Quotation [12] = "'has handed in his resignation, according to FTVLive.com' - TVNewser" A link to the page for WICS is here, just click on the button above. Paul Davis would take the reins of Channel 3 News where he would continue through 1979. It's been an incredible ride over the past 2+ years here in Springfield, one that I won't soon forget. (You Tube), Linda Ellerby doing an NBC News Update from 1977. The Tonight Show followed, then Tomorrow would end the broadcast day. We're your source for local news, weather and sports. (see above) The movies included many of Hollywoods classic films from the Warner Brothers and MGM libraries. This is from 2013. The prime-time access slot after the news block was filled by the weekday syndicated version of The Newlywed Game at 6:30 pm. WICD (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Champaign, Illinois, United States, affiliated with ABC.Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station has studios on South Country Fair Drive in downtown Champaign, and its transmitter is located northeast of Homer, along the Vermilion-Champaign county line.. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News" They might have had a strange talent, demonstrated a stunt, had a peculiar occupation.I think you get the idea. Lemke has gone from The Weather Channel to the Chief Met at WICS in Springfield. I deeply regret that. On April 7, 2015 despite this significant reduction, WICD began airing a full sixty-minute Champaign-based prime time newscast (weeknights at 9) on WCCU entitled Fox Champaign News at Nine. Former Channel 20 anchor Don Hickman dies JOHN REYNOLDS and MATTHEW DIETRICH 0:00 0:35 Don Hickman, whose nearly three decades as news anchor at WICS Channel 20 made him one of. Included with the change was a new set at the Springfield studios and updated Sinclair corporate graphics. From the start, NewsChannel at 9 competed with a newscast already established in the time slot on then-UPN affiliate WCFN (produced by WCIA). Most were from the former ABC Movie of the Week TV movie catalog of films. Copyright 2023 NewsCheckMedia LLC, 238 Crosshill Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096 | 610-649-7989, DMA 85 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL), DMA 84 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, ILL.), DMA 83 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL), DMA 82 (CHAMPAIGN-SPRINGFIELD-DECATUR, IL). She took to social media to inform viewers of her life outside of news: For weeks I have been very quiet on social media. The Decatur Herald-Review Newspaper No corporation is perfect, nor is every policy. Joe Crain The two stations operated as a regional network sharing most network and syndicated programming. This is a 2018 clip from Sunrise with Joe Crain and an explanation of the eventual controversial weather warning.. Network screen grabs were from the collection of Bob Lee, Jo Warfield for sharing her recollections. Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; On December 31, 2012, the Sinclair Broadcast Group closed on the purchase of the non-license assets of GOCOM's three television stations, WRSP/WCCU and sister station WBUI for approximately $25.6 million. WICS would air paid religious programs by a professional evangelist, as well as paid info-commercials on behalf of charitable organizations. During the 1979-1980 TV season, the WICS weekday schedule followed Today at 9am with the first run weekday syndicated Dating Game followed by the NBC daytime schedule which was solid through3pm. Anchors Jerry Lambert and Marianne Manko are featured with weathercaster Kelly Curran. Critics of the initiative stated that the "Code Red" days unnecessarily alarm Central Illinois-area residents and harms local business revenue on the designated days. That movie run would fill the 9:30 to 11 or 11:15 am time slot. WICS also pre-empted "Saturday Night Live" for a long period of time replacing it with a local-originated movie which allowed for more local ad sales than what was available during "SNL." (picture courtesy of Teresa Wilson Ericson, daughter of Robert Wilson), You can see Robert Wilson in WICS's early history as a cast member of "Pegwill's Circus". The trainwould stop in as many of the NBC affiliate home towns as possible amid fans and local media. Remember June 13, 2019 | 6:58 am EDT by Brian Stelter, One week ago Joe Crain, the morning meteorologist at WICS Springfield, Ill., called out station management for mandating over-the-top Code Red weather alerts. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, WICD is considered . This along with the erection of a new taller tower in 1958 would be a part of an expansion effort that would bring virtually all of the central Illinois market NBC programming. On September 5, 2005, the two stations swapped affiliations with WAND and became ABC affiliates as part of a larger national deal between LIN and NBC that also involved WDTN in Dayton, Ohio (who swapped affiliations with WICS/WICD's Dayton sister station WKEF the year before). Contributors: August 9, 2013 | 8:20 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, NewscastStudio | WICS News Anchors News anchors and reporters like Douglas Kimball would be replaced by Wayne Cox (formerly of WBLN), who would anchor through the 1960s to the 1970s. Others who have spent time there included Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Bill Murray, Albert Brooks, Don Novello, Paul Shaffer, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Gilbert Gottfried, Joe Piscopo, Charles Rocket, Eddie Murphy, Robin Duke, Tim Kazurinsky and Denny Dillon. With the exception of the WCCU newscast, WICD no longer produces Champaign-specific local news. At one point in time, there had been a newscast weeknights at 5 that was simulcast on both outlets originating from Springfield.[4]. Groundbreaking sports broadcaster and Springfield native Fred Hickman, best known for anchoring CNN's "Sports Tonight," died Wednesday. Joe Crain, a WICS Springfield, Ill., meterologist since 2004, disappeared from the weather report after ad-libbing June 5 about the "Code Red" moniker that station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group implemented as a severe-weather alert. I am now the Marketing Manager for the Springfield Illinois Convention & Visitors Bureau. Sinclair is providing sales and other non-programming services to the stations pursuant to shared services and joint sales agreements. He was 74. When WICS moved from the former Leland Hotel studios, it moved into a large facility located at 2680 East Cook Street in Springfield. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) stating that the "Code Red" system "overstat[es] the danger to our community." December 21, 2011 | 2:42 pm EST by TVNewsCheck, State Journal-Register | This change took effect after the final WICD-produced newscast aired on April 3. During most of its run in the late 1960s and 70s, it was sponsored by the local Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Springfield, Railsplitters Motors. This left WICS and WICD without a major network affiliation. Justin and Brittany are setting the record straight on why they will be away. Later in the year, Sinclair signed the stations with ABC. // Free for all; but please leave in this header. Well Poteau has left the station and TV news altogether. This week I began a new career in a new industry. During football season, NBC would air the AFC early football game and WICS/WICD would follow with a replay of Capitol Conference, than a local movie insertion.yet another TV movie, usually. (The initiative, which Sinclair began implementing in 2018 and is similar to systems devised by other groups such as Gray Television through the stations it inherited from the now-defunct Raycom Media, is known by different names depending on the station, such as "Weather Warn" or as a "(weather branding) Alert Day".) 2 min read. By 1979, the WICS broadcast day began at 6:30 am and sign-off on weeknights followed the Tomorrow show hosted by Tom Snyder, at around 1 am. Accordingly in 1959, Plains Television signed-on WCHU in Champaign as a low-powered satellite of WICS. Quotation [18] = " 'FTVLive is the Most Incrediable thing in our Business' - i24News" The two stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes. WICS began operations on September 17, 1953 and was owned by Plains Television Partners of Springfield, which was a 50/50 joint venture of . In its place are newscasts simulcast from WICS (in all time slots) which provide market-wide coverage including content from the eastern areas through a downsized bureau at WICD's studios. There was no Saturday, 6 pm newscast, scheduled instead of the syndicated first-run comedy/variety show Hee Haw which would air from 5 to 6 pm. Joe Crain has been a meteorologist at WICS Springfield, Ill., for 15 years. Quotation[7] = "'FTVLive Delivers some of the TV World's Biggest Scoops' - Tonawanda News "; This is a clip from August 17, 2010 and the 5pm show. Others in the news staff included: Dale Coleman, Nick Alexander, Kyle Hill, Dave Lange, Alan Crane, and others. Guy Gannett finally bought WICD in 1994. WICS (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States, affiliated with ABC. By early May of 1978 "Saturday Night Live" returned to WICD, while WICS continued it's airing of their own "Saturday Night Movie" at least for a while. WICS would preempt NBC programming to air syndicated programs during prime time, in which the station could charge prime rates to more advertisers as there was more commercial time available during those syndicated shows. The Illinois State Journal-Register WICS would often time preempt NBC for the airing of local origination programming during the prime time during the month following a rating period. Bomke's broadcast career began in Central Illinois as a morning anchor and reporter for WICD-TV in Champaign and WICS-TV in her hometown of Springfield. Like the other stations in the market, WICS made the complete change over to color during the 1960s. Although, that wasn't all. Justin Carter and Brittany Hardaway (WICS) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) Many people are wondering where Newschannel 20 and FOX Illinois morning anchors Justin Carter and Brittany Hardaway have been. Quotation [14] = " 'FTVLive's Scott Jones one of the Most Important Media Reporters in America'- Mediaite" Champaign's sister station was allowed to break from the WICS program schedule and it would air "Saturday Night Live" as broadcast on NBC. While the network programming would shift from one set of stations to another, the syndicated shows would remain on the original stations, with some shifting time slots. He researched, produced, and presented award-winning investigative . It states that WICD was also purchased by Guy Gannett Communications in 1986. Combining the signals of WICS with WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign, and WICD, Channel 24 in Danville increased the audience of the Plains Television stations to nearly that of Midwest Television's WCIA, Channel 3. A link to the page for WICS is here, just click on the button above. Children's Miracle Network Benefit with WTAX Radio. With the eventual relaxation of ownership limits, Sinclair soon took the stations off the market and retained them. After a brief stint as a "Today" anchor, she left NBC News in . She's leaving WICS in Springfield, Ill. to join San Antonio NBC and Fox affiliates WOAI and KABB. Other previous jobs include working at WXIA . WICS Newschannel 20 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Springfield and nearby towns and communities in the Decatur, and Champaign area, including Jacksonville, Taylorville, Lincoln, Petersburg, Pana, Effingham, Shelbyville, Beardstown, Carlinville, Litchfield and Hillsboro. Fred Hickman, an influential sports broadcaster who became one of the early stars of CNN as host of "CNN Sports Tonight," has died. WICS Sold by Plains Television Partners to Guy Gannett Communications. It's unknown when WICS finally signed on with Saturday Night Live, but it was AFTER 1979. Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" Plains Television Partners held onto WICD making it the final property owned by the company before finally selling to Guy Gannett. // Do not change anything below this line June 13, 2019 | 5:43 am EDT by Hank Price, Hank Price: The commitment of local broadcasters and their owners to the communities they serve is legendary. Springfield IL Deadline-driven Anchor and Reporter for (then) #1 rated 6pm and 10pm newscasts. The effort on WRSP/WCCU was further expanded on January 20, 2014, when WICS began producing a two-hour weekday morning show for the Fox affiliates. Blocks NBC affil WAND came in second. One minute she's on the news, the next minute she's gone. On November 17, 2010, WICS became available to Dish Network customers in Terre Haute, Indiana as the ABC affiliate since the market lacked an affiliate of its own. The FCC considered making East Central Illinois an all-UHF market but dropped these plans under heavy lobbying from WCIA. Investigative Reporting, Journalism, Editing, Broadcast Journalism, Writing, Video, Avid, Final Cut Public Information Officer at Illinois State Treasurer's Office. Gordon was named the Executive Director of the Hoogland Center for the Arts on February 1, 2013. Radio Broadcasting, Adobe Audition, Broadcast, Feature Articles, Social Media, Storytelling, Radio, Communications Director at Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Communications Director- Illinois Department of Natural Resources. WRSP and WBUI share studios with WICS but WBUI also maintains an advertising sales office on South Main Street/US 51 in downtown Decatur. (YouTube). Here was a TV Guide entry for just such a pre-emption. That enabled WICS to compete on the level of attracting central Illinois viewers to nearly an equal plain to its major competitor. WICD (channel 15) in ChampaignUrbana operates as a semi-satellite of WICS. This was the 1965-66 Season Premiere Video produced for NBC Sales. This is a 1996 report on a local Springfield pastry tradition, Mel-O-Cream Donuts. When WICS moved from the former Leland Hotel studios, it moved into a large facility located at 2680 East Cook Street in Springfield. A 25-time Regional Emmy Award-winning anchor/reporter, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Writing Award winner, with nearly 40 years of broadcast news experience. The time slots would also be occupied by adult fare as well as syndicated shows like, "The Mike Douglas Show," "The John Gary Show" and "The Merv Griffin Show." It as done with a panel which included John Barbour, Sarah Percell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, Bill Rafferty, Mark Russell, Fred Willard and even Peter Billingsley(of "Christmas Story"). Hazard, Kentucky . WICS News Anchors. Decatur Public Library On June 26, 2010, rival WAND became the first television station in East-Central Illinois to upgrade news production to high definition level. Meteorologists at local stations under Sinclairs auspices are encouraged or at times, forced into declaring code red days, the decision often made by management. He was 66. Traveled on assignment . This is a complete newscast from August 1999 with Don Hickman and Susan Finzen. Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; WICS would broadcast St. Louis Cardinal Baseball during the era as well. 2016, WICS News Anchor Team, Stacey Skrysak, John Reger, (YouTube). The picture with WICS staff members was taken sometime in the last days of "The Virginian" or during the 1974-75 era of "Lucas Tanner" which aired on NBC. This was the 1965-66 Season Premiere Video produced for NBC Sales. This left WICS and WICD without a major network affiliation. In 1960, it bought WDAN-TV (another low-powered station in Danville) and changed the calls to WICD. The relationship of the two central Illinois NBC affiliates was so intertwined that it would be questionable that either one could continue to be successful without the other. He would remain as WCIA's News Director until 1967. This arrangement nearly brought down WICD, and for a time, it appeared the station would revert to a full-time satellite of WICS. He was 74. The union had represented six employees until its contract expired onNov. 15. Click here to view a video of a news segment on the people trying out for a "Real People" segment from syracuse.com. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. For those of you who have sent me direct messages asking about my whereabouts because you have not seen me on the local evening newscasts, please know that this is the first time in my broadcasting career in which I was not given the opportunity to say goodbye. This is a WICS 10 pm weathercast from February 4, 2014. 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