WEEK-TV
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WEEK-TV
Image:WEEKTV.png
Peoria, Illinois
Branding WEEK (general)
News 25 (news)
Slogan Your Home Team
Channels Analog: 25 (UHF)

Digital: 57 (UHF) returning to 25 in 2009
Affiliations 25.1 NBC HD (1080i widescreen)
25.2 NBC Weather Plus
Owner Granite Broadcasting Corporation
(WEEK-TV License, Inc.)
First air date February 1, 1953
Sister station(s) WAOE
Former channel number(s) 43 (1953-1964)
Transmitter Power 2400 kW (analog)
452 kW (digital)
Height 211.6 m (both)
Facility ID 24801
Transmitter Coordinates 40°37′46.3″N, 89°32′52.5″W
Website www.week.com

WEEK-TV, channel 25, is a television station licensed to Peoria, Illinois, which serves asn the NBC affiliate for the Peoria-Bloomington television market. WEEK-TV is owned by Granite Broadcasting Corporation, and also manages WAOE, Peoria's MyNetworkTV affiliate. WEEK's offices, studios, and transmitter are located in East Peoria, Illinois.

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History

WEEK-TV became Peoria's first television station on Sunday, February 1, 1953 at 7:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.citation needed WEEK-TV was owned and operated by Oklahoma City-based West Central Broadcasting Co.citation needed whose president was E.K. Gaylord, also president of the Oklahoma Publishing Company. The board chairman of directors was United States Senator Robert S. Kerr, the former governor of Oklahoma and the "Kerr" in Kerr-McGee. West Central also co-owned radio station, 1350 WEEK (AM) (now WOAM).citation needed The original Chief Engineer of WEEK-TV and WEEK-AM was Wayne Lovely who supervised the construction of the station's technical facilities and equipment installation in 1953. He was employed by the station until 1974.

WEEK-TV founded WEEQ-TV, channel 35 in La Salle, Illinois, on November 7, 1957,[1], to rebroadcast WEEK-TV's programming.[2] This channel allocation is now used for WWTO-TV.

WEEK-TV moved from channel 43 to channel 25 around 1964.[2] The channel 43 allocation was later moved from Peoria to Bloomington and used by the second WBLN (now WYZZ-TV) beginning in 1982.citation needed

In 1997, WEEK bought the station license for 98.5 at Eureka, Illinois, and gave it the callsign WEEK-FM and nickname "Oldies 98.5". Granite Broadcasting divested itself of the radio station in 1999; the station is now WPIA.

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On-air personalities

As of January 2007, the on-air staff included:

Former on-air personalities

Digital Television

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for February 17, 2009 [3], WEEK will return to channel 25.

External links

References

  1. ^ November 7, 1957 on BrainyHistory
  2. ^ a b Quick, Doug. "Other Television History" on personal website.
  3. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
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Local television channels in the Peoria/Bloomington, Illinois market (Nielsen DMA #117)

WHOI 19 (ABC)(The CW on DT2) - WEEK 25 (NBC) - WMBD 31 (CBS) - WYZZ 43 (FOX)(The Tube on DT2) - WTVP 47 (PBS) - W50DD 50/W51CT 51 (TBN) - WAOE 59 (MNTV)

Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations
WILL 12 (PBS, Urbana)
Illinois Broadcast television markets: Champaign-Urbana-Springfield • Chicago • Evansville, IN • Paducah, KY • Peoria-Bloomington • Quad Cities • Quincy • Rockford • St, Louis, MO • Terre Haute, IN
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NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Illinois
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Illinois
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