10 Facts About WJRT

WJRT-TV is a television station licensed to Flint, Michigan, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for northeastern Michigan.

WJRT-TV went on the air on October 12,1958, at 5 p m, as an ABC network affiliate.

Goodwill Stations merged with Capital Cities Broadcasting in 1964, but WJRT-TV was spun off to Poole Broadcasting because the merged company was one VHF station over the Federal Communications Commission ownership limit of the time.

WJRT provides city-grade coverage to parts of Oakland and Macomb counties.

Furthermore, on April 6,2011, less than a week after SJL taking over control of WJRT, they terminated longtime weekend anchor Joel Feick and removed longtime weeknight anchor Bill Harris from the newsdesk.

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In 2004 along with all the other ABC owned stations, WJRT launched ABC News Now on its digital subchannel, while in 2005 all ABC stations launched AccuWeather Channel on their third subchannel.

ABC Owned Television Stations, including WJRT, launched on April 27,2009 the Live Well Network in high definition on the stations' sub-channels alongside the AccuWeather Channel.

On October 31,2013, WJRT added the local version of WeatherNation to its third digital subchannel, replacing AccuWeather Channel.

WJRT-TV began carrying the Circle network upon its launch on January 1,2020, replacing WeatherNation.

WJRT-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.