WEEK-TV

WEEK-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WEEK-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Your Home Team
station_branding = WEEK (general)
News 25 (newscsasts)
analog = 25 (UHF)
digital = 57 (UHF) returning to 25 in 2009
other_chs =
subchannels = 25.1 NBC HD
25.2 NBC Weather Plus
affiliations = NBC
network =
founded =
airdate = February 1, 1953
location = Peoria, Illinois
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers = 43 (1953-1964)
owner = Granite Broadcasting Corporation
licensee = WEEK-TV License, Inc.
sister_stations = WAOE
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 2400 kW (analog)
452 kW (digital)
HAAT = 211.6 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 24801
coordinates = coord|40|37|46.3|N|89|32|52.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.week.com/ www.week.com]

WEEK-TV, channel 25, is a television station licensed to Peoria, Illinois, which serves asn the NBC affiliate for the Peoria-Bloomington television market. WEEK-TV is owned by Granite Broadcasting Corporation, and also manages WAOE, Peoria's MyNetworkTV affiliate. WEEK's offices, studios, and transmitter are located in East Peoria, Illinois.

History

WEEK-TV became Peoria's first television station on Sunday, February 1, 1953 at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.Fact|date=February 2007 WEEK-TV was owned and operated by Oklahoma City-based West Central Broadcasting Co.Fact|date=February 2007 whose president was E.K. Gaylord, also president of the Oklahoma Publishing Company. The board chairman of directors was United States Senator Robert S. Kerr, the former governor of Oklahoma and the "Kerr" in Kerr-McGee. West Central also co-owned radio station, 1350 WEEK (AM) (now WOAM).Fact|date=February 2007 The original Chief Engineer of WEEK-TV and WEEK-AM was Wayne Lovely who supervised the construction of the station's technical facilities and equipment installation in 1953. He was employed by the station until 1974.

WEEK-TV founded WEEQ-TV, channel 35 in La Salle, Illinois, on November 7, 1957, [ [http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1957/november_7_1957_119621.html November 7, 1957 on BrainyHistory] ] , to rebroadcast WEEK-TV's programming.Quick, Doug. [http://www.dougquick.com/othertelevisionhistory2.html "Other Television History"] on personal website.] This channel allocation is now used for WWTO-TV.

WEEK-TV moved from channel 43 to channel 25 around 1964. The channel 43 allocation was later moved from Peoria to Bloomington and used by the second WBLN (now WYZZ-TV) beginning in 1982.Fact|date=February 2007

In 1997, WEEK bought the station license for 98.5 at Eureka, Illinois, and gave it the callsign WEEK-FM and nickname "Oldies 98.5". Granite Broadcasting divested itself of the radio station in 1999; the station is now WPIA.

On-air personalities

As of September 2008, the on-air staff included:
* Mike Dimmick
* Sandy Gallant
* Lee Hall
* Denise Jackson
* Tom McIntyre
* Garry Moore
* Gina Morss
* Jeff Muniz
* Lee Ranson
* Eric Shangraw
* Josh Simon
* Marc Strauss
* Syreeta Baker
* Emily West
* Michelle Mantel
* Gina Ford

Former on-air personalities

*Steve Ammerman
*Bob Arthur
*Ben Bailey (meteorologist)
*Dave Baldridge
*George Baseleon
*Jim Barnett (weatherman)
*Bob Bath
*Mary Ann Bergerson (Ahern)
*Doug Bisby
*Bob Burton
*Frank Bussone
*Tom Connor
*Kathy Dancy
*Paul Daniel
*Shelli Dankoff (McClellan)
*Kelly Deushane
*Pat Dix
*Don Elliot
*Fraser Engerman
*Hank Fisher
*Steve Gehlbach
*Trazanna Halstead
*Bill Houlihan
*Brad Harding
*Chuck Harrison
*Chick Hearn
*Denise Heilman
*Jill Henriksen (Noelle)
*Bob Jamieson
*Christine Jarzenbeck
*Brad Johansen
*Gordon Joyner
*Sabrina Kang
*Julie Kimble
*Dana Kozlow
*Stan Lonergan
*Barbara Love
*Stretch Miller
*Adam Nielsen
*Kelly Nutt
*Becky Oliver
*Vokaye Parker
*Matt Pendergrass
*Tim Perkin
*Edgar Sandoval
*Les Shapiro
*Andrew Siff
*Laura Skirde
*Keenan Smith
*Shannon Tebben (Sandoval)
*Kathy Topp
*Norm Ulrich
*Scott Unes
*Bev Vance
*Paul Wappell
*Anna Werner
*John Wingate
*Kathy Wyman
*Christine Zak
*Susanna Song
*Jenny Li
*Kelly Watson
*Stacy Morgan

Digital Television

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for February 17, 2009 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , WEEK will return to channel 25.

External links

* [http://www.week.com/ WEEK-TV website]
*TVQ|WEEK-TV

References


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