, '''''"FOX11"''''', is a
Fox affiliate in
Green Bay, Wisconsin and serves the northeastern
Wisconsin area as well as
Menominee County in the southern tip of
Michigan 's Upper Peninsula. WLUK also serves
Appleton ,
Oshkosh and the
Fox River Valley, with news, talk shows and syndicated fare. It is also home to a locally produced morning show, "Good Day Wisconsin."
The station is owned by
LIN Television .
WLUK signed on the air on
September 11 ,
1954 , as WMRE-TV, an
NBC affiliate licensed to
Marinette . By
1959 it changed its
City Of License to Green Bay and its call sign to the current WLUK. It also switched affiliations with
WFRV , resulting in WLUK becoming an
ABC affiliate. In
1983 , WLUK reclaimed the NBC affiliation and
WFRV returned to ABC.
In
1994 , former owner Burnham Broadcasting announced that it would sell WLUK,
KHON /
Honolulu, Hawaii ,
WVUE /
New Orleans, Louisiana and
WALA /
Mobile, Alabama to SF Communications, who in turn announced that the four stations would become
Fox affiliates and
WGBA , which had the Fox affiliation, becoming the new home for NBC. The switch gave WLUK the largest share of network coverage of the
Green Bay Packers , a major ratings draw. Emmis Communications purchased the station in 1998.
The station was unusual in the 1960s for not having its own nightly newscast. It had dropped its newscasts in 1967, running occasional documentaries and sports programs. It also ran a weekly commentary by the editor of the Post-Crescent newspaper in
Appleton, Wisconsin , John Torinus. The newspaper's owners, Post Corporation, owned WLUK at the time. The station returned to regular newscasts in 1971.
WLUK-TV programming has been rebroadcast over a number of translators along the northern fringe of its viewing area. W40AN in Escanaba, Michigan, which replaced W72AJ, is the only one left in operation. W40AN is viewable around the communities of Escanaba, Gladstone, Rapid River, and Bark River, Michigan. W75AE once served the Iron Mountain, Michigan area.
WLUK-TV is carried by
Charter Communications on all its cable systems in
Michigan 's
Upper Peninsula except in
Gogebic County which is covered by
KQDS -TV in Duluth, Minnesota and
Chippewa , and
Mackinac Counties which are covered by translators of
WFQX -TV in
Cadillac, Michigan .
WLUK now broadcasts programming digitally to Northeast Wisconsin on channel 51. Fox Network programming, including its nightly prime-time lineup, sporting events like
Green Bay Packers football games,
Major League Baseball Playoffs,
World Series games, and
NASCAR races are broadcast in widescreen 720p High-Definition and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, when available. Syndicated shows like
Judge Judy and
Seinfeld , as well as its local news programs, are broadcast at standard television resolution. WLUK-DT is only available "over-the-air" to viewers with a UHF antenna, or via satellite-television providers such as
DirecTV or
DISH Network .
WLUK is the only Green Bay-based major-network affiliate to withhold its High-Definition signal from local cable companies. Station officials have vehemently and publicly defended their position on this matter, both in a
policy statement on their website and in direct e-mail responses to viewers. WLUK maintains that cable operators require digital-cable service to receive its digital signal, at a "
significant additional charge " to the subscriber, from which WLUK receives no compensation.
Cable operators, however, are directed by the -capable" can receive the local digital broadcast channels carried by the cable operator at no additional expense. For example, Time Warner Cable in Appleton has made available
WBAY -HD (ABC; ch. 112-2), WBAY-WX (WBAY's 24/7 Weather subchannel; ch. 112-3),
WFRV -DT (CBS; ch. 110-1),
WGBA -DT (NBC; ch. 112-1), and WPNE-DT (PBS; ch. 110-2) to basic-tier cable subscribers with
QAM -capable digital TV tuners.
WLUK continues to provide only its analog signal to local cable operators.
- Hello News (1983 to 1985)
- Cool Hand Luke (1985 to 1990)
- News Series 2000 (1990 to 1995)
- Fox 95 (1995 to 2001)
- News Matrix (2001 to present)
- ''FOX11 Good Day Wisconsin'' 5:00-9:00AM
- ''FOX11 News at 5:00'' 5:00-5:30PM (Everyday)
- ''FOX11 News at 9:00'' 9:00-10:00PM (Everyday)
- ''FOX11 News Sunday'' 10:00-11:00AM (Sundays)
Bill Weir -
Good Morning America Weekend Edition host (2004-)
- FOX 11 WLUK
- [http://www.wluk.com/faq/ WLUK FOX 11 and the HD Position]
