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WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks as the first Black-owned television station in the continental United States. The station produced its own shows and helped launch the careers of Black television hosts and executives such as Pat Harvey, Shaun Robinson, Sharon Dahlonega Bush, and Amyre Makupson. In 1994, when a major affiliation switch threatened to leave CBS without an affiliate station in Detroit, the network bought WGPR-TV and dropped its existing programming in favor of CBS and syndicated programs, later changing the call letters to WWJ-TV. The station's original studios have been preserved as a museum, first opening on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January 2017, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A full news department began operation in January 2023. (Full article...)
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