WZZM ABC 13 News Grand Rapids MI News Live Stream Weather and Sports Channel Online Stream. ABC WZZM TV 13 Weather Channel Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States Live Online Streaming. WZZM television is associated with ABC. It is certified in Grand Rapids, United States. The channel is working for the Grand Rapids–Kalamazoo–Battle Creek television business. WZZM is under the authority of Tegna Inc, WZZM offices. They are situated on 3 Mile Road NW in Walker (with a Grand Rapids address). Its transmitting tower is situated in Grant, Michigan.
The channel transmitting tower is about 40 miles (64 km) north of other channels in the Grand Rapids business. As a result, its over-the-air signal is unavailable in the business’s two other major cities.
Nevertheless, WZZM ABC News has been available on most satellite providers in Southwest Michigan. Battle Creek-based WINK CBS 11 News Fort Myers FL which is under the authority of Nexstar Media Group serves as the ABC associate.
It is for that part of the Grand Rapids business. Until then, audiences outside of the reach of WZZM’s signal relied on the out-of-business stations from South Bend, Indiana, or Lansing. It is done in order to view syndicated programs carried by ABC WZZM.
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A regional group known as West Michigan Telecasters received a construction permit. The permit was to operate a television on VHF channel 9 in 1961. Nevertheless, later that year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revised the channel positions in the area. This resulted in the VHF WZZM ABC channel 13 division moving from Cadillac to Grand Rapids.
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WZZM ABC News formally logged on the air at 6:30 p.m. on November 1, 1962. The channel went off the air just 20 minutes later. It happened after a tube on its transmitting tower failed. The channel returned to the air 10 minutes later. The celebratory opening show was hosted by news director Jack Hogan. ABC WZZM certainly had moderate beginnings. Its first telecasts were from a banquet room-turned office at the Pantlind Hotel which is now the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.
