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Also known as CBS Detroit

WWJ-TV (channel 62), branded CBS Detroit, is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Stations division, and is sister to WKBD-TV (channel 50), an affiliate of The CW. The two stations share studios on Eleven Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield; WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park, Michigan.

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  • Prior use of channel 62 in Detroit
  • WGPR-TV
  • Built by Masons
  • Signing on with a local focus
  • Financial and technical challenges
  • Turning to religion and creativity
  • After Banks's death
  • Changes and controversies
  • CBS comes calling
  • Legacy of WGPR-TV
  • WWJ-TV
  • New name, new power, but no news
  • CBS–Viacom merger and ''62 CBS News''
  • "First Forecast"
  • CBS News Detroit
  • Technical information
  • Subchannels
  • Analog-to-digital conversion
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Documentaries
  • External links

WWJ-TV (channel 62), branded CBS Detroit, is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Stations division, and is sister to WKBD-TV (channel 50), an affiliate of The CW. The two stations share studios on Eleven Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield; WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park, Michigan.

Founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks and the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons as an extension of WGPR (), channel 62 in Detroit was the first Black-owned television station in the continental United States. Though its ambitious early programming plans catering to the Black community were not entirely successful due to economic and financial limitations, the station still produced several locally notable shows and housed a fully-staffed news department. WGPR-TV helped launch the careers of multiple local and national Black television hosts and executives, including Pat Harvey, Shaun Robinson, Sharon Dahlonega Bush, and Amyre Makupson. The original studios for WGPR-TV, still in use by the radio station, have been preserved as a museum and recognized as a historical landmark with inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WWJ-TV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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