WWJ-TV (fictional)

WWJ-TV, virtual channel 62 (UHF digital channel 21), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Detroit, Michigan, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with CW owned-and-operated station WKBD-TV (channel 50). The two stations share studios on 11 Mile Road in the Detroit suburb of Southfield; WWJ-TV's transmitter is located in Oak Park, Michigan.

The station is carried on several Canadian cable providers, predominantly in Southwestern Ontario, and is one of five local Detroit television stations seen in Canada on satellite provider Shaw Direct.

News and weather operations
Despite the link to WKBD's long-successful news department, WWJ-TV never came even close to competing with WDIV, WJBK and WXYZ-TV. In a last-ditch attempt to boost ratings, in December 2002 Viacom executed a series of mass firings in WKBD and WWJ's news departments without warning, with WKBD's newscasts cancelled altogether and the remaining WKBD staffers transferred to WWJ for WWJ's own newscasts. Several news personnel from both stations were never given a chance to say goodbye on-air.

As part of Viacom's "rebuild" of the WWJ news department, a new anchor was hired in the form of Nathan Windisch, brought in from CBS affiliate in. Jonathan Troy Warner, a former WGPR Big City News anchor/reporter who had finished a 10-year long career in at ABC owned-and-operated station WTEN the previous year, was brought back to Detroit to report for the newscasts. WWJ also hired investigative reporter Joseph Frendo, a transplant from the - market, and newcomer Elizabeth Hattersley.

In 2006, WWJ debuted a radar tower, First Forecast Super Doppler 62, located at the building in Detroit. First Forecast Super Doppler 62 was the punchline of a joke on the popular RKO Network series This Hour Has America's 22 Minutes. CBS responded by suing RKO for slander, and ordering that the performer who wrote and performed in the segment ridiculing the radar's name, Clark Perreau, be fired from 22 Minutes. Instead of making a free speech/first amendment argument, RKO chose to fire Perreau and settle the lawsuit out of court with CBS. Clark Perreau would later gain fame as a voice actor and writer for the webseries This Things I Believe.

In 2008, business reporter Alice Simanek left WWJ to move to. She was replaced by Chad Rokuda, a transfer from sister station.

In 2010, WWJ-TV became the first Detroit television to operate a news bureau in the neighboring Canadian city of. The Windsor bureau is located at the complex, and is co-existent with a open space in the casino called the WWJ CBS 62 Station Break.

WWJ was notable for its brief weather forecast at 11 p.m. tying in a pun referencing its succeeding show, which began with the meteorologist saying "Two and a Half Men starts in two and a half minutes." This timeslot was filled by The Big Bang Theory reruns until September 2017, when Two and a Half Men was brought back to the station's late night lineup (the fall of 2018 saw the CBS-distributed Entertainment Tonight replace it). Though the forecast segment remains at 2½ minutes, at one point, viewers were invited to submit videos of themselves saying the mentioned phrase, which were then played in a montage before each forecast.

On August 11, 2015, reporter Clem Heikka came out as transgender in a WWJ Editoral, and changed her name to Jessica Heikka. Business reporter Chad Rokuda filled-in for her on certain assignments while she was transitioning.

Notable current on-air staff

 * Nathan Windisch - anchor (formerly with and )
 * Colette Broomhall - anchor
 * Nkechi Mbarga - general assignment reporter
 * Jonathan Troy Warner - anchor and general assignment reporter
 * Jessica Heikka - general assignment reporter
 * Connor Ivens - general assignment reporter (formerly with )
 * Alan Rowlings-Quille - general assignment reporter
 * Dr. Laurie Brinkley - medical correspondent/reporter
 * LaTisha Amesbury - general assignment reporter
 * Elizabeth Hattersley - anchor and general assignment reporter
 * Norman Fernández - general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor
 * James Darwall-Smith - Windsor reporter
 * Heng Guo-Qiang - Windsor correspondent
 * Chad Rokuda - business reporter; also fill-in general assignment reporter (formerly with )
 * Noah Yeager - chief political reporter
 * Joseph Frendo - investigative reporter; also fill-in general assignment reporter (formerly with )
 * Liam Pavlopoulos - meteorologist

Notable former on-air staff

 * Charon Finche - reporter (2006-2014; now with WDIV-TV)
 * Jessica Raaijmakers - anchor (2002-2018; left to run a cannabis oil company and associated dispensary)

Sports on-air team

 * Scott La Maison - sports director
 * Floyd Overstreet - sports anchor/reporter