(from the Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide), "Real People" was a reality-based variety show which gave a number of "real" people/groups their 15-minutes of fame in front of a national audience. Unfortunately, those local children's shows would end with the abundance of syndicated sitcoms. In the early days, the WICS studios would allow for cars to be driven into the studios as well as for the many children's shows which included a studio audience as well as a panel of local kids. Programming WICS from 1979 to 1986 During the Summer of 1967, the new WICD(channel 15) would go on the air from the tallest (tower)structure in the state of Illinois at the time. Also, you'll learn more about that full-powered east central Illinois station at the WICD page (which is coming soon). She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology from Iowa State, and in 2006, was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Iowa State University. Read more about those struggles in "Pictures on the Prairie" available by clicking on the link above. Well Poteau has left the station and TV news altogether. John Belushi who was with the show from 1975 to 1979, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin were there from 1975-1980. WICS would often time preempt NBC for the airing of local origination programming during the prime time during the month following a rating period. Learn how and when to remove this template message, transition from analog to digital broadcasts, "Doug Quick On Line, Central Illinois On-Line Broadcast Museum", http://wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_8401.shtml, "WICD to share weekend newscasts with WICS", "WICS Springfield (Ill.) to Produce WICD News", "A TV meteorologist objected to management's 'code red' orders. I assume that because of the increased head-to-head competition with WCIA in Champaign, management at the time felt it beneficial to move the WICD local newscast to the 5:30 pm slot, while WICS would continue with the 6 pm slot, where it saw wide viewership. On December 31, 2012, the Sinclair Broadcast Group closed on the purchase of the non-license assets of GOCOM's three television stations, WRSP/WCCU and sister station WBUI for approximately $25.6 million. And during Wednesday mornings broadcast, Crain had had enough. As mentioned above, WICS frequently pre-empted prime time programming to insert its own programming. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42. 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Social Media, WICS Fires Anchor, Reporter After Hooters Fight, WICS Sports Director Krista Lander Leaving, WICS News Set Nominated For Mid-America Emmy, Vince DeMintri Joins Anchor Staff At WICS, WICS Reporter Katie Heinz Injured In Accident, Former WICS Anchor Don Hickman Dies At 74, Spot TV Forecast: After Political Bonanza In 22, Flat Will Suffice For 23, Top 30 Station Groups: Standard General Leaps Into Second Place With Tegna Acquisition, 13th Annual Women In Technology Awards Reception, Revenue Strategies: Advanced Targeting for Local TV. The Tonight Show followed, then Tomorrow would end the broadcast day. (from the Doug Quick Collection of TV Guide), The "Real People" Express visits Springfield, IL. He would remain as WCIA's News Director until 1967. Don Hickman, former WICS Springfield News Channel 20 anchor, recalls his childhood in Tennessee, adolescent years, introduction to broadcasting via radio, switch to television and many of the events he covered during his career: the Civil Rights Movement, the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, and the Vietnam War. Others who have spent time there included Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Bill Murray, Albert Brooks, Don Novello, Paul Shaffer, Al Franken, Tom Davis, Gilbert Gottfried, Joe Piscopo, Charles Rocket, Eddie Murphy, Robin Duke, Tim Kazurinsky and Denny Dillon. Champaign's sister station was allowed to break from the WICS program schedule and it would air "Saturday Night Live" as broadcast on NBC. Guy Gannett finally bought WICD in 1994. With the threat of having channel 2 in its backyard being over, Plains Television Partners made a major commitment to central Illinois viewers with the building of a huge TV studio/office complex on Springfield's east side. WICS would add syndicated shows ranging from the videotaped talk shows mentioned above to "Superman," "The Lloyd Thaxton Show," "Bilko," "The Galloping Gourmet," "David Frost," "Hazel," "Dinah Shore," "Girl Talk" and movies on Saturday and Sunday nights and a rather unique Sunday morning movie series. | The FCC considered making East Central Illinois an all-UHF market but dropped these plans under heavy lobbying from WCIA. The syndicated block was followed by a flip-flop of local news and network news on WICS and sister station WICD. Local newscasts, produced by WICS, are simulcast on both stations. Sinclair purchased most of Guy Gannett's stations, including WICS and WICD, in 1999. These paid commercial programs would pop up in March, June, August, and even December. Morning/Midday Anchor at WICS-TV Title: Morning & Midday Anchor at WICS-TV Location: Springfield, Illinois Area Industry: Broadcast Media Work history: WICS-TV - Springfield, Illinois Area Morning/Midday Anchor since Jan 2012 Jasculca/Terman & Associates Account Executive Sep 2010 - Dec 2011 Full Profile Jeremy Rauch Springfield, IL All of these stars were there before 1982. Neuhoff Broadcasting-Danville Please note that the schedule for WICD and WICS were virtually identical. [21] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 20. Quotation[8] = "'CNBC wanted a reaction to a story someone had seen on FTVLive' - Vanity Fair "; This was particularly the case when covering Decatur (located between Springfield and Champaign). [3], On March 26, 2011, WICD ceased airing its own newscasts on weekends opting to simulcast those from WICS. On Instagram, Elder wrote that she'd "close. On Monday, he might not have a job to return to. Some of the religious shows included Jimmy Swaggart, Herald of Truth and Faith for Today. Sometime in the 1960s, WICS began a tradition of airing a movie at 9:30 am. Unlike the WRSP/WCCU show, WCFN's broadcast originated from WCIA's Champaign facilities but was targeted specifically at a Springfield audience. It seems that Saturday Night Live replaced a time period in which local stations previously programmed it to air movies and other syndicated programming. The reason? Click on the button to see the program schedule from the dates indicated above. June 7, 2019 | 6:43 am EDT by Bernard Schoenburg, Sinclair Broadcast Group said Thursday that International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union Number 51 is no longer representing Sinclair employees at its ABC affiliate WICS Springfield, Ill. (DMA 88). Don Hickman, who was an anchor at WICS in Springfield for 29 years, died of natural causes Saturday. Us @2023 FTVLive LLC Danville Area Weather Forecast. // pattern, adding to the array. (see above) The movies included many of Hollywoods classic films from the Warner Brothers and MGM libraries. It was sponsored by Railsplitters Lincoln-Mercury which would either do live or recorded commercials in the studio with featured vehicles both new and used. (You Tube), Linda Ellerby doing an NBC News Update from 1977. [5][6] While WICS and WICD operated separate news departments, there was a considerable amount of resource sharing between the two outlets, such as with video footage and personnel. A spokesman for the stations parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group, confirmed Wednesday night that Joe was let go., TVNewsCheck | WICS began operations on September 17, 1953 and was owned by Plains Television Partners of Springfield, which was a 50/50 joint venture of Transcontinental Properties and the H & E Balaban Corporation. The 1979 intro to "The Wonderful World of Disney" as broadcast on NBC and WICS. Quotation [20] = " ' first published by the website FTVLive' - The Hill" WICS Newschannel 20 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Springfield and nearby towns and communities in the Decatur, and Champaign area, including Jacksonville, Taylorville, Lincoln, Petersburg, Pana, Effingham, Shelbyville, Beardstown, Carlinville, Litchfield and Hillsboro. Quotation[3] = "'The TV Blogger who broke the news.' - Gawker"; WICS News Anchors News anchors and reporters like Douglas Kimball would be replaced by Wayne Cox (formerly of WBLN), who would anchor through the 1960s to the 1970s. It's unknown why the Balaban's held onto the Champaign property. However, WICD airs separate commercial inserts and legal identifications. On November 17, 2010, WICS became available to Dish Network customers in Terre Haute, Indiana as the ABC affiliate since the market lacked an affiliate of its own. This was produced to promote the 1975-76 Fall Preview Special. He received CableACE awards in 1989 and 1993, and was a New York . The low powered translatoron channel 75 in Mattoon probably didn't broadcast much more than a few miles from Mattoon. WICS disappeared from the Terre Haute local feed in the fall of 2011 after that city's Fox affiliate, WFXW, rejoined ABC as WAWV-TV . CBS Color During the 1979-1980 TV season, the WICS weekday schedule followed Today at 9am with the first run weekday syndicated Dating Game followed by the NBC daytime schedule which was solid through3pm. Writer and photographer at Illinois Times, Freelance Writer and Newsletter Editor at myself, Executive Director at Energy Education Council, Trustee at Springfield Park District, Press Secretary at Illinois House Republicans, Press Spokesperson for IL House Republican Leader Tom Cross, Press Secretary at IL Senate Republican Staff, Press Secretary, IL. [16] This is not the first time the station has taken issue with talent popular with their viewers; in 2015, chief meteorologist Ric Kearbey was unable to reach a deal with WICS on a new contract, while anchor Liz Foster resigned to take a new position in Charlotte, North Carolina.[17][18][19]. Meanwhile, WICD in Danville broadcast a signal of about 30 miles from Danville. YouTube videos are the property of the individual copyright holders and only posted for their historical significance. It features Ric Kearbey, Liz Foster, Vince DeMentri, Shantel Middleton, Brett Baldeck, Garrett Brnger, and Donnie Tillman. The Associated Press | On December 31, 2012, the Sinclair Broadcast Group closed on the purchase of the non-license assets of GOCOM's three television stations, WRSP/WCCU and sister station WBUI for approximately $25.6 million. He later would be at CNN for over 20 years and at WXIA in Atlanta before moving to a role in public relations and working for the United Way in Atlanta. Brittany Hardaway joined 13 WREX as an anchor for the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts in July of 2021. Gatton joined WICS in February 2017 and has been a news anchor and reporter since then. by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh "[13] Despite complaints and comments from viewers on the station's social media platforms,[14] letters to the editor and local talk radio shows, Sinclair continued to mandate its meteorologists to use the terminology. Flip was WICS weathercaster for the six and ten-PM newscasts from 1973 to 1979. Hickman was a CNN original one of the first faces seen . Here is a segment from a weekday feature on a local farmer's market with Thomas Patrick and an interview conducted by Joe Crain. It as done with a panel which included John Barbour, Sarah Percell, Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, Bill Rafferty, Mark Russell, Fred Willard and even Peter Billingsley(of "Christmas Story"). Many might remember the "Acri Creature Feature" which ran late Saturday nights. One minute she's on the news, the next minute she's gone. Like the other stations in the market, WICS made the complete change over to color during the 1960s. Hazard, Kentucky . Now he might be out of a job", "A weatherman slammed his station's constant 'Code Red' warnings. This is a complete newscast from August 1999 with Don Hickman and Susan Finzen. Here is a complete directory of nearly every professional News Anchors nearby. WICS is the ABC affiliate in Springfield, Illinois. One long-time fixture on NewsChannel 20 Joe Crain shows what made him Springfield's favorite weather guy. The dog was Fang, the Wonderdog. 1976 Fall TV montage of shows broadcast during the week. Former Weather Channel Anchor Cheryl Lemke hasn't run into Homer Simpson yet, but she is enjoying life in Springfield, Illinois. This along with the erection of a new taller tower in 1958 would be a part of an expansion effort that would bring virtually all of the central Illinois market NBC programming. December 7, 2012 | 8:17 am EST by TVNewsCheck, SJ-R.com | Lincoln Library-Springfield The News-Gazette From the start, NewsChannel at 9 competed with a newscast already established in the time slot on then-UPN affiliate WCFN (produced by WCIA). Later in the year, Sinclair signed the stations with ABC. There was no Saturday, 6 pm newscast, scheduled instead of the syndicated first-run comedy/variety show Hee Haw which would air from 5 to 6 pm. Anchors Jerry Lambert and Marianne Manko are featured with weathercaster Kelly Curran. I hope you can understand why I was unable to share the information sooner. The rest of the weekday schedule was filled with NBC programming, with a local newscast at 10 pm. "He was an instant star," recalled Vann, who retired in 2019 after 42 years on television and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Quotation[2] = "'The story first broke on FTVLive.com' - AP"; (YouTube), Newsteam, Douglas Kimball, Dale Coleman and Nick Alexander, TV Guide, Nick Charles formerly of WICS at CNN, CNN Screen Shot. The picture with WICS staff members was taken sometime in the last days of "The Virginian" or during the 1974-75 era of "Lucas Tanner" which aired on NBC. Mr. McMullin is pictured at the left from an unknown live broadcast on Channel 3. It may cost him his job", "Where is Joe Crain? NBC Daytime Love (1975) promo for daytime dramas seen on NBC and WICS, Pictured above are several graphics from the show along with Chevy Chase who was only there during the 1975-76 season, but he's probably one of the best-known alumni of the show. Known as NewsChannel at 9 on Fox Illinois, it aired for a half-hour from a modified set at WICS' Springfield studios featuring unique duratrans indicating the Fox-branded show. The Urbana Courier Newspaper You can see Robert Wilson in WICS's early history as a cast member of "Pegwill's Circus", 1972 Chuck Acri host of the Acri Creature Feature, picture from Houseofthejitters.com, 1972 Chuck Acri and characters from the Acri Creature Feature, picture from Houseofthejitters.com, 1972 Acri Creature Feature, picture from Houseofthejitters.com, Acri Creature Feature WICD, Channel 15 was the result of a merger between two relatively lower powered sister stations of WICS. The SangamonLink has posted about historical highlights for Sangamon County including a story about WICS television history, in which it credits me as a source. The prime-time access slot after the news block was filled by the weekday syndicated version of The Newlywed Game at 6:30 pm. The weekend edition of the prime time news will continue to be a market-wide simulcast on WRSP and WCCU. Hickman died of liver cancer in Kissimmee,. WICS, Channel 20, Springfield, Rick Lipps Springfield TV weatherman off air since slamming station's Code Red "corporate initiative" during broadcast", "Weatherman Calls Out Sinclair Broadcasting For The Terrible Storm Alert System They Make Him Use", "WICS meteorologist Joe Crain criticizes 'Code Red' alerts", https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190613/sinclair-meteorologist-joe-crain-let-go-from-wics, "Viewers displeased after weatherman Ric Kearbey announces he's leaving WICS", "Former WICS personality Ric Kearbey raising money for online weather site", "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WICS&oldid=1125953663, This page was last edited on 6 December 2022, at 19:36. WICS continued to be owned by Plains Television Partners from its beginnings through 1986 and co-owned with sister station WICD in Champaign. Traveled on assignment . Although the WRSP/WCCU newscast features market wide coverage, including contributions from WICD reporters based in Champaign, there is a separate weeknight weather segment for WRSP and WCCU that was seen. The call letters of WNBC-TV were transferred soon after to NBC's network o-and-o in New York in 1960. The ad for a WICS Springfield, Ill., morning meteorologist showed up Tuesday on owner Sinclair Broadcast Groups website. Justin Carter and Brittany Hardaway (WICS) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) Many people are wondering where Newschannel 20 and FOX Illinois morning anchors Justin Carter and Brittany Hardaway have been. Senate Republican Caucus, Vice President & Senior Trust Officer at Jacksonville Savings Bank, Communication Manager/Spokesperson at Illinois Department of Transportation, President, Savant Multimedia, Social Media Management/Advertising Firm. 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