WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks as the first Black-owned television station in the continental United States. It produced its own shows and helped launch the careers of Black television hosts and executives such as Pat Harvey, Shaun Robinson, Sharon Dahlonega Bush, and Amyre Makupson. In 1994, when a major affiliation switch threatened to leave CBS without an affiliate station in Detroit, the network moved to buy WGPR-TV and dropped the existing programming in favor of CBS and syndicated programs, later changing the call letters to WWJ-TV. The station's original studios (pictured) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and preserved as a museum that opened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January 2017. A full news department began operation in January 2023.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1934:
At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering 8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Nepal%E2%80%93India_earthquake
1974:
American serial killer Dennis Rader bound, tortured, and killed his first four victims, earning him the nickname "BTK killer". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
1991:
The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted by letters patent; the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross_for_Australia
2009:
US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
ooch: 1. (transitive) 2. (also reflexive) To move or slide (oneself or someone, or something) by a small amount. 3. (also reflexive, figurative) To cause (oneself or someone, or something) to change or progress by a small amount or in small increments. 4. (figurative) To force (someone or something) to move without noticeable disruption or opposition; to nudge. 5. (intransitive) 6. To move or slide by a small amount; to scooch, to scoot. 7. To move around in a restricted or small space; to squeeze, to squirm. 8. (figurative) To change or progress by a small amount or in small increments; to nudge. 9. (figurative) To force to move without noticeable disruption or opposition. 10. (sailing) To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth. 11. A small amount by which something has changed or moved. 12. (figurative) A small change or small amount of progress. 13. (sailing) An act of propelling a boat or sailboard forward by rocking one's body. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ooch
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
God is not interested merely in freeing black men and brown men and yellow men, but God is interested in freeing the whole human race. We must work with determination to create a society, not where black men are superior and other men are inferior and vice versa, but a society in which all men will live together as brothers and respect the dignity and worth of human personality. --Martin Luther King, Jr. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.