Mutual of Omaha's the Wild Kingdom would follow at 5 pm, then the NBC national newscast before prime time and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. After the 10 pm local newscast, both WICS/WICD would follow, more than likely, with the broadcast of yet another TV movie before sign-off. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) stating that the "Code Red" system "overstat[es] the danger to our community." WICS would preempt NBC programming to air syndicated programs during prime time, in which the station could charge prime rates to more advertisers as there was more commercial time available during those syndicated shows. A few years into the split schedule between the two stations, it was decided by WICS that WICD should drop "Saturday Night Live" and air the WICS late movie. In modern times it also serves as the operations hub for several other Sinclair stations as well. The History of WICS, Channel 20, Springfield, IL. It appears to have been a decision of new WICD Station Manager Joe Norris. by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh His characters were Vincent Hedges(a vampire), Emmit(the hunchback), Beauregard(the caveman), and Bertie and Bernie(the skull). By 1979, the WICS broadcast day began at 6:30 am and sign-off on weeknights followed the Tomorrow show hosted by Tom Snyder, at around 1 am. Quotation[9] = "'FTVLive.com Scooped Everyone With News' - About.com "; Springfield, Illinois Area Sports Reporter/Anchor WYMT Jun 2016 - Jun 2018 2 years 1 month. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WICS shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 20, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). And during Wednesday mornings broadcast, Crain had had enough. In 1963 Robert D. McMullin was listed as WCIA News Editor (News Director). Unfortunately, those local children's shows would end with the abundance of syndicated sitcoms. Now he might be out of a job", "A weatherman slammed his station's constant 'Code Red' warnings. When WICS moved from the former Leland Hotel studios, it moved into a large facility located at 2680 East Cook Street in Springfield. Contact By Merrill Knox on Nov. 21, 2011 - 11:14 AM. Please note that the schedule for WICD and WICS were virtually identical. Decatur Public Library Dee Dee Gatton BREAKING: Crews battle two-alarm fire at south Charlotte apartment complex Dee Dee Gatton First at Four Anchor, Investigative Reporter Charlotte, NC Prior to coming to Charlotte, Dee Dee was the evening anchor/special projects reporter at WICS-WRSP in Springfield, Illinois. Although, that wasn't all. Quotation[1] = "'The One-Man Website That Broke the Jay Leno Story' - About.com "; The Illinois State Journal-Register The switch ended up being one of the most confusing things to happen to local TV since the advent of cable TV. Lincoln Library-Springfield 2 min read. Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" WICS would often time preempt NBC for the airing of local origination programming during the prime time during the month following a rating period. Many might remember the "Acri Creature Feature" which ran late Saturday nights. News & Sports MMJ & Producer The two stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes. WICD (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Champaign, Illinois, United States, affiliated with ABC.Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station has studios on South Country Fair Drive in downtown Champaign, and its transmitter is located northeast of Homer, along the Vermilion-Champaign county line.. // pattern, adding to the array. This is a special hour-long NBC News as broadcast from November 20, 1977. With the exception of the WCCU newscast, WICD no longer produces Champaign-specific local news. John Belushi who was with the show from 1975 to 1979, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin were there from 1975-1980. Later in the year, Sinclair signed the stations with ABC. I am overjoyed at my new career and lifestyle change that promotes work life balance. // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com It as done with a panel which included John Barbour, Sarah Percell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, Bill Rafferty, Mark Russell, Fred Willard and even Peter Billingsley(of "Christmas Story"). Local SNL fans objected in a big way..in fact the backlash was huge! // To add more quotations, continue with the The Decatur Herald-Review Newspaper Help me identify people in these pictures, some I know, but others I do not. The Resignation of President Nixon as covered by NBC, August 8, 1974. I am now the Marketing Manager for the Springfield Illinois Convention & Visitors Bureau. [3], On March 26, 2011, WICD ceased airing its own newscasts on weekends opting to simulcast those from WICS. Included with the change was a new set at the Springfield studios and updated Sinclair corporate graphics. The syndicated block was followed by a flip-flop of local news and network news on WICS and sister station WICD. July 3, 2019 | 6:36 am EDT by Kevin Eck, Sinclairs Springfield, Ill. ABC affiliate WICS and its former meteorologist Joe Crain have released a joint statement, saying they have resolved their differences in a private agreement and will be moving on from their dispute., CNN Business | Most commercials were either done live or live on tape from the studios of WICS. Viewers have been wondering what happened to WICS (Springfield) Anchor Maggie Poteau? At the same time, WCHU began breaking off from the WICS signal to air some local programming for the eastern side of the market, which was simulcast on WICD. This is a WICS 10 pm weathercast from February 4, 2014. September 19, 2012 | 3:34 pm EDT by TVNewsCheck, State Journal-Register | Until October 13, 2014, WICD's separate weekday newscasts at its Champaign headquarters were not included in the upgrade because that set lacked high definition cameras. WRSP and WBUI share studios with WICS but WBUI also maintains an advertising sales office on South Main Street/US 51 in downtown Decatur. (You Tube). Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; One minute she's on the news, the next minute she's gone. In modern times it also serves as the operations hub for several other Sinclair stations as well. (from the Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide), "Real People" was a reality-based variety show which gave a number of "real" people/groups their 15-minutes of fame in front of a national audience. Morning News Anchor WICS News Channel 20 May 2019 - May 2021 2 years 1 month. WICS Improvements/Planning They might have had a strange talent, demonstrated a stunt, had a peculiar occupation.I think you get the idea. WCIA 3 Severe Weather Center. (YouTube). That was in April of 1978. Hickman was a CNN original one of the first faces seen . If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Learn how and when to remove this template message, transition from analog to digital broadcasts, "Doug Quick On Line, Central Illinois On-Line Broadcast Museum", http://wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_8401.shtml, "WICD to share weekend newscasts with WICS", "WICS Springfield (Ill.) to Produce WICD News", "A TV meteorologist objected to management's 'code red' orders. WICS also pre-empted "Saturday Night Live" for a long period of time replacing it with a local-originated movie which allowed for more local ad sales than what was available during "SNL." 1976 Fall TV montage of shows broadcast during the week. WICS would preempt NBC programming to air syndicated programs during prime time, in which the station could charge prime rates to more advertisers as there was more commercial time available during those syndicated shows. He was 66. Meanwhile, WICD in Danville broadcast a signal of about 30 miles from Danville. CNN reported that Hickman died Wednesday after battling liver cancer, according to his widow, Sheila. Ann Marshall On September 5, 2005, the two stations swapped affiliations with WAND and became ABC affiliates as part of a larger national deal between LIN and NBC that also involved WDTN in Dayton, Ohio (who swapped affiliations with WICS/WICD's Dayton sister station WKEF the year before). Joe Crain Click on the button to see the program schedule from the dates indicated above. WICD, Channel 15 was the result of a merger between two relatively lower powered sister stations of WICS. As mentioned above, WICS frequently pre-empted prime time programming to insert its own programming. Farm Report. The rest of the morning consisted of typical children's programming from NBC including more modern versions of classic fare like Fred and Barney Meet the Schmoo and the re-worked Warner Brothers cartoons with Daffy Duck and a modern rework of Casper. var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); This was the 1965-66 Season Premiere Video produced for NBC Sales. In 1967, Plains Television merged WCHU and WICD into a new full-power station on UHF channel 15 under the WICD calls, but operating under the WCHU license. It may cost him his job", "Where is Joe Crain? It also aired whatever ABC programs WTVP in Decatur (now WAND) had to turn down in order to air CBS shows not cleared by WCIA. The State Journal-Register | // ============================================== Jordan Elder is switching Sinclair owned stations. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and maintains studios on East Cook Street in Springfield's Eastside; its transmitter is located west of Mechanicsburg, in unincorporated Sangamon County. Most of the time it was to air more big dollar commercials during syndicated programming. Meanwhile, WICD in Danville broadcast a signal of about 30 miles from Danville. Brittany Hardaway joined 13 WREX as an anchor for the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts in July of 2021. It's been an incredible ride over the past 2+ years here in Springfield, one that I won't soon forget. [21] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 20. Radio Broadcasting, Adobe Audition, Broadcast, Feature Articles, Social Media, Storytelling, Radio, Communications Director at Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Communications Director- Illinois Department of Natural Resources. It follows meteorologist Joe Crains on-air criticism of Sinclairs Code Red weather alert policy. Late Monday, WICS GM Rick Lipps said in a video posted to the stations website that Code Red, which may no longer be fitting, will be replaced with Weather Warn., The State Journal-Register | During the Summer of 1967, the new WICD(channel 15) would go on the air from the tallest (tower)structure in the state of Illinois at the time. (The initiative, which Sinclair began implementing in 2018 and is similar to systems devised by other groups such as Gray Television through the stations it inherited from the now-defunct Raycom Media, is known by different names depending on the station, such as "Weather Warn" or as a "(weather branding) Alert Day".) Local newscasts, produced by WICS, are simulcast on both stations. Despite this, by June 11, Sinclair posted an advertisement on its website seeking a replacement for Crain as meteorologist for WICD/WICS and WRSP/WCCU's morning newscasts. The weekend edition of the prime time news will continue to be a market-wide simulcast on WRSP and WCCU. These broadcasts are known as ABC NewsChannel and feature a common graphics package seen on WICS and WICD. WCCU's advertising sales operation is also based out of WICD's studios. One long-time fixture on NewsChannel 20 Joe Crain shows what made him Springfield's favorite weather guy. December 7, 2012 | 8:17 am EST by TVNewsCheck, SJ-R.com | On Saturday afternoon NBC would broadcast baseball during the major league season, while empty time slots were often filled with other off-network series reruns like The Odd Couple. The midday on Saturdays also included various locally produced and syndicated public affairs programs. That enabled WICS to compete on the level of attracting central Illinois viewers to nearly an equal plain to its major competitor. Springfield Area Weather Forecast. The station originally had facilities at the Leland Hotel on Capitol Street in Downtown Springfield. The relationship of the two central Illinois NBC affiliates was so intertwined that it would be questionable that either one could continue to be successful without the other. (pictures from WICS and Flip Spiceland). News Writing, Video Production, Social Media, Videography, Journalism, Broadcast, New Media, Director of Digital Sports Development at Neuhoff Media, WTAX News Director/Brand Manager at Saga Communications. It wasn't purchased by Guy Gannett until 1994. On November 17, 2010, WICS became available to Dish Network customers in Terre Haute, Indiana as the ABC affiliate since the market lacked an affiliate of its own. Both WRSP/WCCU and WBUI were initially operated from separate facilities from WICS/WICD. Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; Before 1967, in order to bring WICS and NBC programming across central and east-central Illinois, it took 4 TV signals. It was originally called "NBC's Saturday Night" and premiered on October 11, 1975. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! Known as NewsChannel at 9 on Fox Illinois, it aired for a half-hour from a modified set at WICS' Springfield studios featuring unique duratrans indicating the Fox-branded show. Remember Copyright 2023 NewsCheckMedia LLC, 238 Crosshill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 | 610-649-7989, DMA 85 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL), DMA 84 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, ILL.), DMA 83 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL), DMA 82 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL). Champaign Public Library Us @2023 FTVLive LLC On April 7, 2015 despite this significant reduction, WICD began airing a full sixty-minute Champaign-based prime time newscast (weeknights at 9) on WCCU entitled Fox Champaign News at Nine. The journalist is popular for anchoring "Dateline" for NBC, and from 1997 to 2011, she was news anchor on the network's "Today" show. This was the 1965-66 Season Premiere Video produced for NBC Sales. Vice President at Frontline Public Strategies, Inc. Senior public affairs & media relations strategist, Founder of Frontline Public Strategies. The low powered translatoron channel 75 in Mattoon probably didn't broadcast much more than a few miles from Mattoon. With the threat of having channel 2 in its backyard being over, Plains Television Partners made a major commitment to central Illinois viewers with the building of a huge TV studio/office complex on Springfield's east side. It was decided WICD being in a more liberal university community would air the 1970's version of SNL. That resulted in many complaints by viewers and the eventual reversal of the pre-emption as well as WICS being one of the first stations to add "Star Trek" by off-network syndication. This facility would house the station for many years to come even after bringing the operations of the GoCom stations (WRSP, WCCU, and WBUI) into the fold in the 2010s. Mr. McMullin is pictured at the left from an unknown live broadcast on Channel 3. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline? Gus Gordon might be best known to residents of central Illinois as the Chief Meteorologist at ABC NewsChannel 20 for over 22 years (February of 1990-May of 2012). Facebook Weekend newscasts on WICD Champaign, Ill., will originate from Springfield, beginning March 26. Champaign's sister station was allowed to break from the WICS program schedule and it would air "Saturday Night Live" as broadcast on NBC. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News" From August 12, 2016, the 10pm newscast from WICS, Channel 20. Along with television, Elmer Balaban also owned a number of local radio stations in medium-size markets around the country. The situation with WICS/WICD wasunique when it came to Saturday Night Live. NBC filled the post late news time with sporting events, along with Saturday Night Live. WICS would follow SNL with a videotaped replay of its own 10 pm news. The titles included City Life, Advance Notice and Saturday Report. All three of which were simulcast on sister station WICD in Champaign. Most were from the former ABC Movie of the Week TV movie catalog of films. A link to the page for WICS is here, just click on the button above. They might have had a strange talent, demonstrated a stunt, had a peculiar occupation.I think you get the idea. Mattoon-Charleston Area Weather Forecast. June 10, 2019 | 6:34 am EDT by Brenden Moore. No corporation is perfect, nor is every policy. Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; It was felt by the management of the time that WICS would be better served by keeping the late movie and airing the local commercials. After a brief stint as a "Today" anchor, she left NBC News in . During the Summer of 2004, it was announced that WAND would become the market's NBC station. WICD (channel 15) in ChampaignUrbana operates as a semi-satellite of WICS. Gordon was named the Executive Director of the Hoogland Center for the Arts on February 1, 2013. var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! Although the WRSP/WCCU newscast features market wide coverage, including contributions from WICD reporters based in Champaign, there is a separate weeknight weather segment for WRSP and WCCU that was seen. Paul Davis would take the reins of Channel 3 News where he would continue through 1979. She also was the Interim Chief Meteorologist at WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana. WICS, Sinclairs ABC affiliate in the Springfield-Decatur, Ill., had more than double the social media actions as its nearest media competitor in the past six months according to data from audience insight firm Shareablee. This probably wasn't met favorably by NBC, but it seems that it didn't stop WICS from doing it. J.R. Evans In 1960, it bought WDAN-TV (another low-powered station in Danville) and changed the calls to WICD. WICS owner Sinclair did not give her the chance to tell . The Urbana Courier Newspaper WICS Newschannel 20 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Springfield and nearby towns and communities in the Decatur, and Champaign area, including Jacksonville, Taylorville, Lincoln, Petersburg, Pana, Effingham, Shelbyville, Beardstown, Carlinville, Litchfield and Hillsboro. Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had collapsed most of East Central Illinois into one giant television market, WICS took on a secondary CBS affiliation because its primary affiliate, WCIA in Champaign, only provided a marginal signal to Springfield. This change took effect after the final WICD-produced newscast aired on April 3. Urbana Free Library, The CompleteDirectoryto Prime Time Network Shows Here was a TV Guide entry for just such a pre-emption. Critics of the initiative stated that the "Code Red" days unnecessarily alarm Central Illinois-area residents and harms local business revenue on the designated days. A spokesman for the stations parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group, confirmed Wednesday night that Joe was let go., TVNewsCheck | Groundbreaking sports broadcaster and Springfield native Fred Hickman, best known for anchoring CNN's "Sports Tonight," died Wednesday. "[13] Despite complaints and comments from viewers on the station's social media platforms,[14] letters to the editor and local talk radio shows, Sinclair continued to mandate its meteorologists to use the terminology. var Q = Quotation.length; Local pickets, letters, boycotts, and threats were made..and the decision was reversed in a matter of a couple of weeks. Sinclair purchased most of Guy Gannett's stations, including WICS and WICD, in 1999. The trainwould stop in as many of the NBC affiliate home towns as possible amid fans and local media. WICS would add syndicated shows ranging from the videotaped talk shows mentioned above to "Superman," "The Lloyd Thaxton Show," "Bilko," "The Galloping Gourmet," "David Frost," "Hazel," "Dinah Shore," "Girl Talk" and movies on Saturday and Sunday nights and a rather unique Sunday morning movie series. June 7, 2019 | 6:43 am EDT by Bernard Schoenburg, Sinclair Broadcast Group said Thursday that International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union Number 51 is no longer representing Sinclair employees at its ABC affiliate WICS Springfield, Ill. (DMA 88). This facility would house the station for many years to come even after bringing the operations of the GoCom stations (WRSP, WCCU, and WBUI) into the fold in the 2010s. The two stations operated as a regional network sharing most network and syndicated programming. First day of ABC, Sept 5, 2005 (Doug Quick Collection), 2013 WICS Weekend Anchors, Sports, Santel Middleton and Joe Brooks (You Tube), WICS Master Control before 2011 (Joe Crain photo), Work being done to master control with new digital High Definition Equipment (Joe Crain photo). This popular horror movie feature was produced at WQAD, Channel 8 in Moline, Illinois, and was syndicated to KCRG-TV(Cedar Rapids, Iowa), along with WEEK-TV(Peoria), and across central Illinois on WICS and WICD. That left a huge part of the rural areas including Charleston, Tuscola, and other east-centralcommunities without NBC network service from 1959 through 1967. They are subject to removal by the contributors and YouTube. The union had represented six employees until its contract expired onNov. 15. There were some TV classics there, such as the acclaimed Brian's Song but most were very forgettable. When "Star Trek" premiered, it was pre-empted by WICS for off-network reruns of "Laramie." WICS would air paid religious programs by a professional evangelist, as well as paid info-commercials on behalf of charitable organizations. Syndicated Programming Eight Stations Launch NextGen TV In Champaign/Springfield-Decatur, Code Red Forecaster, WICS Resolve Differences. WICS began operations on September 17, 1953 and was owned by Plains Television Partners of Springfield, which was a 50/50 joint venture of . Accordingly in 1959, Plains Television signed-on WCHU in Champaign as a low-powered satellite of WICS. Don Hickman, former WICS Springfield News Channel 20 anchor, recalls his childhood in Tennessee, adolescent years, introduction to broadcasting via radio, switch to television and many of the events he covered during his career: the Civil Rights Movement, the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, and the Vietnam War. WICD would follow with a play of its public affairs program Assignment 15.. One minute she's on the news, the next minute she's gone. Here's a sample segment from "Real People" about an ugly dog contest. On June 26, 2010, rival WAND became the first television station in East-Central Illinois to upgrade news production to high definition level. Along with several other Sinclair properties, WICS/WICD did not participate in the wider implementation of the company's now-defunct, controversial News Central format for their newscasts. The SangamonLink has posted about historical highlights for Sangamon County including a story about WICS television history, in which it credits me as a source. Well Poteau has left the station and TV news altogether. 1979, Newspaper ad from the Randy Miller Collection, TV Guide Ads for WICS Roz Abrams, formerly of CBS News, ABC's Eyewitness News; Christiane Amanpour, CNN; Ernie Anastos (retired), formerly of WNYW, WABC-TV and WCBS-TV; Sade Baderinwa, WABC-TV; Bret Baier, Fox News; Rudi Bakhtiar, formerly at CNN and last seen at Fox News as a correspondent; Dana Bash, CNN; Martin Bashir, MSNBC, formerly ABC's Nightline March 3, 2015 | 10:02 am EST by TVNewsCheck, The State Journal-Register | CBS Color (from Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide}. June 8, 2019 | 8:03 am EDT by Matthew Cappucci. 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