WLNS-TV Channel 6 Lansing

Slogan: WLNS 6; Your News Leader

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

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Call Sign History:

Call Sign Origin: Lansing

Network Affiliation History:

On Air Date: May 1, 1950

Telephone: (517) 372-8282

Notes/History:

3/2008: Construction permit granted for post-transition digital facilities on Channel 36.

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:

WLNS-TV approximate coverage

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