This ice storm would bring down the newly constructed WICD tower. Anchor Leaves Station without a Word (Thanks to Sinclair) October 28, 2016 / Scott Jones. by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh This week I began a new career in a new industry. The History of WICS, Channel 20, Springfield, IL. During the Summer of 1967, the new WICD(channel 15) would go on the air from the tallest (tower)structure in the state of Illinois at the time. The ad for a WICS Springfield, Ill., morning meteorologist showed up Tuesday on owner Sinclair Broadcast Groups website. YouTube videos are the property of the individual copyright holders and only posted for their historical significance. Meanwhile, WICD in Danville broadcast a signal of about 30 miles from Danville. WICS Charity Basketball Team, about 1989 (WICS). This facility would house the station for many years to come even after bringing the operations of the GoCom stations (WRSP, WCCU, and WBUI) into the fold in the 2010s. By 1979, the WICS broadcast day began at 6:30 am and sign-off on weeknights followed the Tomorrow show hosted by Tom Snyder, at around 1 am. Strategic Planning, E-learning, Higher Education Marketing, Educational Technology, Higher Technical Director at THINK TeleVisual LLC., Digital Media Mechandising Producer at Anderson Technical Director at THINK TeleVisual LLC. TV Spy | In modern times it also serves as the operations hub for several other Sinclair stations as well. Gatton joined WICS in February 2017 and has been a news anchor and reporter since then. WICS serves the western half of the Central Illinois market while WICD serves the eastern portion. He would remain as WCIA's News Director until 1967. The effort on WRSP/WCCU was further expanded on January 20, 2014, when WICS began producing a two-hour weekday morning show for the Fox affiliates. Learn how and when to remove this template message, transition from analog to digital broadcasts, "Doug Quick On Line, Central Illinois On-Line Broadcast Museum", http://wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_8401.shtml, "WICD to share weekend newscasts with WICS", "WICS Springfield (Ill.) to Produce WICD News", "A TV meteorologist objected to management's 'code red' orders. Springfield IL Deadline-driven Anchor and Reporter for (then) #1 rated 6pm and 10pm newscasts. That resulted in many complaints by viewers and the eventual reversal of the pre-emption as well as WICS being one of the first stations to add "Star Trek" by off-network syndication. December 26, 2013 | 7:31 am EST by TVNewsCheck, TVNewsCheck/Playout | I have been in the midst of a big transition. WICS disappeared from the Terre Haute local feed in the fall of 2011 after that city's Fox affiliate, WFXW, rejoined ABC as WAWV-TV . Mutual of Omaha's the Wild Kingdom would follow at 5 pm, then the NBC national newscast before prime time and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. After the 10 pm local newscast, both WICS/WICD would follow, more than likely, with the broadcast of yet another TV movie before sign-off. These broadcasts are known as ABC NewsChannel and feature a common graphics package seen on WICS and WICD. Both WRSP/WCCU and WBUI were initially operated from separate facilities from WICS/WICD. [5][6] While WICS and WICD operated separate news departments, there was a considerable amount of resource sharing between the two outlets, such as with video footage and personnel. By 1978, WHNB-TV was sold to Viacom, while the Balaban's retained their Plains Television Partners stations WICS and WICD. Pictured below are few snapshots from their visit in Springfield, IL supplied by WICS. Sinclair purchased most of Guy Gannett's stations, including WICS and WICD, in 1999. [2] WCFN's prime time broadcast would be eventually canceled by WCIA on September 28, 2009. Most commercials were either done live or live on tape from the studios of WICS. We're your source for local news, weather and sports. A link to the page for WICS is here, just click on the button above. WICS News Anchors News anchors and reporters like Douglas Kimball would be replaced by Wayne Cox (formerly of WBLN), who would anchor through the 1960s to the 1970s. Scott Baer His characters were Vincent Hedges(a vampire), Emmit(the hunchback), Beauregard(the caveman), and Bertie and Bernie(the skull). This is a clip from August 17, 2010 and the 5pm show. Quotation[4] = "'FTVLive a TV news website that is often on the money' - LA Times"; List of news presenters by nationality American news anchors. Lincoln Library-Springfield This arrangement nearly brought down WICD, and for a time, it appeared the station would revert to a full-time satellite of WICS. Fitness, Media Relations, Public Speaking, Public Relations, Crisis Communications, Press Releases, Assistant Director of Public Relations at University of Illinois Springfield. CNN reported that Hickman died Wednesday after battling liver cancer, according to his widow, Sheila. In the case of WICS/WICD, it was a late movie. Brittany Hardaway joined 13 WREX as an anchor for the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts in July of 2021. The Springfield State Journal-Register | The switch ended up being one of the most confusing things to happen to local TV since the advent of cable TV. It as done with a panel which included John Barbour, Sarah Percell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, Bill Rafferty, Mark Russell, Fred Willard and even Peter Billingsley(of "Christmas Story"). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42. var Q = Quotation.length; The trainwould stop in as many of the NBC affiliate home towns as possible amid fans and local media. Well Poteau has left the station and TV news altogether. Lemke has gone from The Weather Channel to the Chief Met at WICS in Springfield. (from the Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide), "Real People" was a reality-based variety show which gave a number of "real" people/groups their 15-minutes of fame in front of a national audience. When "Star Trek" premiered, it was pre-empted by WICS for off-network reruns of "Laramie." Just drop me a note at the, Randy Miller for his picture contributions. Combining the signals of WICS with WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign, and WICD, Channel 24 in Danville increased the audience of the Plains Television stations to nearly that of Midwest Television's WCIA, Channel 3. Meanwhile, WICD in Danville broadcast a signal of about 30 miles from Danville. It was hosted by Chuck Acri a businessman who also ran a home improvement company in the Quad Cities. Quotation[1] = "'The One-Man Website That Broke the Jay Leno Story' - About.com "; With the exception of the WCCU newscast, WICD no longer produces Champaign-specific local news. It was simply more profitable, since airing the NBC show would limit the time available for local commercials. Later in the year, Sinclair signed the stations with ABC. // ====================================== Danville Area Weather Forecast. In June 2019, Sinclair fired Joe Crain, a weekday morning meteorologist who had been with WICS since 2006,[7] for speaking out on-air during the June 5 edition of NewsChannel 20 Sunrise against a group mandate to Sinclair's news-producing stations to denote threats of severe thunderstorm activity through "Code Red" alerts, regardless of the severity of the event being forecast, stating that the system was "created by, likely, a journalism school graduate," rather than a professional meteorologist. Most were from the former ABC Movie of the Week TV movie catalog of films. On Monday, he might not have a job to return to. A 25-time Regional Emmy Award-winning anchor/reporter, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Writing Award winner, with nearly 40 years of broadcast news experience. With the eventual relaxation of ownership limits, Sinclair soon took the stations off the market and retained them. WICS would broadcast St. Louis Cardinal Baseball during the era as well. // To add more quotations, continue with the Gus Gordon might be best known to residents of central Illinois as the Chief Meteorologist at ABC NewsChannel 20 for over 22 years (February of 1990-May of 2012). While the network programming would shift from one set of stations to another, the syndicated shows would remain on the original stations, with some shifting time slots. Remember WICS would air paid religious programs by a professional evangelist, as well as paid info-commercials on behalf of charitable organizations. Dee Dee Gatton BREAKING: Crews battle two-alarm fire at south Charlotte apartment complex Dee Dee Gatton First at Four Anchor, Investigative Reporter Charlotte, NC Prior to coming to Charlotte, Dee Dee was the evening anchor/special projects reporter at WICS-WRSP in Springfield, Illinois. Springfield, Illinois Area Sports Reporter/Anchor WYMT Jun 2016 - Jun 2018 2 years 1 month. That left a huge part of the rural areas including Charleston, Tuscola, and other east-centralcommunities without NBC network service from 1959 through 1967. 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