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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWJ-TV>
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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>
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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>
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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.>