WNEM-TV

WNEM-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market in Michigan. It is licensed to Bay City, and broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (PSIP virtual channel 5). Owned by the Meredith Corporation, the station has studios on North Franklin Street in downtown Saginaw, as well as a second newsroom in downtown Flint. Its 1,000 kilowatt, 275.3 metres (903 ft) high transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw.

The station also operates the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate, "My5", on a second digital subchannel. WNEM-TV is the only station in the Flint/Tri-Cities market headquartered in the city of Saginaw, and in turn focuses its local news stories on Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland, with a secondary focus on Flint.

History

WNEM-TV was founded by the NorthEastern Michigan Corporation, hence the call letters, on February 16, 1954 as a NBC affiliate. Originally, its main studios were located on rented space at Bishop International Airport in Flint with auxiliary studios in its city of license, Bay City. In the 1960s, it moved its main studios to the transmitter site in Indiantown. During its first four years, WNEM-TV had a secondary affiliation with ABC sharing programming from that network with WKNX-TV (channel 57, now WEYI-TV channel 25) until 1958 when WJRT-TV signed-on and took that affiliation. WNEM-TV also aired programming from DuMont until that network dissolved.