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WLNS-TV
Lansing/Jackson, Michigan
Branding	WLNS6
Slogan	Your News Leader
Channels	Analog: 6 (VHF) Digital: 59 (UHF)
Translators	W67AJ (67, UHF) Ann Arbor, Michigan
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	WLNS: Young Broadcasting W67AJ: Eastern Michigan University
Founded	May 1, 1950
Call letters meaning	Lansing
Former callsigns	WJIM-TV (1950-84)
Former affiliations	NBC (secondary 1950-59), ABC (secondary 1950-58), DuMont (secondary 1950-1956)[1]
Website	WLNS.com

WLNS-TV is the CBS television affiliate serving the Lansing/Jackson, Michigan television market in the United States. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 6, and its digital signal on UHF channel 59 from a 1,004-foot transmitter located midway between East Lansing and the town of Williamston, giving it a signal footprint in many parts of southern and central Michigan.

The station also relays its broadcasts on W67AJ (channel 67), a low-power repeater in Ann Arbor, owned by Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

The station's studio facility is also home to the operations of the market's My Network TV affiliate, WHTV.

Contents 1 History 2 Flint and Detroit 3 WLNS6 News Staff 3.1 Anchors 3.2 Meteorologists 3.3 Sports 4 Past Personalities 5 References 6 External links

WLNS signed on the air on May 1, 1950 as WJIM-TV, owned by Harold F. Gross along with WJIM-AM 1240. It is Michigan's second-oldest station outside of Detroit (behind Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV). Gross had started WJIM-AM, the first commercial radio station in Lansing, in 1934, and both stations were named after his son Jim. It originally broadcast from the top of a bank in downtown Lansing before moving to its current location on Saginaw Street (known as "the country house") in 1953.

WJIM-TV carried programming from all four major networks, though it was and always has been a primary CBS affiliate. ABC disappeared from the schedule in 1958 when WJRT-TV signed on from Flint; it served as Lansing's default ABC affiliate until WLAJ signed on in 1990. NBC disappeared from the schedule in 1959 when WILX-TV signed on. DuMont programming disappeared when that network ceased operations in 1956, leaving WJIM with just CBS. In 1960, Gross added WJIM-FM to his holdings.

The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the station's license in 1973, on allegations that Gross prevented a number of prominent political figures from appearing on his station, among other accusations. [2] An FCC judge ordered WJIM's license revoked in 1981--only the second time a station has had its license revoked for violating the FCC's fairness guidelines. The first instance was WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi; which lost its license in 1969 due to its blatant bias against the Civil Rights Movement. Unlike WLBT, however, WJIM kept its license after the initial revocation was reversed by a three-member review board at the FCC in 1982. The ACLU agreed to a cash settlement in 1984.

The stress of the licensing dispute led Gross to sell the station to Unicom Inc, a unit of Forstmann Little, d.b.a. Backe Communications, at which point the station adopted its current call letters of WLNS. Unicom's ownership of the station was short-lived as in 1986 they sold WLNS and WKBT in La Crosse, Wisconsin to its current owner, Young Broadcasting (however, WKBT has since been sold to Morgan Murphy Stations).

WJIM doubled as Flint's CBS affiliate for many years, as its signal--the second-strongest in Michigan at the time it signed on--decently covers the city and surrounding Genesee County. For many years, it identified as "Lansing/Flint/Jackson/Battle Creek" on-air.

In 1972, Saginaw's then-CBS affiliate WEYI-TV moved its studios and transmitter to Clio, just north of Flint. Until the early 1980s, Flint was served by two CBS stations, though during the 1980s, WJIM/WLNS chose to concentrate more on Lansing. Comcast dropped WLNS in Flint as a result. WLNS can still be seen in Saginaw County with a good receiver.

WLNS' signal also makes it to Detroit, albeit it is very weak. (It is rumored Detroiters, in order to watch home Lions games that were blacked out, used to position their antennas towards Lansing in order to pick up their signal.) In that area, WLNS is best viewable in Detroit's west suburbs and areas of northwest Detroit. W67AJ, the WLNS repeater in Ann Arbor, is part of the Detroit DMA.

• WLNS6 News this Morning:

Greg Adaline

Lauren Thompson

• WLNS6 News at Noon:

Greg Adaline

Lauren Thompson

• WLNS6 News at Five:

Sheri Jones

• WLNS6 News at Six:

Sheri Jones

Dave Akerly

• WLNS6 News at 11:

Sheri Jones

Dave Akerly

• WLNS6 News This Morning Weekends:

Jeff Campbell

• WLNS6 News 6 & 11 Weekends:

Ann Emmerich

• WLNS6 News this Morning and 6 News at Noon:

Jake Dunne

• WLNS6 News at 5, 6, and 11:

David Young (chief meteorologist)

• WLNS6 News This Morning Weekends:

Karen Kuszynski

• WLNS6 News 6 & 11 Weekends:

Rob Dale

Weather radar called "Live StormTacker 6 Doppler Radar"

• WLNS6 News at 6 and 11:

Fred Heumann

• WLNS6 News weekends:

Lisa Byington or Charlie Marlow

• Sunday Sports Overtime:

Lisa Byington

Charlie Marlow

• The 5th Quarter:

Fred Heumann

Lisa Byington

Charlie Marlow

Friday nights at 11:15pm during high school football and basketball season

• Tetiana Anderson - former reporter; now with the Weather Channel
• David Andrews - former anchor; now with WILX
• Jim Geyer - former meteorologist; now with WEYI
• Jo Anne Paul - former anchor; now with WJIM
• Andy Provenzano - former meteorologist; now with WILX
• Amy Rao - former weekend anchor/reporter; now with NewsChannel 5 Nashville
• Terry Stanton - former anchor; now a state employee
• Tim Staudt - former sports anchor; now with WILX
• Anya Tucker - former morning anchor; now with WTEN Albany
• Emily Wagner - former morning anchor; now with WOOD (as Emily Linnert)
• Brad Edwards - former weekend anchor/reporter; now with WJBK

• History of WLNS
• Michiguide.com: WLNS-TV

• WLNS.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLNS-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W67AJ

v • d • e Broadcast Television in the Lansing/Jackson market (Nielsen DMA #112)

Local television stations WLNS 6 (CBS) - WILX 10 (NBC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2) - WHTV 18 (MyNetworkTV) - WKAR 23 (PBS) - W27CN 27 (TCT) - WPXD 31 (ION) - WZPX 43 (ION) - WSYM 47 (Fox) - WLAJ 53 (ABC/The CW on DT2) Local Cable Television Channels JTV 21 (Jackson) - MSU Tel - WBL 5 (The CW) - FSN Detroit Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location Detroit: CBET 9 (CBC) - WKBD 50 (The CW) - WTVS 56 (PBS) | Toledo: WTOL 11 (CBS) - WTVG 13 (ABC) | Grand Rapids: WWMT 3 (CBS) - WOOD 8 (NBC) - WOTV 41 (ABC) | Mid-Michigan: WNEM 5 (CBS/MNTV on DT2) - WJRT 12 (ABC) - WEYI 25 (NBC) - WFUM 28 (PBS) - WAQP 49 (TCT)

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Detroit / Southfield, MI / Windsor market (Nielsen DMA #11)

American stations WJBK 2 (Fox) - WDIV 4 (NBC, NBC WX+ on DT2) - WXYZ 7 (ABC, WX on DT2, Tower Cam on DT3, RTN on DT4 in 2008) - WDWO 18 / W27CJ 27 (TCT / COR) - WMYD 20 (MNTV, 4KidsTV, WCSN on DT2) - WUDT 23 (UNI) - WLPC 26 (FN) - WFUM 28 (PBS) - WPXD 31 / W48AV 48 (ION) - W33BY 33 / W68CH 68 (Ind) - WADL 38 (Ind / JTV, Word on DT2) - WKBD 50 (The CW, Kids WB) - WTVS 56 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Create on DT3) - WWJ 62 (CBS) - W66BV 66 (TBN) - W67AJ 67 / WLNS 6 (CBS) Canadian stations CBET 9 (CBC) - CHWI 16 / 60 (A-Channel) - CIII 22 / 29 (Global) - CICO 32 / 59 (TVO) - CBLN 34 / 64 (CBC) - CFTV 34 (Ind) - CKCO 42 (CTV) - CBLFT 48 / 68 (SRC) - CBEFT 54 (SRC) Local Cable Television Channels US: Michigan Channel (PBS, U of M) - WOLV (U of M Student TV) - FSN Detroit - Comcast Local Canada: Leafs TV - Sportsnet Ontario - TFO - TVCogeco Windsor (Windsor & Leamington) - TVCogeco (Chatham & Sarnia) Defunct television stations PASS Sports - WJMY 20 - WPAG 20 (DuMont/Ind) Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location; some stations may be available only on cable Toledo: WTOL 11 (CBS) - WTVG 13 (ABC / News / AW) - WNWO 24 (NBC / RTN / WX+) - WGTE 30 (PBS) - WUPW 36 (Fox) - WLMB 40 (Ind) Mid-Michigan: WNEM 5 (CBS / MNTV) - WJRT 12 (ABC) - WEYI 25 (NBC) - WSMH 66 (Fox) Lansing: WILX 10 (NBC) - WKAR 23 (PBS) - WSYM 47 (Fox) - WLAJ 53 (ABC) Cleveland: WKYC 3 (NBC) - WEWS 5 (ABC) - WJW 8 (Fox) - WOIO 19 (CBS) - WUAB 43 (MNTV) - WBNX 55 (The CW) - WQHS 61 (UNI) London: CFPL 10 (A-Channel)

v • d • e Young Broadcasting
ABC Affiliates: WATE · WBAY¹ · WKRN · WRIC · WTEN¹ / WCDC CBS Affiliates: KELO / KCLO / KDLO / KPLO · KLFY · WLNS MyNetworkTV Affiliate: KRON¹ NBC Affiliate: KWQC Local Weather Channels: WBAY Stormcenter 2 24/7  · KWQC 24-7 Weather Channel ¹ - Broadcasts Retro Television Network on a digital subchannel Key People: Adam Young and Vincent Young Website: www.youngbroadcasting.com