Catchy Comedy Toasts Late Richard Moll With ‘Night Court’ Marathon

‘Woody Woodpecker’ Set To Take Flight On MeTV

‘Murder, She Wrote’ Joins Start TV In July

Weigel Broadcasting said today that Murder, She Wrote joins its lineup of female heroines with a celebratory marathon 4th of July weekend, before the series moves to its regular Monday […]

Weigel Hopes Viewers Find Rebrand Of Decades Network More Catchy

Weigel Broadcasting digital network Decades becomes Catchy Comedy March 27, featuring classic sitcoms such as I Love LucyGood Times and Night Court. Catchy Comedy features the tagline “Catch All the Laughs” and is set to be Nielsen-rated.

Weigel Rebands Decades Diginet As Catchy Comedy

Weigel Broadcasting Co. today announced the March 27 launch of Catchy Comedy, an over-the-air national broadcast television network that will invite viewers to “Catch All the Laughs” with a deep […]

Weigel Broadcasting In Illinois High School Sports Partnership

Weigel Broadcasting, the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) and its digital broadcast partner the NFHS Network have joined together on a new multi-year partnership for IHSA State Final Football and […]

Philo Adds More Weigel Networks: MeTV, Heroes & Icons And Story Television

Story Television Sets Up Juneteenth Event

More Weigel Digital Networks To Be Added To Frndly TV Lineup

Weigel Partners With Block Club Chicago On Weekly Newsmagazine

Weigel Launching Story Television Network

The new OTA network will feature factual and historical programming. It debuts on Hearst, Marquee, Maranatha and Weigel subchannels nationwide on March 28.

MeTV Signs Licensing Deals For Svengoolie, Toony The Tuna Merchandise

JVC Camera Upgrade Comes Into Focus At Weigel

Weigel Broadcasting Co. in Milwaukee, home to WDJT, WMLW, WBME-CD and WYTU-LD, recently selected several JVC Professional Video GY-HC900 and GY-HC550 cameras, which are part of JVC’s plug-and-play Connected Cam series. The […]

Weigel Spends $100M On ‘Unique, Strategic Opportunity’ In New York

In a series of transactions totaling nearly $100 million, Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting has acquired two stations serving the New York market as affiliates for the company’s MeTV digital networks.

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Take-Out Food Show Takes Off On WCIU Chicago

A local food show in Chicago supporting restaurants during the pandemic has turned into a success for WCIU. “It’s just fun and everybody can always get behind food,” says Molly Kelly, Weigel Broadcasting’s media strategy director.

Weigel Taps Donna D’Alessandro As EVP Of Content

The programming vet comes on board after nine years at Discovery Inc., most recently as SVP of factual programming for Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel.

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Openings In Engineering Management

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a lead broadcast engineer in Chicago and a chief engineer in Savannah, Ga.

Weigel Broadcasting Pulls The Plug On ‘The Jam’

Comscore, Weigel Renew Ratings Agreement

The deal covers measurement services for Weigel Broadcasting’s eight stations in Milwaukee and South Bend, Ind.

DMA 36: MILWAUKEE

Anne Brown Named Weigel Milwaukee GM

She joins from WITI in the market to succeed the retiring Mark Strachota as head of WDJT, WMLW, WBME and WYTU.

DMA 3: CHICAGO

Radio-TV News Partnership In Chicago

Weigel Broadcasting’s MeTV FM in Chicago, the increasingly popular soft-rock oldies station at WRME 87.7 FM, has teamed up with CBS-owned WBBM on news and weather updates.

Weigel Relies On Cobalt Digital For EAS Insertion, CALM Compliance

Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting Co., which owns and operates stations in nine markets in addition to MeTV and other digital multicast networks, is using Cobalt Digital’s software-defined 9922-FS-DSP platform for openGear frames […]

DMA 3: CHICAGO

Weigel Brings The CW To WCIU

Twenty-five years after WCIU Chicago shed its affiliation with the Univision Spanish-language network and became fully independent as “The U,” the Weigel Broadcasting station is about to take on a new identity. On Sunday it will become an affiliate of The CW.

Fox O&Os To Carry Weigel’s Decades Diginet

Beginning in the third quarter, Weigel Broadcasting’s Decades multicast network will be carried on Fox-owned stations in 12 major markets as part of a multiyear agreement with Fox Television Stations, LLC. The deal ups the network’s U.S. coverage to 60% with 65 TV affiliates nationwide. Decades will launch on Fox stations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, Phoenix, Detroit, Minneapolis, Austin and Gainesville, Fla.

DMA 3: CHICAGO

Weigel’s WCIU Chicago Adds CW Affiliation

With the addition, the station will move its current programming branded as The U to a subchannel.

DMA 3: CHICAGO

WCIU Slots Tamron Hall Talker In Primetime

Hall’s new syndicated talk show, which was being pitched as a daytime offering, will air instead from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday on Weigel Broadcasting’s independent WCIU Chicago. It’s a huge coup for Hall and an exceedingly shrewd move by the Weigel bosses.

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Decades Diginet To Toast ‘The Twilight Zone’

Start TV Network Adds Four New Dramas

The Weigel Broadcasting Co. multicast TV network Start TV is adding The Good Wife, Crossing Jordan, Unforgettable and Strong Medicine to its daily programming lineup of procedural dramas. They debut […]

DMA 3: CHICAGO

Weigel Testing ATSC 3.0 In Chicago

Weigel Broadcasting, Chicago-based parent company of WCIU and a host of other stations and digital networks, just switched on the future of television. On Sunday, Weigel launched “Chicago 3.0,” an experimental next-generation full-power station broadcasting from Willis Tower.

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Subchannel Shuffling Coming In Milwaukee

DMA 3: CHICAGO

Carly Henderson Joins ‘The Jam’ As Third Co-Host

Weigel To Launch ‘Start TV’ Female Diginet

The new multicast network will debut on Sept. 3 featuring  procedural dramas focusing on strong women. At launch, it will reach 42% of U.S. TV households anchored by the CBS Television Stations.

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WCIU Reunites High School Basketball Rivalry

DMA 3: CHICAGO

WCIU Celebrates Black History Month With Special

Weigel Broadcasting’s independent WCIU Chicago (DMA 3) and Chicago hip-hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith are again collaborating for Black History Month with a special broadcast, Black History: The Movement. The […]

Weigel Sues ReachMe.TV Over Trademark

Weigel Broadcasting, Chicago-based parent company of the popular Me-TV Network, is suing Los Angeles-based Pervasive TV for using the name ReachMe.TV. In a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court, Weigel is claiming trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices by Pervasive, which shows its ReachMe.TV mobile entertainment network online and on screens at airports and hotels across the country.

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Expanding Weigel Buys Into S.F., Seattle

The Chicago-based broadcaster is paying spectrum aggregator OTA Broadcasting $23.2 million for KFFV and KVOS, both Seattle, and KTLN and low-power KAXT, both San Francisco.

Weigel Moving Into Los Angeles, St. Louis

The Chicago-based group will pay $9 million for the KAZA Los Angeles. The station is licensed to Avalon, Calif., but broadcasts from Mount Wilson. At the same time, Weigel has agreed to pay $3.75 for KNLC St. Louis from New Life Evangelistic Center.

Decades Network Brings Back Ed Sullivan

“Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!” That simple introduction changed America and TV forever, as 73 million people gathered in front of their televisions to see The Beatles’ first live performance […]

DMA 3: CHICAGO

WCIU’s ‘The Jam’ Adds DJ Mike Pryor

Weigel Broadcasting’s independent WCIU Chicago (DMA 3) has added Michael “DJ Mike P” Pryor, to its morning show The Jam. He joins hosts Jordan Cornette, Felicia Lawrence and Danielle Robay, […]