Its transmitter is located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw.

In the 1960s, it moved its main studios to the transmitter site in Indiantown, after flirting with the idea of co-locating the television station on the WSAM tower in Saginaw.

[2] The transition to Meredith was first announced in 1968, and was at that time, the first and only NBC affiliate owned by the company (a distinction later held by WSMV, until it was transferred to Gray).

The Becker Road studios would later be used for the Buena Vista campus of Delta College, though the complex still houses WNEM-TV's transmitter.

WNEM now clears the entire CBS daytime lineup on its primary channel, having moved Guiding Light's replacement Let's Make a Deal over from My5 in 2012.

It currently airs at 10 a.m. As of April 1, 2011, Comcast cable subscribers in Holly, Michigan, and surrounding areas recently had WNEM-TV replaced with Detroit's WWJ-TV as the main CBS network affiliate.

At the time, Gray owned WJRT-TV and as both stations rank among the top four in terms of total viewers, it intended to keep WNEM and sell WJRT to a third party.

Hot Dog, "Captain Muddy" hosting Popeye cartoons, Adventure Patrol and the "Jumping Cowboy.

Hot Dog originated as an ad featuring Jim Peyton as the logo character of the restaurant chain of the same name.

A transfer from the Cadillac–Traverse City market, the station had a Western show featuring Kenny Roberts, the "Jumping Cowboy.

In addition to its main facilities, the station operates a Genesee County Bureau at the Wade Trim Building on Saginaw Street in Downtown Flint.

In 2006, WNEM-TV entered into a news share agreement with Fox affiliate WSMH for their existing nightly prime time broadcast at 10 on that station.

On November 21, 2011, WNEM-TV aired allegations of sexual abuse against U.S. Representative Dale Kildee that were criticized as politically motivated and a breach of journalistic ethics.

[26] The station's signal is multiplexed: Around May 2008, WNEM launched a cable channel carrying MyNetworkTV (branded as "My 5") along with broadcasts of Detroit Pistons games.

WNEM-TV remained on-the-air for a short period afterward with a nightlight slide with phone numbers and information about the switch.