[77] Weekend early evening newscasts were subsequently restored on April 7, 2012. We even produce separate weathercasts for our website 4 to 5 times per day. He didn't state if he is leaving Wisconsin. Local News. The station also carries Builder's Showcase, which is also carried on Madison Fox affiliate WMSN and Green Bay/Fox Cities NBC affiliate WGBA, and a longtime fixture of the station produced since July 2000 by the station's advertising department where homebuilding services are offered. (CBS faced a similar situation in Detroit where CBS wound up moving to a low-profile independent station after being displaced by a longtime affiliate involved in the New World agreement; the WDJT deal was one of two eleventh-hour deals in which Weigel landed a Big Three network affiliation, followed by its South Bend, Indiana low-power outlet W58BT [now WBND], which joined ABC in September 1995 after that network's longtime affiliate, WSJV, switched to Fox. KKR sold the stations to Racine native George N. Gillett Jr.'s Gillett Communications in 1987; shortly thereafter, SCI Television was spun off from Gillett to acquire the stations after the latter company filed for bankruptcy. Josh Elliot was abruptly fired by CBS News on Monday and escorted out of the building by security. On September 7, 2010, WITI debuted a local talk show, titled Real Milwaukee, which aired after the station's morning newscast at 9:00a.m.; it was produced by WITI's news department, and focused on current events and community issues. One of Wisconsin's preeminent broadcast news directors, she began her journalism career at WISC-TV in Madison while still a student at the UW-Madison in 1971. WITI aired the program until 1996, when it moved to WDJT-TV; the telethon returned to WITI in 2011,[72] although it lost the rights once again when the broadcast moved to ABC in 2013 (as a result, it was carried locally by WISN-TV until the telethon ended in 2014). [28][29][30][31] Through a management company formed between Local TV and the Chicago-based Tribune Company formed the day prior to the Fox station purchase (December 21) to handle the operation of its existing broadcast television properties and the Local TV stations as well as provide web hosting, technical and engineering services to stations run by the latter group, WITI began sharing newsgathering resources between WITI and Tribune's television flagship WGN-TV in the adjacent Chicago market. In mid-March 2020, Real Milwaukee was placed on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic making its traditional format and seating arrangement impossible to maintain through videotelephony, with a one-hour extension of WakeUp taking its place. However, it expanded its weekday morning newscast from two hours to three (with an hour added from 8:00 to 9:00a.m.); the weeknight 5:00p.m. newscast was expanded from 30 minutes to one hour, forming a 90-minute news block from 5 to 6:30p.m.; and an hour-long nightly prime time newscast at 9:00p.m. was added, leading into the existing 10:00p.m. newscast. The next time youre on a flight, think about this do you know who actually built the plane? Julie Banderas was born in 1974. And finally, I spent three years under the shadow of the Golden Dome, reporting on all things Notre Dame as the weekend sports anchor at WSBT. Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee girl was arrested for shooting a boy on the city's south side Wednesday, March 1. As a CBS affiliate, WITI aired M*A*S*H starting with the 1977 CBS/ABC affiliation switch, in both its original CBS run and in syndication. Nicole Koglin is an American journalist and anchor, better recognized as an anchor in Fox Fox 6's show Real Milwaukee, WakeUp. WITI issued a statement this month,. WITI finally carried some form of Fox children's programming beginning in September 2014, when the two-hour E/I-contributing Xploration Station lineup (which is syndicated primarily to Fox affiliates on a right of first refusal basis) began to air on Saturday mornings after the brokered home programming. Nicole Koglin is the latest hire at Milwaukee's CBS affiliate WDJT-TV (Channel 58) with ties to Milwaukee Fox network affiliate WITI-TV (Channel 6). (In addition, channel 6 continues to share news footage and other resources with Fox's Chicago O&O WFLD through the Fox NewsEdge affiliate service.) The trend started in July 2020 . As a result of CBS affiliating with WDJT, Milwaukee became one of only two television markets affected by the New World deal (along with Detroit) where the replacement Big Three affiliate did not displace some of its existing syndicated programming following the local affiliation switch.[24]. [7] The final CBS program channel 6 aired before it switched to ABC was the original broadcast of the Gunsmoke episode "Little Girl", which ran the evening before the switch at 9:00p.m. Central Time. At FOX6 News, we have one of the most experienced teams of people committed to bringing you the news that. Although it sounds like a cliche, this has very much been a dream job for me. The respective owners of WCGV and WVTV at the timeABRY Communications and Gaylord Broadcasting (the latter of which had already reached deals to switch two fellow independents, KTVT in DallasFort Worth and KSTW in SeattleTacoma, to CBS)also turned the network's offers down. And despite some solid work at those various stops, it was the one time I dressed up as the Cat in the Hat to read to kids (okay, second time the first was a starring role in Seussical the Musical back in high school) that caught the eye of the folks here at FOX6. It maintained a news schedule similar to its latter days as a CBS affiliate. The newer style logo with the "12" logo tilted to the left. WITI shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Michelle Obama's brother, Craig Robinson, and his wife are suing University School of Milwaukee and discussed it with FOX6 News' Stephanie Grady. By Mohammad Samra. On March 28, 2009, the station suspended its morning and early evening newscasts on weekends during the Great Recession; the weekend morning newscasts were briefly replaced by reruns of Ask Gus on April 4 (Gnorski was forced by his physicians to retire, ending WITI's plans to revive Ask Gus, with the program ending its 15-year run on November 24, 2007).[76]. And when I first went on the air in Milwaukee on the TV6 News at Noon with John Drilling on Monday, February 22, 1982, I had no idea what the future would hold.I feel fortunate to have worked in local television during the time period when so many technological changes took place. How did we do it? The dealwhich would make Nexstar the largest television station operator by total number of stations upon its expected closure late in the third quarter of 2019would give WITI temporary sister stations in nearby markets including Green Bay (CBS affiliate WFRV-TV), La CrosseEau Claire (Fox affiliate WLAX and satellite WEUX) and Rockford (Fox affiliate WQRF-TV and ABC-affiliated SSA partner WTVO). Lori Waldon (left, with news producer. At the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight, FOX6 met three brothers and a neighborhood best friend who all served in Vietnam and made it home. WITI-TV officially became a Fox affiliate on December 11, 1994, when the network's programming lineup moved to the station from WCGV; the first Fox network program to air on the station as a full-time affiliate was Fox NFL Sunday at 11:00a.m. Central Time that day, leading into that afternoon's NFL doubleheader: the 1994 Chicago BearsGreen Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field (which served as one of Fox's early regional games that day and saw the Packers win in a 403 blowout victory) and a mid-afternoon national game between the San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers. I wasnt born in Wisconsin nor have I ever lived in the Badger State until now. From Blue Ridge Cable-11 (deep in the heart of Pennsylvanias Amish country), I then immersed myself in the ACC with the great team at WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia (with a healthy dose of NASCAR on the side). WITI resumed the Saturday and Sunday morning newscasts (which now aired from 7:00 to 9:00a.m. on both days) after a two-year absence on April 2, 2011. Back then, if you wanted to see the local news and weather, you needed to be there in front of the TV when the newscast was aired. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. I just missed out on the film era (fortunately!). He initially hinted at a new job but will reveal details after the weather clears. My dad is a doctor. It is duplicative of the HSN feed carried by WPXE-DT8, which also transmits from WITI's tower. Mark Concannon - Concannon was a sportscaster at WFMY during the mid-1980s. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down one-on-one with District Attorney John Chisholm to talk about the status of Milwaukee from his perspective as a prosecutor. Here's to a few more years at Channel 6. 5m ago. Will climate-conscious viewers take it seriously? Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley Would you want to? [5], On August 8, 1958, Storer Broadcasting purchased WITI in hopes of affiliating the station with CBS. Charter Communications began carrying the 6.2 subchannel on channel 967 (now 189) on August 11, followed by its addition to Time Warner Cable on digital channel 991 on October 13, 2009. Management turnover is typically much greater. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: In May 2012, the station activated its second audio program feed three years before FCC requirements for network-provided audio description went into effect for the Milwaukee market, which was done for all Local TV stations at the master control level. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down with Milwaukee mayoral candidate Bob Donovan for an interview ahead of the April 5 election. Ive been in the TV business since before I even graduated from Penn State University, but I definitely didnt start my college career thinking this is where Id end up. The station's E/I requirements are fulfilled by the Xploration Station block offered by Fox. I would write him letters and he would write back to me, which I thought was pretty cool. (to be merged into New World Group)", "CBS, NBC Battle for AFC Rights // Fox Steals NFC Package", "COMPANY NEWS; GREAT AMERICAN SELLING FOUR TELEVISION STATIONS", "Times Mirror sells stations, part 1. In April 2017, she left her position reading headlines as a news anchor on Fox & Friends, the morning program the president watches religiously, to become spokesperson for the State Department. Sinclair had already announced that it had sold WCGV's spectrum in April in the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction and it would cease operations in technicality, albeit with WCGV's main schedule and subchannel moving to WVTV's DT2 subchannel on January 8, 2018; that move effectively would have alleviated any regulatory complications involving the sale for the Milwaukee stations, outside any physical and employee assets that would have been sorted out prior to the deal's closure. All of which is to say: Im up for whatever this area has to offer. 9m ago. The practice was temporarily suspended in the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the league's COVID media restrictions making a live postgame from the game site impossible and resumed in 2022. 51,630 talking about this. After more than 15 years of helping Milwaukeeans get their day started on the right foot on FOX 6's WakeUp, Nicole Koglin . I would love to hear from you so if you have a story idea or would just like to say hi, please do! DuPont described the violent attack during an Oct. 9 podcast on the Channel 6 website. On December 31, 2010, the subchannel became an affiliate of Antenna TV (as part of network owner Tribune Broadcasting's co-management agreement with Local TV's stations), and was rebranded as TV 6.2 (using a modified version of the "TV 6" logomark that WITI used from 1973 to 1995). While at least one station offered a separate broadcast on 87.7,[85] WITI opted to restore the audio feed via an HD Radio subchannel of WMIL-FM (106.1) in August 2009 through an agreement to provide news and weather content for WMIL owner Clear Channel Communications's Milwaukee radio cluster (a forecast-only content agreement between WITI and Entercom's three local stations and occasional check-ins during WakeUp News on WXSS and WSSP's morning shows continues without any audible forecasts from channel 6's weather staff). Eventually, OLTL, Bandstand, and ABC News were later cleared by WITI until the switch to CBS. After Gillett defaulted on some of its financing agreements in the early 1990s, its ownership was restructured and the company was renamed SCI Television. Thanks to all of our viewers for tuning in night after night. In Milwaukee, Lada is probably best known from her days as a sports anchor and reporter at WITI-TV (Channel 6), but the Marquette University alum has expanded her career well beyond. The station also preempted the Late Show with David Letterman in favor of airing M*A*S*H reruns from the former's August 1993 debut until the December 1994 switch to Fox, continuing a long-time practice of substituting local and syndicated programming for CBS's late night offerings, including the Late Movie and Crimetime After Primetime (though it did carry The Pat Sajak Show, albeit delayed); WCGV carried the Late Show instead, under arrangement by CBS, until it moved to WDJT upon the switch. But this year, for the first time, there is a picture to go with every single name on the Wall. Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned. As with most of the former New World stations that switched to Fox, WITI never aired Fox's children's programming outside of required prime time preview shows and network promotions they were technically and contractually unable to opt out of. By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. I enrolled in Penn States College of Communications, joined the Universitys student-run television station, started my own TV show called The U (which is still produced to this day) and got myself some good internships including at WCAU-NBC10 in Philadelphia in the investigative unit and Entertainment Tonight/The Insider in New York City. Previously, Angelica worked for WITI-TV Fox 6 News based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station has entered into an agreement with Amazon to broadcast the November 17, 2022, Packers game against the Tennessee Titans on Prime Video in the Milwaukee market.[75]. By Matt. Studio A was again redesigned in the summer of 2019, with updated technology and design tying into a new graphics package (debuted by former sister station WDAF-TV in Kansas City) introduced in October 2019, and by coincidence Arnold's new "Beyond" package mainly utilized by the Fox-owned stations since 2018. The digital transition resulted in the loss of ability to listen to WITI's audio feed over 87.7 FM; television stations broadcasting on VHF channel 6 were audible over this frequency during the analog television era, although this is no longer possible due to the transition, even for stations that broadcast their digital signals on channel 6. [37], On July 18, 2018, the FCC voted to have the SinclairTribune acquisition reviewed by an administrative law judge amid "serious concerns" about Sinclair's forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict properties; with the future of the deal still uncertain, 21st Century Fox reached a multi-year agreement with Tribune to renew the affiliations of WITI and five of the group's other Fox affiliates on August 6, 2018. Good thing we were young! Now she is doing a new job at CBS 58 as Director of Strategic Initiatives at CBS 58. Despite Tribune's purchase of the station, it never carried This TV; Tribune had assumed Weigel Broadcasting's operational responsibilities for that network on November 1, 2013 (the network was carried on WYTU-LD2 from January until September 2018 after several years on WMLW-DT3, before WIWN agreed to carry the network for their fifth subchannel in November 2018 and its sale to Entertainment Studios in 2020). Prominent Milwaukee news anchor Ted Perry has been suspended by the Fox-owned station WITI-TV, sources told the New York Post, following a Facebook post in which the weeknight host seemed to suggest that he wished Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had died over the weekend rather than beloved "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek. It also was one of the first CBS affiliates to discontinue airing CBS This Morning during the 7:00a.m. hour in 1993 in favor of airing the locally produced WakeUp News. Although WCGV had become a formidable competitor to rival independent WVTV, Fox found the prospect to having its programming carried on a VHF station too much to resist, considering that WITI had a relatively stronger market position despite its then-third place placing behind WTMJ-TV and WISN-TV in total day and news viewership, though its news department has been long-respected and well-awarded. View WISN anchors, reporters and more on the News Team page. [73] The station does carry a paid advertorial segment called Fox Focus during its daytime programming, though only within the form of an extended traditional commercial break. 10. It continues to broadcast one channel in a 480i 4:3 format, unusual for a station licensed as full power. By Matt Mueller Culture Editor Published Mar 10, 2020 at 12:36 PM. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 33. As an owned-and-operated station or affiliate of Fox, which obtained the partial (now exclusive) over-the-air network television rights to the league in 1996, WITI has carried certain Brewers games that have been regionally televised (and, since 2013, select national telecasts scheduled during prime time) by the network during the league's regular season and postseason. Ted Perry has been with FOX6 News since 1993 and anchors evening newscasts. I shouldn't have been surprised. The main anchor at WITI-TV (Channel 6) has not been on the air all week for its 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts.. That . It's a special show and promises to be the most. WCGV temporarily converted into an independent station in the run-up to affiliating with the upstart United Paramount Network (UPN) the following month (on January 16, 1995), though retaining Fox Kids, as WITI held no interest in carrying the network's children's lineup due to a successful weekday afternoon and Saturday morning lineup, as most New World stations did. MILWAUKEE (AP) - Television anchorman Vince Gibbens, praised by co-workers for his cool handling of newsroom emergencies, died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday at the age of . CBS 58 - Mike Strehlow joined the CBS 58 News Team in 1996. The purchase was finalized on May 25, at which point, the film and television production company folded WITI and its six sister stationsfellow CBS affiliates WJW-TV in Cleveland and WTVT in TampaSt. Former Milwaukee News Anchors Dies Suspended | Anchor Fired Death Nicole Koglin Fox 6 Salary, Married Husband, Age (Wikipedia Biography) by Marathi.TV Editorial Team Feb 10, 2023 2 Comments Introduction : Nicole Koglin, a shorthaired woman with a love of animals almost as great as her love of the Packers, is a renowned TV Read More Currently, she serves as Marketing and Communications Officer for the Department of Employee Relations in the City of Milwaukee. Storer purchased KCST the following year, but ABC was not happy with being forced to surrender an affiliation with VHF station in favor of a UHF outlet. Sharing powerful, compelling stories with our audience is what I enjoy most. [8] In August 1962, the station moved to its current 1,078-foot (329m) transmission tower located in Shorewood; for a short time, the transmitter had been the tallest free-standing tower in the world. The station's original call letters were WTVW. [66][67] Occasionally as time permits, TV-6.2 may air the station's 9:00p.m. newscast whenever it is unable to run it on the station's main channel in the event of sports overruns or extended movie broadcasts aired by Fox as well as to simulcast the station's severe weather coverage, including closings and weather warning graphics. I grew up a competitive figure skater so I was used to performing since the age of six. A Milwaukee group is doing everything it can to empower women. Real Milwaukee returned again on September 27, 2021, this time airing at 10a.m., with it now a part of 7 consecutive hours of news and local programming in the morning. I also love to learn and have a deep sense of curiosity even a cat would envy. So our forecasts are constantly being updated on-line and on the air. 1. In the fall of 1995, WITI dropped its longtime branding as "TV-6" and began branding itself as "Six is News", in order to emphasize the station's newly expanded news schedule. tv reporters, mike gousha, jeff taff, witi, wtmj-tv Andy Tarnoff Publisher @andytarnoff Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. As part of the SAFER Act,[84] WITI kept its analog signal on the air until June 25 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of English and Spanish public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters, although this loop was interrupted several times during the period to run severe weather coverage. Dogs, like humans, sometimes need a little help from a friend -- and yes, we are talking about another poochs blood. Nicole Koglin, a shorthaired woman with a love of animals almost as great as her love of the Packers, is a renowned TV anchor and reporter. A professor in the Morehouse college, he joined Fox News in 2007 and he appeared often on the O'Reilly Show where he discussed with O'Reilly on socio-political issues. As of January 2021, WITI currently broadcasts 66 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11 hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and five hours on Sundays, and five hours of Real Milwaukee on each weekday; this does not count 90 minutes of news replays in overnights); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest newscast output among Milwaukee's broadcast television stations, and in the state of Wisconsin overall. FOX6's Stephanie Grady sat down with Murphy to reflect on that day a decade later. The subchannel also aired coverage of the December 2010 funeral of Chicago Cubs legend Ron Santo from WGN-TV; it previously aired a same-day encore of Real Milwaukee at 8:00p.m. weeknights. 2023 FOX Television Stations, Zachariah Anderson murder trial: Arguments over possible 2nd mistrial, I didnt realize: Woman mistakenly eats heart-shaped chip that could have won her 100K, Downtown Waukesha business owner raped, man charged gets $2M bond, Thiensville ammo investigation, police lieutenant charged, resigns, Letroy Guion, former Packers player, sentenced for 2021 assault. Courtney Friel The Marinette, Wisconsin native anchors the CBS 58 News at noon and 4:00 P.M. and is host of CBS 58 Sunday Morning. I have been fortunate to work in a stable environment. Julie Banderas 10. Woman shot and killed near 26th and Clayton Crest, police investigating. Harry Volkman was at the awards ceremony and it was a full circle moment to have my picture taken with him. The rebroadcast with WMIL-HD3 was eventually ended down the line for one of iHeartRadio's automated formats. By Jim Piwowarczyk & Jessica McBride. (Times Mirror Co. to sell four stations to Argyle Communications Inc.)", "Argyle socks away profit. No Ted Perry.. The transaction also made WITI the first Milwaukee television station to serve as an owned-and-operated station of a major network since CBS owned WOKY-TV/WXIX (now WVTV) from 1954 to 1959. In February 2010, WITI expanded its weekday morning newscast a half-hour early to 4:30a.m., extending the program to 4 hours. But, my father grew up in Whitefish Bay and ingrained the Cheesehead mentality into me and my three younger siblings since day one. 1 morning newscast. One year ago, Nicole Koglin announced she was leaving Milwaukee's WITI-TV (Channel 6), where she had been an anchor and reporter on the station's morning news for more than 15 years and. [71] The station formerly served as Milwaukee's "Love Network" affiliate for the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. her new position at WISN-TV (Channel 12), where she is the first black news. [38][39][40][41][42][43][44] Three days later on August 9, Tribune announced it would terminate the Sinclair deal, and concurrently filed a breach of contract lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that Sinclair engaged in protracted negotiations with the FCC and the DOJ over regulatory issues, refused to sell stations in markets where it already had properties, and proposed divestitures to parties with ties to Sinclair executive chair David D. Smith that were rejected or highly subject to rejection to maintain control over stations it was required to sell.[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. As a result, WITI-TV and WISN-TV swapped networks: channel 6 became an ABC affiliate on April 2, 1961. After growing up in suburban Maryland, I first landed in the Midwest as an undergrad at Northwestern majoring in journalism but specializing in Ultimate Frisbee (and meeting my wonderful wife, Kim, along the way). It was a move we have never regretted. Thats not meant to scare you. 1 morning newscast. The passage of time is often difficult to grasp. In 1980, it aired The Young and the Restless on a one-day delay at 9 a.m. WISN-TV was automatically eliminated as an option for CBS as it was in the middle of a long-term affiliation agreement between ABC and that station's owner, Hearst Broadcasting. In 1978, WITI moved its operations to a new facility located on North Green Bay Road in Brown Deer, just outside Milwaukee; the upstart WCGV-TV (channel 24), which would eventually air programming from CBS that WITI refused, purchased WITI's former studios and used them from 1980 until 1994. (The agreement would subsequently be amended to include four additional stations that New World acquired later that month from Argyle Television Holdings. [16] WITI-TV was among the stations involved in the Fox agreement, which also initially included four of New World's other existing CBS-affiliated stations WJBK-TV, WJW-TV, WTVT and WAGA-TV and four additional stations CBS affiliate KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, ABC affiliates WBRC-TV in Birmingham and WGHP in GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point, North Carolina, and NBC affiliate WDAF-TV in Kansas City that were part of New World's concurrent $360-million acquisition of Great American Communications's television properties. This left the market's lower-rated independentscommercial outlets WJJA (channel 49, now independent station WMLW-TV) and WDJT-TV (channel 58) or religious outlet WVCY-TV (channel 30)as the only viable options with which CBS could reach an affiliation agreement; WVCY owner VCY America would eliminate itself from the running after the owner of its parent licensee, Vic Eliason (in consultation with the VCY America board), declined a $10 million offer by CBS Inc. to acquire that station directly on grounds that the bid was "unreasonably" below market value in a letter that also objected to racy programming content carried by the major U.S. broadcast networks. A third subchannel for HSN's over-the-air service was added before the end of 2021 for antenna viewers, with no pay-TV carriage pursued by either FTS or HSN. On December 3, 2018, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group announced it would acquire Tribune's assets for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. MILWAUKEE, WI -- A longtime TV news anchor is leaving the airwaves after 21 years for a career change. From there, I took the morning anchor job at News10 ABC and FOX23 (WTEN/WXXA) in Albany, NY allowing me to get closer to my now husband, Joe. Since moving to Milwaukee in 2016, my wife, daughter and I have fallen in love with the city and all southeast Wisconsin has to offer. The station's weather system did not transition to the same graphics system until July 20, 2022.[80]. With just days before WITI was to join Fox, CBS was faced with the prospect of arranging to have out-of-market affiliates in nearby areas (either WISC-TV in Madison, or its two owned-and-operated stations in the region, WFRV-TV in Green Bay or WBBM-TV in Chicago) be made available for carriage to cable subscribers throughout Southeastern Wisconsin until it could or in case it did not secure a new affiliate in Milwaukee. When I was 9 or 10 years old I used to "broadcast" weather reports in our basement. For many years, she worked for Fox 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The program differed from The Morning Blend on WTMJ-TV (channel 4) in that it did not feature paid demonstration segments by local businesses. Angelica Duria is an American former Anchor and Reporter. In addition, Gus Gnorski's Saturday morning DIY program Ask Gus, was put on hiatus, with Gnorski's segments integrated into the Saturday morning newscast; the program's former studio began serving as the new studio for Wake-Up in May 2008. 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