WLNS-TV Channel 6 Lansing 
Slogan: WLNS 6; Your News Leader
Web site: www.wlns.com
Programming: WLNS and WLNS-DT on TitanTV.com
E-mail: visit web site
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Power/Height/Offset: 100,000 watts / 1001 feet / -
- Analog Service Area
Digital Channel: 59
Final Digital Channel: 36
Digital Power/Height: 1,000,000 watts / 945 feet
- Digital Service Area
Digital Const. Permit: 580,000 watts / 945 feet (Channel 36)
- Digital Service Area
Translator station: W67AJ Ch. 67 Ann Arbor
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- Tower photos, thanks West Michigan SBE 102
Call Sign History:
- WLNS-TV: 7/16/1984
- WJIM-TV:
Call Sign Origin: Lansing
Network Affiliation History:
- 1959: CBS
- 1958: CBS, NBC
- 5/1/1950: CBS, NBC, ABC, DuMont
On Air Date: May 1, 1950
Owner: Young Broadcasting
Telephone: (517) 372-8282
Notes/History:
- 3/2008: Construction permit granted for post-transition digital facilities on Channel 36.
- 4/2002: Digital facilities licensed
- 1/28/2001: Digital services begin (for Super Bowl XXXV)
- 11/1999: Application filed for digital facilities on channel 59.
- 1986: Backe Communications communications sells the station to Young Broadcasting.
- 1984: WJIM-TV is sold by Harold Gross to Backe Communications which changes the station's calls to WLNS.
- 1981: FCC orders the station's license revoked on the grounds it violated fairness doctrine by being too selective in allowing airtime for political figures. WJIM-TV appeals and wins a reprieve in 1982 and ends up paying a cash settlement in 1984 to the ACLU which first filed the challenge to the station's license in 1973.
- 1959: WILX-TV 10 signs on and becomes Lansing's NBC affiliate; WJIM-TV becomes only a CBS affiliate.
- 1958: ABC programming is dropped when WJRT-TV 12 Flint signs on. WJRT was the principle ABC affiliate in Lansing until 1990 when WLAJ took to the airwaves.
- 5/1/1950: Station signs on as WJIM-TV, owned by Harold F. Gross who also owned WJIM AM 1240 at the time. WJIM-TV is the Lansing market's oldest television station and the second oldest Michigan station outside of Detroit. Primariy affiliation at sign-on was with CBS, although the station did carry some shows from NBC, ABC, as well as possibly from the DuMont Network.
Transmitter location:
Ingham County
Approximate analog signal contour plot:

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