This probably wasn't met favorably by NBC, but it seems that it didn't stop WICS from doing it. President and Former Vice President of Print At one point in time, there had been a newscast weeknights at 5 that was simulcast on both outlets originating from Springfield.[4]. Syndicated Programming if(window.ImageLoader) window.ImageLoader.bootstrap({}, document);Squarespace.afterBodyLoad(Y); Anchor Leaves Station without a Word (Thanks to Sinclair). In addition to sporting director, Hickman was also a news reporter and sometimes news anchor, former WICS news director Les Vann recalled. Quotation [16] = " 'FTVLive.com a website I go too often for the latest news about the TV business (you should, too!)' He researched, produced, and presented award-winning investigative . Before, Vince served as a news anchor at WICS in Springfield, Illinois. June 8, 2019 | 8:03 am EDT by Matthew Cappucci. 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. December 22, 2015 / Scott Jones. Former WICS Anchor Don Hickman Dies at 74. WRSP and WBUI share studios with WICS but WBUI also maintains an advertising sales office on South Main Street/US 51 in downtown Decatur. It may cost him his job", "Where is Joe Crain? Facebook WICS serves the western half of the Central Illinois market while WICD serves the eastern portion. // To add more quotations, continue with the As such, it simulcasts all network and syndicated programming as provided through WICS, and the two stations share a website. 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. A few years into the split schedule between the two stations, it was decided by WICS that WICD should drop "Saturday Night Live" and air the WICS late movie. Us @2023 FTVLive LLC At the time, UHF signals were not strong enough to cover large amounts of territory. Some shows were pre-empted by reruns of, "The Gallant Men." 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 Please note that the schedule for WICD and WICS were virtually identical. (YouTube). Unfortunately, those local children's shows would end with the abundance of syndicated sitcoms. Before the high-def conversion, here is the 6 pm Newscast from WICS, Channel 20 from July 7, 2011. I am now the Marketing Manager for the Springfield Illinois Convention & Visitors Bureau. Weekend newscasts on WICD Champaign, Ill., will originate from Springfield, beginning March 26. 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. 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. There should be one correction, though. 1979, Newspaper ad from the Randy Miller Collection, TV Guide Ads for WICS March 7, 2011 | 6:17 am EST by TVNewsCheck. The weekend edition of the prime time news will continue to be a market-wide simulcast on WRSP and WCCU. 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. Springfield, Illinois Area Sports Reporter/Anchor WYMT Jun 2016 - Jun 2018 2 years 1 month. On December 31, 2012, the Sinclair Broadcast Group closed on the purchase of the non-license assets of GOCOM's three television stations, WRSP/WCCU and sister station WBUI for approximately $25.6 million. Most of the time it was to air more big dollar commercials during syndicated programming. Flip was WICS weathercaster for the six and ten-PM newscasts from 1973 to 1979. WICS would air paid religious programs by a professional evangelist, as well as paid info-commercials on behalf of charitable organizations. 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. These paid commercial programs would pop up in March, June, August, and even December. By Merrill Knox on Nov. 21, 2011 - 11:14 AM. Springfield TV weatherman off air since slamming station's Code Red "corporate initiative" during broadcast", "Weatherman Calls Out Sinclair Broadcasting For The Terrible Storm Alert System They Make Him Use", "WICS meteorologist Joe Crain criticizes 'Code Red' alerts", https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190613/sinclair-meteorologist-joe-crain-let-go-from-wics, "Viewers displeased after weatherman Ric Kearbey announces he's leaving WICS", "Former WICS personality Ric Kearbey raising money for online weather site", "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WICS&oldid=1125953663, This page was last edited on 6 December 2022, at 19:36. When the station was to go on the air in late January or early February of 1967, the area suffered a major ice storm. In the early days, the WICS studios would allow for cars to be driven into the studios as well as for the many children's shows which included a studio audience as well as a panel of local kids. During the Summer of 1967, the new WICD(channel 15) would go on the air from the tallest (tower)structure in the state of Illinois at the time. Quotation[6] = "'The site that everyone that works in TV News turns to' - NPR "; Director of the Center for Online Leadership and Strategy (COLS) at University Professional and Director of the UPCEA Center for Online Leadership and Strategy - and - UIS Associate Vice Chancellor of Online Learning. Social Media, Promotions, Multimedia, Non-linear Editing, Camera Operation, Voice Over, Creative Director at Illinois Department of Agriculture, Director at Staley Family Foundation, Talent at Television Commercials, Stay at Home Mom at My House. 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. Quotation [11] = "'Scott Jones, whose FTVLive.com Web site broke the story' - LA Daily News" 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. 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. It appears to have been a decision of new WICD Station Manager Joe Norris. Known as NewsChannel at 9 on Fox Illinois, it aired for a half-hour from a modified set at WICS' Springfield studios featuring unique duratrans indicating the Fox-branded show. Others in the news staff included: Dale Coleman, Nick Alexander, Kyle Hill, Dave Lange, Alan Crane, and others. CNN reported that Hickman died Wednesday after battling liver cancer, according to his widow, Sheila. Gus Gordon(weather), Don Hickman, Susan Finzen(anchors), Paul Wappel(sports) (courtesy WICS), Rebroadcast of vintage video showing Don Hickman and staff (courtesy of WICS). All of these stars were there before 1982. First day of ABC, Sept 5, 2005 (Doug Quick Collection), 2013 WICS Weekend Anchors, Sports, Santel Middleton and Joe Brooks (You Tube), WICS Master Control before 2011 (Joe Crain photo), Work being done to master control with new digital High Definition Equipment (Joe Crain photo). On October 7, 2013, the weekday edition of NewsChannel at 9 was expanded to an hour. 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. Decatur Area Weather Forecast. 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 was 66. This is a complete newscast from August 1999 with Don Hickman and Susan Finzen. Here is a segment from a weekday feature on a local farmer's market with Thomas Patrick and an interview conducted by Joe Crain. Guy Gannett finally bought WICD in 1994. This ice storm would bring down the newly constructed WICD tower. Cindy Larson and others at WICS December 26, 2013 | 7:31 am EST by TVNewsCheck, TVNewsCheck/Playout | [5][6] While WICS and WICD operated separate news departments, there was a considerable amount of resource sharing between the two outlets, such as with video footage and personnel. At that time the station's call letters were changed to WHNB-TV. Hickman was an anchor at the ABC-affiliate from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. Both WRSP/WCCU and WBUI were initially operated from separate facilities from WICS/WICD. The two stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes. Roz Abrams, formerly of CBS News, ABC's Eyewitness News; Christiane Amanpour, CNN; Ernie Anastos (retired), formerly of WNYW, WABC-TV and WCBS-TV; Sade Baderinwa, WABC-TV; Bret Baier, Fox News; Rudi Bakhtiar, formerly at CNN and last seen at Fox News as a correspondent; Dana Bash, CNN; Martin Bashir, MSNBC, formerly ABC's Nightline Justin and Brittany are setting the record straight on why they will be away. The low powered translatoron channel 75 in Mattoon probably didn't broadcast much more than a few miles from Mattoon. 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. As a result, a nightly prime time newscast began airing on those two stations that was jointly produced by WICS/WICD. James Isley I have been in the midst of a big transition. WICS would add syndicated shows ranging from the videotaped talk shows mentioned above to "Superman," "The Lloyd Thaxton Show," "Bilko," "The Galloping Gourmet," "David Frost," "Hazel," "Dinah Shore," "Girl Talk" and movies on Saturday and Sunday nights and a rather unique Sunday morning movie series. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, WICD is considered . After a brief stint as a "Today" anchor, she left NBC News in . WCCU's advertising sales operation is also based out of WICD's studios. Accordingly in 1959, Plains Television signed-on WCHU in Champaign as a low-powered satellite of WICS. WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign only broadcast a radius of about 15 miles from downtown Champaign. Even as WCHU went on the air in 1960, plans were being made to bring a full-powered station to east central Illinois which would re-broadcast the signal of WICS and bring a city-grade signal to an even larger area than that of WCIA. // Do not change anything below this line This is a clip of the event. Flooring America Eyenet Camera Network. Now he might be out of a job", "A weatherman slammed his station's constant 'Code Red' warnings. Jordan Elder is switching Sinclair owned stations. SK Exteriors Stormtracker. He later would be at CNN for over 20 years and at WXIA in Atlanta before moving to a role in public relations and working for the United Way in Atlanta. August 9, 2013 | 8:20 am EDT by TVNewsCheck, NewscastStudio | Joe Crain has been a meteorologist at WICS Springfield, Ill., for 15 years. During the Summer of 2004, it was announced that WAND would become the market's NBC station. WICD and its Sinclair sister station in the market, WICS, will begin sharing weekend newscasts that day. This is a special hour-long NBC News as broadcast from November 20, 1977. 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. The Associated Press | Total Television by Alex McNeil. WICD would follow with a play of its public affairs program Assignment 15.. 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. 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. Help me identify people in these pictures, some I know, but others I do not. December 6, 2022 | 1:16 pm EST by TVN Staff. In 1983, as part of a publicity stunt, the cast toured the country via a train called the "Real People Express." 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. 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. Meanwhile, WICD in Danville broadcast a signal of about 30 miles from Danville. // pattern, adding to the array. The ad for a WICS Springfield, Ill., morning meteorologist showed up Tuesday on owner Sinclair Broadcast Groups website. 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. And during Wednesday mornings broadcast, Crain had had enough. A 1979 NBC promo for the premiere network broadcasts of "Escape to Witch Mountain" and "The Towering Inferno" narrated by Casey Kasem. var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); 1976 Fall TV montage of shows broadcast during the week. During the Summer of 2004, it was announced that WAND would become the market's NBC station. 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. Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had collapsed most of East Central Illinois into one giant television market, WICS took on a secondary CBS affiliation because its primary affiliate, WCIA in Champaign, only provided a marginal signal to Springfield. 2 min read. However, the FCC did not allow Sunrise to buy WICS/WICD due to Sunrise's ownership structure. 45 in Champaign into WICD's studios. Lincoln Library-Springfield Off-network shows were syndicated in 30-minute versions and in central Illinois appeared on WMBD-TV, Peoria as well as sister station WCIA in Champaign. On June 26, 2010, rival WAND became the first television station in East-Central Illinois to upgrade news production to high definition level. TV Guide (1954-1959) from the Doug Quick Collection In modern times it also serves as the operations hub for several other Sinclair stations as well. | 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. 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). Local newscasts, produced by WICS, are simulcast on both stations. Sinclair purchased most of Guy Gannett's stations, including WICS and WICD, in 1999. CBS Color J.R. Evans The station's social media page was flooded with comments from viewers demanding the reinstatement of Joe Crain, pushing the hashtag #IStandWithJoeCrain, while U.S. I am overjoyed at my new career and lifestyle change that promotes work life balance. [21] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 20. Broadcasting-Telecasting Magazine Investigative Reporting, Journalism, Editing, Broadcast Journalism, Writing, Video, Avid, Final Cut Public Information Officer at Illinois State Treasurer's Office. Groundbreaking sports broadcaster and Springfield native Fred Hickman, best known for anchoring CNN's "Sports Tonight," died Wednesday. Former Weather Channel Anchor Cheryl Lemke hasn't run into Homer Simpson yet, but she is enjoying life in Springfield, Illinois. 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). Farm Report. The rest of the morning consisted of typical children's programming from NBC including more modern versions of classic fare like Fred and Barney Meet the Schmoo and the re-worked Warner Brothers cartoons with Daffy Duck and a modern rework of Casper. The low powered translatoron channel 75 in Mattoon probably didn't broadcast much more than a few miles from Mattoon. We are pleased that as an [], February 27, 2017 | 6:55 am EST by TVNewsCheck. // Free for all; but please leave in this header. 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. WICS News Anchors News anchors and reporters like Douglas Kimball would be replaced by Wayne Cox (formerly of WBLN), who would anchor through the 1960s to the 1970s. This is a 1996 report on a local Springfield pastry tradition, Mel-O-Cream Donuts. A 25-time Regional Emmy Award-winning anchor/reporter, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Writing Award winner, with nearly 40 years of broadcast news experience. His characters were Vincent Hedges(a vampire), Emmit(the hunchback), Beauregard(the caveman), and Bertie and Bernie(the skull). Neuhoff Broadcasting-Danville 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. [3], On March 26, 2011, WICD ceased airing its own newscasts on weekends opting to simulcast those from WICS. The reason? John Belushi who was with the show from 1975 to 1979, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin were there from. By 1979, the WICS broadcast day began at 6:30 am and sign-off on weeknights followed the Tomorrow show hosted by Tom Snyder, at around 1 am. WICS would preempt NBC programming to air syndicated programs during prime time, in which the station could charge prime rates to more advertisers as there was more commercial time available during those syndicated shows. It also competes with another two-hour local newscast seen at same time on MyNetworkTV affiliate WCIX (produced by WCIA). The situation with WICS/WICD wasunique when it came to Saturday Night Live. The prime-time access slot after the news block was filled by the weekday syndicated version of The Newlywed Game at 6:30 pm. The Final Years of Plains Television Partners and WICS. Fitness, Media Relations, Public Speaking, Public Relations, Crisis Communications, Press Releases, Assistant Director of Public Relations at University of Illinois Springfield. This is a 10 pm newscast from February 24, 2016. He later would be at CNN for over 20 years and at WXIA in Atlanta before moving to a role in public relations and working for the United Way in Atlanta. The News-Gazette // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com 1976 Fall TV montage of shows broadcast during the week. WICD (channel 15) in ChampaignUrbana operates as a semi-satellite of WICS. In the case of WICS/WICD, it was a late movie. Frederick Hickman (October 17, 1956 - November 9, 2022) was an American sports broadcaster with CNN, TBS, YES Network, and ESPN.He was later an anchor and managing editor for the evening newscast of the African-American cable news channel Black News Channel.Hickman was an original co-host of the CNN show Sports Tonight in 1980. 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. // to increment the Quotation[x] index! It also aired whatever ABC programs WTVP in Decatur (now WAND) had to turn down in order to air CBS shows not cleared by WCIA. YouTube videos are the property of the individual copyright holders and only posted for their historical significance. Press Releases, Media Relations, Strategic Communications, Public Relations, Internal Family Service Consultant at Staab Funeral Home, Financial Planner, Insurance and Investments at Communication Manager at CMS - State of Illinois. That was in April of 1978. WICS Newschannel 20 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Springfield and nearby towns and communities in the Decatur, and Champaign area, including Jacksonville, Taylorville, Lincoln, Petersburg, Pana, Effingham, Shelbyville, Beardstown, Carlinville, Litchfield and Hillsboro. Railsplitters would go on to sponsor the Sunday night movie as well, "The Sunday Cinema.". Click on the button to see the program schedule from the dates indicated above. (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".) It was decided WICD being in a more liberal university community would air the 1970's version of SNL. WCIA 3 Severe Weather Center. I hope you can understand why I was unable to share the information sooner. These broadcasts are known as ABC NewsChannel and feature a common graphics package seen on WICS and WICD. It's unknown when WICS finally signed on with Saturday Night Live, but it was AFTER 1979. The syndicated block was followed by a flip-flop of local news and network news on WICS and sister station WICD. Now Crain is officially out of a job. Mattoon-Charleston Area Weather Forecast. The Washington Post | 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. Eight Stations Launch NextGen TV In Champaign/Springfield-Decatur, Code Red Forecaster, WICS Resolve Differences. WICS, WICD, WCIA, WRSP, WCCU, WAND, WBUI and WCIX are now broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 technology. At Sinclair, employees are our most valuable asset. Included with the change was a new set at the Springfield studios and updated Sinclair corporate graphics. 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. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline? They are subject to removal by the contributors and YouTube. The Trustoria Service Professional Directory provides you with all the information needed to find the most qualified Journalist for every need. 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