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WJRT-TV is the American Broadcasting Company-owned and operated television station (O&O) in the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Michigan television market. Its studios are located in Flint, its city of license. The station broadcasts with 316 kilowatts of power from a 1,000-foot tower located near Chesaning, Michigan. On cable, WJRT can be seen on Comcast Flint channel 7 and Charter Tri-Cities channel 11. WJRT can be seen on cable systems throughout northeastern Michigan, as far north as Alpena. At one time, it was seen on cable as far north as Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where the Shaw system there offered WJRT instead of WGTU from across the locks; in the early-2000s, Shaw replaced WJRT with Detroit's WXYZ-TV.
History
Goodwill Stations merged with Capital Cities Communications in 1964, but WJRT was spun off to Poole Broadcasting (owned by a former Capital Cities stockholder) due to FCC limits on television station ownership at the time. In April 1978, WJRT along with the rest of Poole Broadcasting (which included WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island and WTEN in Albany, New York) were sold to Knight Ridder. During the late 1980's, Knight Ridder decided to exit broadcasting by selling its stations to separate owners; as a result, WJRT was sold to SJL Broadcast Management (the predecessor of today's Montecito Broadcast Group) in 1989. During the 1970s WJRT became Mid Michigan's highest rated television station, helped by ABC's ratings improvements during the decade. During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, WJRT was usually second to WNEM-TV. However, after ABC (which had merged with Capital Cities in 1986) purchased WJRT (along with WTVG in Toledo, Ohio) from SJL in 1995, the station returned to the top of the Mid-Michigan ratings for primetime, where it remains today. In 1994, New World Communications signed an affiliation deal with Fox Broadcasting Company, resulting in most of New World's stations switching affiliation to Fox. Among the stations due to switch was WJBK-TV in Detroit, a longtime CBS affiliate. To avoid being consigned to UHF in the 11th-largest market, CBS heavily wooed Detroit's longtime ABC affiliate, WXYZ-TV. WXYZ's owner, E.W. Scripps Company, then told ABC that unless it agreed to affiliate with Scripps-owned stations in four smaller markets, it would switch WXYZ to CBS. As a contingency, ABC approached SJL about buying WTVG and WJRT. Both stations' city-grade signals reached portions of the Detroit area. The deal closed on August 29, 1995.
WJRT also served as the ABC affiliate of record for Lansing until WLAJ signed on in 1990. As a network O&O WJRT carries the full ABC television lineup, with the exception of Saturday afternoon Big Ten Conference football and basketball games from ESPN Plus during the fall and winter months which may force an hour of ABC Kids to air the next day. However, should ABC air a nationally-televised Saturday college football or basketball game at noon, the network game is aired on WJRT. Newscasts and PersonalitiesABC 12 News This Morning
ABC 12 News at Noon
ABC 12 News First at Four
ABC 12 News at Five
ABC 12 News at 6 and 11
ABC 12 News Weekend Mornings
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