21 Facts About WJBK

WJBK is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, airing programming from the Fox network.

WJBK produced one of Detroit's first morning talk shows, Ladies' Day with Chuck Bergeson, which aired from 1952 to 1959.

WJBK produced a local version of the syndicated program PM Magazine from 1978 to the mid-1980s.

WJBK previously hosted sports interview show specials through the 1970s.

In 2014, WJBK cleared Steve Rotfeld Productions' Xploration Station block, making it the first time the station has ever cleared Fox children's programming.

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From 1953 to 1974, WJBK served as the first flagship station of the Tigers Television Network with games broadcast on stations throughout Michigan, northern Indiana, and northwest Ohio.

Currently, the only Tigers games aired on WJBK are the Tigers' season home opener and national coverage presented by Fox ; WJBK aired select Tigers games featured on CBS' MLB coverage from 1990 to 1993.

WJBK televised Detroit Pistons games from the time that the team's relocated to Detroit from Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1957, until 1972; the team's games began airing on WKBD-TV the following season.

In March 2007, WJBK began broadcasting Red Wings games in high definition.

WJBK has had a long-standing relationship with the NFL's Detroit Lions, having carried most of its games since 1956, when CBS started airing NFL games.

In previous years, WJBK had televised Lions preseason games as the flagship station of the Detroit Lions Television Network and produced pregame and postgame shows.

Those preseason broadcast rights were then held by WWJ-TV and then WXYZ-TV until 2015, when WJBK became the official preseason station of the Lions as well.

WJBK's sportscasters have been team play-by-play announcers through the years with Van Patrick doing Tigers, Lions and Notre Dame Football games.

WJBK operates a fleet of Ford E350 ENG vehicles with microwave transmission and video editing capabilities.

WJBK's newscasts remained competitive in the 1970s with a new stable of talent including anchors Joe Glover, Robbie Timmons, Harry Gallagher, Murray Feldman and Terry Murphy.

When WJBK switched affiliations from CBS to Fox in December 1994, the station adopted a news-intensive format.

WJBK now had a late local newscast in first place as it immediately overtook the hour-long 10 p m newscast that WKBD had at the time in the ratings.

In 1992, the station preempted CBS' morning news program again when WJBK rehired Jerry Hodak from WXYZ to co-anchor Eyewitness News Morning.

Just prior to that, WJBK debuted Detroit's first weekend morning newscast, which was first anchored by former PM Magazine host Gary Cubberly.

WJBK is the only American television station in the Detroit–Windsor television market that broadcasts its digital signal on the VHF band.

WJBK serves as a Fox station for other Canadian cable providers, including on Rogers Cable in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario.