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In 1963 Robert D. McMullin was listed as WCIA News Editor (News Director). 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. 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. Gus Gordon(weather), Don Hickman, Susan Finzen(anchors), Paul Wappel(sports) (courtesy WICS), Rebroadcast of vintage video showing Don Hickman and staff (courtesy of WICS). A website has all the details about the "Acri Creature Feature", On Sunday mornings when other TV stations were offering religious or public affairs programming, WICS and WICD were giving us the "Sunday Morning Movie." A short voice over promo for NBC Saturday Night at the Movies from 1975. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) stating that the "Code Red" system "overstat[es] the danger to our community." var Quotation=new Array() // do not change this! Employees have the right to disagree and should do so when they believe something is wrong, though hopefully not on a public forum., The Associated Press | However, WCCU quickly moved its advertising sales operation from its location on South Neil Street/U.S. I deeply regret that. Bomke's broadcast career began in Central Illinois as a morning anchor and reporter for WICD-TV in Champaign and WICS-TV in her hometown of Springfield. During most of its run in the late 1960s and 70s, it was sponsored by the local Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Springfield, Railsplitters Motors. During football season, NBC would air the AFC early football game and WICS/WICD would follow with a replay of Capitol Conference, than a local movie insertion.yet another TV movie, usually. This full-powered, full-color facility would replace Channel 33, 24 and 75 in central Illinois and would bring rural viewers from Crawfordsville, Indiana to Decatur, Illinois NBC programming. 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. NBC filled the post late news time with sporting events, along with Saturday Night Live. WICS would follow SNL with a videotaped replay of its own 10 pm news. Quotation [15] = " 'FTVLive Reported the Story First'- NY Times" Before the high-def conversion, here is the 6 pm Newscast from WICS, Channel 20 from July 7, 2011. Pictured are WICS staff members Robert Wilson and John McKinney. It was owned by Plains Television Partners and was a low-powered full-time satellite of Springfield's WICS. Broadcast Journalism, News Writing, TV News Production, Media Relations, Video, Final Cut Pro, Director of Communication at Daughters of Wisdom, President at Savant Multimedia, LLC, Board Member Director of Communication at Daughters of Wisdom. This is a recording of the "A" block of a newscast from WICS in early May of 1997. "[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. Mutual of Omaha's the Wild Kingdom would follow at 5 pm, then the NBC national newscast before prime time and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. After the 10 pm local newscast, both WICS/WICD would follow, more than likely, with the broadcast of yet another TV movie before sign-off. The station's social media page was flooded with comments from viewers demanding the reinstatement of Joe Crain, pushing the hashtag #IStandWithJoeCrain, while U.S. This ice storm would bring down the newly constructed WICD tower. Late Monday, WICS GM Rick Lipps said in a video posted to the stations website that Code Red, which may no longer be fitting, will be replaced with Weather Warn., The State Journal-Register | It features Elizabeth Wooley, Jerry Lambert, and reporter Catie Sheehan. // pattern, adding to the array. Investigative Reporting, Journalism, Editing, Broadcast Journalism, Writing, Video, Avid, Final Cut Public Information Officer at Illinois State Treasurer's Office. First day of ABC, Sept 5, 2005 (Doug Quick Collection), 2013 WICS Weekend Anchors, Sports, Santel Middleton and Joe Brooks (You Tube), WICS Master Control before 2011 (Joe Crain photo), Work being done to master control with new digital High Definition Equipment (Joe Crain photo). 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. Sinclair purchased most of Guy Gannett's stations, including WICS and WICD, in 1999. 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. That left a huge part of the rural areas including Charleston, Tuscola, and other east-centralcommunities without NBC network service from 1959 through 1967. TVNewsCheck | Remember Cindy Larson and others at WICS John Belushi who was with the show from 1975 to 1979, Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin were there from. His characters were Vincent Hedges(a vampire), Emmit(the hunchback), Beauregard(the caveman), and Bertie and Bernie(the skull). Others in the news staff included: Dale Coleman, Nick Alexander, Kyle Hill, Dave Lange, Alan Crane, and others. On Instagram, Elder wrote that she'd "close. Price Point | Was The Code Red Meteorologist Right? This was produced to promote the 1975-76 Fall Preview Special. The syndicated version aired in the 6:30-7pm time weekday evening slot. WCHU, Channel 33 in Champaign only broadcast a radius of about 15 miles from downtown Champaign. He was 74. Brittany Hardaway joined 13 WREX as an anchor for the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts in July of 2021. WICS/WICD was to have switched to ABC at the beginning of the 200405 television season, but it was required to remain with NBC for another year, as its affiliation contract with the station did not expire until September 4 of the following year. This left WICS and WICD without a major network affiliation. The two stations operated as a regional network sharing most network and syndicated programming. It also competes with another two-hour local newscast seen at same time on MyNetworkTV affiliate WCIX (produced by WCIA). 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