Debbie Petersmark serves as Vice President/General Manager of WILX Media, a Gray Television station which operates WILX-TV 10 (NBC), WILX.com, and WILX Digital. Debbie joined the station in 2000 as an Account Executive and served as General Sales Manager from 2014-2018. Prior to joining WILX, she spent 10 years with Sparrow Foundation as the manager… read more
The Michigan Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to challenge what it calls the “unfair and unconstitutional proposed redistricting committee,” according to MIRS news service. The 25-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court’s Western Division, is the second lawsuit aimed to stop Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson from taking any steps to implement constitutional… read more
On August 7, the NAB urged the FCC to move without delay in reallocating 200 MHz of C-band spectrum (between 3.7 and 4.3 GHz) for terrestrial wireless service. The broadcast association also asked the FCC to bar shared use of the portion of C-band spectrum not reallocated to wireless use. The NAB said that if… read more
By: David Oxenford, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP Notice was published in the Federal Register August 16 of the FCC’s changes in the children’s television rules – setting the effective date for most of those new rules as September 16. The elimination of the obligation to air three hours of children’s educational and informational programming for each… read more
By: Seth Resler, Jacobs Media Strategies When it comes to radio, most of our content is very timely. This makes sense for the medium. After all, a DJ’s break is spoken, then disappears into the ether, never to be heard again. So there’s a need to be in the moment, talking about whatever is relevant… read more
Following his induction last week to the Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame, WILX-TV (Lansing) sportscaster Tim Staudt was honored again with a one-hour television special titled “Decades with the Dean,” hosted by news anchor David Andrews. The program aired August 15 from 7 to 8 p.m. The special featured a sit down with Staudt, where… read more
On August 15, 1949, the station now known as WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids) signed on. Originally WLAV-TV and operating on channel 7, the station was the only one in Grand Rapids, carrying programming from NBC, CBS, ABC and the DuMont network. In a story published on WOODTV.com, the first broadcast was from a gala at Midtown… read more
WXYZ-TV (Detroit) was honored with a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists at the NABJ’s annual convention and career fair in Florida on August 10. The award was given to the Bounce Detroit special, “Spotlight on the News: Inside Michigan’s African American Vote,” in the television top 15 market category… read more
Cadillac Telecasting Company’s WFQX-TV (Cadillac) reports that they’ve returned to over-the-air opearation following the August 2018 fire at the shared WWTV-TV transmitter site in Tustin. Following the fire, a nationwide search was made to locate a sufficient substitute and an order was made for a custom built transmitter powerful enough to cover WFQX’s 30 plus… read more
Blarney Stone Broadcasting and the Detroit Lions Radio Network have announced a partnership that will bring NFL football to the Traverse City region on WLDR-FM (101.9) for the next two seasons. That includes all four preseason games in August and all 16 regular-season games starting on Sept. 9. All Lions games also can be heard… read more