WMYD (My TV20 Detroit) is Detroit, Michigan's MyNetworkTV affiliate station, owned and operated by Granite Broadcasting. The station is home of The Detroit Pistons and offers a blend of off-network sitcoms, first-run syndicated reality/talk, action hours, first-run programming and cartoons from 4Kids TV.

WMYD's transmitter is located on Eight Mile Road in Oak Park, Michigan. Its studios and offices are located on Franklin Road in Southfield, Michigan. WMYD transmits its analog and digital signals from the same 1073-foot tower as WWJ-TV and WTVS' digital signal.

Cable Coverage:
On cable, WMYD can be seen throughout Southeast Michigan including Metro Detroit on Comcast channels 3 and 20, Bright House channel 6, WOW channel 20 and Cogeco Windsor channel 62 and London, Canada. WMYD can also be seen on Charter Cable, Millennium Digital, Wyandotte Cable and D&P Cable. Please check your local TV book for cable listings.

Satellite:
WMYD is carried on DirecTV (Channel 887) and Echo Star/Dish Network (Channel 505).

High Definition Television (HDTV):
TV20 has been digital since March 2004. For more details on HDTV, see our HDTV Q&A page.

History Of WMYD-TV:
The station first took to the air on September 15, 1968 as WXON-TV, broadcasting on channel 62, moving to channel 20 in November 1972.

The station initially had its studios in Walled Lake (in southwestern Oakland County, north of Novi) but later moved to its present location in Southfield.

Through the 1970s, WXON aired cartoons, sitcoms, off-network dramas, old movies, religious shows, an annual Variety Club of Detroit telethon hosted by Soupy Sales and live news updates.

In 1979, WXON added subscription TV after 8 PM. The subscription programming was provided by a service called "ON-TV" and the broadcasts were encoded in a scrambled format requiring a rented set-top box for decoding. The service was not cheap -- $22.50 a month (more than $40 in 2006 money, more than most modern customers pay for multi-channel satellite or cable TV.) Many people, especially those living across the river in Windsor, Ontario, built their own decoder boxes and watched ON-TV for free. ON-TV carried uncut movies, concerts and local sports action. However, since many games began before 8 PM, fans missed the start of many contests. (In one famous incident, Detroit Red Wings racked up a 5-0 lead in a game against the Calgary Flames before ON began its coverage!) In 1982, WXON began airing ON-TV on weekend afternoons and faced a challenge from "In-Home Theatre", which aired 24 hours a day on what is now WPXD in Ann Arbor.

Still lagging far behind WKBD-TV in the ratings, WXON dropped ON-TV on March 31, 1983, and resumed a full-service entertainment format full time. It added a number of movies to its lineup. It also acquired several barter cartoons as the children's programming business peaked in 1984-85. WXON also brought The Ghoul back to Detroit TV. As the 1980s progressed, WXON began acquiring stronger off-network sitcoms. It got a significant boost after WKBD switched to Fox in 1986. It was an established independent station by 1991 and was unaffected by the network affiliation swaps at the end of 1994.

On January 12, 1995, WXON joined the The WB Television Network at its inception. Granite Broadcasting bought WXON two years later in January 1997 -- and on October 14 of that year, the station's call letters were changed from WXON-TV to WDWB-TV. In 2004 the station rocked the Detroit media market by becoming the new over-the-air broadcast home of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, taking them from their longtime home on WKBD. It was also the broadcast home for 20 games of Detroit Tigers baseball in the 2005-2006 season after the Tigers had set out a year on broadcast television.

WDWB carried the full WB network schedule, but after joining the network, WDWB frequently preempted network programming and aired Big Ten Conference basketball, the Detroit Pistons and the Detroit Tigers. It has been the home of the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon since 1999. Like the baseball and basketball games, the annual MDA Telethon is broadcast live.

WDWB was the last remaining commercial television station in the Detroit market to broadcast children's programming every Monday through Friday until The WB network discontinued airing animation Monday through Friday. The station continues to carry 4Kids TV on Sunday mornings.

On January 24, 2006, it was announced that CBS Corporation and Time Warner would close their respective UPN and WB networks. Shortly after that, News Corporation announced that it would start up a new network (MyNetworkTV). WDWB signed on to become Detroit’s MyNetworkTV affiliate March 22, 2006

Like many stations about to lose The WB or UPN, WDWB changed its on-air logo to remove "WB" from the logo. The Station changed its call letters to WMYD, My TV20 on May 7, 2006 as a way to co-brand the station with the new Network.

On July 29, 2006, the new My TV20 logo was introduced during a Tigers-Minnesota Twins baseball game in preparation for WMYD's launch of it’s new affiliation to MyNetwork TV on September 9th. Since that date the entire station has been identified by it’s current brand “My TV20, Detroit”.