Anchors Jerry Lambert and Marianne Manko are featured with weathercaster Kelly Curran. The station originally had facilities at the Leland Hotel on Capitol Street in Downtown Springfield. This is a complete newscast from August 1999 with Don Hickman and Susan Finzen. Before the high-def conversion, here is the 6 pm Newscast from WICS, Channel 20 from July 7, 2011. This is a special hour-long NBC News as broadcast from November 20, 1977. WICS Improvements/Planning Hickman was a CNN original one of the first faces seen . Fred Hickman, an influential sports broadcaster who became one of the early stars of CNN as host of "CNN Sports Tonight," has died. CNN reported that Hickman died Wednesday after battling liver cancer, according to his widow, Sheila. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WICS shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 20, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). TV Guide (1954-1959) from the Doug Quick Collection WICS serves the western half of the Central Illinois market while WICD serves the eastern portion. This week I began a new career in a new industry. Weekday programming in 1979 on WICS included the typical NBC daytime schedule of game and daytime dramas and locally originated off-network television series from the '60s and '70s. 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.. Here is a segment from a weekday feature on a local farmer's market with Thomas Patrick and an interview conducted by Joe Crain. That left a huge part of the rural areas including Charleston, Tuscola, and other east-centralcommunities without NBC network service from 1959 through 1967. Quotation[9] = "'FTVLive.com Scooped Everyone With News' - About.com "; At the time, UHF signals were not strong enough to cover large amounts of territory. WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign only broadcast a radius of about 15 miles from downtown Champaign. The Trustoria Service Professional Directory provides you with all the information needed to find the most qualified Journalist for every need. Now he might be out of a job", "A weatherman slammed his station's constant 'Code Red' warnings. 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"). I deeply regret that. Along with television, Elmer Balaban also owned a number of local radio stations in medium-size markets around the country. On Sundays, WICS would sign on at 6:30 am with a block of religious programming and public affairs. | Gus Gordon might be best known to residents of central Illinois as the Chief Meteorologist at ABC NewsChannel 20 for over 22 years (February of 1990-May of 2012). This is a 10 pm newscast from February 24, 2016. He researched, produced, and presented award-winning investigative . I am overjoyed at my new career and lifestyle change that promotes work life balance. Quotation[0] = "'Mr. Danville Area Weather Forecast. Don Hickman, former WICS Springfield News Channel 20 anchor, recalls his childhood in Tennessee, adolescent years, introduction to broadcasting via radio, switch to television and many of the events he covered during his career: the Civil Rights Movement, the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, and the Vietnam War. (YouTube), Newsteam, Douglas Kimball, Dale Coleman and Nick Alexander, TV Guide, Nick Charles formerly of WICS at CNN, CNN Screen Shot. "Real People" ran from 1979 to 1984 on NBC. Sinclair purchased most of Guy Gannett's stations, including WICS and WICD, in 1999. TVNewsCheck | As mentioned above, WICS frequently pre-empted prime time programming to insert its own programming. Brittany is no stranger to Illinois as she's worked at news stations in southern and central . These paid commercial programs would pop up in March, June, August, and even December. Now Crain is officially out of a job. At one point in time, there had been a newscast weeknights at 5 that was simulcast on both outlets originating from Springfield.[4]. Neuhoff Broadcasting-Danville Both stations would air the NBC Nightly News but WICS would air it at its more traditional time at 5:30 pm, while WICD would follow its local news broadcast with the NBC news. June 10, 2019 | 6:34 am EDT by Brenden Moore. "[13] Despite complaints and comments from viewers on the station's social media platforms,[14] letters to the editor and local talk radio shows, Sinclair continued to mandate its meteorologists to use the terminology. By 1958, WICS was an exclusive NBC affiliate. Along with several other Sinclair properties, WICS/WICD did not participate in the wider implementation of the company's now-defunct, controversial News Central format for their newscasts. 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. Along with television, Elmer Balaban also owned a number of local radio stations in medium-size markets around the country. The Decatur Herald-Review Newspaper WCCU's advertising sales operation is also based out of WICD's studios. WICS-TV Jun 2018 - Feb 2020 1 year 9 months. [15][8][10][12] On June 13, a spokesman for Sinclair stated that he had been, in fact, let go. 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." This is a WICS 10 pm weathercast from February 4, 2014. During the Summer of 2004, it was announced that WAND would become the market's NBC station. Guy Gannett finally bought WICD in 1994. "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. 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. He left his position at NewsChannel 20 at the end of May 2012 to become the full-time Artistic Director at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, Illinois. 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. John Belushi who was with the show from 1975 to 1979, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin were there from. The existing hour-long WICS-produced newscast on WRSP, which had been simulcast on WCCU, was refocused to Springfield and became known as Fox News at Nine. Lemke has gone from The Weather Channel to the Chief Met at WICS in Springfield. 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. Mr. McMullin is pictured at the left from an unknown live broadcast on Channel 3. CBS Color 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. The Tonight Show followed, then Tomorrow would end the broadcast day. It was called the "Laramie" peacockbecause it was first used at the introductionof "Laramie" the first season it was produced/broadcast in color in 1962. Quotation [13] = " '(FTVLive) is a Mad Blogger'- Piers Morgan" WICS owner Sinclair did not give her the chance to tell . A link to the page for WICS is here, just click on the button above. He received CableACE awards in 1989 and 1993, and was a New York . James Isley This arrangement nearly brought down WICD, and for a time, it appeared the station would revert to a full-time satellite of WICS. She also co-anchored FOX40 Live Morning. It's unknown when WICS finally signed on with Saturday Night Live, but it was AFTER 1979. No corporation is perfect, nor is every policy. This is a clip from August 17, 2010 and the 5pm show. // ============================================== 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 This left WICS and WICD without a major network affiliation. Read more about those struggles in "Pictures on the Prairie" available by clicking on the link 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. The FCC considered making East Central Illinois an all-UHF market but dropped these plans under heavy lobbying from WCIA. Traveled on assignment . 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"). 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 . These broadcasts are known as ABC NewsChannel and feature a common graphics package seen on WICS and WICD. Meanwhile, WICS would struggle with the technical limitations of WCHU and WICD. July 3, 2019 | 6:36 am EDT by Kevin Eck, Sinclairs Springfield, Ill. ABC affiliate WICS and its former meteorologist Joe Crain have released a joint statement, saying they have resolved their differences in a private agreement and will be moving on from their dispute., CNN Business | 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. Randy Miller and his Facebook Photo Collection Dave Heller (who produced the 40th Anniversary of WICS and a number of screengrabs were taken) This change took effect after the final WICD-produced newscast aired on April 3. It states that WICD was also purchased by Guy Gannett Communications in 1986. This popular horror movie feature was produced at WQAD, Channel 8 in Moline, Illinois, and was syndicated to KCRG-TV(Cedar Rapids, Iowa), along with WEEK-TV(Peoria), and across central Illinois on WICS and WICD. WICS, Channel 20, Springfield, Rick Lipps The State Journal-Register | Springfield Area Weather Forecast. Gordon was named the Executive Director of the Hoogland Center for the Arts on February 1, 2013. Although WICD maintains its own studios on South Country Fair Drive in downtown Champaign, master control and most internal operations are based at WICS' facilities. 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. On Monday, he might not have a job to return to. Here was a TV Guide entry for just such a pre-emption. Here's a sample segment from "Real People" about an ugly dog contest. It wasn't purchased by Guy Gannett until 1994. In 1983, as part of a publicity stunt, the cast toured the country via a train called the "Real People Express." 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 titles included City Life, Advance Notice and Saturday Report. All three of which were simulcast on sister station WICD in Champaign. 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. Railsplitters would go on to sponsor the Sunday night movie as well, "The Sunday Cinema.". [21] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 20. By 1978, WHNB-TV was sold to Viacom, while the Balaban's retained their Plains Television Partners stations WICS and WICD. WICD would follow with a play of its public affairs program Assignment 15.. WRSP and WBUI share studios with WICS but WBUI also maintains an advertising sales office on South Main Street/US 51 in downtown Decatur. Some shows were pre-empted by reruns of, "The Gallant Men." Quotation[10] = "'The statement from New York-based NBC was in response to a report on the FTVLive' - Bloomberg"; If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Although the WRSP/WCCU newscast features market wide coverage, including contributions from WICD reporters based in Champaign, there is a separate weeknight weather segment for WRSP and WCCU that was seen. The situation with WICS/WICD wasunique when it came to Saturday Night Live. News Writing, Video Production, Social Media, Videography, Journalism, Broadcast, New Media, Director of Digital Sports Development at Neuhoff Media, WTAX News Director/Brand Manager at Saga Communications. 1976 Fall TV montage of shows broadcast during the week. WICS began operations on September 17, 1953 and was owned by Plains Television Partners of Springfield, which was a 50/50 joint venture of . Justin and Brittany are setting the record straight on why they will be away. It's been an incredible ride over the past 2+ years here in Springfield, one that I won't soon forget. Teresa Wilson Ericson She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Iowa State, and in 2006, was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Iowa State University. All of these stars were there before 1982. 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. The switch was to take place on Labor Day of 2005. Broadcasting-Telecasting Magazine (You Tube), Linda Ellerby doing an NBC News Update from 1977. I assume that because of the increased head-to-head competition with WCIA in Champaign, management at the time felt it beneficial to move the WICD local newscast to the 5:30 pm slot, while WICS would continue with the 6 pm slot, where it saw wide viewership. December 22, 2015 / Scott Jones. "I really like our weather team in Springfield, because I've got Joe (Crain) in the morning and . Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; WICD and its Sinclair sister station in the market, WICS, will begin sharing weekend newscasts that day. June 8, 2019 | 8:03 am EDT by Matthew Cappucci. 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. 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. Paul Davis would take the reins of Channel 3 News where he would continue through 1979. Most commercials were either done live or live on tape from the studios of WICS. It was originally called "NBC's Saturday Night" and premiered on October 11, 1975. Before 1967, in order to bring WICS and NBC programming across central and east-central Illinois, it took 4 TV signals. [3], On March 26, 2011, WICD ceased airing its own newscasts on weekends opting to simulcast those from WICS. This is a recording of the "A" block of a newscast from WICS in early May of 1997. [16] This is not the first time the station has taken issue with talent popular with their viewers; in 2015, chief meteorologist Ric Kearbey was unable to reach a deal with WICS on a new contract, while anchor Liz Foster resigned to take a new position in Charlotte, North Carolina.[17][18][19]. Included with the change was a new set at the Springfield studios and updated Sinclair corporate graphics. 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. Flooring America Eyenet Camera Network. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, WICD is considered . 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