WLMT
Encyclopedia
WLMT is the CW-affiliated television station
for Western Tennessee licensed to Memphis
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 31 (or virtual channel
30.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Arlington
's Brunswick
section. The station can also be seen on Comcast
channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 809. Owned by Newport Television
, WLMT is sister to ABC
affiliate WPTY-TV
and Fox affiliate WJKT
. All three outlets share studios on Union Avenue Extension along Poplar Avenue/U.S. 72
/TN 57
in Memphis.
WJKT officially serves the Jackson
market
and has an advertising sales office on Oil Well Road in that city. However, master control
and most internal operations are based in Memphis. Syndicated
programming on WLMT includes Tyler Perry's House of Payne
, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
, Everybody Hates Chris
and The Simpsons
among others. The station serves as the de-facto over-the-air CW affiliate for Jackson since that area has cable-only
outlet "WBJK
". There is currently no website for WLMT.
and Me-TV affiliate. Known on-air as My TV Memphis, this can also be seen on Comcast digital channel 911.
and aired an analog signal
on UHF channel 30. The station was the market's second Independent outlet. The "KW" in its calls sign referred to Kemmons Wilson
founder of Holiday Inn
which is based in Memphis. This station was founded by the TVX Broadcast Group
, which at that time, owned several medium market UHF Independent stations. WMKW aired a general entertainment format featuring afternoon cartoons, sitcoms, old movies, drama shows and some sports. Right from the start, it began a rivalry with Independent outlet WPTY for viewership and ratings
. In April 1987 along with the rest of the TVX stations, WMKW became the market's first affiliate of Fox and became known on-air as "Fox 30". It was at this point that WMTU (now WJKT) in Jackson became a semi-satellite of this station.
Also in 1987, WMKW was put on the market by TVX to finance the company's purchasing of other television stations in the United States
. It was bought in 1988 by MT Communications and the call letters were changed to WUMT on October 1, 1989. Fox pulled its affiliation in the spring of 1990 and gave it to WPTY making WUMT an Independent once again. The call sign became WLMT on April 2 of that year. WMTU also continued to simulcast WLMT except in prime time where WMTU remained with Fox until 1995. MT Communications sold the station to Max Media
in 1992. WLMT then established a local marketing agreement
(LMA) with WPTY (then owned by Clear Channel Communications
) and the two stations pooled resources and programming.
This outlet became a charter UPN
affiliate at the network's launch on January 16, 1995 while WMTU took on the network as a secondary affiliation until later that year when Fox was taken off that station. In 2001, WLMT was bought outright by Clear Channel making WPTY and WLMT full sisters. In 2003, programming from The WB
moved from WPTY (where it was a secondary affiliation and shown during late nights slots) to WLMT where it also aired out of pattern.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would cease broadcasting and merge. The new service wold be called The CW and the letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS
(the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. On February 22, 2006, News Corporation
announced it would start up another new broadcast network called MyNetworkTV
. This new service, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
WJKT declined to affiliate with The CW or MyNetworkTV choosing instead to become a separate station and re-affiliated with Fox on August 21. The area's Ion Television owned-and-operated station
, WPXX-TV
, began broadcasting MyNetworkTV on September 5. Meanwhile, WLMT began airing The CW on September 18 and became known on-air as "CW 30". On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a media group controlled by Providence Equity Partners
. On March 26, 2007, it began offering Newport's Variety Television Network
on a new second digital subchannel. After that service shut down in January 2009, it switched to the Retro Television Network
(RTV).
The station picked up WWE Smackdown from MyNetworkTV after WPXX ended its affiliation with the network (by then a programming service) in September 2009 and aired the show Saturday nights at 7. Initially, WLMT did not carry any other shows from MyNetworkTV and the agreement to carry WWE Smackdown ended with the broadcast's October 2010 move to the cable network Syfy
. At some point that month, the station did pick up the network on its second digital subchannel. WLMT therefore joined the handful of stations that clear the full CW and MyNetworkTV lineups on separate subchannels (and, as of July 2011, is the only station in the country that carries The CW as a primary affiliation and MyNetworkTV as a digital multicast channel). It has been announced that RTV will be replaced with Me-TV on November 14, 2011.
(with broadcasts on this station becoming known as UPN 30 Eyewitness News) and modified its style once again to have a harder-edged, more aggressive and often "confrontational" approach by its anchors and reporters to cover stories and investigations.
The change resulted in most of the original news anchors and reporters leaving or being laid-off with a complete overhaul in the station's image and presentation. In 2009 with continued low ratings and under control by Newport Television, new management was brought in to the station leading to several firings and lay-offs in the on-air staff. Gradually, WPTY and WLMT dropped most of its confrontational and aggressive style in its local news production. In November 2010 after eight years of operating under the Eyewitness News name, WPTY re-branded yet again with news on WLMT becoming known as ABC 24 News on CW 30. There is continues to be a high level of turnover in personnel. Additionally, the two stations have yet to upgrade the news operation to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen
or even full high deifnition level.
It remaines the only news department in Memphis to air local newscasts in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. Currently, WPTY produces an hour-long extention of its weekday morning show on WLMT from 7 until 8. There is also a nightly 45 minute prime time newscast at 9 that is followed by a fifteen minute sports highlight show. Fox affiliate WJKT in Jackson simulcasts the nightly 9 o'clock broadcast and sports replay show. During weather forecast segments, WPTY and WLMT feature live NOAA
National Weather Service
Doppler
weather radar
data from the Local Forecast Office on Farm Road in Memphis (official address is Walnut Grove Road).
Reporters
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Western Tennessee licensed to Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 31 (or virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
30.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Arlington
Arlington, Tennessee
Arlington is a town in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,569 at the 2000 census and 11,517 at the 2010 census, for a gain of 348.3% during the decade...
's Brunswick
Brunswick, Tennessee
Brunswick is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. Brunswick is northeast of Bartlett....
section. The station can also be seen on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 809. Owned by Newport Television
Newport Television
Newport Television, LLC is a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. In September 2007, Newport agreed to sell KFTY and KVOS-TV to LK Station Group LLC for $26.6...
, WLMT is sister to ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate WPTY-TV
WPTY-TV
WPTY-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for west Tennessee that is licensed to Memphis. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 25 from a transmitter in the Brunswick section of Arlington. Owned by Newport Television, the station is sister to CW affiliate WLMT and Fox...
and Fox affiliate WJKT
WJKT
WJKT is the Fox-affiliated television station for Western Tennessee licensed to Jackson. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in Alamo. It can also be seen on Charter channel 9 and Jackson Energy Authority Broadband channel 12...
. All three outlets share studios on Union Avenue Extension along Poplar Avenue/U.S. 72
U.S. Route 72
U.S. Route 72 is an east–west United States highway that runs for 337 miles from southeast Tennessee through northern Alabama and northern Mississippi to southwest Tennessee. The highway's eastern terminus is Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its western terminus is Memphis, Tennessee...
/TN 57
Tennessee State Route 57
Tennessee State Route 57 is an east–west highway that runs from Memphis to the Mississippi state line near Pickwick Dam and Pickwick Landing State Park. Except for in Shelby County, SR 57 is a two lane road generally with a speed limit...
in Memphis.
WJKT officially serves the Jackson
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...
market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
and has an advertising sales office on Oil Well Road in that city. However, master control
Master control
Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks. It is distinct from a production control room in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated...
and most internal operations are based in Memphis. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on WLMT includes Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is an American comedy-drama television series created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolves around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta, Georgia led by patriarch Curtis Payne and his wife Ella...
, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
Meet the Browns (TV series)
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is an American sitcom created and produced by playwright, director, and producer Tyler Perry. The show revolves around a senior family living under one roof in Decatur, Georgia led by patriarch Mr. Brown and his daughter Cora Simmons. The show premiered on Wednesday,...
, Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Hates Chris is an African American television period sitcom inspired by the teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock , while growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York . The show is set from 1982 to 1987; however, Rock himself was a teenager during years...
and The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
among others. The station serves as the de-facto over-the-air CW affiliate for Jackson since that area has cable-only
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
outlet "WBJK
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
". There is currently no website for WLMT.
Digital programming
On WLMT-DT2 is the area's MyNetworkTVMyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
and Me-TV affiliate. Known on-air as My TV Memphis, this can also be seen on Comcast digital channel 911.
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Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30.1 | WLMT-HD | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
Main WLMT programming / The CW |
| 30.2 | WLMT-DT2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | "My TV Memphis"/MeTV |
History
It signed-on as WMKW-TV on April 18, 19831983 in television
The year 1983 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1983.For the American TV schedule, see: 1983-84 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
and aired an analog signal
Analog television
Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal...
on UHF channel 30. The station was the market's second Independent outlet. The "KW" in its calls sign referred to Kemmons Wilson
Kemmons Wilson
Charles Kemmons Wilson was the founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels.-Personal life:He was born in Osceola, Arkansas, the only child of Kemmons and Ruby "Doll" Wilson. His father was an insurance salesman who died when Kemmons was nine months old...
founder of Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn is a brand of hotels, formally a economy motel chain, forming part of the British InterContinental Hotels Group . It is one of the world's largest hotel chains with 238,440 bedrooms and 1,301 hotels globally. There are currently 5 hotels in the pipeline...
which is based in Memphis. This station was founded by the TVX Broadcast Group
TVX Broadcast Group
The TVX Broadcast Group was an American media company that owned a group of UHF television stations during the 1980s. Originally known as the Television Corporation, the company was headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, and was founded by a group of Norfolk-area businessmen led by Timothy McDonald...
, which at that time, owned several medium market UHF Independent stations. WMKW aired a general entertainment format featuring afternoon cartoons, sitcoms, old movies, drama shows and some sports. Right from the start, it began a rivalry with Independent outlet WPTY for viewership and ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
. In April 1987 along with the rest of the TVX stations, WMKW became the market's first affiliate of Fox and became known on-air as "Fox 30". It was at this point that WMTU (now WJKT) in Jackson became a semi-satellite of this station.
Also in 1987, WMKW was put on the market by TVX to finance the company's purchasing of other television stations in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It was bought in 1988 by MT Communications and the call letters were changed to WUMT on October 1, 1989. Fox pulled its affiliation in the spring of 1990 and gave it to WPTY making WUMT an Independent once again. The call sign became WLMT on April 2 of that year. WMTU also continued to simulcast WLMT except in prime time where WMTU remained with Fox until 1995. MT Communications sold the station to Max Media
Max Media
Max Media is a company that owns radio and television stations throughout the United States. It is based out of Virginia Beach, Virginia.-History:Max Media was founded in 2001...
in 1992. WLMT then established a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA) with WPTY (then owned by Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
) and the two stations pooled resources and programming.
This outlet became a charter UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
affiliate at the network's launch on January 16, 1995 while WMTU took on the network as a secondary affiliation until later that year when Fox was taken off that station. In 2001, WLMT was bought outright by Clear Channel making WPTY and WLMT full sisters. In 2003, programming from The WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
moved from WPTY (where it was a secondary affiliation and shown during late nights slots) to WLMT where it also aired out of pattern.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would cease broadcasting and merge. The new service wold be called The CW and the letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
(the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. On February 22, 2006, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
announced it would start up another new broadcast network called MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
. This new service, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
WJKT declined to affiliate with The CW or MyNetworkTV choosing instead to become a separate station and re-affiliated with Fox on August 21. The area's Ion Television owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
, WPXX-TV
WPXX-TV
WPXX-TV, channel 50 , is a ION Network affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee.The station signed on the air on December 31, 1994 under the call letters WFBI and was owned by Memphis businessman, radiologist George Flinn...
, began broadcasting MyNetworkTV on September 5. Meanwhile, WLMT began airing The CW on September 18 and became known on-air as "CW 30". On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a media group controlled by Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners is a global private equity investment firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments...
. On March 26, 2007, it began offering Newport's Variety Television Network
Variety Television Network
Variety Television Network was a digital subchannel operated by Newport Television on various US DTV stations; each station broadcast a similar programming schedule except for some local programming...
on a new second digital subchannel. After that service shut down in January 2009, it switched to the Retro Television Network
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
(RTV).
The station picked up WWE Smackdown from MyNetworkTV after WPXX ended its affiliation with the network (by then a programming service) in September 2009 and aired the show Saturday nights at 7. Initially, WLMT did not carry any other shows from MyNetworkTV and the agreement to carry WWE Smackdown ended with the broadcast's October 2010 move to the cable network Syfy
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
. At some point that month, the station did pick up the network on its second digital subchannel. WLMT therefore joined the handful of stations that clear the full CW and MyNetworkTV lineups on separate subchannels (and, as of July 2011, is the only station in the country that carries The CW as a primary affiliation and MyNetworkTV as a digital multicast channel). It has been announced that RTV will be replaced with Me-TV on November 14, 2011.
News operation
WPTY established its first ever news department in 1995 in order to take on the area's other television stations. Included in the launch was a nightly prime time broadcast on WLMT known as NewsWatch 30 at 9. This production competed with WHBQ featuring an energetic, youthful and almost "grunge" look. Several years later, WPTY re-branded its newscasts (with the show on WLMT becoming UPN 30 News at 9) and began modifying its style to reach a broader audience. In 2002, WPTY re-branded to Eyewitness NewsEyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
(with broadcasts on this station becoming known as UPN 30 Eyewitness News) and modified its style once again to have a harder-edged, more aggressive and often "confrontational" approach by its anchors and reporters to cover stories and investigations.
The change resulted in most of the original news anchors and reporters leaving or being laid-off with a complete overhaul in the station's image and presentation. In 2009 with continued low ratings and under control by Newport Television, new management was brought in to the station leading to several firings and lay-offs in the on-air staff. Gradually, WPTY and WLMT dropped most of its confrontational and aggressive style in its local news production. In November 2010 after eight years of operating under the Eyewitness News name, WPTY re-branded yet again with news on WLMT becoming known as ABC 24 News on CW 30. There is continues to be a high level of turnover in personnel. Additionally, the two stations have yet to upgrade the news operation to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
or even full high deifnition level.
It remaines the only news department in Memphis to air local newscasts in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. Currently, WPTY produces an hour-long extention of its weekday morning show on WLMT from 7 until 8. There is also a nightly 45 minute prime time newscast at 9 that is followed by a fifteen minute sports highlight show. Fox affiliate WJKT in Jackson simulcasts the nightly 9 o'clock broadcast and sports replay show. During weather forecast segments, WPTY and WLMT feature live NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
National Weather Service
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...
Doppler
Pulse-doppler radar
Pulse-Doppler is a 4D radar system capable of detecting both target 3D location as well as measuring radial velocity . It uses the Doppler effect to avoid overloading computers and operators as well as to reduce power consumption...
weather radar
Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...
data from the Local Forecast Office on Farm Road in Memphis (official address is Walnut Grove Road).
Newscast titles
- NewsWatch 30 (1995-1997)
- UPN 30 News (1997-2002)
- UPN 30 Eyewitness NewsEyewitness NewsEyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
(2002-2006) - CW 30 Eyewitness News (2006-2010)
- ABC 24 News on CW 30 (2010-present)
News team
Anchors- April Norris - weekday morning news and reporter
- Cameron Harper - weeknight news
- Jeff Beimfohr - weekend news and reporter
- Mark Walden (CBMCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
and NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist seen weeknights - David Still (NWA Seal of Approval) - weekday morning meteorologist
- Lauren Raymer - weekend meteorologist
- Corey Maclin - weeknight sports
- Kathy Morris - weekend sports and sports reporter
Reporters
- Shelley Orman - MississippiMississippiMississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
- Rodney Dunigan
- Randy Wimbley
- Joyce Peterson
- Jackie Orozco
- Shelvia Dancy
- Jeni DiPrizio
- Joy Lambert
- Eli Ross