(You Tube). Board of Directors at YMCA, Board of Directors at American Red Cross Illinois Capital Area Chapter, DM at Ace Hardware, District Manager at Ace Hardware Corporation - Oak Brook , IL, District Manager at Ace Hardware Corporation - Oak Brook , IL. Here is a segment from a weekday feature on a local farmer's market with Thomas Patrick and an interview conducted by Joe Crain. The FCC considered making East Central Illinois an all-UHF market but dropped these plans under heavy lobbying from WCIA. Quotation[1] = "'The One-Man Website That Broke the Jay Leno Story' - About.com "; The SangamonLink has posted about historical highlights for Sangamon County including a story about WICS television history, in which it credits me as a source. The station originally had facilities at the Leland Hotel on Capitol Street in Downtown Springfield. Plains ownership of WICS would come to a close in 1986 when the NBC affiliate in the Illinois state capital city was sold to Guy Gannett Publications of Portland, Maine. 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. It seems that Saturday Night Live replaced a time period in which local stations previously programmed it to air movies and other syndicated programming. You can see Robert Wilson in WICS's early history as a cast member of "Pegwill's Circus", 1972 Chuck Acri host of the Acri Creature Feature, picture from Houseofthejitters.com, 1972 Chuck Acri and characters from the Acri Creature Feature, picture from Houseofthejitters.com, 1972 Acri Creature Feature, picture from Houseofthejitters.com, Acri Creature Feature This probably wasn't met favorably by NBC, but it seems that it didn't stop WICS from doing it. March 3, 2015 | 10:02 am EST by TVNewsCheck, The State Journal-Register | She also was the Interim Chief Meteorologist at WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana. Be sure to check other regions around Springfield, IL to locate the records of more people. Pictured are WICS staff members Robert Wilson and John McKinney. (from the Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide), "Real People" was a reality-based variety show which gave a number of "real" people/groups their 15-minutes of fame in front of a national audience. Klein's imminent exit was first reported by FTVLive' - NY Times"; Unlike the WRSP/WCCU show, WCFN's broadcast originated from WCIA's Champaign facilities but was targeted specifically at a Springfield audience. Plains Television Partners held onto WICD making it the final property owned by the company before finally selling to Guy Gannett. Hickman was a CNN original one of the first faces seen . At Sinclair, employees are our most valuable asset. 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. [1] However, it was a primary NBC affiliate. 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. He was 74. Until October 13, 2014, WICD's separate weekday newscasts at its Champaign headquarters were not included in the upgrade because that set lacked high definition cameras. The owners of Plains Television Partners were Harry and Elmer Balaban, the two younger brothers of Barney Balaban, who was the head of Paramount Pictures during the 1940s and '50s. WICS would often time preempt NBC for the airing of local origination programming during the prime time during the month following a rating period. In 1960, it bought WDAN-TV (another low-powered station in Danville) and changed the calls to WICD. The switch was to take place on Labor Day of 2005. WICD (channel 15) in ChampaignUrbana operates as a semi-satellite of WICS. On Saturday afternoon NBC would broadcast baseball during the major league season, while empty time slots were often filled with other off-network series reruns like The Odd Couple. The midday on Saturdays also included various locally produced and syndicated public affairs programs. By 1978, WHNB-TV was sold to Viacom, while the Balaban's retained their Plains Television Partners stations WICS and WICD. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. They are subject to removal by the contributors and YouTube. 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.. Before 1967, in order to bring WICS and NBC programming across central and east-central Illinois, it took 4 TV signals. It was also known that the show would probably rile some advertisers which would make it difficult to sell to local ad buyers. I am overjoyed at my new career and lifestyle change that promotes work life balance. (see above) The movies included many of Hollywoods classic films from the Warner Brothers and MGM libraries. Quotation[5] = "'FTVLive was the first site to break the Jay Leno story' - KNX Radio"; The low powered translatoron channel 75 in Mattoon probably didn't broadcast much more than a few miles from Mattoon. (from Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide}. A link to the page for WICS is here, just click on the button above. With the threat of having channel 2 in its backyard being over, Plains Television Partners made a major commitment to central Illinois viewers with the building of a huge TV studio/office complex on Springfield's east side. Just drop me a note at the form on the Home page. "He was an instant star," recalled Vann, who retired in 2019 after 42 years on television and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. The titles included City Life, Advance Notice and Saturday Report. All three of which were simulcast on sister station WICD in Champaign. The switch was to take place on Labor Day of 2005. 1988 was the 50th anniversary of Springfield's Mel-O-Cream Donuts and Dave Heller did a report on the local company. This ice storm would bring down the newly constructed WICD tower. Former Weather Channel Anchor Cheryl Lemke hasn't run into Homer Simpson yet, but she is enjoying life in Springfield, Illinois. Hickman was an anchor at the ABC-affiliate from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. December 22, 2015 / Scott Jones. Blocks NBC affil WAND came in second. Effingham Area Weather Forecast. Mutual of Omaha's the Wild Kingdom would follow at 5 pm, then the NBC national newscast before prime time and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. After the 10 pm local newscast, both WICS/WICD would follow, more than likely, with the broadcast of yet another TV movie before sign-off. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! However, WICS' signal was not nearly strong enough to reach the eastern portion of the area. It was owned by Plains Television Partners and was a low-powered full-time satellite of Springfield's WICS. When "Star Trek" premiered, it was pre-empted by WICS for off-network reruns of "Laramie." Now Crain is officially out of a job. WICS News Anchors. WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign only broadcast a radius of about 15 miles from downtown Champaign. As a result, a nightly prime time newscast began airing on those two stations that was jointly produced by WICS/WICD. (YouTube). This change took effect after the final WICD-produced newscast aired on April 3. Springfield IL Deadline-driven Anchor and Reporter for (then) #1 rated 6pm and 10pm newscasts. Guy Gannett finally bought WICD in 1994. --from Gus Gordon's Linkedin profile, September 5, 2005, first day at being an ABC affiliate, Gus Gordon (Doug Quick Collection), August 2010, Gus Gordon (Doug Quick Collection). One long-time fixture on NewsChannel 20 Joe Crain shows what made him Springfield's favorite weather guy. TV Guide (1954-1959) from the Doug Quick Collection 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. There were some TV classics there, such as the acclaimed Brian's Song but most were very forgettable. var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! WICS/WICD was to have switched to ABC at the beginning of the 200405 television season, but it was required to remain with NBC for another year, as its affiliation contract with the station did not expire until September 4 of the following year. Local newscasts, produced by WICS, are simulcast on both stations. Click on the button to see the program schedule from the dates indicated above. At least four local businesses have pulled their advertising from WICS Springfield, Ill., in support of meteorologist Joe Crain, who has been absent from the stations broadcasts following his on-air criticism of owner Sinclair Broadcast Groups Code Red weather alert system. WICS (channel 20) is a television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States, affiliated with ABC. 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. Creative Services at WICS during the 60th Anniversary of WICS from which the recreation of the WICS logo (1st in Springfield) was included as the first graphic of this page WCIA 3 Severe Weather Center. Pictured below are few snapshots from their visit in Springfield, IL supplied by WICS. 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. Sinclair is providing sales and other non-programming services to the stations pursuant to shared services and joint sales agreements. 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. The FCC ruled HMTF held enough stock in Sunrise that if it bought WICS/WICD, it would have created a duopoly between two of the four highest-rated stations in the market, which is forbidden by FCC rules. Joe Crain Click here to view a video of a news segment on the people trying out for a "Real People" segment from syracuse.com. WICS would often time preempt NBC for the airing of local origination programming during the prime time during the month following a rating period. 2016, WICS News Anchor Team, Stacey Skrysak, John Reger, (YouTube). They might have had a strange talent, demonstrated a stunt, had a peculiar occupation.I think you get the idea. 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. 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). Strategic Planning, E-learning, Higher Education Marketing, Educational Technology, Higher Technical Director at THINK TeleVisual LLC., Digital Media Mechandising Producer at Anderson Technical Director at THINK TeleVisual LLC. // Free for all; but please leave in this header. Price Point | Was The Code Red Meteorologist Right? // ====================================== This is a complete newscast from August 1999 with Don Hickman and Susan Finzen. WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign only broadcast a radius of about 15 miles from downtown Champaign. All of these stars were there before 1982. ".and so it goes.". Both WRSP/WCCU and WBUI were initially operated from separate facilities from WICS/WICD. 1976 Fall TV montage of shows broadcast during the week. WICS disappeared from the Terre Haute local feed in the fall of 2011 after that city's Fox affiliate, WFXW, rejoined ABC as WAWV-TV. 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. Mutual of Omaha's the Wild Kingdom would follow at 5 pm, then the NBC national newscast before prime time and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. After the 10 pm local newscast, both WICS/WICD would follow, more than likely, with the broadcast of yet another TV movie before sign-off. WCIA 3 Weather Special. From the start, NewsChannel at 9 competed with a newscast already established in the time slot on then-UPN affiliate WCFN (produced by WCIA). This is a clip from August 17, 2010 and the 5pm show. 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. // Set up the quotations to be shown, below. Although, that wasn't all. A website has all the details about the "Acri Creature Feature", On Sunday mornings when other TV stations were offering religious or public affairs programming, WICS and WICD were giving us the "Sunday Morning Movie." In June 2019, Sinclair fired Joe Crain, a weekday morning meteorologist who had been with WICS since 2006,[7] for speaking out on-air during the June 5 edition of NewsChannel 20 Sunrise against a group mandate to Sinclair's news-producing stations to denote threats of severe thunderstorm activity through "Code Red" alerts, regardless of the severity of the event being forecast, stating that the system was "created by, likely, a journalism school graduate," rather than a professional meteorologist. Danville Public Library This operations saw local news operations reduced at some stations and combined with national news coverage, weather forecasting, and sports headlines based out of Sinclair's headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland. | June 12, 2019 | 6:22 am EDT by AP Staff. Other previous jobs include working at WXIA . June 11, 2019 | 6:23 am EDT by John O'Connor, 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. Writer and photographer at Illinois Times, Freelance Writer and Newsletter Editor at myself, Executive Director at Energy Education Council, Trustee at Springfield Park District, Press Secretary at Illinois House Republicans, Press Spokesperson for IL House Republican Leader Tom Cross, Press Secretary at IL Senate Republican Staff, Press Secretary, IL. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); // ============================================== The situation with WICS/WICD wasunique when it came to Saturday Night Live. Here is a complete directory of nearly every professional News Anchors nearby. (YouTube). The situation with WICS/WICD wasunique when it came to Saturday Night Live. WICD's transmitter is near the border between Illinois and Indiana, and WICD was carried on most cable systems on the Illinois side of the Terre Haute market. Jordan Elder is switching Sinclair owned stations. The Urbana Courier Newspaper Total Television by Alex McNeil. He received CableACE awards in 1989 and 1993, and was a New York . [2] WCFN's prime time broadcast would be eventually canceled by WCIA on September 28, 2009. This arrangement nearly brought down WICD, and for a time, it appeared the station would revert to a full-time satellite of WICS. Randy Miller and his Facebook Photo Collection When WICS moved from the former Leland Hotel studios, it moved into a large facility located at 2680 East Cook Street in Springfield. Quotation [15] = " 'FTVLive Reported the Story First'- NY Times" Well Poteau has left the station and TV news altogether. WICS serves the western half of the Central Illinois market while WICD serves the eastern portion. At one point in time, there had been a newscast weeknights at 5 that was simulcast on both outlets originating from Springfield.[4]. Click on the button to see the program schedule from the dates indicated above. These paid commercial programs would pop up in March, June, August, and even December. On Sundays, WICS would sign on at 6:30 am with a block of religious programming and public affairs. 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. Plains Television sold WICS to Guy Gannett Communications (no relation to the larger Gannett Company), in 1986 but held onto WICD until 1994. Lincoln Library-Springfield He was 66. Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; 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." It seems that Saturday Night Live replaced a time period in which local stations previously programmed it to air movies and other syndicated programming. 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. Known as Good Day Illinois, the program can be seen from 7 until 9 and offers a local alternative to the national morning programs seen on the big three networks. Hazard, Kentucky . This full-powered, full-color facility would replace Channel 33, 24 and 75 in central Illinois and would bring rural viewers from Crawfordsville, Indiana to Decatur, Illinois NBC programming. 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. TV Spy | WICD, Channel 15 was the result of a merger between two relatively lower powered sister stations of WICS. Later in the year, Sinclair signed the stations with ABC. Kathryn Dinardo Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" April 22, 2015, the NewsChannel 20 6pm newscast. Danville Area Weather Forecast. [21] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 20. Now he might be out of a job", "A weatherman slammed his station's constant 'Code Red' warnings. On June 26, 2010, rival WAND became the first television station in East-Central Illinois to upgrade news production to high definition level. CBS Color (from the Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide), The "Real People" Express visits Springfield, IL. | KHQA-TV (Quincy, IL) It was an unprecedented moment in history as former President Donald Trump and his legal team navigated the historic second impeachment trial. Before, Vince served as a news anchor at WICS in Springfield, Illinois. The ad from TV Guide above announced the reconstruction of the new tower which would bring WICD, Channel 15 to full power by the Summer of 1967. The low powered translatoron channel 75 in Mattoon probably didn't broadcast much more than a few miles from Mattoon. 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." Flip was WICS weathercaster for the six and ten-PM newscasts from 1973 to 1979. In addition to sporting director, Hickman was also a news reporter and sometimes news anchor, former WICS news director Les Vann recalled. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News" Multimedia journalists based at WICD's Champaign studios still provide coverage of the eastern areas of the market. As mentioned above, WICS frequently pre-empted prime time programming to insert its own programming. However, WCCU quickly moved its advertising sales operation from its location on South Neil Street/U.S. June 8, 2019 | 8:03 am EDT by Matthew Cappucci. (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".) Champaign's sister station was allowed to break from the WICS program schedule and it would air "Saturday Night Live" as broadcast on NBC. It was felt by the management of the time that WICS would be better served by keeping the late movie and airing the local commercials. On Monday, he might not have a job to return to. Please note that the schedule for WICD and WICS were virtually identical. This is a clip of the event. The Resignation of President Nixon as covered by NBC, August 8, 1974. This is a 1996 report on a local Springfield pastry tradition, Mel-O-Cream Donuts. This week I began a new career in a new industry. During the Summer of 2004, it was announced that WAND would become the market's NBC station. Through joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA), Sinclair also provides certain services to the area's Fox affiliate, Springfield-licensed WRSP-TV, channel 55 (and its semi-satellite, Urbana-licensed WCCU, channel 27), as well as Decatur-licensed CW outlet WBUI, channel 23 (all are owned by GOCOM Media, LLC). The Associated Press | Broadcast Journalism, News Writing, TV News Production, Media Relations, Video, Final Cut Pro, Director of Communication at Daughters of Wisdom, President at Savant Multimedia, LLC, Board Member Director of Communication at Daughters of Wisdom. The Illinois State Journal-Register . 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. In 1967, Plains Television merged WCHU and WICD into a new full-power station on UHF channel 15 under the WICD calls, but operating under the WCHU license. (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". WICS continued to be owned by Plains Television Partners from its beginnings through 1986 and co-owned with sister station WICD in Champaign. The Bloomington Pantagraph March 7, 2011 | 6:17 am EST by TVNewsCheck. This is a special hour-long NBC News as broadcast from November 20, 1977. Programming WICS from 1979 to 1986 Late Monday, WICS GM Rick Lipps said in a video posted to the stations website that Code Red, which may no longer be fitting, will be replaced with Weather Warn., The State Journal-Register | That enabled WICS to compete on the level of attracting central Illinois viewers to nearly an equal plain to its major competitor. 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