former WITI-TV (Channel 6) news anchor and. The station carries all Fox programming available with Descriptive Video Service audio, along with Spanish-language audio broadcasts of Fox Sports telecasts. It was not an easy decision. Obama to launch leadership training in Chicago, 2 more cities. On Oct. 27, 1954, WISN-TV signed on for the first time. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush sat down with FOX6's Stephanie Grady Thursday, in town to speak with college students. Would you want to? It was one of the few Storer stations which used a more modern and open design for its studio building, compared to Storer's traditional use of Georgian and Colonial facades on its other studio facilities. Currently, she serves as Marketing and Communications Officer for the Department of Employee Relations in the City of Milwaukee. ), On December 22, 2007, Fox sold WITI and seven other owned-and-operated stations WJW, WBRC, WGHP, WDAF-TV, KTVI in St. Louis, KDVR in Denver and KSTU in Salt Lake City to Local TV LLC (a broadcast holding company operated by private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners that was formed on May 7 of that year to assume ownership of the broadcasting division of The New York Times Company) for $1.1 billion; the sale was finalized on July 14, 2008. The station also preempted the Late Show with David Letterman in favor of airing M*A*S*H reruns from the former's August 1993 debut until the December 1994 switch to Fox, continuing a long-time practice of substituting local and syndicated programming for CBS's late night offerings, including the Late Movie and Crimetime After Primetime (though it did carry The Pat Sajak Show, albeit delayed); WCGV carried the Late Show instead, under arrangement by CBS, until it moved to WDJT upon the switch. I have been fortunate to work in a stable environment. That antenna was removed in September, with the digital antenna being moved higher in October, causing some signal interruptions, along with affecting the operations of WUWM (89.7 FM), which transmits its signal on the tower. [77] Weekend early evening newscasts were subsequently restored on April 7, 2012. Conversely, in a move to comply with the network's branding conventions, Fox and other entertainment programming on the station was promoted as "Fox is Six" to try to build an audience for the growing network on the stronger Milwaukee station. She currently fills in as a primary weekday anchor. Management turnover is typically much greater. A Saukville World War II soldier is being honored half a world away. That is the feeling I have today as I celebrate my 30th anniversary at WITI-TV Channel 6. We even produce separate weathercasts for our website 4 to 5 times per day. WITI (channel 6) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. Nicole Koglin, a shorthaired woman with a love of animals almost as great as her love of the Packers, is a renowned TV anchor and reporter. Keep in mind that I was bitten by the weather bug at an early age. Former CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes and longtime host Bill O'Reilly are among the most notable to have been forced out of the organization after being accused of sexual harassment. 9m ago. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down with Milwaukee mayoral candidate Bob Donovan for an interview ahead of the April 5 election. [20][21] WJJA's owner, minister Joel Kinlow, wanted to maintain his station as a training venue for those wanting to know about the broadcasting business, but also did not want the stress of running a network affiliate, and thus also declined an affiliation offer. [12] On February 17, 1993, one day after SCI purchased WTVT in Tampa from Gillett Holdings in a separate agreement for $163 million, New World Pictures purchased a 51% ownership stake in SCI Television from Gillett for $100 million and $63 million in newly issued debt. Woman shot and killed near 26th and Clayton Crest, police investigating. [68][69] It also occasionally carries the 9 p.m. newscast in rare cases where Fox requires national coverage of a breaking news story. [4], From 1956 to 1959, WITI used the DuMont Vitascan color systemwhich required a completely darkened set with a single strobe light, causing eye strainfor its locally produced programs. Stephanie is an Emmy award-winning journalist and currently the weekday anchor of FOX6 News at 4, 6 & 9 p.m. Philly raised with Packers pride that may be the best way to sum up my ties to the Milwaukee area. [3] The station was originally licensed to the North Shore village of Whitefish Bay on a technicality in order to address short-spacing concerns with Davenport, Iowa station WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV, which also broadcast on channel 6) before the FCC fully finessed spacing among television station signals in different markets. Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley Fox stated that Milwaukee and Seattle were "two key markets that align with the companys sports rights" (referencing their primary carriage of Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers home games, respectively). By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Wiki/Bio Nicole Koglin was born in the village of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, in the United States of America. The digital transition resulted in the loss of ability to listen to WITI's audio feed over 87.7 FM; television stations broadcasting on VHF channel 6 were audible over this frequency during the analog television era, although this is no longer possible due to the transition, even for stations that broadcast their digital signals on channel 6. On December 5, 2009, WITI became the second station in Milwaukee (behind WTMJ-TV) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. I would make colorful weather symbols such as clouds and the sun (just like Harry Volkman used on TV) and attach magnets to the back of them. In many ways it seems like yesterday when I first walked in the door for my job interview in early January 1982. Some other syndicated programs seen on WITI include Judge Judy, TMZ on TV/TMZ Live and Extra among others, along with Access Hollywood, the latter three forming a late night entertainment news block. My dad is a doctor. Since moving to Milwaukee in 2016, my wife, daughter and I have fallen in love with the city and all southeast Wisconsin has to offer. Needles and spiders. I took a circuitous route to Milwaukee. Discovery library after being colorized by then-rights holder Republic Pictures in the late 1980s) as of 2023. In addition, Gus Gnorski's Saturday morning DIY program Ask Gus, was put on hiatus, with Gnorski's segments integrated into the Saturday morning newscast; the program's former studio began serving as the new studio for Wake-Up in May 2008. Here's to a few more years at Channel 6. Now she is doing a new job at CBS 58 as Director of Strategic Initiatives at CBS 58. That helped steer me towards journalism. )[22][23] The last CBS network program to air on WITI was a first-run episode of Walker, Texas Ranger at 9:00p.m. Central Time on December 10; this led into a message by then-station president and general manager Andrew Potos shortly before the start of that evening's edition of TV-6 News at 10:00, informing viewers about the pending network changes. Two months after being diagnosed and treated for a benign brain tumor, the 'Fox 6 Wake Up News' anchor returned to the airwaves this past week. 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In keeping with the branding conventions of most of the other New World-owned stations affected by the affiliation agreement with Fox, WITI-TV retained its longtime "TV-6" branding (which it adopted in 1973 as an ABC affiliate) upon the affiliation switch, with references to the Fox logo and name limited in most on-air imaging as well as the news branding it had been using before it joined Fox in its case, TV-6 News, the base moniker of which the station adopted in November 1984 as a CBS affiliate. After receiving her journalism degree in 1972, she served two years there as a news and sports reporter before shifting to WITI-TV in Milwaukee, where she served 5 years as a news reporter. WITI aired the program until 1996, when it moved to WDJT-TV; the telethon returned to WITI in 2011,[72] although it lost the rights once again when the broadcast moved to ABC in 2013 (as a result, it was carried locally by WISN-TV until the telethon ended in 2014). Personal Life, Parents and Family Details : Nicole was born and raised in the "village" of Menomonee Falls. In the fall of 1995, WITI dropped its longtime branding as "TV-6" and began branding itself as "Six is News", in order to emphasize the station's newly expanded news schedule. Lori Waldon (left, with news producer. Nearly 40 years later I was honored by the American Meteorological Society as their Broadcast Meteorologist of the Year. Studio A was again redesigned in the summer of 2019, with updated technology and design tying into a new graphics package (debuted by former sister station WDAF-TV in Kansas City) introduced in October 2019, and by coincidence Arnold's new "Beyond" package mainly utilized by the Fox-owned stations since 2018. WITI finally carried some form of Fox children's programming beginning in September 2014, when the two-hour E/I-contributing Xploration Station lineup (which is syndicated primarily to Fox affiliates on a right of first refusal basis) began to air on Saturday mornings after the brokered home programming. Bryan Polcyn Bryan Polcyn is part of the award-winning FOX6 Investigators team. Since 2010, programs distributed by Fox have been reduced to only a small portion of channel 6's syndicated lineup (including various repeat packages of COPS until it was pulled in 2020), and shows produced by other distributors such as Sherri, a program which already has FTS as its major affiliate base. Hill had a reputation for defending controversial figures and was fired by Fox. Fox Television Stations announced before its debut that its stations would carry the streaming service Fox Weather as a subchannel in their local markets at the start of 2022, with WITI doing so on its fourth subchannel in February 2022.[80]. All of its existing newscasts were retained. In February 2010, WITI expanded its weekday morning newscast a half-hour early to 4:30a.m., extending the program to 4 hours. Harry Volkman was at the awards ceremony and it was a full circle moment to have my picture taken with him. Thanks to all of our viewers for tuning in night after night. She has worked in Milwaukee television since 2004. Nicole Koglin is the latest hire at Milwaukee's CBS affiliate WDJT-TV (Channel 58) with ties to Milwaukee Fox network affiliate WITI-TV (Channel 6). This left the market's lower-rated independentscommercial outlets WJJA (channel 49, now independent station WMLW-TV) and WDJT-TV (channel 58) or religious outlet WVCY-TV (channel 30)as the only viable options with which CBS could reach an affiliation agreement; WVCY owner VCY America would eliminate itself from the running after the owner of its parent licensee, Vic Eliason (in consultation with the VCY America board), declined a $10 million offer by CBS Inc. to acquire that station directly on grounds that the bid was "unreasonably" below market value in a letter that also objected to racy programming content carried by the major U.S. broadcast networks. On November 5, 2019, Nexstar Media Group announced that WITI would be re-acquired by Fox Television Stations (which by then had become a subsidiary of Fox Corporation following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company) in a $350 million deal that also includes Seattle sister stations KCPQ and KZJO, and is concurrent with Nexstar's purchase of WJZY and WMYT-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina from Fox. In the front of the book she had written: "May we see you someday replacing Harry Volkman on TV." By Jim Piwowarczyk & Jessica McBride. Since there wasn't The Weather Channel to watch continuously, like some weather fans do now, I would check out weather books from the library, and my parents would buy me weather books for my birthday and Christmas. The station then transitioned to the standard FTS on-air graphics package on October 28, 2020. Storer had very good relations with CBS; company founder George Storer was a member of the CBS board, and most of its stations were CBS affiliates. I also love to learn and have a deep sense of curiosity even a cat would envy. Although WCGV had become a formidable competitor to rival independent WVTV, Fox found the prospect to having its programming carried on a VHF station too much to resist, considering that WITI had a relatively stronger market position despite its then-third place placing behind WTMJ-TV and WISN-TV in total day and news viewership, though its news department has been long-respected and well-awarded. WITI's newscasts overall have typically finished in third place, behind WTMJ-TV and WISN-TV, although, in the main demographic ratings that advertisers use, the three stations are much closer with any three placing first in selected newscast, and like most Fox affiliate newscasts in prime time, the 9p.m. newscasts often can outrate the 10p.m. newscasts on Milwaukee's other three stations, along with WITI (in addition to the 9p.m. shows from WDJT on WMLW-TV, and WISN's newscast on their True Crime Network subchannel). During the FIFA World Cup and golf's U.S. Open in mid-June and July 2018, WITI shifted daytime news programming and Real Milwaukee to WITI-DT2 to accommodate the World Cup's morning and early afternoon scheduling. Local News. Julie Banderas 10. Photographers would come back from news stories, develop their film, cut and splice scenes together, and then tack on the reporter's voice track onto the film. A different kind of class is in session this fall at Kewaskum High School. In many ways it seems like. [66][67] Occasionally as time permits, TV-6.2 may air the station's 9:00p.m. newscast whenever it is unable to run it on the station's main channel in the event of sports overruns or extended movie broadcasts aired by Fox as well as to simulcast the station's severe weather coverage, including closings and weather warning graphics. Here are 10 such ridiculous moments, culled from both the "hard" and the not-so-"hard" broadcasts of Milwaukee's TV news past. [5], On August 8, 1958, Storer Broadcasting purchased WITI in hopes of affiliating the station with CBS. Cheers! They can edit on their laptops and send the video back to the station via any local wireless connection. FOX6 News Milwaukee. At the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight, FOX6 met three brothers and a neighborhood best friend who all served in Vietnam and made it home. Through the transfer of the NFC television rights from CBS for the 1994 season, the station's December 1994 switch to Fox allowed WITI to retain its status as Milwaukee's "home" station for the Green Bay Packers. She joined the station's "Fox 6 Wakeup News" in 2013 and was added as a co-host of "Real Milwaukee," the lifestyle show that follows the station's . Storer also applied to move the channel 6 allocation from Whitefish Bay to Milwaukee; the request was granted on July 30, 1959.[6]. 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