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unusual facts about WHAM-DT2


WRWB

WHAM-DT2, a television station (Channel 13.2) licensed to serve Rochester, New York, licensed as WRWB-TV from 2000 to 2006


Andrew Ridgeley

CBS Records (later Sony Music), having taken up the option on Wham!'s contract that specified solo albums from Michael and Ridgeley, released a guitar and drum driven solo recording from Ridgeley, Son of Albert, in 1990.

Can't Smile Without You

On behalf of the songwriters, publishing company Dick James Music sued George Michael for plagiarism in the mid-'80s, claiming that the 1984 Wham! single "Last Christmas" lifted its melody from "Can't Smile Without You." The case was settled out of court.

Children Awaiting Parents

Friday's Child, a weekly television segment hosted by WHAM TV 13 Associate News Director, Don Alhart, in Rochester, New York, features a local waiting child in an effort to recruit forever families.

David Price Racing

Andrew Ridgeley, formerly of the pop duo Wham!, also ran with DPR in French F3, after the band split up.

Deon Estus

Deon Estus (born Jeffery Deon Estus, 1956, Detroit, Michigan) is an American bassist and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on the latter's first two subsequent solo projects.

Don Alhart

Alhart began his professional television career at WOKR-TV (the predecessor of WHAM) in 1966 after graduating from Ithaca College.

Everything She Wants

Furthermore, Michael remarked in an interview (to promote 25 Live tour) that "Everything She Wants" is his favourite Wham! song.

Farrell, Pennsylvania

Because of Farrell's location near the Pennsylvania/Ohio border, it is served by WKBN-TV (CBS), WFMJ-TV (NBC), WYTV (ABC), WYFX-LD (Fox) and WBCB (CW), all broadcast from nearby Youngstown, OH.

Indiana's NewsCenter

The operation produces a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast for Granite-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYD (channel 20) in Detroit (which utilizes WPTA/WISE staff members from its Fort Wayne studios, along with reports filed by journalists based in Detroit), and previously produced newscasts for WPTA's CW-affiliated subchannel WPTA-DT2 (channel 21.2) and WISE-TV's MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel WISE-DT2 (channel 33.2).

Instant Fish

Instant Fish was an idea conceived by the Wham-O toy company in the early 1960s.

KEYC-DT2

KEYC-DT2's parent station has studios on Lookout Drive in North Mankato.

KGET-DT2

The fate of the CW in the Bakersfield market remained unknown until just days before The CW was scheduled to launch, when Clear Channel Communications (the owner of KGET at the time) obtained the rights to The CW Plus affiliation for the Bakersfield market on a new digital subchannel of KGET.

KGNS-DT2

In May 2013, SagamoreHill Broadcasting reached a deal to sell KGNS, along with KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming and KSTF in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to Yellowstone Holdings, a subsidiary of Frontier Radio Management.

KKCO

Butch McCain - chief weather anchor; weeknights at 5:30, 6 (KKCO-DT2 MeTV) and 10 p.m.

KMEG

It also aired selected UPN programming out-of-pattern until the network merged with The WB (carried locally on KTIV-DT2 and cable television) to form The CW in 2006.

KOLN

UPN was broadcast on a DT2 subchannel of KOLN and KGIN under the banner UPN Nebraska; the service switched to MyNetworkTV in September 2006 and was locally branded as "MyTV" until being renamed "10-11 Central Nebraska" after the acquisition of KSNB in 2013.

KSSX

KOGO-FM plays more soft rock (from artists like Hall and Oates and Wham!), new wave (from artists like OMD), and rock (from artists like Stray Cats) hits than XHRM-FM, which has a heavy Hispanic composition added to their music mix.

New York State Route 15

NY 15, meanwhile, continues on a northeasterly line toward Rochester, passing by the studios of local television stations, WHAM and WUHF, prior to entering a major commercial district surrounding The Marketplace Mall and Jefferson Road (NY 252).

Slingshot

The Wham-O company, founded in 1948, was named after their first product, the Wham-O slingshot.

Super Ball

"It took us nearly two years to iron the kinks out of Super Ball before we produced it," according to Richard Knerr, President of Wham-O.

The BossHoss

Christmas-CD contains a cover of "Last Christmas" of George Michael of Wham) & Riding Home For Christmas)

The Post-Crescent

Post Publishing owned the newspaper from 1920 until it was purchased by Gillett Communications on August 1, 1984, and was also a former owner of WLUK (Channel 11) in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Marquette, Michigan's WLUC (Channel 6), WEAU (Channel 13) in Eau Claire, and Rochester, New York's WOKR (Channel 13).

WBKO-DT2

Viewers living in Warren, Butler, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, and Metcalfe Counties in South Central Kentucky are eligible to switch to Bowling Green local stations.

WBNG-DT2

WBNG-DT2's parent station has studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City.

WBOC-DT2

ABC affiliate WMDT operated and promoted cable-exclusive WB affiliate "WBD" provided through The WB 100+.

WCBI-DT2

In addition to its main studios, the station operates a Tupelo Bureau on Main Street/U.S. 278/MS 6/MS 178.

WCSH

The "News Center Weather Plus" feed on WLBZ-DT2 and the live video on their websites was replaced with the national NBC Weather Plus service.

We All Stand Together

The song re-entered the UK Singles Chart one year later in 1985, one of three hits to do so that originally charted in December 1984 ("Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid and "Last Christmas" by Wham! were the other two).

WFFF-DT2

Before it was officially confirmed it would be a secondary CW affiliate, there was a possibility new television station WCWF (now WNMN) in Saranac Lake, New York would become affiliated with the network.

WFMJ-DT2

With digital subchannels more common by this point, ABC affiliate WYTV launched a second digital subchannel affiliated with MyNetworkTV (under the branding "MY-YTV") that fall.

Over the air, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 20.2 (or virtual channel 21.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter located on Mabel Street in Youngstown.

WGXA-DT2

Known on-air as ABC 16 after WGXA's physical digital channel location, its parent station has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.

Wham Paymaster Robbery

Wham and his escort had completed their paying of the soldiers at Fort Grant, and were on their way to Fort Thomas, then Fort Apache.

WHAM-TV

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge.

WHAM has led the news ratings in Rochester for many years and lead anchor Don Alhart has been at the station since 1966 along with longtime anchors Ginny Ryan and Doug Emblidge.

WISE-DT2

CBS affiliate WANE-TV (channel 15) offered UPN on its second digital subchannel, while The WB was affiliated with cable-only "WBFW" (with programming provided through The WB 100+, and promotional and advertising services provided by WPTA, channel 21).

WMGT-DT2

station slogan = Middle Georgia's My Network Station (general)
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WRLH-DT2

This channel's origins began on January 24, 2006 when UPN and The WB announced that the networks would cease broadcasting and merge.

Over-the-air, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 26.2 from a transmitter at the studios of PBS affiliates WCVE-TV/WCVW in Bon Air.

WTHI-DT2

The move came after Nexstar was stripped of its Fox affiliations for WTVW in Evansville, WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne and KSFX-TV in Springfield, Missouri following a dispute between Nexstar and Fox during affiliation renewal negotiations over the amount of local stations' retransmission consent fees that Fox demanded the stations share with the network.

It also made Terre Haute one of the only markets in the United States with all three historical commercial broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) as primary affiliations with the Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliations on a digital subchannel, but lacking an over-the-air affiliate of The CW (which is currently available via CW Plus affiliate "WBI" on area cable providers).

WWAY-DT2

Over-the-air, the station airs a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter, west of Winnabow, in Town Creek Township.

WYTV-DT2

The official launch occurred September 5 while soon after on September 18 WB outlet "WBCB" (controlled and operated by NBC affiliate WFMJ-TV) became part of The CW television network.

In Bessemer, Pennsylvania, Comcast replaced Pittsburgh's WPCW with WYTV-DT2 in October despite the former becoming a CW affiliate.


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