WWJ-TV, Virtual channel 62 (digital channel 44), is the CBS-owned and operated station in Detroit, Michigan. It is co-owned with Detroit's CW station, WKBD-TV (channel 50), and the two stations share a studio in Southfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb.
The station broadcasts its signal from a transmitter located in Oak Park, Michigan. WWJ-TV serves as a CBS programming source for several Canadian cable systems. The station is one of five local Det...
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WWJ-TV, Virtual channel 62 (digital channel 44), is the CBS-owned and operated station in Detroit, Michigan. It is co-owned with Detroit's CW station, WKBD-TV (channel 50), and the two stations share a studio in Southfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb.
The station broadcasts its signal from a transmitter located in Oak Park, Michigan. WWJ-TV serves as a CBS programming source for several Canadian cable systems. The station is one of five local Detroit television stations seen in Canada on the Shaw Direct satellite service.
Channel 62 signed on air September 29, 1975, as WGPR-TV (for "Where God's Presence Radiates"). It was owned by WGPR Incorporated, formed by the Detroit-based International Free and Accepted Modern Masons. WGPR was the first wholly African American-owned television station in the United States, and was marketed towards Detroit's urban audience. At the time, WGPR's emergence was hailed as an advance for African-American enterprise, with the "color line" having been...
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