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WDJT-TV is a television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin broadcasting on digital channel 46 and has a PSIP that displays WDJT's virtual channel as 58. The station is an affiliate of the CBS television network. Its transmitter is located within Milwaukee's Lincoln Park next to WISN (Channel 12)'s tower, with the station's signal covering southeastern Wisconsin and parts of northeastern Illinois, including Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan and Waukesha.

WDJT was until the digital transition the only UHF affiliate of CBS in the state of Wisconsin, but retains the highest PSIP channel number in the digital age. The station also gathers news for CBS Radio in Milwaukee due to the lack of any area radio station broadcasting the network's radio newscasts (WOKY had broadcast the network's hourly newscasts until a September 2008 format change, but does not have a news division).

History

File:WDJT-Logo-Old.jpg

WDJT's former logo, used from March 1996 - September 2001. The "58" continued in use until 2008 during the station's morning newscast.

File:CBS58MNE.PNG

Aforementioned "Morning News Express" logo

WDJT signed on the air on November 10, 1988 as an independent station. Its call letters were selected in honor of its original owners, Debra Jackson and John Torres. Jackson died before the station took to the air, and Torres decided to sell controlling interest to Weigel in order to get more financing. (Weigel became the station's sole owner shortly after its sign-on.) At that time, its programming fare consisted of second-hand reruns of sitcoms, first-run syndicated shows, and a movie library.

As an independent, WDJT found the going difficult against WVTV-TV and WCGV. Milwaukee, despite its relatively large size, wasn't big enough for what were essentially three independent stations (Fox affiliate WCGV was essentially programmed as an independent, as Fox wouldn't air a full week's worth of programming until 1994). It was also hampered by a weak signal transmitting from the tower atop of the then Marc Plaza Hotel (a tower originally utilized by WVTV and currently used by low-power WMKE-CA). This essentially limited channel 58's coverage area to Milwaukee itself and its close-in suburbs such as Cudahy, Waukesha and West Allis. The few syndicators were willing to air their programming on channel 58 largely shied away due to its weak signal. Also, many cable operators weren't willing to carry it.

Joining CBS

The Milwaukee television market was in for a major shakeup in 1994 when New World Communications announced that most of its stations, including Milwaukee's WITI, would become Fox affiliates. CBS approached all four of Milwaukee's major stations--WTMJ-TV, WISN-TV (who was affiliated with CBS from 1961 to 1977), WVTV (which ironically was a CBS O&O in the 1950s) and WCGV. None of those stations were interested, however. This left CBS to negotiate with the city's lower-profile independents, WJJA (now WBME) and WDJT, as well as religious WVCY-TV. After negotiations with both WJJA and WDJT fell through, CBS made an abortive attempt to buy WVCY before its ownership group decided not to sell.

With days to go before WITI was to join Fox, and faced with having to pipe in WISC-TV in Madison, WFRV-TV in Green Bay or WBBM-TV in Chicago for cable customers, the network finally affiliated with WDJT, even though it didn't even have a news department. CBS faced similar situations in Atlanta, Austin, Cleveland and Detroit. In all these cases, the longtime CBS affiliates all switched to Fox. While CBS was able to land on higher-profile stations in Atlanta, Austin and Cleveland, it was unable to do so in Detroit or Milwaukee.

As WDJT had not expected to go to CBS, a hastily-made logo with the CBS Eye to the left of WDJT's italic Times New Roman '58' of the time in red (and later yellow) was the station's logo for the next year and a half, along with a neutral image campaign using default CBS graphics while Channel 58 built a news department and looked for upgraded studio facilities. The switch took place on the afternoon of December 11, 1994 (the same day CBS moved its Detroit affiliation to WGPR-TV, now WWJ-TV).

WDJT's CBS affiliation caused major shuffles among area cable systems as they worked to quickly add it to their systems; it took until March 1995 for some Marcus Cable (the precursor to Charter Communications) cities to carry WDJT. As a result, many Milwaukee-area viewers without set-top or housetop antennas missed several major events, including the PGA Tour, Grammy Awards, Daytona 500, Big Ten Basketball, and the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, all of which were CBS properties.

In early 1996, WDJT moved to a new studio on 60th Street, right on the line between Milwaukee and West Allis, from its original studio facilities on the top floors of the Marc Plaza, which is now the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. It also launched a news department.

Three years later in 1999, the station's current Lincoln Park transmitter was put into service, giving the station an over-the-air signal comparable to the city's five other major commercial stations. Weigel would use this tower to launch two additional low-powered sister stations to WDJT (see below).

In 2007, WDJT gained national attention after its live news truck broke through ice on Big Muskego Lake in Muskego, ironically while covering a story on ice safety. The estimated cost of repair was $250,000. A week after, the station would air a public service announcement on ice safety which premiered during CBS' Super Bowl XLI coverage, making light of the situation by referring to their news department as providing "the most in-depth coverage in Milwaukee."

2008 NFL season

The station asked CBS Sports to allow them to carry as many New York Jets games as were available for the 2008 season, since that team acquired former Packer quarterback Brett Favre on August 7, 2008, and expected high viewer interest from Milwaukee viewers for Jets games. Since CBS holds the rights to the AFC contract, the majority of Jets games are carried on that network. Station general manager Jim Hall asserted that the Jets were the station's "adopted team" ^[1].

High Definition Programming

On August 29, 2008, WDJT became the first commercial Milwaukee television station to produce a local program in High Definition without the assistance of Milwaukee Public Television or other stations in the Hearst Television chain, as WISN has done in the past. The one hour program was called 105 Years In The Making,^[2] a program which was produced in conjunction with the Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary celebration that weekend.

Currently the station does not air syndicated programming in high definition, although Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune produce their shows in the format.

Ownership

WDJT-TV is owned by Chicago, Illinois's Weigel Broadcasting. The company also owns full-power WBME (Channel 49) and two LPTV stations, Spanish-language Telemundo affiliate WYTU (Channel 63) and independent WMLW-CA (Channel 41), in the Milwaukee market.

Digital Television

WDJT's digital signal on channel 46 is multiplexed into the following subchannel lineup.

Channel	Programming
58.1	WDJT-TV
58.2	WMLW-CA (Channel 41), IND
58.3	This TV, a digital subchannel network managed by Weigel Broadcasting and programmed by MGM Television
58.4	Shorewest TV, an automated looping channel of home and real estate listings from Shorewest Realtors

Additionally, a fourth and fifth digital subchannel have been added in the past for multicasting of games during the early rounds of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in mid-March. Since 2008 as CBS has restricted stations to only one multicast, the station has aired the additional game over WDJT-DT3 (in 2008 as MeTV and since 2009 as This TV Milwaukee) ^[3].

58.4 & 58.5 were returned to the PSIP channel map in May 2009 to map them permanently into channel maps on digital converter boxes and television sets for the possibility of future use.

Me TV

WDJT had carried a digital subchannel called MeTV Milwaukee, which features a lineup of classic sitcoms and dramas resembling that of sister station WWME-CA (Channel 23) in Chicago. The station launched on March 1, 2008 on WDJT-DT3 until October 30, 2008. In mid-April 2008, Weigel acquired Racine-licensed home shopping station WJJA (Channel 49), and immediately began to move MeTV to that station, changing the station's calls to WBME. The simulcast was maintained until a new digital transmitter for WBME on the Weigel tower was turned on in mid-October.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

This TV

On November 1, Weigel launched the digital subchannel network This TV in Milwaukee on WDJT-DT3 in cooperation with MGM Television, which provides the network with many of the programs from their archives. The introduction "man on the street" promotions for the network were recorded throughout Milwaukee, and This TV's imaging voice is that of Robb Edwards, formerly of WTMJ Radio and WOKY, and the public address announcer at Miller Park. Thus in technicality WDJT can be considered a This TV O&O.

Shorewest TV

Brookfield-based Shorewest Realtors is one of the largest real estate agencies in southeastern Wisconsin, and as an offshoot of earlier locally-produced cable shopping channels which often featured their listings along with those of other agencies, created Shorewest TV in October 2005^[8] as digital cable and video on demand became commonplace and allowed Shorewest the ability to buy their own channel slot on Time Warner Cable ^[9].

In the form of the cable channel, basic pictorial tours of local homes and real estate classified by region or house types were presented using information compiled on a database used by both the channel and Shorewest's website ^[10], with narration given by agents encouraging viewers to call for more information on the property presented, along with limited advertising for partner contractors and programs from local homebuilders and mortgage providers. The VOD version of Shorewest TV (except for homes in Rock County, which is outside the Milwaukee viewing area) was discontinued with the launch of 58.4 in order to encourage viewership of the terrestrial channel.

On October 13, 2009, Shorewest and Weigel Broadcasting launched Shorewest TV over digital channel 58.4 under a time-lease arrangement in order to increase their Shorewest TV's audience to all possible households in southeastern Wisconsin ^[11]. Charter Communications, which already carried the video-on-demand version of the service, also added the subchannel in this form to their systems. As is the current case with many digital subchannels (including This TV and others in the Milwaukee area), the channel is not carried over Dish Network or DirecTV.

The format of Shorewest TV has remained the same over-the-air, although to address license concerns regular breaks featuring public service announcements are taken (which are intermixed with promos for Weigel's Milwaukee stations), while Shorewest TV carries the E/I-compliant program Green Screen Adventures, which was produced by WCIU, seven days a week at 7am. Additionally Shorewest TV is moved to WBME-DT2 during NCAA multicasting in March to address multicasting bandwidth concerns.

Transition process

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion took place on June 12, 2009,^[12] WDJT continued digital broadcasts on its current pre-transition channel number, 46.^[13] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers displays WDJT's virtual channel as 58.

On June 12, 2009, the station shut down its analog transmission over full-power channel 58 at 11:59pm exactly, as required by law. However, the station has decided to convert their low power signal on WYTU-LP (Channel 63) at 9am on the same day to carry WDJT's programming schedule; The Telemundo schedule now transmits exclusively on digital television over WYTU-LD digital channel 17 and WBME 49.4 ^[14]. This was to provide some kind of 'lifeline' service under special dispensation by the CBS network to those who had not yet made the conversion. On December 31, 2009, the simulcast on Channel 63 was discontinued at the end of the dispensaton, and WYTU-LP was converted to an analog translator of WBME's main schedule ^[15].

Newscasts

Because of its relatively new status in the market, the station had the lowest-rated newscast in Milwaukee for years. Only in 2008 and 2009 did it begin to increase from its lead-in and start finishing higher.

In September 2009, WDJT's 10 p.m. newscast got its first single night finish in first place in station history with a 7.0 HH according to Nielsen. For October 2009 the 10 p.m. newscast averaged a 6.5/11 share according to Neilsen. That is ahead of Fox affiliate WITI, which finished with a 4.9/9 and very close to WISN's 7.3/12 and WTMJ's 7.8/13. In November 2009, the 10 p.m. news got its first single night first place finish in sweeps with a 8.1 according to Neilsen followed by 7.4 for channel 12, 6.1 for channel 4 and 4.9 for channel 6.

In November 2009 sweeps period WDJT was the only station to show audience growth with a 1.4 rating point climb to finish a solid 3rd place ahead of WITI according to Nielsen and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The station uses the Ten at Ten format for its late newscast, emphasizing the top stories and weather in the first 10 minutes of the program. WDJT has won regional Emmy awards, along with honors from the Associated Press for best newscast presentation. In the May 2008 sweeps period both WITI and WDJT were separated by only a few thousand homes for the third place slot at 10 pm.

In January 2009, viewers began to take note of the straightforward approach of the anchor team of Piaskoski and McCormack. Both of the anchors are known to go out and report and edit their own stories and for the first time the station began surpassing its lead-in, and on several occasions was first in the market for the first ten minutes of the newscast. But, because it offers the seven day forecast in the first ten minutes, there was drop off in the so called "b" block which lowered the overall ratings average.

WDJT, during the 2007 World Series produced a 9pm newscast for sister station WMLW-CA, in an attempt to attract non-Baseball viewers who would normally watch news on WITI-TV (but due to pre-emptions weren't able to during the World Series).^[16] The station then introduced a 9pm newscast permanently on WMLW beginning on January 1, 2008. WDJT also produces both a 10-minute Spanish language newscast for co-owned Telemundo affiliate WYTU-LP; several of WDJT's reporters are bilingual. The station also puts together and anchors 11-minute newscast for sister station WBND-LP in South Bend, Indiana called "News at 11:00" featuring video shot locally in South Bend and then edited and written by anchor McCormack and Exec. Producer Adam Wilhelm who are based in Milwaukee but have been known to frequently call sources in Indiana to verify information. McCormack is arguably the only main anchor in the country seen in two different markets at the same time; South Bend at 11 p.m. est and Milwaukee at 10 p.m. cst The First Alert Weather team also provides weather forecasts for adult contemporary radio station WLDB (93.3), which brands as B-93.

Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

Current Anchors

Shari Dunn - weekday mornings "Morning News"
Veronica Griffin - Saturdays at 5, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10PM
Michele McCormack - weeknights at 5 and 10PM, 9 p.m. on WMLW, 11 p.m. WBND South Bend, another Weigel property
Paul Piaskoski - weeknights at 5 and 10PM, 9 p.m. on WMLW, "Eye to Eye" Sunday Public Affairs show
Mike Strehlow - weekend anchor, prime fill in weekday anchor
Asa George -weekday mornings "Morning News"

Reporters

Keith Meka - general assignment reporter
Stephanie Brown - general assignment reporter
Jenifer Tomazic - general assignment reporter
Eric Rucker - general assignment reporter
Kelli Watson - general assignment reporter

First Alert Weather

Mark McGinnis - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 5 and 10PM
Chris McGinnis - Meteorologist; weekday mornings "Morning News"
Mike Tamas - Meteorologist; Saturdays at 5, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10PM

Sports Team

Evan Fitzgerald - Sports Anchor
Kevin Holden - Sports Anchor

Former Personalities

Emily Engberg (now at KSTP in Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Paul Garcia
Chantel Jensen
Jae Miller
Ryan Nolan
Rock Rote - sports director (1997-2006)
Tammie Souza - chief meteorologist (now at WTSP in Tampa, Florida)
Rebecca Wood (now at KSTP in Minneapolis)

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

CBS 58 News (1996-present)
Ten at 10 (10 p.m. newscast; 2007-present)

Station Slogans

More Stories. More Information. More News. (1998-2001)
Your Stories. Your Station. (2001-2004)
First. Fast. When Seconds Count. (2004-present)
Just Ten Minutes (10PM newscast; 2009-present) so annoying

External links

References

[1] JS Online: Favre lands Jets on CBS

[2] ttp://www.cbs58.com/pages/harley/

[3] ttp://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/41318897.html

[4] JS Online: Shopping channel gets new owner, Me-TV format of nostalgic shows

[WBME-5] JS Online: Me-TV for a wider audience

[6] ttp://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6608561.html

[7] JS Online: Rebooting may help when mystery bugs bedevil Time Warner channels

[8] ttp://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2005/10/03/tidbits1.html

[9] ttp://www.biztimes.com/news/2007/5/11/iq-innovation-quotient-winners-2007-shorewest-realtors

[10] ttp://www.realtor.org/archives/feature1april06

[11] ttp://www.shorewest.com/cms_real-estate-news_shorewest-realtorsr-relaunches-shorewest-tv-on-over-the-air-channel-584

[Analog_to_Digital-12] ttp://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf

[FCC_Form_387-13] CDBS Print

[14] ttp://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/06/01/daily93.html

[15] ttp://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_709da9fc-f59d-11de-95ca-001cc4c002e0.html

[16] ttp://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=678164 "Channel 58 to fill 9 p.m. news gap; Cuban's season over on 'Dancing'"

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v t e Broadcast television in southeastern Wisconsin
This region includes the following cities: Milwaukee Racine Kenosha Sheboygan Lake Geneva Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television
Full power	WTMJ-TV (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Bounce, 4.3 Grit, 4.4 Court, 4.5 Mystery, 4.6 Laff, 4.7 Shop LC) WITI (6.1 Fox, 6.2 ANT, 6.3 HSN, 6.4 Fox WX) WMVS (10.1 PBS, 10.2 Create, 10.3 PBS Kids) WISN-TV (12.1 ABC, 12.2 Crime, 12.4 Story, 12.6 Get) WVTV (18.1 CW, 24.1 MNTV, 24.2 Comet, 24.3 Charge!) WVCY-TV (30.1 Religious ind.) WMVT (36.1 PBS, 36.2 World, 36.3 Local WX/traffic w/KEC60 audio) WMLW-TV (49.1 Ind., 49.2 Movies!, 49.3 H&I, 49.4 Catchy, 49.5 MeToons) WWRS-TV (52.1 TBN, 52.2 Merit, 52.3 Inspire, 52.4 Smile, 52.5 Positiv) WPXE-TV (55.1 Ion, 55.2 Bounce, 55.3 Court, 55.4 Grit, 55.5 Ion+, 55.6 JTV, 55.7 Scripps, 55.8 QVC) WDJT-TV (58.1 CBS, 58.2 MeTV in SD, 58.3 WMLW/Ind. in SD, 58.4 TMD in SD, 58.5 Start) WIWN (68.1 Cozi, 68.2/.4/.10 Infomercials, 68.3 Quest, 68.5 Oxygen, 68.6 TBD, 68.7 Dabl, 68.8 Sonlife, 68.9 TBA, 68.11 RVTV, 68.12 RCTV; Fond du Lac) (station in Green Bay market but transmits from and de facto serves Milwaukee)
Low power	WWMW-LD (16.1 Purple TV, 16.2 SportsStak, 16.3 OnTV4U, 16.4 JTV, 16.5 Sonlife) WMKE-CD (21.1 JTV, 21.2 Lone Star, 21.3 Majestad TV, 21.4 LC, 21.5 JTV SD, 21.6 QVC2, 21.7 LATV, 21.8 QVC) WTSJ-LD (38.1 Visión Latina, 38.2 Buzzr, 38.3 JTV, 38.4 QVC2, 38.5 LX, 38.6 ShopHQ, 38.7 beIN Xtra ñ, 38.8 365, 38.9 Defy) WBME-CD (41.1 MeTV in HD) WTAS-LD (47.1 Ind.) WYTU-LD (63.1 TMD in HD, 63.2 Start, 63.3 Movies!, 63.12 OnTV4U) WDMW-LD (65.1 Daystar, 65.2 DS Español, 65.3 Reflections)
Outlying areas	WHA-TV (21.1 PBS/PBS WI, 21.2 Wisconsin Channel, 21.3 Create, 21.4 PBS Kids, Madison) WXFT (60.1 UniMás, Aurora/Chicago)
Cable	Bally Sports Wisconsin Spectrum News 1 WI, MKE feed WisconsinEye
Defunct	SelecTV (after 7 p.m. on WCGV from 1981–84) Spectrum Sports Sportsvue Wisconsin Sports Network KFIZ-TV 34 (Independent, Fond du Lac) WCGV-TV 24 (Fox/UPN/MNTV, now WVTV-DT2) WCAN-TV 25 (CBS)
See also Chicago TV Duluth TV Eau Claire–La Crosse TV Green Bay TV Madison TV Marquette TV Rockford TV Twin Cities TV Wausau TV

v t e Other television stations and subchannel networks in the state of Wisconsin
3ABN	W23BW-D 23.5 (Madison) W30BU 30 (Green Bay)
AMGTV	KQEG-CD 23 (La Crosse)
Antenna TV	WITI 6.2 (Milwaukee) WLUK 11.2 (Green Bay) WJFW 12.3 (Rhinelander) WMTV 15.3 (Madison) KQDS 21.2 (Duluth, MN) WLAX 25.2 / WEUX 48.2 (La Crosse/Chippewa Falls)
Outlaw	WSAW-TV 7.6 (Wausau)
beIN Xtra ñ	WZCK-LD 8.7 (Madison) WTSJ-LD 38.7 (Milwaukee)
Bounce TV	WFRV 5.2 (Green Bay) WEUX 48.4 (Chippewa Falls) WTMJ 4.2 (Racine) WIFS 57.4 (Janesville) WTPX 46.5 (Antigo)
Buzzr	W23BW-D 23.2 (Madison)
Charge!	WCWF 14.3 (Suring) WMSN 47.3 (Madison)
The365	WBAY-TV 2.3 (Green Bay)
Comet	WCWF 14.2 (Suring) WVTV 24.2 (Milwaukee) WMSN 47.2 (Madison)
Court TV	KDLH 3.4 (Duluth, MN) WMOW 4.4 / WAOW 9.4 / WYOW 34.4 (Crandon/Wausau/Eagle River) WPXE 55.3 (Milwaukee) WQOW 18.4 / WXOW 19.4 (Eau Claire) WMKE-CD 21 (Milwaukee) WPXE 55.3 (Kenosha) WGBA 26.4 (Green Bay) WKOW 27.4 (Madison)
Ion Mystery	KDLH 3.5 (Duluth, MN) WTMJ 4.5 (Milwaukee) WACY 32.3 (Green Bay) WTPX 46.3 (Antigo) WEUX 48.3 (Chippewa Falls) WIFS 57.7 (Janesville)
Cozi TV	WZCK-LD 8 (Madison/Middleton) WEAU 13.2 / 30.2 (Eau Claire/La Crosse) WIWN 68 (Fond du Lac/Milwaukee) WJFW 12.2 (Rhinelander)
True Crime Network	KDLH 3.2 (Duluth, MN) WFRV 5.3 (Green Bay) WISN 12.2 (Milwaukee) WXOW 19.5 (La Crosse) WKOW 27.4 (Madison)
Dabl	WISC 3.3 (Madison) WKBT 8.4 (La Crosse) WCWF 14.5 (Green Bay) WIWN 68.7 (Fond du Lac)
Daystar	WMWD-LD 38 (Madison) WGBD-LD 49 (Green Bay)
Catchy Comedy	WBAY-TV 2.6 (Green Bay) WMOW 4.3 / WAOW 9.3 / WYOW 34.3 (Crandon/Wausau/Eagle River) WKOW 27.2 (Madison) WMLW 49.4 (Racine/Milwaukee)
Defy TV	WPXE 55.5 (Kenosha) WACY 32.4 (Green Bay) WTPX 46.6 (Antigo) WIFS 57.7 (Janesville)
getTV	WZCK-LD 8.2 (Madison/Middleton) WIWN 68.4 (Fond du Lac)
Grit	WTMJ 4.3 (Milwaukee) WLAX 25.4 (La Crosse) WGBA 26.3 (Green Bay) WIFS 57.2 (Janesville) WTPX 46.2 (Antigo)
H&I	WBAY 2.4 (Green Bay) KBJR 6.3 (Superior) W34FC 10.3 (La Crosse) WEAU 13.3 / 30.3 (Eau Claire/La Crosse) WZAW-LD 33.4 (Wausau) WMLW 49.3 (Racine) WIFS 57.8 (Janesville)
HSN OTA	WISC-TV 3.5 (Madison) WKBT 8.6 (La Crosse) WJFW 12.4 (Rhinelander) WPXE 55.8 (Milwaukee) WGBA 26.5 (Green Bay)
Jewelry TV	WTSJ-LD 38.3 (Milwaukee) WACY 32.5 (Green Bay)
Laff	KDLH 3.3 (Duluth, MN) WTMJ 4.4 (Milwaukee) WLAX 25.3 (La Crosse) WACY 32.2 (Green Bay) WTPX 46.4 (Antigo) WIFS 57.5 (Janesville)
Local Accuweather	WMVT 36.3 (Milwaukee)
Locally-originated automated weather	WBAY 2.2 (Green Bay)
MeTV	WDIO-DT 10.2 (Duluth, MN) WQOW-DT 18.3 / WXOW 19.3 (Eau Claire/La Crosse) WMEI 31 (Green Bay) WMTV-DT 15.4 (Madison) WZAW-LD 33.2 (Wausau) WBME-CD 41 / WDJT 58.2 (Milwaukee)
Movies!	WEAU-DT 13.4 / 30.4 (Eau Claire/La Crosse) WMEI 31.5 (Green Bay) WZAW-LD 33.3 (Wausau) WIFS-DT 57.9 (Janesville) WYTU-LD 63.3 (Milwaukee)
NTD TV	W23BW-D 23.4 (Madison)
Ve+	W23BW-D 23.6 (Madison)
OnTV4U	WMKE-CD 21 (Milwaukee)
QVC OTA or QVC2	WISC-TV 3.4 (Madison) WGBA-DT 26.6 (Green Bay) WKBT-DT 8.5 (La Crosse) WTSJ-LD 38.4 (Milwaukee; QVC2) WJFW-DT 12.5 (Rhinelander) WIWN 68.6 (Fond du Lac)
Quest	KDLH-DT 3.6 (Duluth, MN) WZCK-LD 8.4 (Madison/Middleton) WIWN-DT 68.3 (Fond du Lac) WSAW-DT 7.5 (Wausau)
Retro TV	W43BR 43 (Baraboo/Wisc. Dells)
ShopHQ	W23BW-D 23.3 (Madison)
Sonlife	WZCK-LD 8.3 (Madison/Middleton) WIWN-DT 68.8 (Fond du Lac)
The Nest	WCWF-DT 14.4 (Suring)
Start TV	WBAY 2.5 (Green Bay) WEAU 13.5 / 30.5 (Eau Claire/La Crosse) WMTV 15.5 (Madison) WDJT 58.5/WYTU-LD 63.2 (Milwaukee) WZAW-LD 33.5 (Wausau)
TBD	WLUK 11.3 (Green Bay) WMSN 47.4 (Madison) WIWN 68.6 (Fond du Lac)
This TV	WKOW 27.3 (Madison) WIWN 68.5 (Fond du Lac)
TBN	WWRS 52 (Mayville)
Telemundo	WYTU-LD 63/WDJT 58.4 (Milwaukee)
WeatherNation TV	WMTV 15.6 (Madison)
MeTV Toons	WMEI 31.2 (Green Bay)
Story Television	WMEI 31.3 (Green Bay)
Other stations	WPVS-LD 23 (Milwaukee) WVCY-TV 30 (Milwaukee; religious ind.)
See also: Wisconsin TV

v t e Weigel Broadcasting
Network-affiliated stations	ABC WBND-LD CBS WDJT-TV CW WCWW-LD Jewelry Television KSFV-CD KVME-TV MyNetworkTV WMYS-LD Spectrum News 1 KAZD Telemundo WYTU-LD ¹ WFBN-LD ¹ Univision KVOS-TV
MeTV and/or MeTV+ O&O stations	KAZA-TV KAZD ⁸ KCSG KFFV KHTV-CD KMOH-TV KNLC KREG-TV KYAZ WBME-CD ² WDME-CD WHCT-LD WJFB WJLP WMEI WWME-CD ³
Catchy Comedy and/or H&I O&O stations	KAXT-CD KCSG-LD KDIT-CD KTLN-TV KVOS-TV⁹ KPOM-CD WOCV-CD WZDS-LD
Story TV O&O stations	WNWT-LD WZME
Independent stations	WCIU-TV WMEU-CD ³ WMLW-TV ⁷
Radio stations	WRME-LD ⁴
National subchannel networks	Catchy Comedy Dabl ⁶ Heroes & Icons MeTV MeTV+ MeTV Toons ¹⁰ Movies! ⁵ Start TV ⁶ Story Television
MeTV original programming	Collector's Call Svengoolie Sventoonie Toon In with Me
Former programming	First Business Green Screen Adventures Through the Decades
Defunct	TouchVision
¹ Carried on a digital subchannel of WMLW & WMYS. ² Carried on a digital subchannel of WDJT. ³ Carried on a digital subchannel of WCIU. ⁴ Owned by Venture Technologies Group; operated by Weigel under an LMA as a radio station. ⁵ Joint venture with Fox Television Stations. ⁶ Joint venture with CBS News and Stations. ⁷ Shares spectrum with WBME-CD. ⁸ Carried on a digital subchannel of KAZD. ⁹ Carried on a digital subchannel of KVOS. ¹⁰ Partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Networks.