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WNDU-TV
Image:WNDU logo.png
South Bend, Indiana
Branding Newscenter 16
Slogan Your Severe Weather Station
Channels Analog: 16 (UHF)

Digital: 42 (UHF)
Affiliations NBC
Owner Gray Television, Inc.
(Gray Television Licensee, Inc. South Bend is a city on the St Joseph river and a twin city of Mishawaka Indiana. A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Gray Television Inc ( is a communications company headquartered in Atlanta Georgia, with administrative offices in Albany Georgia. )
First air date July 15, 1955
Call letters’ meaning Notre
Dame
University
Former channel number(s) 46 (1955-1957)
Transmitter Power 4170 kW (analog)
560 kW (digital)
Height 326 m (analog)
282 m (digital)
Facility ID 41674
Transmitter Coordinates 41°36′20.4″N, 86°12′46.2″W (analog)
41°36′19.5″N, 86°12′45.2″W (digital)
Website www.wndu.com

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Station History

WNDU-TV went on the air on July 15, 1955 on Channel 46. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) It was owned by the University of Notre Dame through a subsidiary, Michiana Television Corporation. The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame) (ˌnoʊtɚˈdeɪm is a private Roman Catholic Research university located in In 1957, to much fanfare, WNDU-TV moved to its present-day assignment on Channel 16. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar)

An NBC affiliate from the very beginning, WNDU-TV's early broadcast schedule included programs like Romper Room, and the first local telecast of a Notre Dame football game. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Romper Room is a children's Television series which ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as at various times in Canada, Australia WNDU aired the non-commercial Sesame Street from 1970 to 1974 until PBS member station WNIT came on air. Sesame Street is an American educational Children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard combining [1] WNDU-TV used a helicopter for its news broadcasts from 1980's until 2006. Due to an increased focus on news, WNDU-TV stopped airing Saturday morning cartoons in 1994 to make room for a three-hour newscast. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) However, WNDU currently airs NBC's qubo programming block for 3 of the four hours on Saturday with the final hour airing on Sunday mornings at 7am due to E/I requirements. qubo (pronounced "kyoo-bo" originally called Smart Place for Kids until August 23, 2006) is the name of the American e/i was the second magazine founded published and edited by electronic music journalist Darren Bergstein following the 1980s to 1990's run of i/e magazine

Since its launch, Regis Philbin's talk show has aired on WNDU. Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an Emmy Award -winning American Television personality and occasional Actor

On March 5, 2006, the University of Notre Dame sold the station to Gray Television for $85 million cash, which the university is planning to put into an endowment fund. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Gray Television Inc ( is a communications company headquartered in Atlanta Georgia, with administrative offices in Albany Georgia.

Logos

WNDU's current logo.

Notable WNDU Staff Members

Many of the WNDU staff members perform double duties as anchors or news correspondents, but only the most significant roles are listed.

Maureen McFadden and Terry McFadden, who co-anchor evening news on WNDU, are brother and sister.

Former Personalities

Controversy

Under Notre Dame's ownership, WNDU opted not to air some NBC shows out of concerns over their content; such shows included the animated series God, the Devil and Bob and the American version of the British sitcom Coupling. WSBT-TV (channel 22 is a Television station in South Bend Indiana. WISH-TV channel 8 is the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis Indiana. WTHR channel 13 is a Television station serving the Indianapolis Indiana metropolitan area KSHB-TV, channel 41 (aka "NBC Action News " is the NBC network affiliate serving the entire Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925 to the parents Harry Hershel and Edna (Evans Eshelman in Springfield Missouri) is a former American WISH-TV channel 8 is the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis Indiana. Claudine Wong is an award-winning news reporter who currently reports for KTVU, the San Francisco Bay Area 's FOX affiliate KTVU, channel 2 is the San Francisco Bay Area 's Fox affiliate God the Devil and Bob is a short-lived Animated television series that was broadcast on NBC in March 2000. Coupling is a 2003 American remake of the British television Sitcom of the same title. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Coupling is a British television Sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from May 2000 to June 2004

External links

References

  1. ^ "Weather forecaster Dick Addis dies at 74", South Bend Tribune, March 21, 2006.  
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