WRTV celebrates 75 years of sharing your stories

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WRTV celebrates 75 years of sharing your stories
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Michael joined WRTV in October 2015 as a content coordinator. He transitioned to the WRTV Digital Team as a digital content producer in August 2021.

The station’s call letters were WFBM , which were the same as the station’s radio station call letters. The first program broadcast on television was “The Crucible of Speed” which was then followed by a live broadcast of the Indianapolis 500. WRTV was affiliated with each of the “Big Three” networks during its 75-year history. First with CBS, then NBC in 1956, and finally ABC in 1979.

The station’s mission of covering your stories hasn’t changed much in the past seven decades, but the way our journalists gather news is quite different. The typewriters were replaced by computers and film gave way to tape and ultimately digital video.WRTV gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the station’s news operation 45 years ago with a special named “Inside The News.”

1979: WRTV journalists take viewers 'Inside the News' Many talented journalists have called WRTV home, including Howard Caldwell, Barbara Boyd, Clyde Lee, Diane Willis, Tom Carnegie, Tom Alvarez, and Jim Gerard.

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