Wow Local 4! Your winter weather advisory text crawl was so educational! I never knew that Midland & Bay Counties were part of Southeast Michigan! I love a good geography lesson!
"Metro Detroit and downriver"
Wow Local 4! I never knew that the name of my beloved downriver region should be lowercase, and here I thought it was a proper noun! Thanks for the grammar lesson!
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All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
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Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
The geographic center of Michigan is in Wexford County, 5 miles Northeast of Cadillac. So technically, if it is South and East of Wexford County, it is Southeastern Michigan, though not in the way most people think about it.
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Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
Well yeah, but when you describe a region of Michigan with a cardinal direction, it usually means a region of the lower peninsula. The UP is simply the UP, or I guess it could be divided into east UP and west UP.
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Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
I was watching Local 4 the other day and noticed how far out they cover the weather.
What I was pondering is how many folks up there are watching WDIV. Seems it must be a cable channel for them.
Do you think it's fair to say WDIV over the air would be a iffy reception for mid Michigan and the tip of the Thumb?
Lansing. Flint. Saginaw. All towns with TV stations. Is anyone in Midland watching Channel 4 for the weather?
Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
Midland and Bay counties are part of the Southeast Michigan NWS forecast area, which is served by the Pontiac NWS office
Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
There’s no civic entity or compass point named "Downriver," so, even though it’s a quite foreign zone to many of us, downriver is just a descriptive term for, you know, whatever's down the river.
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Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
None of the Detroit channels are on cable in the Tri-Cities, especially since WKBD was replaced with WBSF after that station signed on. For many cable viewers in that area, channel 4 is WEYI channel 25, with 4 being its cable slot.Mike Oxlong wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:45 pmLansing. Flint. Saginaw. All towns with TV stations. Is anyone in Midland watching Channel 4 for the weather?
Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
Channel 4 probably has more viewers in Lucas County than Bay and Midland.
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Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
It'd be interesting to see where people are watching from that use Roku, Apple TV, et al.
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Re: All of SE Michigan except Midland & Bay
I frequently go up to that area, and I listen to WWJ all the way up there on my car radio. They also do traffic backup reports on I-75 that occur in that area.