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WEEK-TV
Peoria, Illinois
Branding	WEEK (general) News 25 (news)
Slogan	Your Home Team
Channels	25 (UHF) analog, 57 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Granite Broadcasting Corporation
Founded	February 1, 1953 on channel 43, moved to 25 in 1964
Website	http://www.week.com/

WEEK-TV is the NBC affiliate for the Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois television market. It transmits its analog signal on UHF channel 25, and its digital signal on UHF channel 57, both licensed to Peoria, Illinois.

The station currently has the highest rated news programs in the area. Its offices, studios, and transmitter have always been at 2907 Springfield Road in East Peoria, Illinois. Originally on channel 43, it moved to channel 25 in 1964.

WEEK is owned by Granite Broadcasting Corporation and also manages WAOE, Peoria's MyNetworkTV affiliate.

Contents 1 History 2 Local News Programs 3 Locally produced programs 4 On-air personalities 4.1 Former on-air personalities 5 References 6 External links

WEEK-TV became Peoria's first television station on Sunday, February 1, 1953 at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.^{[citation needed]} WEEK-TV was owned and operated by Oklahoma City-based West Central Broadcasting Co.^{[citation needed]} whose president was E.K. Gaylord, also president of the Oklahoma Publishing Co. The board chairman of directors was United States Senator Robert S. Kerr, the former governor of Oklahoma and the "Kerr" in Kerr-McGee. West Central also co-owned radio station, 1350 WEEK (AM) (now WOAM).^{[citation needed]}

WEEK-TV founded WEEQ-TV, channel 35 in La Salle, Illinois, on November 7, 1957,^[1], to rebroadcast WEEK-TV's programming.^[2] This channel allocation is now used for WWTO-TV.

WEEK-TV moved from channel 43 to channel 25 around 1964.^[2] The channel 43 allocation was later moved from Peoria to Bloomington and used by the second WBLN (now WYZZ-TV) beginning in 1982.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, WEEK bought the station license for 98.5 at Eureka, Illinois, and gave it the callsign WEEK-FM and nickname "Oldies 98.5". Granite Broadcasting divested itself of the radio station in 1999; the station is now WPIA.

• News 25 Today (4:30-7am)
• News 25 Today on My59 (7-8am)
• News 25 at Noon (11:30-1pm)
• News 25 Live at Five
• News 25 at 6
• News 25 @ 9 on My59
• News 25 Nightside
• News 25 weekends at 6 & 10

• Coffee Time with Dick and Bev
• Captain Jinks and Salty Sam

As of 1/2007, the on-air staff included:

• Mike Dimmick
• Sandy Gallant
• Lee Hall
• Denise Jackson
• Jenny Li
• Tom McIntyre
• Stacey Morgan
• Garry Moore
• Gina Morss
• Jason Muniz
• Lee Ranson
• Eric Shangraw
• Susanna Song
• Josh Simon
• Marc Strauss
• Kelli Watson
• Emily West

• Steve Ammerman
• Bob Arthur
• Ben Bailey (meteorologist)
• Dave Baldridge
• George Baseleon
• Jim Barnett (weatherman)
• Bob Bath
• Mary Ann Bergerson (Ahern)
• Doug Bisby
• Bob Burton
• Frank Bussone
• Tom Connor
• Kathy Dancy
• Paul Daniel
• Shelli Dankoff (McClellan)
• Kelly Deushane
• Pat Dix
• Don Elliot
• Fraser Engerman
• Hank Fisher
• Steve Gehlbach
• Trazanna Halstead
• Bill Houlihan
• Brad Harding
• Chuck Harrison
• Chick Hearn
• Denise Heilman
• Jill Hendricksen (Noelle)
• Bob Jamieson
• Brad Johansen
• Gordon Joyner
• Sabrina Kang
• Julie Kimble
• Dana Kozlow
• Stan Lonergan
• Barbara Love
• Stretch Miller
• Adam Nielsen
• Kelly Nutt
• Becky Oliver
• Vokaye Parker
• Matt Pendergrass
• Tim Perkin
• Edgar Sandoval
• Les Shapiro
• Andrew Siff
• Laura Skirde
• Keenan Smith
• Shannon Tebben (Sandoval)
• Kathy Topp
• Norm Ulrich
• Scott Unes
• Bev Vance
• Paul Wappell
• Anna Werner
• John Wingate
• Kathy Wyman
• Christine Zak

1. ^ November 7, 1957 on BrainyHistory
2. ^ ^{a b} Quick, Doug. "Other Television History" on personal website.

• WEEK-TV home page
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WEEK-TV