10 Facts About WNEM-TV

WNEM-TV is a television station licensed to Bay City, Michigan, United States, serving northeastern Michigan as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV.

WNEM-TV was founded by the Northeastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on February 16,1954, as an NBC affiliate.

WNEM-TV aired programming from DuMont until that network dissolved in August 1956.

Day that WNEM-TV became a CBS affiliate, it took on secondary affiliations with both UPN and The WB and aired programming from the two networks late at night.

WNEM-TV operates their own weather radar, known as "First Warn 5 Pinpoint Doppler Radar", on the eastern side of MBS International Airport which is streamed live on its website.

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WNEM-TV produced news segments for then-sister radio station WNEM 1250 AM; this ended after that station adopted a Catholic-based format under new owners.

In 2006, WNEM-TV entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliate WSMH for their existing nightly prime time broadcast at 10 on that station.

Originally entitled TV 5 News at 10 on Fox 66, the WNEM-TV-produced program recently added new graphics and was renamed Fox 66 News at 10.

WNEM-TV became the second television in both Michigan and the United States, after WJBK, to air obituaries on a daily basis.

WNEM-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, 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.