WGTU
Encyclopedia
WGTU is the ABC
-affiliated television station
for the Northern Lower
and Eastern Upper
Peninsulas of Michigan
that is licensed to Traverse City
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 29 from a transmitter east of Kalkaska
. Like other network affiliates in this vast rural area, it operates a full-time satellite, WGTQ. Licensed to Sault Ste. Marie
, this station airs a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter approximately thirty miles SSE of Sault Ste. Marie near Goetzville in Southeastern Chippewa County
.
Together, the two are known on-air as ABC 29&8 and serve 23 counties in the Northern Lower Peninsula, three counties in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, and portions of Northern Ontario
including Sault Ste. Marie's Canadian sister city
. WGTU is owned by Tucker Broadcasting of Traverse City but operated through a shared services
agreement (SSA) by Barrington Broadcasting
, owner of NBC
affiliate WPBN-TV
and full-time satellite WTOM-TV. WGTU and WPBN share studios on M-72
west of Traverse City. This station operates Traverse City's cable-only
CW affiliate "WBVC"
on Charter
channel 61.
was split between CBS
affiliates WWTV/WWUP
(soap opera
s, game show
s) and WPBN/WTOM (weekend sporting events). In 1976, it added WGTQ in Sault Ste. Marie to bring the full ABC schedule to the Eastern Upper Peninsula.
For many years, WGTQ was available in large portions of the Canadian
provinces of Ontario
and Quebec
. However, it has not been seen in Canada since the early-2000s. In Sudbury, the Persona
cable system pulled WGTQ in favor of WXYZ-TV
from Detroit. In Rouyn-Noranda
and Val-d'Or, Quebec
, Cablevision
replaced WGTU with Boston
's WCVB-TV
. In the Canadian Sault, local cable provider Shaw Communications
opted instead for Flint
's ABC affiliate WJRT-TV
though it was later replaced by WXYZ.
From the start, WGTU was locally owned, most recently by Tom Scanlan (who also owns Marquette
's WBUP
and WBKP
as well as Alpena
's WBKB-TV
) until its 2003 sale to Max Media
. In 1998, the station began to provide promotional and advertising services for cable-only
WB affiliate "WBVC" which was based at WGTU's original studios on East Front Street in Downtown Traverse City. In early-November 2006, WGTU and WGTQ upgraded their digital signals to begin offering ABC in high definition which can also be seen on Charter digital channel 788.
On September 19, 2007, an application was filed to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) by Max Media to sell WGTU/WGTQ and its CW cable-only station to Tucker Broadcasting for $10 million. After FCC approval, Tucker entered into a shared sales agreement with Barrington Broadcasting. According to the FCC filing, WPBN would sell advertising time and provide other programming for WGTU. The same was approved in April 2008. After WPBN renovated its studios over the Summer, WGTU moved its operations from its longtime studios in Traverse City into WPBN's studios.
At some point in time, what had become CW affiliate "WBVC" was added to a new second digital subchannel of WGTU. This was done to offer non-cable viewers access to its programming. It also began using the WGTU-DT2 call sign in an official manner.
On June 12, 2009, WGTU and WGTQ reverted their digital signals back to the previous analog signal locations as part of the switch to digital-only broadcasting. On the same day, WGTU dropped WBVC from its second digital subchannel, replacing it with a simulcast of WPBN. This is because WTOM's digital signal no longer covers the Upper Peninsula side of the market. WBVC is now only available to customers of Charter Cable and not satellite or over the air viewers.
for a short period overnight on the weekends. Syndicated
programming on the station includes: The Dr. Oz Show
, The Insider
, According to Jim
, and Judge Judy
. It clears the entire ABC schedule, even though through 2008, network programming on the last Sunday in January was preempted for the yearly CBN
/700 Club
telethon as a part of its commitment to airing The 700 Club weekday mornings since the 1980s. This was also due to CBN personality Tim Robertson (son of Pat
) owning an interest in former station owner Max Media. This caused complaints about the pre-empted ABC Sports
programming. The issue became moot when Tucker/Barrington discontinued airing the show in Fall 2008 when it moved to Fox affiliates WFQX/WFUP
.
as well as a ten minute news and weather update seen weeknights at 11. The update is currently anchored by Lori Puckett, the station's only on-air personality. She appeared on WPBN in the local segments of the 2008 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
. One notable former news anchor from WGTU is Marc Schollett who is now the weeknight anchor on WPBN.
After WGTU consolidated its operations with WPBN, it became possible that a full-fledged local newscast would return to WGTU. On September 13, 2010, that station finally took advantage of this channel being housed in the same facility and launched a weeknight newscast at 6:30 on WGTU. As a result, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer moved to 7. The show features local news and weather but also goes into detail covering community events and various businesses. There is no sports report given in this broadcast. It originates from a secondary set. Like all CW Plus stations in the Eastern Time Zone
, "WBVC" airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz
on weekdays from 6 until 9.
UpNorthLive Tonight
(weeknights 6:30 to 7)
ABC 29&8 News Break
(weeknights 11 to 11:10)
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...
-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 Northern Lower
Lower Peninsula of Michigan
The Lower Peninsula of Michigan is the southern of the two major landmasses of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is surrounded by water on all sides except its southern border, which it shares with Ohio and Indiana. Geographically, the Lower Peninsula has a recognizable shape that many people...
and Eastern Upper
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan. It is also known as the land "above the Bridge" linking the two peninsulas. The peninsula is bounded...
Peninsulas of Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
that is licensed to 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...
. 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 29 from a transmitter east of Kalkaska
Kalkaska, Michigan
Kalkaska is a village in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 2,226. It is the county seat of Kalkaska County.-Geography:...
. Like other network affiliates in this vast rural area, it operates a full-time satellite, WGTQ. Licensed to Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie is a city in and the county seat of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the north-eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the Canadian border, separated from its twin city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, by the St. Marys River...
, this station airs a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter approximately thirty miles SSE of Sault Ste. Marie near Goetzville in Southeastern Chippewa County
Chippewa County, Michigan
-National protected areas:* Harbor Island National Wildlife Refuge* Hiawatha National Forest * Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge-Demographics:...
.
Together, the two are known on-air as ABC 29&8 and serve 23 counties in the Northern Lower Peninsula, three counties in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, and portions of Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron , the French River and Lake Nipissing. The region has a land area of 802,000 km2 and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it contains only about 6% of the population...
including Sault Ste. Marie's Canadian sister city
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in...
. WGTU is owned by Tucker Broadcasting of Traverse City but operated through a shared services
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
agreement (SSA) by Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC , headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois is an entity wholly focused on broadcast television. The company's assets mainly consist of television stations in middle and small sized markets...
, owner of 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 WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Northern Lower and Eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan that is licensed to Traverse City. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter east of Kalkaska...
and full-time satellite WTOM-TV. WGTU and WPBN share studios on M-72
M-72 (Michigan highway)
M-72 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan, running from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan across the northern part of the Lower Peninsula. The highway connects M-22 in Empire with US Highway 23 in Harrisville. It is one of only three Michigan state trunklines that cross the Lower...
west of Traverse City. This station operates Traverse City's cable-only
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....
CW affiliate "WBVC"
WBVC (The CW Plus)
"WBVC" is the cable TV only CW-affiliated television station for the Northern Lower and Eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. The call sign is fictional as it is a cable-only station. It is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and/or over-the-air on a digital signal. WBVC...
on Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
channel 61.
History
WGTU began broadcasting on January 23, 1971. Before that, ABC programming in Northern MichiganNorthern Michigan
Northern Michigan, also known as Northern Lower Michigan , is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan...
was split between 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...
affiliates WWTV/WWUP
WWTV
WWTV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the northern Lower and eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. Licensed to Cadillac, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter at its studios on 130th Avenue, northeast of Tustin, in Osceola County. At 1,631...
(soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
s, game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
s) and WPBN/WTOM (weekend sporting events). In 1976, it added WGTQ in Sault Ste. Marie to bring the full ABC schedule to the Eastern Upper Peninsula.
For many years, WGTQ was available in large portions of the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
provinces of Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
and Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. However, it has not been seen in Canada since the early-2000s. In Sudbury, the Persona
Persona Inc.
Persona Communications, formerly Regional Cablesystems, was a cable television, Internet and telecommunications provider in Canada.Persona was purchased by EastLink in 2007. At that point it ceased to be an independent company, and was used only as a brand by some of EastLink's operations in...
cable system pulled WGTQ in favor of WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Detroit, Michigan, USA. WXYZ-TV is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and is the media company's largest-market TV station property...
from Detroit. In Rouyn-Noranda
Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
Rouyn-Noranda is a city on Osisko Lake in northwestern Quebec, Canada.The city of Rouyn-Noranda is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of Quebec of the same name...
and Val-d'Or, Quebec
Val-d'Or, Quebec
-External links:* ***...
, Cablevision
Cablevision (Canada)
Cablevision du Nord du Québec is a cable television and Internet provider in Canada. The company predominantly serves the Abitibi-Témiscamingue area, though it serves other parts of Quebec and Ontario as well....
replaced WGTU with Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
's WCVB-TV
WCVB-TV
WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
. In the Canadian Sault, local cable provider Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
opted instead for 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...
's ABC affiliate WJRT-TV
WJRT-TV
WJRT-TV, channel 12, is the ABC-affiliated station for the Flint/Tri-Cities television market, owned by SJL Broadcasting. Its studios are located in Flint, Michigan, with offices and a second newsroom for the Tri-Cities located in Saginaw...
though it was later replaced by WXYZ.
From the start, WGTU was locally owned, most recently by Tom Scanlan (who also owns Marquette
Marquette, Michigan
Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...
's WBUP
WBUP
WBUP is the ABC-affiliated television station for Michigan's Central Upper Peninsula licensed to Ishpeming. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Humboldt Township. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 10 and in high definition on digital...
and WBKP
WBKP
WBKP is the CW-affiliated television station for Michigan's Central Upper Peninsula licensed to Calumet. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 5 from a transmitter on Tolonen Hill in Atlantic Mine. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 2...
as well as 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...
's 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...
) until its 2003 sale 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 1998, the station began to provide promotional and advertising services for cable-only
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
WB affiliate "WBVC" which was based at WGTU's original studios on East Front Street in Downtown Traverse City. In early-November 2006, WGTU and WGTQ upgraded their digital signals to begin offering ABC in high definition which can also be seen on Charter digital channel 788.
On September 19, 2007, an application was filed to the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) by Max Media to sell WGTU/WGTQ and its CW cable-only station to Tucker Broadcasting for $10 million. After FCC approval, Tucker entered into a shared sales agreement with Barrington Broadcasting. According to the FCC filing, WPBN would sell advertising time and provide other programming for WGTU. The same was approved in April 2008. After WPBN renovated its studios over the Summer, WGTU moved its operations from its longtime studios in Traverse City into WPBN's studios.
At some point in time, what had become CW affiliate "WBVC" was added to a new second digital subchannel of WGTU. This was done to offer non-cable viewers access to its programming. It also began using the WGTU-DT2 call sign in an official manner.
On June 12, 2009, WGTU and WGTQ reverted their digital signals back to the previous analog signal locations as part of the switch to digital-only broadcasting. On the same day, WGTU dropped WBVC from its second digital subchannel, replacing it with a simulcast of WPBN. This is because WTOM's digital signal no longer covers the Upper Peninsula side of the market. WBVC is now only available to customers of Charter Cable and not satellite or over the air viewers.
Programming
WGTU airs 24 hours a day during the week although it shows a test patternTest Pattern
Test Pattern may refer to:* Test Pattern , a Canadian game show* Test Pattern , an album by Sonia Dada* Test pattern or test card, a television test signal...
for a short period overnight on the weekends. 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: The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
, The Insider
The Insider (TV series)
The Insider is an American tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information...
, According to Jim
According to Jim
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001 to June 2, 2009.-Synopsis:Jim is an abrasive but lovable suburban father...
, and Judge Judy
Judge Judy
Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...
. It clears the entire ABC schedule, even though through 2008, network programming on the last Sunday in January was preempted for the yearly CBN
Christian Broadcasting Network
The Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, is a fundamentalist Christian television broadcasting network in the United States. Its headquarters and main studios are in Virginia Beach, Virginia.-Background:...
/700 Club
The 700 Club
The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom will host on any...
telethon as a part of its commitment to airing The 700 Club weekday mornings since the 1980s. This was also due to CBN personality Tim Robertson (son of Pat
Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the Christian Right in the United States....
) owning an interest in former station owner Max Media. This caused complaints about the pre-empted ABC Sports
ESPN on ABC
ESPN on ABC is the brand used for sports programming on the ABC television network. Officially the broadcast network retains its own sports division; however, for all practical purposes, ABC's sports division has been merged with ESPN, a sports cable network majority-owned by ABC's parent, The...
programming. The issue became moot when Tucker/Barrington discontinued airing the show in Fall 2008 when it moved to Fox affiliates WFQX/WFUP
WFQX-TV
WFQX-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the northern Lower and eastern Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. Licensed to Cadillac, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32 from a transmitter at studios on 130th Avenue/Dighton Road in Tustin on Grove Hill...
.
Newscasts
WGTU initially had a full-fledged news department. However, it made little headway against WWTV and WPBN. The news department was significantly cut back in 1984, and for more than a quarter-century it aired almost no local newscasts at all. The only local news on the station were weekday morning news, weather, and sports cut-ins at :25 and :55 past the hour during Good Morning AmericaGood Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
as well as a ten minute news and weather update seen weeknights at 11. The update is currently anchored by Lori Puckett, the station's only on-air personality. She appeared on WPBN in the local segments of the 2008 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
The MDA Labor Day Telethon is an annual telethon in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association . The first MDA telethon was during the Thanksgiving Day weekend of 1952 and titled Party for MDA. It has been held annually since 1966...
. One notable former news anchor from WGTU is Marc Schollett who is now the weeknight anchor on WPBN.
After WGTU consolidated its operations with WPBN, it became possible that a full-fledged local newscast would return to WGTU. On September 13, 2010, that station finally took advantage of this channel being housed in the same facility and launched a weeknight newscast at 6:30 on WGTU. As a result, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer moved to 7. The show features local news and weather but also goes into detail covering community events and various businesses. There is no sports report given in this broadcast. It originates from a secondary set. Like all CW Plus stations in the Eastern Time Zone
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
, "WBVC" 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...
on weekdays from 6 until 9.
UpNorthLive Tonight
(weeknights 6:30 to 7)
- Anchor:
- Erika Erickson
- Weather:
- Mark Watkins
- Reporter:
- Jamie Kramer
ABC 29&8 News Break
(weeknights 11 to 11:10)
- Anchor:
- Lori Puckett
Newscast titles
- 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...
(1970s) - ABC 29&8 News (1990s)
- UpNorthLive Tonight (2009-present)