessary for the viewing of a 3-D picture and would be sold for around $1.50 each. Later in the month, its affiliation with DuMont was announced by that network. 1953 The proposed WEEK-TV studios as it was expected to look at the end of 1954. There was a cameraman on staff. I was accepted beginning in 1956. The production manager greeted me at the door of the telephone booth/newsroom saying I cleaned off your desk. We have everythingstudios, transmitter, tower---permanently and correctly installed. At the time WEEK-TV was the first and only Peoria station on the air. WEEK-TV was a primary affiliate of NBC and was listed as a secondary affiliate of CBS along with WTVH-TV. Adding the gain of the antenna would have given WEEK a much greater power output than originally planned. The cost of construction was listed as $73,750. WMBD had sales & promotion personnel, talent, and engineers but few support people. Brett Brooks, M.A. He in 1951 and me in 1972. The Trustoria Service Professional Directory gives you all the professional records needed to know the right Journalist for any need. In his free time, he has a love for all things reality TV, especially "The Bachelor" franchise. Then I determined I wanted to go into radio-television so I sent a postcard in the book to Bradley. Bloomington Pantagraph, September 16, 1967 "Public attitude toward the new phenomenon, television, was favorable and tended toward wanting to appear rather than avoiding it. The completion date was extended to June 24, 1954. The tower height was 712-feet. Before being consolidated with WEEK-TV, WHOI produced local newscasts weeknights at 5, 6, and 10. A complete newscast from August 5, 2008, as broadcast on WEEK-TV, A complete newscast from August 1, 2013, as broadcast on WEEK-TV, WEEK News Anchor Team, from TV Guide, August 1965, Doug Quick Collection, WEEK Syndicated movie ad from TV Guide, March of 1966. In 2016 Quincy Media (as it's now called), would purchase the intellectual property of WHOI and its "Heart of Illinois" brand and the network affiliations, that being of ABC and CW, but not the actual physical TV station of Channel 19. Al Roker (born 1954) Today Show weatherman since 1996; Anchor of Wake Up With Al on The Weather Channel. The new owner then shut down WEEQ-TV in the early-1970s. Cleveland viewers first saw Robinson in 1988 as the co-anchor of the 10 p. Included were Taylor and his former co-anchor Robin Swoboda, . FOX 13 celebrates Cynthia Smoot: Telling stories across Tampa Bay for 25 years. A Massachusetts native, Raucci is a lifelong fan of the Patriots, Celtics and Yankees, and he is also a University of Notre Dame football diehard. The announcer is Mel Brandt. Click on the button to see the program schedule from the dates indicated above. Click on the picture to click through the gallery. Also in 1964, WEEK-TV was only able to broadcast programming in color from NBC. Bloomington Daily Pantagraph(through the Abraham Lincoln Library and the Danville Public Library as well as newspapers.com The network suspended Chris Cuomo earlier in the week to investigate his involvement with his brother's defense. The first group to be granted a license was West Central Broadcasting, the owners/operators of WEEK Radio in Peoria. Connie Chung turns 70 on August 20th. The program would be syndicated to local stations on kinescope/film. Akers (WEEK executive); Robert Fransen (TV Program Director); Major Joseph O. Malone (with the shovel); Ken Mills (general contractor); John O. Burch (Executive V-P of the Peoria Association of Commerce); Fred Mueller (WEEK General Manager) and Wanye F. Lovely And here he finds me and wants to relate to me his experiences with many of the people I wrote about in my book. News: Peoria Mayor Rita Ali has targeted 4 priorities. Doug Quick Collection. The ownership of WEEK-TV was still listed as West Central when in 1966 the station was sold to Kansas City Southern Industries operating as Mid-America TV Company. programming log maintenance) for WBQD-LP, another Four Seasons-owned MyNetworkTV outlet (now WQAD-DT3). Janice Villagran holds a bachelor's degree in communication science. The newsreel produced for television was produced by Hearst Metrotone News, Incorporated, which covers national and international news events. On February 1, 2021, Gray Television announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire most of Quincy Media's television properties for $925 million in a cash transaction. Elliot, who has been a CBS daytime anchor for about a year, had first shocked . Good Morning America (TV Series 1975- ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The internship was a short learning experience. The principals were now listed as Charles Caley, 66.67% (owner of WMBD AM/FM, 25% owner of WDZ Radio, Decatur, Illinois); John Fetzer, 33.33% (52% owner of WKZO AM/TV, Kalamazoo, Michigan and WJEF AM/FM Grand Rapids, Michigan). "At night, a receptionist would man the front desk at WEEK-TV to handle any visitors and calls plus keep anyone from entering the studio during the 10 Oclock newscast. which explained why a no-cost intern would be welcome. More information on how this organization came to be and where its heading is included in the WTVI(KTVI) chapter. From Memorial Day Weekend, 1989. One side note to this application is the fact that West Central Broadcasting was the second Peoria broadcast entity to hold a television permit in 1948. https://twitter.com/ChrisRyanWPTA Harrison operated the WEEK newsroom as a team and working there was an instructive experience. He now is semi-retired since June 2020 but continues at WPTA in a part time sports contributor role. 1. He has a master's degree in. Whilean avid sports fan, Croton found his true passion is in local reporting and prefers to cover events and issues in his community. Sally Quinn was born on January 7, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. In Arizona, heworked at KPNX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Phoenix. Here is his story, from Roy Starks:r, Memories from Roy Starks- (Part 1: WMBD-TV). This would allow the station in increase power even further than the 175,000 watts it currently is licensed for. Excellent writing and communication skills, experienced videographer/photographer. The 1980s began with sad news. Balint Szalavari is themorning meteorologist forHeart of Illinois ABC. Learned the importance of time and timing quickly. West Central was one of eighteen broadcast owners who either surrendered their permits or were deleted by the FCC. The call letters were approved by the FCC in mid-February 1953. WBZ-TV's Anna Meiler reports. Chuck Harrison was a terrific teacher-reporter and became a life- long friend. Sacramento's top-rated television news station, KCRA-TV Channel 3, has laid off morning weather anchor Julie Watts, who won a 2006 Emmy for her live reports of . Chick Hearn would be replaced by WEEK-TV sportscaster Hank Fisher. Ten years after selling the Eureka radio station, WEEK-TV, in 2009, would take over the operations of Barrington Broadcastings WHOI, Channel 19(the history of Channel 19 is included on this website). It would take the FCC a few more months to issue the next Peoria television station construction permit, but by December of 1952, Hilltop Broadcasting, operators of WWXL Radio was granted a permit to proceed with construction. She also loves a good new restaurant. Even though WEEK could pass NBC color programming to those few viewers who were able to watch, it would be nearly another 10 years before local color would be a reality for the Peoria area. By mid-February 1953, WEEK-TV would receive the shipment of the second General Electric transmitter which would boost the power output of the transmitter from 100watts to 2kw giving the station a more powerful signal at 175,000 watts and a signal which radiates at 40 miles or more. WEEK-TV Notes from 1964-Present National Weather Service Senior Meteorologist since 1994 US Navy Communications Officer 1990 - 1993 Full Profile Marcus Bailey Peoria, IL Professions & Specialties Meteorologist Entertainment Professional Entertainer Experience & Education Position: Chief Meteorologist at WMBD 31 Location: Peoria, Illinois Area Industry: Entertainment There were no local news stories or ways to access local news unless you lifted them from the local paper. He is a huge country music fan. On October 31, 1988, WEEK-TV and fellow NBC outlet KBJR-TV of Superior, Wisconsin, became the two founding stations of the Granite Broadcasting Corporation. My lone reporter was free-lance. He had appearances on many TV shows from "My Three Sons," to "Gilligan's Island," and "The Fugitive" just to name a few. More: Where is Peoria meteorologist Jesse Guinn? 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A year later, though, WEEK-TV sold the radio property which is now WPIA. which he said was in Peoria. During the Summer of 2022, I was contacted by an older gentleman, named Roy Starks, who was from my hometown of Taylorville, Illinois. Officials of WEEK and WEEK-TV broke ground for the construction of a new radio/TV building at 2907 Springfield Road on Monday, September 15, 1952. Only CBS and NBC had developed television news organizations from their existing radio news networks, and video images were difficult to come by, as the film was the only record of events. Everything was in black and white. Evansis from Campbellsville, Ky., in the south-central region of the commonwealth. Granite-owned CBS affiliate WTVH in Syracuse, New York, (WHOI's original call letters) also saw its operations merge with Barrington-owned NBC affiliate WSTM-TV and low-powered CW affiliate WSTQ-LP the same day. This with only a 100-watt transmitter and a reception radius of around 12-miles. Meanwhile, as a well-known popular sportscaster in Los Angeles, it brought him unique opportunities that he wouldn't have gotten elsewhere.