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WLUK-TV
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Branding	FOX11
Slogan	Your Station For Balanced News And Severe Weather Coverage
Channels	Analog: 11 (VHF) Digital: 51 (UHF)
Translators	40 W40AN Escanaba, Michigan
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	LIN TV
Founded	March 16, 1953 (first incarnation) September 11, 1954
Call letters meaning	LUcKy Eleven (1st Slogan)
Former callsigns	WOSH-TV (1953-54) WMBV-TV (1954-59)
Former channel number(s)	48 (1953-1954)
Former affiliations	NBC (1953-54 & 1954-59 And 1983-95) ABC (1953-54 and 1959-83) Silent (March-September 1954)
Website	MyFoxNEWisconsin.com

WLUK "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." Its transmitter is located in De Pere, Wisconsin.

The station is owned by LIN Television. It runs a general entertainment format consisting of local and national news, Fox network programming, sports, talk/reality/court shows and syndicated reruns. The station is news intensive running about 30 hours a week of news.

Contents 1 History 2 Internet availability 3 WLUK-DT 3.1 High-Definition Broadcasting 3.2 Exclusion From Cable and Satellite Providers 4 Station Logo History 5 Past Themes 6 FOX11 News Staff 6.1 Anchors 6.2 Reporters 6.3 Severe Weather Lab 6.4 SportsCenter 6.5 Past Personalities 7 Nationally known alumni 8 External links

WLUK signed on the air on September 11, 1954, as WMBV-TV, an NBC affiliate licensed to Marinette. The station was owned by William Walker and largely constructed from the assets of a failed NBC affiliate in Oshkosh, WOSH-TV Channel 48. 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-TV, resulting in WLUK becoming an ABC affiliate. In 1960 the station was sold to Morgan Murphy Stations.

In 1965 Post Corporation, a small media chain (not affiliated with Post-Newsweek) bought WLUK. Post Corporation owned the nearby The Post-Crescent, some weekly newspapers and three TV stations. During this time, in 1966, WLUK built a new studio and office building at 787 Lombardi (formerly Highland) Avenue. The station dropped its nightly newscast in 1967 and did not return to news until 1971. It ran occasional documentaries and sports programs to fulfill FCC public-service regulations. It also ran a weekly commentary by the editor of the Post-Crescent, John Torinus. WLUK did do some local programming, including a Saturday night polka show and a daily children's cartoon show using the franchised Bozo the Clown character.

In 1983, WLUK reclaimed the NBC affiliation when WFRV switched to ABC. In 1984, Gillett Broadcasting bought WLUK, selling it in 1987 to Burhnam Broadcasting in order to become owner of the KKR stations.

In 1994, Burnham Broadcasting sold all of its stations--WLUK, KHON-TV in Honolulu, WVUE in New Orleans and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama--to SF Broadcasting, who in turn announced that the four stations would become Fox affiliates. SF Broadcasting was partly owned by Savoy Communications and partly owned by Fox. Originally Fox would have voting stock but this was changed prior to the sale being final. Because of Fox's recent purchase of National Football Conference television rights, the switch gave WLUK the largest share of network coverage of the Green Bay Packers, a major ratings draw. WLUK became a Fox affiliate on Labor Day of 1995, swapping affiliations with WGBA-TV. It also expanded its local news; in its first year under Fox, local news ran from 6-8 a.m., 5-6:30 p.m., and 9-10:30 p.m.

SF sold WLUK along with the other three Fox affiliates in 1997 to Silver King/USA Broadcasting. Emmis Communications purchased the station along with WVUE, KHON, and WALA in 1998. LIN Broadcasting bought WLUK early in 2006 as Emmis put all of its stations up for sale.

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 along with Marquette's own Fox channel WMQF-TV 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-TV can also be seen on Charter Communications in the town of Ludington, MI across Lake Michigan from the Green Bay area.

On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.[1]

On June 4, 2007, WLUK introduced a new website, based on the "MyFox" O&O look which has been licensed from Fox Television Stations Group's interactive division. The other LIN-owned Fox stations---WNAC, WVBT, WALA and WUPW---have also introduced new MyFox sites, followed by KASA a month and a half later.

One day later, on June 5, WLUK replaced WGBA as the official provider of weather updates for Midwest Communications radio stations in Green Bay/Fox Cities and Sheboygan. FOX 11 Severe Weather Lab updates can be heard on WIXX, WNCY, WNFL, WOZZ, WROE, WTAQ, WZBY, WBFM, WHBL, WXER, and WHBZ.

The station also provides some of its material over the Internet, as it has its own page for viewing some of its content on You Tube. They also reiterate their slogan, "Your online media source for balanced news and severe weather coverage," as well as in a video on that You Tube page from the station's general manager, inviting people to send him e-mails if they disagree, "and we will respond to them."

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. When television stations are required to cease analog transmission in February 2009, WLUK will broadcast their digital signal on channel 11, their current VHF channel used for analog transmission.^{[citation needed]}

WLUK is the only Green Bay-based major-network affiliate not to have its digital signal carried on local cable systems or DirecTV, a stance which dates back to an Emmis corporate directive which effected several other markets. Station officials, including Vice President and General Manager Jay Zollar, 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. However it is possible to view local HD channels on cable without leasing a cable box, if the HDTV's digital tuner is QAM compatible.

On November 21, 2006, DirecTV launched local high-definition channels to the Green Bay market. As of the end of the 2006, LIN Television has not completed negotiations with DirecTV to carry the channel. WLUK also removed references to availability of WLUK-DT on satellite providers from their HDTV FAQ, which had previously stated "DirecTV or DISH satellite providers have come to terms with WLUK… both companies offer an option that enables you to receive over the air HD signals from local broadcasters."

Logo used with NewsCenter branding by WLUK-TV from 1983 to 1992.	Logo used by WLUK from 1992 to 1995, prior to the FOX affiliation switch.	Logo used by WLUK from 1995-1997	Logo used by WLUK from 1997-1999.
Logo used by WLUK from 1999-2008.

There will be a new logo for WLUK-TV in summer 2008 just like the WITI-TV's logo used today

• Hello News (1983 to 1985)
• Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence (1985 to 1990)
• News Series 2000 (1990 to 1995)
• Fox '95 (1995 to 2001)
• News Matrix (2001 to present)

• Pete Petoniak - Good Day Wisconsin, 5a-9a
• Rachel Manek - Good Day Wisconsin
• Amy Hanten-Good Day Wisconsin
• Tom Milbourn - Weeknights, 5p and 9p
• Michelle Melby - Weeknights, 5p and 9p
• Mark Leland - Weekends, 5p and 9p
• Laura Smith - Weekends, 5p and 9p

• Dr. Alan Cherkasky - Medical Breakthroughs
• Cameron Clark
• Becky DeVries
• Lou Hillman
• Robert Hornacek
• Scott Hurley
• Monica Landeros
• Angela Kelly
• Evan Perrault
• Lindsay Veremis

• Pete Petoniak - Good Day Wisconsin 5a-9a - Director of Meteorology
• Patrick Powell - 5PM & 9PM - Weeknights - Chief Meteorologist
• Doug Higgins - 5PM & 9PM - Weekends
• Tara Hastings

• Drew Smith - Sports Director (also a sideline reporter during NFL on Fox Packer home games)
• Tom Ristow
• Paige Pearson

• Heather Surat (now works for WYOW-TV in Eagle River, Wisconsin)
• Terri Barr (now works for WISC-TV in Madison, Wisconsin)
• Marti Spittell-Ziegelbauer (now a consultant for Frank Magid & Associates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
• John Maino (now works for WNFL)
• Jack Jones
• Ray Wheeler
• Jason Pool

• Bill Weir - Good Morning America Weekend Edition host,
• Stanley Siegel - Station's news "host" in 1971-72, hosted local talk show in New York later in the decade.
• Kyra Phillips - Co-host of CNN's afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom.

• MyFox Northeast Wisconsin
• WLUK FOX 11 and the HD Position
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLUK-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W40AN

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Green Bay / Appleton / Fox Cities market  (Nielsen DMA #70)
Local television stations	WBAY 2 (ABC, Local WX on DT-2, RTN on DT-3) - WFRV 5 (CBS) - WLUK 11 (FOX) - WIWB 14 (The CW) - W17CF (TBN) - WGBA 26 (NBC) - W30BU 30 (3ABN) - WACY 32 (MNTV) - W36DH 36 (TBN) - WPNE 38 (PBS/WPT) - W49CB 49 (TBN) - WWAZ 68 (FamilyNet)
Regional cable television channels (Availibility varies by localtion)	FSN Wisconsin - FSN Detroit - Time Warner Sports
See also	Broadcast television stations in Milwaukee, Wausau, Marquette, Northern Michigan and Madison

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Marquette market (Nielsen DMA #179)

WJMN 3 (CBS) - WBKP 5 (The CW) - WLUC 6 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WDHS 8 (Infomercials) - WBUP 10 (ABC) - WNMU 13 (PBS) - WMQF 19 (Fox) - W40AN 40 (Fox) Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location; some stations may be available only on cable Traverse City/Cadillac: WFQX 33 (Fox) | Green Bay: WLUK 11 (Fox) | Duluth: KDLH 3 (CBS) - KQDS 21 (FOX) | Wausau/Rhinelander: WJFW 12 (NBC) - WYOW 34 (ABC) - WLEF 36 (PBS/WPT) | Montreal: CBMT 6 (CBC) Defunct television stations: WUPT 25 (UPN) Local cable television stations FSN Detroit

v • d • e Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Wisconsin
WITI 6 (Milwaukee) - WLUK 11 (Green Bay) - WLAX 25/WEUX 48 (La Crosse/Eau Claire) - WMSN 47 (Madison) - WFXS 55 (Wittenburg/Wausau)
See also: ABC, CW, CBS, MNTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Wisconsin

v • d • e Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Michigan
WJBK 2 (Detroit) WXMI 17 (Grand Rapids) • WMQF 19 (Marquette) • W32CV 32 1 (Ironwood) • WFQX 33 / WFUP 45 (Cadillac / Vanderbilt) • W40AN 40 2 (Escanaba) • WSYM 47 (Lansing) • WSMH 66 (Flint / Saginaw) 1 W32CV is a repeater of KQDS-TV, Duluth, Minnesota • 2 W40AN is a repeater of WLUK-TV, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
See also: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CW, MyNetworkTV and Other stations in Michigan

v • d • e LIN TV Corporation
Corporate Staff: Gary R. Chapman (President & CEO) · Vincent L. Sadusky · Greg Schmidt · Scott Blumenthal · Edward L. Munson, Jr. · William S. Banowsky · Peter S. Brodsky · Royal W. Carson, III · Dr. William H. Cunningham · Randall S. Fojtasek · Wilma H. Jordan · Michael A. Pausic ABC Network Affiliates: WOTV · WTNH CBS Network Affiliates: KRQE / KBIM / KREZ · WANE · WISH · WIVB · WLFI · WPRI · WTHI Fox Network Affiliates: KASA · WALA · WLUK · WNAC3 · WUPW · WVBT NBC Network Affiliates: KNSD1 · KXAN · KXAS1 · WAVY · WDTN · WOOD · WWLP The CW Network Affiliates: KNIN2 · KNVA3 · WBPG · WNLO · WWHO My Network TV Affiliates: KNVA3 · WCTX · WNAC3 · WNDY · WXSP Other stations: KBOP (Independent)1a · KBVO (TeleFutura) · WFXQ-CA4 · WIIH (Univision) 1Co-owned with NBC Universal in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN). KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA. 1aOwned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint ventutre (see note 1) 2Co-owned with Banks Broadcasting in a joint venture (50/50); however, LIN does not control the station. 3LIN operates these stations under a local marketing agreement. 4Is currently a repeater for NBC affiliate WWLP. Future is uncertain at this time.
Annual Revenue: $443.5 million USD · Employees: 2,414 (full time) · Stock Symbol: NYSE: TVL · Website: www.lintv.com