About Us

WAND-TV is Central Illinois’ local news source providing 5 hours of daily live broadcast & streaming local news, plus 7 hours of Live NBC News programming weekdays. WAND is also home to NBC Sports programming including: NBC Sunday Night Football, NASCAR, PGA Tour & The Olympics.

HOW TO GET WAND NEWS:

• Live Broadcasting on WAND Channel 17.1
• On-Demand News on the WAND News APP & WANDTV.com
• Streaming at WAND Now on Apple TV, Roku, and the Amazon App Store
• Central Illinois Weather Forecast, Radar & Storm Tracking on WAND Weather App

WAND News Studios are located in Decatur, Illinois. Our Central Illinois DMA is 21% of the land mass of the entire state of Illinois. The farthest city is 134 miles one-way (Beaverville in Iroquois County). Located in the hyphenated market of Champaign, Decatur-Springfield, WAND-TV is the only station to cover the entire market without relying on a second signal.

HISTORY: WAND hit the air August 16, 1953 as WTVP, the first television station in Central Illinois and one of the original 19 ABC affiliates. Our call letters changed in 1966 to WAND when purchased by LIN Broadcasting. On September 5, 2005 WAND switched from ABC to NBC. In November 2007, current owner Block Communications, Inc., purchased the remaining 33% of WAND from LIN Television bringing WAND into the Block television family of WDRB Media (FOX), WBKI (CW) & MY58TV Louisville, and WLIO-TV Lima.