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She is a reporter and weekend anchor on both Springfield stations.Joe Cadotte, a Duluth, Minnesota, native, is a multimedia journalist who joined the Springfield stations this month.

It's nerve-wracking coming to a city where you don't know anyone, but after arriving, that fear went away immediately because of how friendly everyone has been.”The previous Statehouse reporter for NewsChannel 20 was Jordan Abudayyeh, who left in March and is now press secretary for J.B. Pritzker of Chicago, a Democrat seeking his party’s nomination for governor.Also at the Springfield stations is Em Nguyen, who was based in Champaign – home of WCCU-TV -- when she first joined Fox Illinois in late 2015. 2015-2016 Reporter/Anchor/MMJ

WICS began operations on September 17, 1953 and was owned by Plains Television Partners of Springfield, which was a 50/50 joint venture of Transcontinental Properties and the H & E Balaban Corporation.

He asked anyone who doesn’t think the station’s coverage is fair to inform his office via the station’s website.According to Lipps, “I do know from the top down, we are encouraged to be fair, down the middle.”“That’s the push we get from corporate – to do things right,” he said.The biggest emphasis is on local news, Lipps added, and “we really strive to be the local source for any and all weather information.”Lipps said there are “packages and pieces from corporate all the time” from stations across the country, and it’s an advantage to be able to use such shared content.Asked about must-run stories, he said, some “packages that are sent out for all the stations to run.

9 reviews of WICS NewsChannel 20 "I will not watch WICS News Channel 20 unless they bring back Joe Crain.

The online New York Times story about Sinclair content last week was headlined “Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments that Tilt to the Right.”During the campaign last year, the station “sent out a package that suggested in part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton because the Democratic Party was historically pro-slavery,” the story said.It also talked of stations being asked to run a segment from Scott Livingston, the Maryland-based Sinclair’s vice president for news, in which he accused some in the national media of not checking facts.“I’m extremely proud of the journalism that this station produces,” Livingston said in that segment, which ran on WICS in March. At the time, UHF signals were not strong enough to cover large amounts of territory. "Owned by South Sound Broadcasting, Sinclair programs this station, as a simulcast of KOMO (AM).

Known as On March 26, 2011, WICD ceased airing its own newscasts on weekends opting to simulcast those from WICS. Lemke was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska.

“But I’m sure you know about the troubling trend of irresponsible and one-sided news stories plaguing our country. The FCC considered making East Central Illinois an all-UHF market but dropped these plans under heavy lobbying from WCIA. WICS Newschannel 20 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Springfield and nearby towns and communities in the Decatur, and Champaign area, including Jacksonville, Taylorville, Lincoln, Petersburg, Pana, Effingham, Shelbyville, Beardstown, Carlinville, Litchfield and Hillsboro.

She’s been based in Springfield since late March. He spent time as a reporter in Duluth as well as in Superior, Wisconsin; Twin Falls, Idaho; Wichita, Kansas; and Omaha, Nebraska.

He won a national Edward R. Murrow award for team coverage of a tornado in Sedgwick County, Kansas.Sinclair has been in the news, as earlier this month it announced it had reached agreement to purchase Tribune Media, including the WGN America cable channel, for $3.9 billion. latest news Memorial for DUI victim destroyed, victim’s wife pleads for people to be careful Larry Williams, 65, was killed in 2017 after being hit by a …