WCEM-TV

WCEM-TV, virtual channel 4 (VHF digital channel 8), is the owned-and-operated station of Central serving the Mixopolis, Planet Mixel area. The station is owned by the Central Television Network, a subsidiary of The Pierre Péladeau Company.
==History==
===As WBZ-TV (1966)===
WCEM first signed on the air on the day the United States celebrated its 190th anniversary (July 4, 1966), as WBZ-TV. At the time of the station's inauguration, it was the sixth independent station in the Mixopolis market, after WXPL, WOOM and WRMP in 1948, WXIM in 1954, and WBEX-TV in 1960, and before WKMX in 1982. Its first program is other than a coverage of the celebrations, and for the next 18 days, the station aired nothing but a repeat of the coverage and the "Star-Spangled Banner," nothing more, nothing less. Then, a program schedule was made. The programs consisted of syndicated programs, such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Matlock, to name a few.
===As WCEM-TV (1966-present)===
In 1966, the station was acquired by the Central Television Network, and thus made it the founding stations of its newly-created division with New York City station WCEN, Washington, DC's WFAA, Seattle's KIRO-TV, Los Angeles' KLAM, and the Bay Area's KMOL-TV. The call letters were changed into WCEM-TV, which meant the network's station in Mixopolis. The WBZ call letters now reside to a station in Charlotte, NC; which ironically was also a Central station.
Capitol States Broadcasting Company announced its intent to acquire the network in March 1984, and the sale was completed in early 1985; selling off two of its owned-and-operated stations WDRQ in Detroit and WHTT in Toad Town, Mushroom Kingdom; both of which were acquired by the Gannett Company (broadcasting division now Tegna) as to comply with the then-FCC rules. Capitol States/Central, Inc. was short-lived, being acquired by Quebecor Media less than a year later, in 1986.
==Digital Television==
===Digital Channel===
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Channel	Picture Format	Aspect Ratio	PSIP Short Name	Programming
4.1 	1080p 	16:9 	WCEM-DT 	Main WCEM programming/Central
4.2 	1080p 	16:9 	NWLD 	NewsWorld
4.3 	1080p 	16:9 	AVG 	Avant Garde Network
4.4 	1080p 	4:3 	CRIME 	True Crime Network
4.5 	1080p 	4:3 	Rewind 	Rewind TV
WCEM-TV also operates a 3.25 Mbit/s ATSC-M/H Mobile DTV feed.
===Analog-to-Digital Conversion===
The station started its digital signal in 2002 and broadcasting in channel 8. The station shut down its analog signal at midnight on June 12, 2009, the mandated date of analog-to-digital TV conversion by the Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC. The station's digital signal remained on channel 8. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as 4.1.
==News/Station Presentation==
WCEM-TV presently broadcasts 22 hours and 15 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours each weekday, a half-hour on Saturdays and 45 minutes on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the lowest local newscast output out of any English-language television station in the Mixopolis market. WCEM airs local news programming for Mixopolis Metropolitan Area seven days a week.
The station is also notable for using the Eyewitness News format in the market, cloning WUSA's format (similar to rival station WXYZ-TV uses; which used WABC's version). It has been branded in that since 1968.
===Current on-air staff===
*Paul Magers - news director
*Jan Kelly - anchor; weeknights at 11
*Pat Miles - anchor; weeknights at 5:00
*Teodoro Panganiban - anchor; weeknights at 5:00
*Tim Van Houten - anchor; weekdays at 12:00
*Lisa Saint-Laurent - anchor; weekday mornings "News 4 Morning"
*Francis Piedmont - anchor; weekday mornings "News 4 Morning"
===SkyTracker 4 Weather Team===
*Ann Monroe - chief meteorologist (AMS Seal of Approval); weeknights at 11/5)
*Stephen Jones - meteorologist; weekday mornings "News 4 Morning"/weekdays at 12
===Sports 4 Personnel===
*Adolph Nelson - sports director; weeknights at 5 and 11
*Dan Mercier - sports director/anchor; weekdays at 12
===Newscast Titles===
*WBZ 4 Now (1966, only had updates then)
*Channel 4 Eyewitness News (1967–present)
===News Music Packages===
*none (1966-1968)
*t's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman: Overture - Charles Strouse (1968-1970)
*Un Homme et Une Femme: Aujourd'hui C'est Toi - Francis Lai (1970-1975)
*Production Music: Prestige Theme 1 - KPM Music (1975-1978)
*Move Closer To Your World - Mayoham Music (1978-1984)
*WJLA 1984 News Theme (1984-1988)
*WJLA 1988 News Theme (1988-1992)
*KTVU News Theme - Michael Randall Music (1992-2010, still used as closing theme)
*Propulsion - 615 Music (2010–present)
==Gallery==
WBZ 2000 ranch 4.svg|"Circle Ranch 4" used since 1987
WCEM 1987 ID.png|1987-1995 Station ID (news presentation)
WCEM 1987 open.png|News open from 1987-1995
WCEM TOAO ID.png|Localized version of Central's "The One and Only" campaign from 1993, recorded in April 1996
WCEM 4 EWN Open (2019).png|WCEM 5:30 PM open since 2020.
Category:Mixopolis
Category:Planet Mixel
Category:Channel 4
Category:Central Television Network
Category:Central owned and operated stations
Category:Central affiliates
Category:The Pierre Péladeau Company
Category:Quebecor Media
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1966
Category:NewsWorld network affiliates
Category:Avant Garde Network affiliates
Category:True Crime Network affiliates