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WFRV-TV / WJMN-TV
WFRV: Green Bay, Wisconsin WJMN: Escanaba/Marquette, Michigan
Branding	Channel 5 and Channel 3
Slogan	Working For You
Channels	Analog: 5, 3 (VHF) Digital: 39, 48 (UHF)
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Liberty Media Corporation (WFRV and WJMN Television Station, Inc.)
Founded	WFRV: May 20, 1955 WJMN: March 2, 1968
Call letters meaning	Wisconsin's Fox River Valley W-Jane Morton Norton
Former affiliations	ABC (1955-1959 and 1983-1992) NBC (1959-1983) DuMont (secondary, 1955)
Website	www.wfrv.com/

WJMN-TV redirects here. For other uses, see WJMN.

WFRV-TV, channel 5, is a CBS affiliate based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and operates as "WFRV and WJMN Television Station, Inc.". The station's studios are located in Green Bay, and its transmitter is in De Pere, Wisconsin. WFRV's signal is rebroadcasted over satellite station WJMN-TV (channel 3) in Escanaba, Michigan.

Contents 1 Early history 2 WJMN (Channel 3) 3 Later History and WFRV Today 4 WFRV-TV Logo History 5 Channel 5 News Team 5.1 News Anchors 5.2 Storm Team 5 Weather 5.3 Sports 5.4 Past Personalities 6 References 7 External links

The station began as WNAM-TV Channel 42 in Neenah, Wisconsin on May 20, 1955. It soon moved to Green Bay, changed its frequency to Channel 5 and changed its call letters to fit the phrase "Wisconsin's Fox River Valley" as known today as WFRV-TV. It started as an ABC affiliate before switching to NBC in 1959. As an NBC affiliate, it became the first station in Northeast Wisconsin to broadcast in color.

Among the station's claims is that it was the first to cover a live lunar eclipse, in 1959, when a studio camera was wheeled into the parking lot and aimed at the moon.

The station changed affiliations again in 1983, when it became an ABC affiliate for the second time, with NBC going to WLUK (Channel 11).

The station's original owners sold the station to the Morton Norton family of Kentucky, owners of Louisville, Kentucky's WAVE, in the mid-1960s.

In 1968, a satellite station, WJMN-TV began operation on Channel 3 in Escanaba, Michigan; the station also serves Iron Mountain, Marquette and the rest of the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. WJMN airs Channel 5's entire schedule, except for UP-specific weather and news cut-ins, ads and differing promotions identifying the station as Channel 3, time-adjusted for the Eastern Time Zone. The transmitter for WJMN is located 26 miles north of Escanaba and 4 miles south of the town of Trenary in Masonville Township. WJMN's antenna is 1310 feet high, which made it the second tallest TV transmitter in the state of Michigan after WWTV-TV 9 in Cadillac upon its completion.

WJMN-TV is not related to the Clear Channel-owned WJMN (FM) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Orion Broadcasting, the Mortons' company, merged with Cosmos Broadcasting (a subsidiary of The Liberty Corporation) in 1981. A few years later, WFRV/WJMN were sold to the Murphy and McNally families, owners of Minneapolis-St. Paul's WCCO-TV (Channel 4) and WCCO-AM (830). CBS then acquired all four stations in 1992 when the families sold the stations. New FCC rules had allowed networks to own more stations, so CBS decided to keep WFRV/WJMN and convert them to CBS stations, which in 2005 were in the No. 69 market nationally. With this move, WBAY (Channel 2) became Green Bay's ABC affiliate. The move also made WFRV/WJMN among the few stations in the U.S. to have been an affiliate of all of the "Big Three" television networks - ABC, NBC and CBS.

The station no longer follows the CBS Mandate branding due to their breaking off from CBS Corporation, although their graphics remain the same. Previously, the graphics used on its newscasts were green and gold, as a connection to the Green Bay Packers. On July 10, 2006, they unveiled a blue and yellow graphic scheme as well as new sets to coincide with the return of former anchor Tammy Elliott. In the summer of 2007, the station slowly transitioned from branding as CBS 5 and CBS 3, and began to go back to identifying as Channel 5 and Channel 3 as they had done previously before 2003.

In 2003, the stations became the first in the Green Bay market to broadcast digitally.

On February 13, 2007, CBS Corporation announced that they would sell WFRV and WJMN to Liberty Media for $170 million [1].

The sale was completed on April 18, 2007, [2], however the station's site continued to be maintained by CBS Television Stations Digital Media Group until May 14, 2007, when Liberty launched a redesigned website for the station powered by Clear Channel Communications subsidiary Inergize Digital Media (the same company which also operates the websites of television stations owned by Clear Channel and The E.W. Scripps Company). The site also incorporates an expanded page for WJMN, focused on UP-specific weather and news; previously the page had only contained the Michigan Associated Press wire service section and weather, and was not highlighted on the CBSTVSDMG version of the site.

Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 1992-1996. The '5' (or a '3' in the same font) had been used since at least 1975.	Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 1996-2001.	Logo briefly used by WFRV in 2001.	Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 2001-2003. It did not follow guidelines for the CBS eye device and its usage.
Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 2003-2006.	Logo and color scheme used by WFRV and WJMN from 2006-present.	Combination image of WFRV and WJMN's current logos from the station's sign-on sequences.

• Erin Davisson
• Tammy Elliott
• Lisa Malak
• Kris Schuller
• Tom Zalaski
• Chelly Boutott
• Paul Evansen
• Wendy Neuberger

• Tom Mahoney-Chief Meteorologist
• Dave Miller
• Dana Tyler
• Justin Steinbrinck
• Rebecca Schuld

• Larry McCarren
• Burke Griffin
• Ryan Popkey
• Kirk Parker
• Nick Goddard

• Tom Milbourn (anchor; now works for WLUK-TV)
• Don Noe (meteorologist, late 1970s; originator of animated weather maps; retiring from WPLG in Miami)[3][4]

• Channel 5 hits Big 5-0. Green Bay News-Chronicle article. Retrieved on May 20, 2005.

• WFRV Website
• WJMN Page on WFRV.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WFRV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WJMN

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Green Bay / Appleton / Fox Cities market  (Nielsen DMA #70)
Local television stations	WBAY 2 (ABC, Local WX on DT-2, RTN on DT-3) - WFRV 5 (CBS) - WLUK 11 (FOX) - WIWB 14 (The CW) - W17CF (TBN) - WGBA 26 (NBC) - W30BU 30 (3ABN) - WACY 32 (MNTV) - W36DH 36 (TBN) - WPNE 38 (PBS/WPT) - W49CB 49 (TBN) - WWAZ 68 (FamilyNet)
Regional cable television channels (Availibility varies by localtion)	FSN Wisconsin - FSN Detroit - Time Warner Sports
See also	Broadcast television stations in Milwaukee, Wausau, Marquette, Northern Michigan and Madison

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Marquette market (Nielsen DMA #179)

WJMN 3 (CBS) - WBKP 5 (The CW) - WLUC 6 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WDHS 8 (Infomercials) - WBUP 10 (ABC) - WNMU 13 (PBS) - WMQF 19 (Fox) - W40AN 40 (Fox) Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location; some stations may be available only on cable Traverse City/Cadillac: WFQX 33 (Fox) | Green Bay: WLUK 11 (Fox) | Duluth: KDLH 3 (CBS) - KQDS 21 (FOX) | Wausau/Rhinelander: WJFW 12 (NBC) - WYOW 34 (ABC) - WLEF 36 (PBS/WPT) | Montreal: CBMT 6 (CBC) Defunct television stations: WUPT 25 (UPN) Local cable television stations FSN Detroit

v • d • e CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Wisconsin
WISC 3 (Madison) - WFRV 5 (Green Bay) - WSAW 7 (Wausau) - WKBT 8 (La Crosse) - WDJT 58 (Milwaukee)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MNTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Wisconsin

v • d • e CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Michigan
WJMN 3 1 (Escanaba) • WWMT 3 (Kalamazoo) • WNEM 5 (Bay City) • WLNS 6 / W67AJ 67 (Lansing / Ann Arbor) • WWTV 9 / WWUP 10 (Cadillac / Sault Sainte Marie) • WBKB 11 (Alpena) • WWJ 62 (Detroit) 1Satellite of WFRV-TV, Green Bay, Wisconsin
See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, CW, MyNetworkTV and Other stations in Michigan