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Freedom shuts down Lansing,Michigan News operations without any notice


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Well, that was fun!

Freedom Broadcasting mothballed its lansing,Michigan ABC affiliate WLAJ's News department moments before it was to air its newscast on friday night.

 

WWMT/WLAJ President and General manager James Lutton announced during what was a hastily produced sat fed 90 second news update based out of Kalamazoo's WWMT that it was decided to take WLAJ in a new direction with more entertainment programs:

 

6pm-Millionaire

6:30-ABC WORLD NEWS

 

10pm Married With Children (replaces ABC3NEWS at 10 on lansing's CW)

 

11pm Extra

 

It was nice that the powers that be wouldnt let WLAJ have a final newscast ...(said sarcastically)

 

My sympathies to the men and women who just lost their jobs including anchor Jessica Wheeler , what a wedding present she got...

 

WLAJ is for all intense purposes no longer an active TV Station, and is mainly all fed out of Kalamazoo

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I feel so sorry for those who worked at WLAJ. I hope Freedom sends these people elsewhere (unlikely). I really hope Freedom sells WPEC because they are struggling to make 2nd place against Hearst's WPBF and I really like the people at WPEC but that station seems small market compared to the 600 lb gorilla in the market WPTV.

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A little trivia , you mentioned WPEC in your response, guess what set WLAJ bought for what is now their cancelled ABC3NEWS

 

YEP...WPEC's OLD SET!!!

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A little trivia , you mentioned WPEC in your response, guess what set WLAJ bought for what is now their cancelled ABC3NEWS

 

YEP...WPEC's OLD SET!!!

So, what's gonna happen to the set now? Are they gonna trash it, or give it to another Freedom-owned station?

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A little trivia , you mentioned WPEC in your response, guess what set WLAJ bought for what is now their cancelled ABC3NEWS

 

YEP...WPEC's OLD SET!!!

 

As far as I'm concerned WPEC is better off doing their news from the newsroom like they did in the mid 90s because their so-called "HD set" is small and looks like something off of a college campus.

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More is coming out, seems the suits from kalamazoo came in like the proverbial bulls in a china shop and told the 8 folks still working that they had 20 minutes to get their belonging and leave or else.

 

Nice folks to work for ,if your a masochist...or a sadist

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