23 WIFR

23 WIFR, full service television station broadcasting to city, state or area on local digital UHF channel 41. It has been an affiliate of CBS ... See more since it went on the air in 1965 as WCEE, the only station in the market to never change affiliations. The station changed call signs in 1977 to its current WIFR, which stands for "Wisconsin-Illinois-Freeport-Rockford." In July 2003 a severe storm swept the Rockford area, knocking down the stations transmitter and it took four months for full power trasmition to be restored.