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1948–1955 | 1955–1958 | 1958–1961 | 1961–1966 | 1962–2001 |
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2001–2007 | 2007–2013 | 2013–2021 | 2021-present |
1948–1955
WXYZ-TV first signed on the air on October 9, 1948, as the second television station in both Detroit and Michigan, over a year behind WWJ-TV (channel 4, now WDIV-TV) and 15 days ahead of WJBK-TV (channel 2). Channel 7 was also the third of ABC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to sign on, after WABC-TV in New York City and WLS-TV in Chicago, and before KGO-TV in San Francisco and KABC-TV in Los Angeles. WXYZ-TV was created out of ABC-owned radio station WXYZ (1270 AM, now WXYT).
1955–1958
1958–1961
1961–1966
1962–present
1962–2001
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In 1962, ABC commissioned designer G. Dean Smith to create a proprietary logo for its owned-and-operated stations, known as the "Circle 7". This logo has since expanded into use by many ABC stations not owned by the network. It predates Paul Rand's ABC logo by 4 months.
When Capital Cities announced its merger with then-owner ABC in 1985; in order to comply with the FCC ownership limits at the time, ABC opted to sell WXYZ-TV to The E.W. Scripps Company, who also planned on acquiring future ABC sister station WFTS-TV in Tampa–St. Petersburg from Capital Cities; despite the sale, the station has kept the ABC circle 7 logo to this day; it is now no longer proprietary to the network's owned-and-operated stations on channel 7.
2001-present
In 2001, the Circle 7 was modified with a slightly thicker stroke.
2001–2007
2007–2013
2013–2021
2021-present
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Television stations serving Southeast Michigan and Southwest Ontario, including Detroit, Mount Clemens, Ann Arbor, Pontiac, Port Huron, Windsor, Sarnia and Leamington
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Current Stations: NOTE: Networks highlighted in bold text indicate network owned and/or operated stations. A station that is owned and/or operated by its primary network of affiliation will also have that network and its call letters listed in bold text. American Stations Canadian Stations Fringe Stations Cable Networks Defunct Stations and Networks 1 CHWI-DT also operates a satellite station, CHWI-DT-60 in Windsor, since CHWI's transmitters are located in Romney Township, about 40 miles southeast of Downtown Windsor. |
Detroit and Windsor Locals on Cable, Satellite, IPTV and other pay television services
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NOTE: Only main stations are listed. Subchannels are NOT included.
Xfinity Southfield Xfinity Dearborn/Mount Clemens WOW! Taylor/Madison Heights Spectrum Novi/Livonia Spectrum Toledo, OH Wyandotte Municipal Cable University of Michigan Ann Arbor Cogeco Windsor MNSi Telecom Windsor VMedia Windsor DirecTV Dish Network Bell Satellite TV Shaw Direct DirecTV Stream Bell Fibe TV Windsor |