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WMTV
WMTV (channel 15) is a television station in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW. The station is owned by Gray Media and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Forward Drive in the Greentree neighborhood on Madison's southwest side. WMTV was the second television station to air in Madison, beginning in July 1953 just days after WKOW, and has been its NBC affiliate since signing on the air. Founded by a company controlled by the Bartell Group, it was sold to the Wisconsin Valley Television Company (later Forward Communications Corporation) in 1963. WMTV was successful and competitive in local news ratings under Forward in spite of the economic disadvantages inherent in being an ultra high frequency (UHF) station. However, after Forward was sold to a private equity firm in the 1980s, the station experienced a ratings slump. After a succession of owners in the late 1980s and 1990s, Gray acquired WMTV in 2002. The CW affiliation moved to this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBUW
WIFS (channel 57) is a television station licensed to Janesville, Wisconsin, United States, serving as the Ion Television affiliate for the Madison area. Owned by Byrne Acquisition Group, the station maintains studios on Syene Road on Madison's far south side, and its transmitter is located in Madison's Junction Ridge neighborhood. History As a UPN/WB/CW affiliate The station's original construction permit was granted on May 2, 1998, with the call letters WJNW. After a few delays and an aborted attempt to become Wisconsin's first digital-only broadcast TV outlet, the station, now under the WHPN call sign, would begin analog broadcasting on channel 57 in the summer of 1999, with partial test airings occurring the week before the station's full-time launch on July 5. The location of its then-transmitter, outside the Rock County community of Evansville, accorded WHPN to serve as the UPN affiliate for both the Madison and Rockford TV markets. Prior to WHPN's launch, UPN programmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKOW-TV
WKOW (channel 27) is a television station in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Allen Media Group. The station's studios are located on Tokay Boulevard on Madison's west side, and its transmitter is located on South Pleasant View Road in the city's Junction Ridge neighborhood. History WKOW-TV (the suffix was dropped from the call sign in 2009) was launched on June 30, 1953, as Madison's first television station. The station was originally aligned with CBS and owned by the Monona Broadcasting Company, led by a group of local area businessmen along with WKOW radio (AM 1070, now WTSO). The WKOW call sign was an acknowledgment to Wisconsin's dairy industry, and featured a smiling bovine (or cow) alongside the emphasized "K-O-W" of the call sign. WKOW-AM-TV shared studios on Tokay Boulevard on Madison's west side beginning in 1953. WKOW-TV remained with CBS until 1956, when CBS moved to the new WISC-TV. WKOW-TV subsequently joined ABC (who had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKOW
WKOW (channel 27) is a television station in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC and owned by Allen Media Group. The station's studios are located on Tokay Boulevard on Madison's west side, and its transmitter is located on South Pleasant View Road in the city's Junction Ridge neighborhood. History WKOW-TV (the suffix was dropped from the call signs in North America, call sign in 2009) was launched on June 30, 1953, as Madison's first television station. The station was originally aligned with CBS and owned by the Monona Broadcasting Company, led by a group of local area businessmen along with WKOW radio (AM 1070, now WTSO). The WKOW call sign was an acknowledgment to Wisconsin's dairy industry, and featured a smiling bovine (or cow) alongside the emphasized "K-O-W" of the call sign. WKOW-AM-TV shared studios on Tokay Boulevard on Madison's west side beginning in 1953. WKOW-TV remained with CBS until 1956, when CBS moved to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wometco Enterprises
Wometco Enterprises (also known simply as Wometco) is an American company headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida; a suburb of Miami. It was once a large media company with diversified holdings, but slowly sold off its assets during the early 1980s, and owned the Miami Seaquarium until it was sold in 2014. History Wometco was founded in 1925 as the Wolfson-Meyer Theater Company, a movie theatre chain based in Miami. The company's co-founders were brothers-in-law Mitchell Wolfson (1900–1983) and Sidney Meyer. The first movie theater opened by the firm was the Capitol Theater in downtown Miami, built in 1926. Over the years the company built up the largest chain of movie theaters in South Florida, and adopted the portmanteau name of ''Wometco'' sometime in the 1950s. In 1949 Wometco moved into broadcasting with the founding of WTVJ in Miami, Florida's first television station. The station signed on in March 1949 from studios inside the Capitol Theatre, which was renovated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartell Group
The Bartell Group, later known as Bartell Broadcasters, Bartell Family Radio, Macfadden-Bartell, and the Bartell Media Corporation, was a family-owned company that owned a number of radio stations in the United States during the 1940s through the 1960s. Family members involved in the radio operations included five siblings, Gerald "Jerry" Bartell, Melvin Bartell, Lee Bartell, David Bartell, Rosa Bartell Evans, and one sibling-in-law, Ralph Evans. Several of them got their start in while attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin and participating in the operations of university-owned station WHA (AM), WHA. They entered the radio business with Milwaukee station WOKY#Beginnings: WEXT, WEXT in 1947, on the belief that between them they had expertise in law, engineering, music, writing, and acting, all of which would prove useful in the field. Some of the more well-known stations the Bartell Group owned include WOKY#WOKY, The Mighty 92, WOKY in Milwaukee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population, second-most populous city in the state, with a population of 269,840 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Madison metropolitan area had 680,796 residents. Centrally located on an isthmus between Lakes Lake Mendota, Mendota and Lake Monona, Monona, the vicinity also encompass Lakes Lake Wingra, Wingra, Lake Kegonsa, Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa, Waubesa. Madison was founded in 1836 and is named after American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and President James Madison. It is the county seat of Dane County. As the state capital, Madison is home to government chambers including the Wisconsin State Capitol building. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. Major companies in the area include American Family Insurance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forward (statue)
''Forward'' is an 1893 bronze statue by American Sculpture, sculptor Jean Pond Miner Coburn depicting an embodiment of Wisconsin's "Forward" motto. The 1996 replica is located at the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds at the top of State Street (Madison), State Street. The statue often is misidentified with the Wisconsin (statue), ''Wisconsin'' statue on top of the Capitol dome. History During the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Miner and Helen Farnsworth Mears were named artists-in-residence at the Wisconsin Building. At that time, Miner was commissioned to create a work of art representing the state. She created ''Forward''; "Forward" is the motto of the state of Wisconsin. A souvenir pamphlet from the Exposition described the statue as representing "a female figure standing upon the Bow (watercraft), prow of a boat, the Figurehead (object), figurehead of which is 'Old Abe.' The boat is surging through the water, and the figure, poised gracefully but firmly upon the prow, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carson Gulley
Carson Gulley (June 9, 1897 – November 2, 1962) was head chef at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1926 to 1954. He is known in part for popularizing a recipe for fudge-bottom pie that is still served on campus today. The refectory where he once served as head chef is now known as Carson Gulley Commons. It was the first university building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to be named after an African American. Gulley was also a local pioneer in television and radio cooking programming. From 1953 to 1962, Gulley had his own weekly cooking show, called ''What's Cooking'', on local television station WMTV. Also, in 1953, he hosted a twice-weekly local radio cooking program, called '' WIBA Cooking School of the Air'', and each month compiled the program's recipes in booklets that listeners could request by mail. He and his wife Beatrice were the first African American couple to host their own television show in Wisconsin in the 1950s. He led the Madison branch of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WISC-TV
WISC-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is the flagship television property of locally based Morgan Murphy Media, which has owned the station since its inception. WISC-TV's studios are located on Raymond Road in Madison, and its transmitter is located on South Pleasant View Road in Madison's Junction Ridge neighborhood. History WISC-TV first took to the airwaves on June 24, 1956, taking over Madison's CBS affiliation from WKOW-TV (which retained ABC affiliation). It was originally a sister station to WISC radio (1480 AM, now WLMV at 1480 and WOZN at 1670 AM). Both were owned by Morgan Murphy Stations, the broadcasting division of the Evening Telegram Company of Superior, Wisconsin. That company still owns channel 3 today, though it sold off its print interests in 2003 and moved its headquarters to Madison. It has since changed its trade name to Morgan Murphy Media. Despite being the state's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSAW-TV
WSAW-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Fox affiliate WZAW-LD (channel 33). The two stations share studios on Grand Avenue/ US 51 in Wausau; WSAW-TV's transmitter is located on Rib Mountain. To serve the Northwoods area of Northern Wisconsin, it operates a digital fill-in translator in Sayner (W21DS-D) that also covers Eagle River. This station broadcasts on UHF channel 21 (also mapping to virtual channel 7) from a transmitter on Razorback Road in unincorporated Vilas County (north of Sayner). The low-power repeater also serves the western portion of Michigan's Upper Peninsula although the broadcasting radius is limited to Marenisco and Watersmeet. History The station launched on October 24, 1954, as WSAU-TV, a sister station to WSAU radio (550 AM) and the original WSAU-FM (95.5, now WIFC; the current WSAU-FM is on 99.9 FM). It was origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau ( ) is a city in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located along the Wisconsin River and had a population of 39,994 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the core city of the Wausau Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, which includes all of Marathon County and had a population of 138,013 in 2020. The city's suburbs include Schofield, Wisconsin, Schofield, Weston, Wisconsin, Weston, Mosinee, Wisconsin, Mosinee, Maine, Marathon County, Wisconsin, Maine, Rib Mountain (town), Wisconsin, Rib Mountain, Kronenwetter, Wisconsin, Kronenwetter, and Rothschild, Wisconsin, Rothschild. History Establishment and early history This area has for millennia changed hands between various indigenous peoples. The historic Ojibwe (also known in the United States as the Chippewa) occupied it in the period of European encounter. They had a lucrative fur trade for decades with French colonists and French Canadians. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
