WNEM-DT2 is the MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...

-affiliated television station

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 the Flint/Tri-Cities

Flint/Tri-Cities

The Flint/Tri-Cities Region or Saginaw Valley is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The region is composed of the area surrounding Flint, Michigan, the Tri Cities, the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw River . Flint's population is 102,434; it is the seventh largest city in Michigan...

 market in Michigan. It is a second digital subchannel

Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...

 of CBS

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...

 affiliate WNEM-TV

WNEM-TV

WNEM-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. It is licensed to Bay City, and broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 . Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station has studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, as...

 that is owned by the Meredith Corporation

Meredith Corporation

The Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The company has two divisions, National Media and Local Media.-History:...

. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 22.2 from a transmitter on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown

Robin Glen-Indiantown, Michigan

Robin Glen-Indiantown is a census-designated place in Buena Vista Charter Township, Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The CDP is used for statistical purposes and has no legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 1,158 at the 2000 census.The CDP includes the...

. WNEM-DT2's parent station has studios on North Franklin Street in Downtown Saginaw

Saginaw, Michigan

Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw was once a thriving lumber town and manufacturing center. Saginaw and Saginaw County lie in the Flint/Tri-Cities region of Michigan...

. 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 the station includes: TMZ on TV

TMZ on TV

TMZ on TV, or simply TMZ and TMZTV, is an American syndicated entertainment and gossip news television show that premiered on September 10, 2007. The program is generally aired on Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates, though a majority of the stations that carry the series are Fox affiliates...

 and Access Hollywood

Access Hollywood

Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...

.

History

WNEM-DT2's origins began on January 24, 2006 when 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...

 and The WB announced that they would cease broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner 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, 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 that it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV.

This new network, which would be sister to Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

, would be operated by FOX Television Stations and its syndication division, Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent and to compete against The CW. It was later revealed that WB affiliate WBSF

WBSF

WBSF is the CW-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market that is licensed to Bay City. Owned by Barrington Broadcasting, the station is sister to NBC affiliate WEYI-TV and the two share studios on West Willard Road in Vienna Township along the Genesee and Saginaw County line...

 would become The CW affiliate for the region. After that, WNEM released plans to create a new second digital subchannel to become the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate. In August 2006, WNEM unveiled a new logo and branding for the digital subchannel named "My 5". There is no separate web address for WNEM-DT2 at the moment but there is a separate page on the WNEM website.

Programming

Programming on WNEM-DT2 consists of prime time MyNetworkTV programming and syndicated shows.

Guiding Light

Guiding Light

Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...

, a now-defunct CBS soap opera dropped by WNEM-TV in 1996, returned to the market on "My 5"; as a result, all CBS programs are now cleared in the Mid-Michigan area. When Guiding Light was replaced by Let's Make a Deal

Let's Make a Deal

Let's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show is based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The traders usually have to weigh the possibility of an offer being...

 on October 5, 2009, WNEM opted to show that program on DT2 instead of its main channel.

The station airs Fearless Music

Fearless Music

Fearless Music is a musical showcase filmed in New York City, NY featuring bands that are on the cusp of the mainstream and indie rock circuits. The word "fearless" refers to the show taking a chance on musicians that other mainstream media would be afraid to promote.The show started and currently...

 on Saturday nights at Midnight. It also carries Big Time Wrestling on early Saturday and Sunday mornings at 2:00 AM. In 2008, WNEM-DT2 also aired live Central Michigan University Chippewas football

Central Michigan Chippewas football

The Central Michigan Chippewas football team is a college football program in Division I FBS, representing Central Michigan University. They are a top 25 program in terms of all-time winning percentage and top five amongst all teams from non-BCS automatic qualifying conferences...

 games from ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

's regional sports syndicator, ESPN Plus

ESPN Plus

ESPN Plus, the popular name of ESPN Regional Television, is an American television program syndicator. ERT is based along with sister network ESPNU in Charlotte, North Carolina...

. When it launched, "My 5" replaced Detroit's NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 affiliate WDIV on Flint

Flint, Michigan

Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...

-area 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...

 systems and Detroit's WKBD

WKBD

WKBD-TV, virtual channel 50 , is an owned and operated station of the CW Television Network, based in Detroit, Michigan. The station is owned and operated by the CBS Corporation, and is one-half of a duopoly with sister station WWJ-TV . Its studios and transmitters are located at 11 mile and...

 on Tri-Cities

Tri-Cities (Michigan)

The name Tri-Cities refers to two regions in the U.S. state of Michigan. Both are located in the Lower Peninsula.-The Greater Tri-Cities Region:The larger and more well known Tri-Cities is the region surrounding the cities of Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland...

 Charter systems. The station is also seen on Charter systems in the Alpena

Alpena, Michigan

Alpena is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Alpena County. It is considered to be part of Northern Michigan. The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary is located in the city. The population was 10,483 at the 2010 census...

 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...

 also replacing WKBD. However, the main WNEM-TV channel is not seen on that system due to local CBS affilate WBKB-TV

WBKB-TV

WBKB-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Alpena area of Michigan's Northern Lower Peninsula. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter south of Hubbard Lake near M-72 in Alcona County. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 10 and...

 which is based in Alpena. Until some point in 2008, WNEM-DT2 had been the nearest MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Northern Michigan

Northern Michigan

Northern Michigan, also known as Northern Lower Michigan , is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan...

 market (Traverse City

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, although a small portion extends into Leelanau County. It is the largest city in the 21-county Northern Michigan region. The population was 14,674 at the 2010 census, with 143,372 in the Traverse...

 and Cadillac

Cadillac, Michigan

Cadillac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,000. The city is situated at the junction of US 131, M-55 and M-115...

). Access to the station was only offered on Charter systems in areas of the Alpena market that overlapped with the northern Michigan DMA. WLLZ-LP

WLLZ-LP

WLLZ-LP is the low-powered MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan that is licensed to Cedar. It broadcasts an analog signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter west of downtown Traverse City near Harris and Cedar Run Roads...

 in Traverse City has since added MyNetworkTV.

On weekday mornings, WNEM-DT2 airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz

The Daily Buzz

The Daily Buzz is a nationally syndicated breakfast television news and infotainment program. The show is produced by Fisher Communications and is owned and distributed by ACME Communications; it is broadcast every weekday morning from studios at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida...

 from 6 to 9.

Local

On Sunday mornings during the NFL

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 regular season, My 5 airs The Ford Lions Report, the Detroit Lions

Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...

' official pregame show.

Newscasts

Until late May 2011, it broadcasted a weeknight 4 o'clock newscast which was streamed live on its website. This competed with the 4 p.m. broadcasts on ABC affiliate WJRT. It re-airs WNEM's local public affairs show called Better

Better (TV series)

Better is a syndicated lifestyle television show. It airs weekdays on 80 stations across the United States. The program is produced and distributed by Meredith Corporation which was first founded as a publishing company back in 1902. Better gets its name from Meredith's flagship publication, Better...

Mid-Michigan weeknights at 6. WNEM-DT2 also rebroadcasts the main channel's weeknight 6 o'clock news at 7.

TV 5 News at 6 (Weeknights 7pm to 7:30pm, repeat)

• Anchors:
  • Sam Merrill
  • Katie O'Mara
• Weather:
  • Darrin Bradley
• Sports:
  • Scot Johnson

My5 "5th Quarter" High School Football Highlights Show (Fridays 11:35 pm to 12:00 am)

• Anchors:
  • Scot Johnson
  • Jason Fielder
  • Darryl Sellers

• Reporters:
  • Wesley Goheen
  • Steve Duncan