that week's Big 12 Sports Saturday. On June 6, 2022, the station launched a 4 p.m. hour-long newscast with the end of The Ellen DeGeneres Show on weekdays (which shifted back to 3 p.m. to complete its run through the summer), thus being the last station in the market to do so. Notable former on-air staff John Coleman – weather anchor (later founded The Weather Channel, deceased) Dan Lewis – anchor (1982–1985; now semi-retired) Joel Kleefisch – reporter (1994–2003; current State Representative for Wisconsin's 38th District) Rebecca Kleefisch – anchor (1999–2004; former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin) DeMarco Morgan – anchor/reporter (2004–2007; current morning anchor for KCBS-TV and CBS News correspondent) Shaun Robinson – anchor (later weekend anchor and correspondent of Access Hollywood) Jerry Taff – anchor (1979–2005; retired) Ben Tracy – anchor (now Los Angeles correspondent for CBS News) Paul Weyrich – political reporter and weekend anchor; later a prominent conservative activist and founder of the now-defunct National Empowerment Television; deceased Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WISN-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, at 8:30 a.m. on June 12, 2009. The transition was led by a retrospective on the station's history narrated by former longtime anchor Jerry Taff, followed by a still of digital transition information that remained until noon, when its analog transmitter was permanently shut down. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 34. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 12. The channel 12 frequency was subsequently used as the post-transition digital signal of WBBM-TV in Chicago. On May 17, 2010, WISN-TV filed an application to upgrade its digital transmitter's power to 1 megawatt, mainly to place the station's digital antenna at the taller height of the dormant analog antenna, which would be replaced by a new digital unit. The analog antenna was removed in September 2010, and the digital antenna was activated from the new placement in early October 2010. References External links ABC network affiliates True Crime Network affiliates TheGrio affiliates GetTV affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1954 ISN-TV Hearst Television 1954 establishments in Wisconsin