WSAW-TV
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HAAT | 163 m (535 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 45°46′29.9″N 89°14′56.1″W / 45.774972°N 89.248917°W |
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Public license information |
WSAW-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS, MyNetworkTV, and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Fox affiliate WZAW-LD (channel 33). The two stations share studios on Grand Avenue/US 51 in Wausau; WSAW-TV's transmitter is located on Rib Mountain.[3]
To serve the Northwoods area of Northern Wisconsin, it operates a digital fill-in
History
The station launched on October 23, 1954, as WSAU-TV, a sister station to WSAU radio (550 AM) and the original WSAU-FM (95.5, now WIFC; the current WSAU-FM is on 99.9 FM). It was originally owned by two groups who merged their applications in hearing: the radio station and the Wisconsin Valley Television Corporation, a consortium of North-Central Wisconsin newspapers that also included the Wausau Daily Record-Herald.[4] Channel 7 originally operated from the Plumer Mansion, a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building, that was located on North 5th Street in Wausau and torn down in 1972 one year after the station moved to its current home.[5]
The Plumer Mansion's
Forward sold off WSAU and WIFC radio in 1980; the radio station retained the WSAU call sign, and Forward immediately applied for the call sign WSAW.[8] The WSAW-TV call sign became effective on March 8, 1981.[9]
It has been affiliated with CBS since its beginning although the station did have secondary affiliations with
On July 1, 2015, Gray bought the non-license assets of the market's Fox affiliate
In consenting to the interference that would be caused by WZAW operating under special temporary authority on channel 31 (the same RF channel as WFXS) rather than its licensed channel 33, Davis Television stated that it would return the WFXS license to the FCC for cancellation following the sale.[13] In August 2015, WSAW launched a prime time newscast on the Fox outlet known as WZAW News at 9. This half-hour broadcast offers direct competition to WAOW's thirty-minute, weeknight-only news airing at the same time on its CW digital subchannel (which aired on WFXS before July 1, 2015).
On October 1, 2015, the station began using its new studio. It was the first upgrade in a decade and took months to finish. The new studio includes two new state-of-the art sets: one each for WSAW and WZAW.[14] Eventually, the WZAW-LD simulcast on WSAW's third subchannel was upgraded to high definition to provide full-market access to Fox programming in HD.
News operation
WSAW presently broadcasts 22+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4+1⁄2 hours each weekday, and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).
Technical information
The stations' signals are
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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7.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
CBS | CBS |
7.2 | 480i | MeTV+ | MyNetworkTV/MeTV | |
7.3 | 720p | FOX | Fox (WZAW-LD) | |
7.4 | CW | CW+ (WYOW)
| ||
7.5 | 480i | Quest | Quest | |
7.6 | Circle | Circle
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Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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7.10 | 1080i | 16:9 |
WSAW-DT | CBS (WSAW-TV) |
33.10 | 720p | Fox | Fox (WZAW-LD) | |
34.1 | WYOW-DT | The CW Plus |
Translators
City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT
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Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates |
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Sayner | W21DS-D | 21 | 15 kW | 138 m (453 ft) | 167156 | 46°01′55.0″N 89°31′49.0″W / 46.031944°N 89.530278°W |
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WSAW-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WYOW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "TV Query Results -- Video Division (FCC) USA". transition.fcc.gov. Archived from the original on March 5, 2023. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
- ^ "Agree on Merger of TV Interests, WSAU Sale to Valley Television Corp". Wausau Daily Record-Herald. Wausau, Wisconsin. March 29, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved May 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Site of the Plumer Mansion - Wausau, Wisconsin". wikimapia.org.
- ^ Behrens, Matt. "The History of NewsChannel 7". WSAW. Archived from the original on February 1, 2016.
- ^ "TV Corporation Has New Name". Wausau Daily Herald. Wausau, Wisconsin. January 9, 1967. p. 7. Retrieved May 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "FCC approval pending: Forward sells two local radio stations". Wausau Daily Herald. Wausau, Wisconsin. November 22, 1980. p. 3. Retrieved May 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ FCC History Cards for WSAW-TV
- ^ Levin, Phil. "NewsChannel7 Newscasts Now in HD". WSAW. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011.
- ^ DesRivieres, John. ""Sir 7" is Coming Back to Newschannel 7". WSAW. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011.
- ^ "Gray in 4 New Deals, Closes 3 Earlier Ones". TVNewsCheck. July 1, 2015. Archived from the original on March 5, 2023. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
- ^ Raff, Robert (June 9, 2015). "Interference Consent" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
- ^ Caldwell, Sean (October 1, 2015). "WSAW, WZAW debut new, state-of-the-art Wausau studios". WSAW-TV. Archived from the original on March 5, 2023. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
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- ^ a b "Facebook". www.facebook.com.
- ^ a b "TitanTV Programming Guide". Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
- From Transdiffusion: A look at WSAW from the early-1980s and how it compares to British television
- The history of channel 7