Action News 5 investment puts TV signal within easy reach [Video]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – A marvel of aviation and human ingenuity hovered over a field just west of Putt-Putt Golf and Games off Summer Avenue this August with a mission that had you in mind – an improved, over-the-air WMC television signal to your TV antenna.

The Sikorsky S-61N Rotorcraft helicopter came to Memphis to do some heavy lifting, namely the ten thousand pound so-called “batwing” antenna that had been serving Mid-South viewers of Action News 5 since 1954!

“I can tell you that antenna broadcast a lot of firsts, including the first live remote television news reports,” said Dave Brown, Action News 5’s Chief Meteorologist Emeritus, who’s been watching the station since its infancy.

WMC was the first television station on the air in Tennessee on December 11, 1948. By 1954, the first station to serve viewers in West Tennessee, East Arkansas and North Mississippi crowned its 1,000-foot-tall television …