About WJBK FOX2

WJBK-TV first signed on the air on October 24, 1948. It was the third television station to sign-on in Detroit after WWJ-TV (channel 4, now WDIV-TV) and WXYZ-TV (channel 7) - all of which have signed on in a 14-month timeframe. Despite Detroit being a major television market, it only accommodated three VHF allocations due to being shortspaced between Flint (channel 12) and Saginaw (channel 5) to the north, Lansing (channels 6 and 10) to the west, Toledo (channels 11 and 13) to the south, and Cleveland (channels 3, 5 and 8), Windsor, Ontario (channel 9), and London, Ontario (channel 10) to the east. For this reason, WJBK was assigned the final VHF channel in Detroit.