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City | Green Bay, Wisconsin |
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First air date | September 11, 1954[2] |
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Call signmeaning | "Lucky 11" (original on-air slogan) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 4150 |
ERP | 500 kW |
HAAT | 384 m (1,260 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 44°24′32″N87°59′31″W/ 44.40889°N 87.99194°W |
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Website | fox11online |
WLUK-TV(channel 11) is atelevision stationinGreen Bay, Wisconsin,United States, affiliated with theFoxnetwork. It is owned bySinclair Broadcast GroupalongsideSuring-licensedCWaffiliateWCWF(channel 14). The two stations share studios onLombardiAvenue (US 41) on the line between Green Bay andAshwaubenon;WLUK-TV's transmitter is located onScray HillinLedgeview.
History
[edit]Early years with NBC and ABC
[edit]WMBV-TV, licensed toMarinette, Wisconsin(the callsign stood for "Marinette, Bay, Valley" ), was approved for VHF channel 11 on November 18, 1953. M & M Broadcasting Company, owned by William Walker, announced the license grant after settling with a competing company for the rights to the license.[5]An affiliation with NBC was confirmed on March 9, 1954.[6]WMBV-TV signed on the air on September 11, 1954. Walker sold the station toMorgan Murphy Stationsin 1958.
1959 saw several changes for the station. On February 1, WMBV swapped affiliations withWFRV-TV(channel 5), becoming an ABC affiliate.[7]The station changed itscity of licenseto Green Bay and on August 22, 1959, changed its call sign to the current WLUK-TV (in reference to its then on-air slogan "Lucky 11" ), when it began broadcasting at full power from a new tower near Green Bay.[8]WLUK first broadcast network programs in color in 1959 and local programs began to be broadcast in color starting in 1965. Morgan Murphy then sold WLUK to Post Corporation (a small media chain not affiliated withThe Washington Post Companyor itsPost-Newsweek Stationsdivision), whose properties included thePost-Crescentnewspaper in nearbyAppletonand a sister station inMarquette, Michigan,WLUC-TV.[9]in 1965. In 1966, WLUK built a new studio and office building on Highland Avenue, which would eventually become Lombardi Avenue in 1968 afterVince Lombardiresigned his head coaching duties with theGreen Bay Packers.It aired some local entertainment programs, including a Saturday nightpolkashow and a daily children's cartoon show using the franchisedBozo the Clowncharacter.
On April 18, 1983, WLUK reclaimed the market's NBC affiliation, when WFRV switched to ABC.[10]In 1984,RacinenativeGeorge N. Gillett's Gillett Broadcasting purchased Post Corporation. Gillett in turn sold the station to Burnham Broadcasting later that year, as the company's first television acquisition,[11]in order to purchase theKKRstations (which included future fellow Fox stationWITIinMilwaukee;WLUK was indeed sold due to adjacent market ownership regulations at the time by theFederal Communications Commission(FCC)). For most of its second stint with NBC, WLUK largely downplayed its affiliation, even during the network's powerhouse days of the 1980s; it used theNBC Peacockonly sparingly in the station's advertisements.
Fox affiliate
[edit]On July 29, 1994, Burnham Broadcasting sold WLUK-TV toSF Broadcasting– ajoint ventureofSavoy Communicationsand theFox Broadcasting Company,then a division ofNews Corporation– for $38 million;[12]the company later sold three of its other four stations (KHON-TVinHonolulu,WVUEinNew OrleansandWALA-TVinMobile, Alabama) for $229 million on August 25 (a fifth Burnham station,KBAK-TVinBakersfield, California,was excluded from the deal and was instead spun off to Westwind Communications, a new company that was formed by several former Burnham executives).[13]As a result of the deal, SF Broadcasting announced that the four stations would become Fox affiliates; both Savoy and Fox shared ownership with Fox originally choosing to hold voting stock, ultimately opting not to retain it prior to the closure of the sale of the stations. The purchase was challenged by NBC, which filed a petition with the FCC on September 23, 1994, alleging that News Corporation had improperly set up ashell corporationto circumvent FCC limits on the amount of monetary capital that a foreign company is allowed to invest in an American television station in order to gain control of WLUK.[14]NBC later withdrew its petition against the acquisition on February 17, 1995.[15]The FCC approved the WLUK purchase on April 27, 1995.[16]
WLUK became a Fox affiliate on August 28, 1995, swapping affiliations withWGBA-TV(channel 26), which had acquired the Fox affiliation three years earlier after WXGZ-TV (channel 32, nowWACY-TV) shut down due to financial issues. Like most former"Big Three" networkaffiliates that switched to Fox during that time, WLUK picked up almost no syndicated programming from WGBA, though it was unnecessary because of WGBA'slocal marketing agreementwith WACY-TV; WGBA's programming largely moved to that station instead. The final NBC program to air on WLUK was a repeat of theNBC Sunday Night at the MoviesfeatureWayne's Worldat 8 p.m. on August 27, 1995.
Because of Fox's 1994 acquisition of television rights to theNFL'sNational Football Conference,[17]the switch made WLUK the unofficial "home" station of the Green Bay Packers after years on WBAY (and two years on WFRV), which became a major ratings draw (during the 1994 season, WGBA was the station of record for the Packers). Unlike theNew World Communicationsstations that converted to Fox affiliates, WLUK carriedFox Kidsprogramming, running it one hour earlier on weekday afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m. The station ran Fox Kids until the weekday block ended in December 2001[18](when it had been pushed back to as early as 10 a.m.), and its successor Saturday morning children's blocks known asFox Boxand later4KidsTVuntil the latter block ended nationally in December 2008, when4Kids Entertainmentand Fox parted ways due to a contract dispute. By the time 4Kids TV ended its run, Fox permanently discontinued providing network-supplied children's programming, replacing it with theinfomercialblockWeekend Marketplace.
Since channel 11 joined Fox, Packer football games have routinely drawn an 80% share of the viewing audience – far and away the highest-rated programs in themarket,and through Fox's NFL rights deal, the station has broadcast two of the threeSuper Bowlgames the Packers have appeared in, both victories, since 1994; Super BowlsXXXIandXLV,both by far the highest-rated programs in the Green Bay market's history.
On November 28, 1995, Silver King Communications (operated by former Fox executiveBarry Diller) announced that it would acquire Savoy Pictures;[19]at the time of the purchase, Silver King's existing stations had mainly been affiliates of theHome Shopping Network(both Silver King and HSN were later acquired byUSA Networks). The sale of WVUE and the other SF stations was approved and finalized in March 1996, with its other assets being merged into the company that November. On April 1, 1997, Silver King subsequently sold the station, along with sisters WVUE, KHON and WALA toIndianapolis-basedEmmis Communicationsfor $307 million in cash and stock, as part of a sale of Silver King/USA's major network affiliates in order to concentrate on its formerly HSN-affiliatedindependent stations.[20]
LIN Media ownership
[edit]On May 15, 2005, Emmis Communications announced that it would sell its 16 television stations, including WLUK-TV, in order to concentrate on its radio station properties.[21]On August 22,LIN TV Corporationpurchased WLUK in a $260 million deal that included WALA-TV and sister stationWBPGin Mobile;WTHI-TVinTerre Haute, Indiana,andKRQE-TVinAlbuquerque, New Mexico;the sale closed on December 1, 2005.[22][23]
On June 4, 2010, LIN TV entered into shared services and local sales agreements to operateCWaffiliate WIWB (channel 14, nowWCWF) as part of a deal involving LIN andACME Communications-owned stations in markets where both companies owned stations.[24][25]WLUK began to provide technical, engineering, promotional, administrative and other operational support services for WIWB, with advertising sales services under a related but separate joint sales agreement. That station moved its operations into WLUK's studios that August. LIN would purchase WCWF outright in April 2011, under a failing station waiver (an indication that the station was in an economically non-viable position, which permitted a duopoly even though Green Bay has only seven full-power stations, one fewer than that required by FCC rules to legally permit a duopoly between WLUK and WCWF if both were economically viable), creating the Green Bay market's first legal television stationduopoly.[26][27][28]
Sinclair Broadcast Group ownership
[edit]On March 21, 2014, LIN Media entered into an agreement to merge withMedia Generalin a $1.6 billion deal. Because, at the time, Media General owned ABC affiliateWBAY-TV(which Media General acquired in 2013 as part of its merger withYoung Broadcasting), and since WBAY and WLUK rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Green Bay market in total day viewership, the companies were required to sell either WBAY or the WLUK/WCWF duopoly to another station owner in order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit sharing agreements.[29][30][31]To settle the situation, Media General announced on August 20, 2014, that it would keep WBAY, choosing to sell WLUK and WCWF to theSinclair Broadcast Groupas part of a multi-market deal (Sinclair would also acquireWJARinProvidenceandWTGSinSavannah,while Media General would acquire Sinclair'sWTTAinTampa,WHTMinHarrisburg(which Sinclair, on behalf ofAllbrittonis planning on to divest) andKXRM-TV/KXTU-LDinColorado Springs).[32]WHTM's sale of Media General was explored nearly two months earlier, and it was completed, nearly three months before the Media General/LIN deal was completed.[33][34]
Sinclair's acquisitions of WLUK and WCWF were completed on December 19, 2014,[35]and expanded the company's presence in Wisconsin, as it already owned Fox affiliateWMSN-TVinMadisonand the Milwaukee duopoly of CW affiliateWVTVandMyNetworkTVaffiliateWCGV-TV.The deal also placed WLUK back under common ownership with dual NBC/Fox affiliate WLUC-TV in Marquette, which Sinclair acquired in 2013 (both WLUK and WLUC shared common ownership from 1963 to 1987 under Post and Gillett), though this reunion was a brief one, as on October 1, 2015, Sinclair struck a deal to sell WLUC toGray Televisionin exchange for CBS affiliateWSBTinSouth Bend, Indiana,as part of station divestitures that Gray instituted in order to receive regulatory approval of its acquisition of the television stations operated by the latter station's longtime owner,Schurz Communications.[36]That deal closed on February 16, 2016, separating the two stations once again. WLUC then became a sister station to another Green Bay station, WBAY-TV in January 2017 as the result of another divestiture required by the FCC in theNexstar/Media General merger which required the selling of WBAY-TV to Gray.
On July 6, 2016, Sinclair and WLUK announced they had placed the winning bid withESPNfor the local syndication of that cable network'sMonday Night Footballgames with the Packers for multiple years; the agreement would have also included the 2016 preseasonPro Football Hall of Fame Gameon August 7, a day afterBrett Favre's induction into thePro Football Hall of Fame(this was due to regular rights carrierNBCpassing the game to ESPN due to the2016 Summer Olympics;the game was canceled an hour before kickoff due to poor field conditions).[37]With Fox's acquisition ofThursday Night Footballrights through the 2021 season, this assured WLUK a minimum of ten Packers games per season, barring any NBC or CBS cross-fle xing.
Programming
[edit]From 1969 until 1972 when WPNE-TV (channel 38) launched, theNET/PBSshowSesame Streetwas broadcast on WLUK in the morning hours due to the lack of apublic televisionstation in the Green Bay area.[citation needed]
A longtime staple on WLUK's daily schedule was reruns of the NBC dramaLittle House on the Prairie;the station was one of the few in the nation to countLittle Housetowards its fulfillment ofeducational and informational contentobligations foryoung audiences,citing in part the series' inspiration from theLittle Housechildren's book seriesauthored by state nativeLaura Ingalls Wilder.Little Housewas dropped from WLUK's daily schedule in September 2013, in part to make room for the new acquisitionLive!.For that year, it purchased syndicated E/I programming on a barter basis for weekend airings to fulfill E/I requirements, which was reduced to an hour in mid-September 2014 as WLUK took the Fox-offered E/I blockXploration Station,which features two hours of compliant programming (as such, it was the first Fox affiliate owned-and/or-operated by Sinclair that carried the block, as the group's other Fox stations at the time carried E/I programs through existing contracts with syndicators of educational program content instead; the remainder of Sinclair's Fox-affiliated stations began carrying theXploration Stationblock in September 2016[38]).
Since becoming a Fox affiliate in 1995, WLUK has featured an extensive amount of local news coverage (see below). Local non-news programming includesLiving with Amy,which debuted in September 2008 and currently airs in the 10 a.m. weekday time slot; hosted by formerGood Day Wisconsinanchor Amy Hanten,Livingfeatures lifestyle, cooking, and paid business spotlight segments, with the cooking segments mainly sponsored byKroger'sPick 'n Save and Copps stores(previously sponsored byFestival Foods), which has made arecipe compilation bookfeaturing previousLiving with Amyrecipes available in-store.
During the Green Bay Packers season, WLUK airs an assortment of Packers-related programming, includingInside the Huddle,which offers previews, reviews, and analysis of Packer games on Sunday mornings and Monday evenings, as well as extended newscasts with training camp coverage. Also airing during the Packers season isThe Better Half;hosted by Rachel Manek and airing Friday mornings at 10 a.m., the show features interviews, discussions, and advice from wives and girlfriends of Packers players and coaches.[39]Wheel of Fortuneis moved back an hour on nights when WLUK carriesThursday Night Footballfrom Fox or aMonday Night Footballgame to lower schedule disruption.
News operation
[edit]WLUK-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours of local newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among the Green Bay market's broadcast television stations and the second-highest among Wisconsin's television stations (behind fellow Fox affiliate WITI in Milwaukee, which carries 56 hours each week).
In addition to its main facilities, the station operates a Valley Newsroom on West College Avenue in Appleton alongUS 41.The station has its ownweather radar,known as "Fox 11 StormTrackerX", at its main studios on Lombardi Avenue. The station also maintains a tower camera on its Doppler tower known as the "Lambeau Cam"which is mainly pointed in the direction ofLambeau Field.
The station dropped its nightly newscast in 1967 and did not resume regular local news broadcasts until 1971.[40]However, WLUK did occasionally run documentaries and sports programs to fulfill FCC public service regulations as well as a weekly commentary byAppleton Post-Crescenteditor John Torinus. After gaining the Fox affiliation in August 1995, this station expanded its local news offerings: in its first year with the network, local news ran on weekdays from 6 to 8 a.m. (the morning newscast being extended by one hour and syndicated programming filling the 8 a.m. hour to fill timeslots vacated by the departure ofToday), 5 to 6:30 p.m. (with a half-hour added at 5:30 p.m. to fill the timeslot vacated by the departure ofNBC Nightly News), and 9 to 10:30 p.m. The 10 p.m. newscast was eventually dropped by the early 2000s and replaced with syndicated programming, with the 6 p.m. show ended in 2005 when the station acquired the Sony game show rights, while the morning newscast expanded over time to four hours; additional morning newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays were added later in the 2000s. WLUK returned to airing a 10 p.m. newscast on September 21, 2015.
In 2007 (duringFox's coverageof theMajor League BaseballLeague Championship Series), WLUK's 9 p.m. newscast began to air over aleased accesschannel onTime Warner Cableon nights in which Fox broadcastssports programmingor movies during the prime time hours that run into the 9 p.m. timeslot on channel 11; WCWF took over carriage of the preempted/delayed 9 p.m. newscasts in October 2010, as a result of the SSA between WCWF and WLUK. On June 5, 2007, WLUK replaced WGBA-TV as the provider of weather updates for the 11-stationMidwest Communicationsradio cluster in Green Bay/Fox Cities andSheboygan.In 2009, a new addition to the Lombardi Avenue studios was completed to expand the station's newsroom space,[41]and is known as the "Fox 11 Digital Content Center".
Channel 11 was also the first local television station in the market to have full featurediOSandAndroid Marketapplications (for mobile phones and tablets). In March 2012, the station's newscasts were moved into the Content Center as the station prepared its studio and facilities for high definition broadcasting, and began construction of an HD-optimized news set.[42]Beginning with the 5 p.m. newscast on April 23, 2012, WLUK became the third station in the Green Bay-Appleton market to begin broadcasting its local news programming in high definition.[43]The station uses theAFD #10flag to present its newscasts inletterboxedwidescreenfor viewers watching oncable televisionthrough traditional 4:3 sets.
Notable former on-air staff
[edit]- Ross Becker-Buchberger– reporter (1974–1975) went on to report and anchor in Indianapolis, Los Angeles and for MSNBC
- Jay Johnson– anchor (1982–1987); previously at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin; elected to represent the8th Districtin theU.S. Housefrom 1997 to 1999 and wasU.S. MintDirector from 2000 to 2001; died October 17, 2009[44]
- Kyra Phillips– now political reporter forABC News
- Bill Weir– now withCNN;former co-anchor of ABC'sGMA WeekendandNightlineand sports anchor ofWGN Morning News
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal ismultiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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11.1 | 720p | 16:9 | WLUK-HD | Fox |
11.2 | 480i | Antenna | Antenna TV | |
11.3 | TBD | TBD | ||
14.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WCWF-CW | The CW(WCWF) |
As part of a group affiliation deal between Sinclair Broadcast Group andTribune Media,WLUK launchedAntenna TV,a digital subchannel on virtual channel 11.2, on January 1, 2016, as an affiliate with the Tribune-owned classic television network. On February 13, 2017, WLUK-TV added TBD, a new channel mainly featuringweb videostargetingmillennialsto 11.3.[46]WLUK's news and local content (outside sportscasts) is also available throughStirr,Sinclair's over-the-top streaming service.
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]WLUK-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHFchannel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transitionUHFchannel 51 to VHF channel 11.[47]On August 17, 2011, the station increased its transmitter power from 17.19kWto 40 kW. Prior to this, Madison Fox affiliate WMSN-TV (a fellow Sinclair station pre-dating their ownership of WLUK) had broadcast its digital signal on channel 11, WLUK had to decrease its transmitter power to prevent interference with that station; when WMSN moved their digital channel to the UHF band to address reception issues in the Madison area, WLUK applied to the FCC to increase power once again.[48]
As part of the FCC's spectrum repack, the station shifted from physical channel 11 to 12 on July 3, 2020, but continued to utilize virtual channel 11.[49]Sinclair then moved the station to UHF physical channel 18 (still virtual channel 11) on September 1, 2022, in order to address oncoming concerns about theATSC 3.0rollout, along with improving WLUK's signal in general. The shift made Green Bay a 'UHF island' for both current iterations of ATSC.[50]WCWF hosts WLUK's main channel in ATSC 3.0 on its bandwidth (remaining in 720p), and its own main ATSC 1.0 signal is transmitted using WLUK's bandwidth as a channel share.
Out-of-market carriage
[edit]In theUpper Peninsula of Michigan,WLUK is only available over-the-air inMenominee County.Alow-powerdigitaltranslator,W40AN-D(channel 40) inEscanaba,operated until July 11, 2018. Despite this, WLUK was formerly carried byCharter Communicationsin the West and Central Upper Peninsula, along withWLUC-DT2except inGogebic Countywhich is covered by the signal of Duluth, Minnesota's Fox affiliateKQDS-TVand the Eastern Upper Peninsula which is covered byWWUP-DT10.2 (ahigh definitiondigital simulcast ofCadillac, Michigan'sWFQX-TV). WLUK can also be seen on Charter inLudington, Michigan,acrossLake Michiganfrom the Green Bay area.
Retransmission controversies
[edit]Until April 2008, WLUK's high definition signal was only available over-the-air as the station had maintained edicts going back to its ownership under Emmis not to allow local cable or satellite providers to broadcast its digital signal without paidretransmission consent.LIN TV continued to apply this policy after its purchase of the Emmis stations and eventually extended it further to the remainder of its existing stations. Station officials kept their stance against local pay television providers defending the station's stance on WLUK's website and in on-air promotions. The first provider to carry WLUK-DT wasDish Networkas part of a March 13, 2008, carriage agreement with LIN TV.[51]Originally, the signal was to be added in May 2008, but Dish began offering HD feeds of the Green Bay stations early on April 16,[52]surprised viewers with WLUK carried on channel 5163.DirecTVfollowed on June 8.[53]
With retransmission agreements firmed up with the satellite providers, LIN TV began to pursue the market's major cable providers for new deals. Charter was the first to be affected with its carriage agreement with WLUK expiring on July 1. By June 11, Charter and LIN reached a new agreement under undisclosed terms[54]and WLUK-DT began to be carried on digital channel 611 shortly thereafter;[55]AT&T U-versestruck an agreement to carry the digital signal on June 30, 2008,[56]whileComcast'sManitowocsystem offered compensation to carry WLUK-DT on June 12 on digital channel 234.[57]This left Time Warner Cable as the lone holdout in the area to carry the HD feed as the provider and LIN TV had not come to an agreement nationally.
With no success from either viewer pressure or contentious negotiations, the system was forced to pull WLUK from its systems on October 3, 2008.[58]Time Warner quickly offered free antennas for customers to receive the station. WLUK encouraged viewers to switch to Dish Network and U-verse in order to continue to watch the station in some form.[59]In the month that followed, the ratings of LIN TV stations affected by the Time Warner dispute plunged,[60]while viewers complained about the loss of Green Bay Packers andMLB Playoffgames on WLUK.
By the time of the2008 World Series,Time Warner Cable made an odd but creative move to allow its viewers to watch the games by offeringFox Sports en Españolon basic cable, which carried the Series inSpanishwhile encouraging viewers to turn down the Spanish play-by-play audio and listen to the game in English onESPN RadioaffiliateWDUZ.[61][62]Eventually the two companies came to a new carriage agreement on October 29,[63]and WLUK's analog signal was restored on the same day with WLUK-DT being added on digital channel 712 (currently 1012) shortly thereafter,[64]giving the station's digital signal full cable and satellite carriage on par with the other "Big Three" network affiliates.
On March 5, 2011, WLUK was removed from Dish Network as LIN and Dish could not come to terms on a new carriage agreement, and was restored when a new agreement was reached on March 12. WCWF remained unaffected as LIN's purchase of that station had not yet been finalized and was under the terms of their pre-WLUK SSA carriage agreement negotiated with ACME Communications.
Removal from out-of-market cable providers
[edit]On September 4, 2012, WLUK's signal was removed byCharter Communicationssystems in the Upper Peninsula and Marquette,[65]and from systems inSheboygan County,Lomira(both with WITI in-market) andMontello(part of the Madison market served by WMSN-TV) on September 27, 2012.[66]This was due not to either the station or LIN removing access to the station, but contractual agreements by the Fox network itself which disallow signal duplication of network programming by an out-of-market signal despite the station's longtime service to each area, a source of controversy already in other duplicative market areas in the past. The 'one station per system' rule ended up becoming contractually standard across the cable and broadcast television industries by the end of the decade.[67]WLUK continues to present the forecasts on Midwest Communications' Sheboygan radio stations despite the loss of coverage on that city's cable provider. Despite the loss of cable carriage in the Upper Peninsula, it was still available to antenna viewers in Escanaba via W40AN-D until July 2018.
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