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WDAZ-TV
WDAZ-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States, serving the Grand Forks area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by the Forum Communications Company, which also owns the ''Grand Forks Herald''. WDAZ-TV's news bureau and advertising sales office are located on South Washington Street in Grand Forks, and its transmitter is located near Dahlen, North Dakota. Despite Devils Lake being WDAZ-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, WDAZ-TV is considered a semi-satellite of sister station and company flagship WDAY-TV (channel 6) in Fargo, which operates two other semi-satellites: KBMY (channel 17) in Bismarck and KMCY (channel 14) in Minot, which itself is a semi-satellite of KBMY. As such, WDAZ-TV simulcasts all network and syndicated programming as provided by WDAY-TV, and the two stations share a website. However, WDAZ-TV airs separate comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDAZ-TV 2021
WDAZ-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States, serving the Grand Forks area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by the Forum Communications Company, which also owns the ''Grand Forks Herald''. WDAZ-TV's news bureau and advertising sales office are located on South Washington Street in Grand Forks, and its transmitter is located near Dahlen, North Dakota. Despite Devils Lake being WDAZ-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, WDAZ-TV is considered a semi-satellite of sister station and company flagship WDAY-TV (channel 6) in Fargo, which operates two other semi-satellites: KBMY (channel 17) in Bismarck and KMCY (channel 14) in Minot, which itself is a semi-satellite of KBMY. As such, WDAZ-TV simulcasts all network and syndicated programming as provided by WDAY-TV, and the two stations share a website. However, WDAZ-TV airs separate comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDAY-TV
WDAY-TV (channel 6) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with ABC. It serves as the flagship television property of locally based Forum Communications Company, which also owns WDAY radio (970 AM) and ''The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead''. The television and radio stations share studios on South 8th Street in downtown Fargo, while WDAY-TV's transmitter is located near Amenia. Semi-satellites WDAY-TV serves one of the largest geographic viewing areas of any station in the United States. It consists of all of North Dakota as well as northwestern Minnesota, northern South Dakota, eastern Montana, southern Manitoba, Canada including Winnipeg, and far western Ontario, Canada including Kenora. It covers this region with a network of three full-power semi-satellites: WDAZ-TV (channel 8) in Grand Forks, KBMY (channel 17) in Bismarck, and KMCY (channel 14) in Minot, which itself is a semi-satellite of KBMY. WDAZ-TV WDAZ-TV (channel 8), serving Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBMY
KBMY (channel 17) is a television station in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with ABC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Forum Communications Company, the station maintains a news bureau and advertising sales office on North 15th Street in Bismarck, and its transmitter is located near St. Anthony, North Dakota. Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KBMY is considered a semi-satellite of sister station and company flagship WDAY-TV (channel 6) in Fargo, which operates semi-satellite WDAZ-TV (channel 8) in Grand Forks. Internal operations are housed at WDAY-TV's studios on South 8th Street in Fargo. KBMY clears all network programming as provided through its parent WDAY-TV and simulcasts WDAY-TV's newscasts, but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate commercial inserts and legal station identifications. KMCY (channel 14) in Minot, North Dakota operates as a semi-satellite of KBMY extending the ABC/MyNetworkTV s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baudette, Minnesota
Baudette is a city in, and the county seat of, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,106, and in 2018 the population was estimated at 1,003. Baudette is known as the Walleye Capital of the World. History Baudette was incorporated in 1907. It was started by European Americans as a steamboat landing and lumber town with a sawmill, after the railroad was constructed through this area in 1901. It was named for Joseph Beaudette, a trapper of French-Canadian descent who had been in the area since the early 1880s. The post office at Baudette began in 1900, first called "Port Hyland", after postmaster Daniel Hyland. The name was changed to "Baudette" in 1901. Baudette had a station of the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad, now absorbed by the Canadian National Railway. Baudette was largely destroyed in the Baudette Fire of 1910, but was quickly rebuilt. Many of its people were saved by a train with boxcars sent across the river f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 59,166. Grand Forks, along with its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, forms the center of the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is often called Greater Grand Forks or the Grand Cities. Located on the western banks of the north-flowing Red River of the North, in a flat region known as the Red River Valley, the city is prone to flooding. The Red River Flood of 1997 devastated the city. Originally called ''Les Grandes Fourches'' by French fur traders from Canada, who had long worked and lived in the region, steamboat captain Alexander Griggs platted a community after being forced to winter there. The post office was established in 1870, and the town was incorporated on February 22, 1881. The city was named for its location at the fork of the Red River and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Communications Company
Forum Communications Company is an American multimedia and technology company headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota. With multiple online and print news brands throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, Forum Communications offers local news in a variety of digital and broadcast mediums in addition to various niche media brands covering specialty interests. The company also owns four television stations in North Dakota, all affiliated with ABC. Additional offerings are commercial printing services and business services. Leadership William "Bill" Marcil, Sr. is the current chairman of the board for Forum Communications Company, who is married to the founder, Norman B. Black's great-granddaughter. Daily operations are overseen by William "Bill" Marcil, Jr. as the president and chief executive officer of Forum Communications Company as well as the publisher of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. History Forum Communications Company began publishing its flagship ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devils Lake, North Dakota
Devils Lake is a city in Ramsey County, North Dakota, Ramsey County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Ramsey County. The population was 7,192 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is named after the nearby body of water called Devils Lake (North Dakota), Devils Lake. The first house in Devils Lake was built in 1882. It was surveyed in 1883 and named Creelsburg and later Creel City, after the surveyor, Heber M. Creel. In 1884 it was renamed Devils Lake.Ramsey County History The local paper is the ''Devils Lake Journal''. Devils Lake Municipal Airport serves the city. Devils Lake is home to Lake Region State College and the North Dakota School for the Deaf. History The present site of Devils Lake was, historically, a territory of the Dakota people. However, the Sisseton, Wahpet ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Forks Herald
The ''Grand Forks Herald'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper, established in 1879, published in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. It is the primary daily paper for northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Its average daily circulation is approximately 7,500, in the city of Grand Forks plus about 7,500 more to the surrounding communities. Total circulation includes digital subscribers. It has the second largest circulation in the state of North Dakota. Grand Forks Herald Building The ''Grand Forks Herald'' won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the 1997 flood but the prize was bittersweet, as the ''Herald'' building had not only been inundated but burned to the ground in the midst of the floodwaters. Despite losing its offices during the flood, the ''Herald'' never missed a day of publication. Temporary offices were set up at the University of North Dakota and at a nearby elementary school. Papers were distributed free of charge to flood "re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDAY (AM)
WDAY (970 kHz "News-Talk 970 AM and 93.1 FM") is North Dakota's oldest radio station, having first signed on in 1922. WDAY is licensed to Fargo, North Dakota, owned by Forum Communications, and operated by Flag Family Media. The transmitter site is near 210th Street South in Barnesville, Minnesota, and studios are on 8th Street South in Fargo. WDAY's power is 10,000 watts, and its transmitter site has three towers. Two towers are used for the daytime directional antenna, and all three at night, in order to protect other stations on 970 kHz from interference. WDAY's daytime signal covers the eastern half of North Dakota, west central Minnesota, northeastern South Dakota, and southern Manitoba. Programming 970 WDAY AM and 93.1 FM features local talk shows weekdays hosted by Bonnie Amistadi, Steve Hallstrom, Paul Bougie, Janae White, and Jay Thomas, as well as local news and weather updates and national news updates from ABC News Radio. WDAY radio also airs newscasts simulcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roseau, Minnesota
Roseau () (pronounced row - so) is a city in, and the county seat of, Roseau County, Minnesota. Its population was 2,744 at the time of the 2020 census. History A post office called Roseau has been in operation since 1895. The city took its name from the nearby Roseau River. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Hayes Lake State Park is nearby. Climate Roseau has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification ''Dfb'') with warm summers and severely cold winters. Precipitation is significantly higher in summer than at other times of the year. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,633 people, 1,142 households, and 682 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 1,288 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 97.6% White, 0.3% African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.1% from other races, and 0.9% from two o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams, Minnesota
Williams is a city in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 191 at the 2010 census. History Williams was incorporated in 1922. It developed with the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad as a shipping center for timber products. It was named for William Mason and George Williams, who had followed the track roadbed in 1901 to stake claims at the site. Its post office began in 1903 with William H. Dure as postmaster. Williams was burned in the Baudette Fire of 1910. It was rebuilt after. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Williams is located along Minnesota State Highway 11 and County Road 2. Williams is a gateway to nearby Zippel Bay State Park on the South Shore of Lake of the Woods. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 191 people, 86 households, and 46 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 110 housing units at an average densit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of License
In American, Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator. In North American broadcast law, the concept of ''community of license'' dates to the early days of AM radio broadcasting. The requirement that a broadcasting station operate a ''main studio'' within a prescribed distance of the community which the station is licensed to serve appears in United States federal law, U.S. law as early as 1939. Various specific obligations have been applied to broadcasters by governments to fulfill public policy objectives of broadcast localism (politics), localism, both in radio and later also in television, based on the legislative presumption that a broadcaster fills a similar role to that held by community newspaper publishers. United States In the United States, the Communications Act of 1934 requires that "the Commission s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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