WSYM-TV (channel 47) is a television station in Lansing, Michigan, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV.

Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has studios on West Saint Joseph Street (along I-496) in downtown Lansing, and its transmitter is located in Hamlin Township along M-50/M-99/South Clinton Trail.

Ferguson and Steadman sold WFSL-TV to The Journal Company in 1985; the new owners changed the call sign to WSYM-TV.

Benko Broadcasting was owned by two brothers, one of whom was a judge in Sanilac County; Kare-Kim Broadcasting Corporation, whose primary stakeholder, Donald Haney, was a television personality in Detroit; and F&S Comm/News was primarily owned by former Lansing city councilman Joel Ferguson and business partner Sol Steadman.

[2] On August 4, 1980, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a ruling that complicated the picture for the channel 36 applicants.

[6] By the time F&S Comm/News obtained the channel 47 construction permit, the company was already making its mark in local television, particularly around Michigan State Spartans athletics.

It produced and syndicated the MSU football coaches' show featuring head coach Muddy Waters, and in September 1980, the firm won the bidding to produce Michigan State men's basketball telecasts, which it then syndicated to WILX-TV and other Michigan TV stations.

[7] The station set up studios in the Capitol Commons office park, developed by Ferguson and Steadman, on the edge of downtown Lansing.

[9] Channel 47 began broadcasting December 1, 1982, as WFSL-TV, an independent station with a schedule dominated by movies as well as the MSU basketball package.

One of the reasons channel 36 had initially attracted interest prior to 1980 was that there was no in-market ABC affiliate in Lansing, which was the largest market so unserved.

[10] When the construction permit for channel 47 was awarded, the FCC dismissed a protest by WUHQ-TV, which sought to establish translators in Jackson and Lansing.

Tom Jones, WFSL-TV's general manager, blamed its struggles on jitters that local and regional advertisers had about independents after seeing WWMA-TV in Grand Rapids miss its planned starting date by nine months and reservations about committing a Christmas advertising budget to an unproven station that might not be on in time for the holidays and, in any event, had no ratings survey for four months to show a proven audience.

[33] It continued to air the Pistons until 1993, when new general manager Judy Kenney dropped the team to give priority to Fox programming.

[40][41] WSYM's 23 newsroom employees lost their jobs, though 10 positions were created at WILX-TV to handle the enlarged operation.

[45] In 2014, WSYM began operating MyNetworkTV outlet WHTV through a local marketing agreement, replacing WLNS-TV as the service partner.

[47] On April 1, 2015, the E. W. Scripps Company completed the simultaneous acquisition of Journal Communications, retaining the television properties while spinning off both firms' newspaper holdings.