WNLJ-TV

WNLJ-TV is the New Line Network-affiliated television station for Central Michigan. Licensed to the nearby town of Onondaga, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 4 in Lansing, on Comcast channel 10 in East Lansing and Jackson and on Charter Communications channel 13 in Durand. It can also be seen in high definition on digital channel 232. Owned by Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation, it has studios on American Road (near I-96) in Lansing, while its transmitter is located in Onondaga.

History
The station signed-on May 31, 1974 owned by Storer Broadcasting.

When Storer sold WNLJ and some of it's sister stations to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1985, the station underwent a series of ownership changes during a 31-year period that followed. KKR sold the stations to Gillett Communications in 1987; shortly thereafter, SCI Television was spun off from Gillett to take over the stations after Gillett's bankruptcy. New World Communications purchased WNLJ and the other SCI Television stations in 1993. New World then sold the station to a local ownership group, Jackson Telecasters, in 1994. Jackson Telecasters, in turn, was acquired by Outlet Company in 2002, which was then acquired by Berfield/Willis in 2016.

WNLJ-TV affiliated a subchannel with The Local AccuWeather Channel in late 2006. Construction permit for permanent digital equipment is granted in April 2008. The station's digital signal was broadcast on Channel 57. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 10.

The station changed its second subchannel, 'Weather Authority', in late 2014 to WeatherNation TV.

Programming
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News operation
WNLJ presently broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).

When the station signed on in 1974, newscasts were titled Mid-Michigan Newsreel. For many years, WNLJ's main studios were on Springport Road in Jackson while it operated a newsroom in Downtown Lansing. In the early-1980s, the station's operations were consolidated into its current studio complex in Lansing on American Road. Adhering to the design of the studios of most of its sister television station at the time, WNLJ's current studio building is a modern interpretation of an Antebellum mansion. Following a turnover in both anchors and owners during the 1990's, WNLJ placed dead last in the local Nielsen ratings, a slump it has yet to recover from as of 2017.

Due to budget concerns, WNLJ's news staff has been cut over the last few years. As a result, the station's weekday morning broadcasts are now anchored and reported entirely solely by one person. Its weekday morning show News 10 Sunrise was launched in 1990 as a local news segment during New Line Sunrise eventually expanding to the current one-hour-long broadcast. Since its weekday noon show was canceled in the late-1990s, the station has not offered a newscast during the midday hours unlike most other New Line affiliates. It also differs from most other New Line affiliates in that it does not offer an early-evening newscast.