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WMBV-TV
WLUK-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). Both stations share studios on Lombardi Avenue (US 41) on the line between Green Bay and Ashwaubenon, while WLUK-TV's transmitter is located on Scray Hill in Ledgeview. Until July 11, 2018, the station's signal was relayed in Upper Michigan on digital translator W40AN-D (channel 40), licensed to Escanaba, Michigan and transmitting from a tower in Wells Township. History Early years with NBC and ABC WMBV-TV, licensed to Marinette, Wisconsin (the callsign stood for "Marinette, Bay, Valley"), was approved for VHF channel 11 on November 18, 1953. M & M Broadcasting Company, owned by William Walker, announced the license grant after settling with a competing company for the rights to the license. An affiliation with NBC was confirmed on March 9, 1954. WMBV-TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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WLUK-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). Both stations share studios on Lombardi Avenue (US 41) on the line between Green Bay and Ashwaubenon, while WLUK-TV's transmitter is located on Scray Hill in Ledgeview. Until July 11, 2018, the station's signal was relayed in Upper Michigan on digital translator W40AN-D (channel 40), licensed to Escanaba, Michigan and transmitting from a tower in Wells Township. History Early years with NBC and ABC WMBV-TV, licensed to Marinette, Wisconsin (the callsign stood for "Marinette, Bay, Valley"), was approved for VHF channel 11 on November 18, 1953. M & M Broadcasting Company, owned by William Walker, announced the license grant after settling with a competing company for the rights to the license. An affiliation with NBC was confirmed on March 9, 1954. WMBV-TV sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFRV-TV
WFRV-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on East Mason Street in Green Bay, and its transmitter is located north of Morrison, Wisconsin. WFRV-TV's studios also house master control and some internal operations for MyNetworkTV affiliate WJMN-TV (channel 3) in Escanaba, Michigan, which served as a semi-satellite of WFRV for the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan until 2022; WJMN does maintain studios, sales offices and engineering operations in Marquette. History WNAM-TV and VHF merger WNAM-TV began telecasting from Neenah on UHF channel 42 on January 26, 1954, after beginning test transmissions in December 1953. Owned by the Neenah-Menasha Broadcasting Company alongside radio station WNAM (1280 AM), the station carried programming from ABC as well as occasional NBC and DuMont programs. By late 1954, northeastern Wisconsin had one UHF television stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suring, Wisconsin
Suring is a village in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 544 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. History This area lies within the traditional homeland of the Menominee, who lived here for millennia before European arrival. After years of negotiations with the Ho-Chunk and the United States government about how to accommodate the incoming populations of Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples following their removal from New York, the Menominee signed the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars and ceded this territory to the United States. Following this land cession, white settlement could begin. A post office called Suring has been in operation since 1897. The village was named in English for Julius "Joe" Suring (‒), a local landowner. In the Menominee language, it is known as ''Naeqniw-Sīpiah'' 'three rivers'. Suring was mentioned in at least one national publication due to an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Holdings Company
Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate holding company. Headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, and incorporated in Delaware, it was formerly the owner of ''The Washington Post'' newspaper and ''Newsweek'' magazine. Its current holdings include the digital marketing company SocialCode, the online magazine ''Slate'', Graham Media Group (formerly Post-Newsweek Stations), a group of seven television stations, higher education company Kaplan, content and marketplace company Leaf Group, and the now-defunct Trove (formerly WaPo Labs)—the developers of a news reader app. Graham Holdings Company also owned cable television and internet service provider Cable One until it was spun off in 2015. Corporate history The history of Graham Holdings Company dates back to 1877, when the ''Post'' was first published. The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889, and remained a District of C ... [...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] |
Morgan Murphy Media
The Evening Telegram Company, d/b/a Morgan Murphy Media, is an American television and radio company based out of Madison, Wisconsin. The company is named for publisher Morgan Murphy, who expanded the business after he took over from his grandfather, who founded the '' Superior Evening Telegram'' (now owned by Forum Communications). History The company was originally known as Morgan Murphy Stations until 2007, when its operating name was slightly changed to Morgan Murphy Media. On May 10, 2017, the company announced that it would acquire Saga Communications' television clusters in Joplin, Missouri, including KOAM-TV, and Victoria, Texas, including KAVU-TV. Saga will additionally acquire the assets of Fox affiliates in each market owned by Surtsey Media and operated by Saga under local marketing agreements, including KFJX in Joplin, Missouri and KVCT in Victoria, Texas. Those stations' license assets were acquired by SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The sale was completed September 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marinette, Wisconsin
Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the south bank of the Menominee River, at its mouth at Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan; to the north is Stephenson Island, part of the city preserved as park. During the lumbering boom of the late 19th century, Marinette became the tenth-largest city in Wisconsin in 1900, reaching a peak population of 16,195. Marinette is the principal city of the Marinette, Wisconsin–Michigan Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marinette County, Wisconsin and Menominee County, Michigan. The population was 10,968 at the 2010 census. Menominee, Michigan is across the river to the north, and the cities are connected by three bridges. Menominee and Marinette are sometimes described as the "twin cities" of the Menominee River. Name The town and county were named ''Marinette'' after Marie Antoinette Chevalier (1793, Langlade County, Wisconsin – 1865, Green Bay, Wisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Township, Marquette County, Michigan
Wells Township is a civil township of Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 231. Communities *Arnold is an unincorporated community in the south central portion of the township at near the Ford River. The ZIP code is 49819 and the FIPS place code is 03600. The elevation is 1032 feet above sea level. *Northland is an unincorporated community in the west central portion of the township at It was founded and platted by the Wolverine Lumber Company and formed around the company's mill and general store. A post office opened on December 24, 1900. Service at the post office was suspended on December 22, 1984 and discontinued on March 21, 1998. Postal service was transferred to Iron Mountain. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.53%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 292 people, 119 households, and 79 families resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Relay Station
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station. It expands the broadcast range of a television or radio station beyond the primary signal's original coverage or improves service in the original coverage area. The stations may be (but are not usually) used to create a single-frequency network. They may also be used by an AM or FM radio station to establish a presence on the other band. Relay stations are most commonly established and operated by the same organisations responsible for the originating stations they repeat. However, depending on technical and regulatory restrictions, relays may also be set up by unrelated organisations. Types Broadcast translators In its simplest form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Peninsula Of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan – also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. – is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north, separated from the Canadian province of Ontario at the east end by the St. Marys River, and flanked by Lake Huron and Lake Michigan along much of its south. Although the peninsula extends as a geographic feature into the state of Wisconsin, the state boundary follows the Montreal and Menominee rivers and a line connecting them. First inhabited by Algonquian-speaking native American tribes, the area was explored by French colonists, then occupied by British forces, before being ceded to the newly established United States in the late 18th century. After being assigned to various territorial jurisdictions, it was granted to the newly formed state of Michigan as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ledgeview, Wisconsin
Ledgeview is a town in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 6,555 as of the 2010 census, up from 3,363 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Kolb and Pine Grove are located in the town. History The Town of Ledgeview was originally the "Town of De Pere" until the town changed the name in 1994 to end confusion with the city of De Pere. Town of Ledgeview. Geography The Town of Ledgeview is located just south of the center of Brown County. It is bordered by the city of to the west, the village of |
Scray Hill
Scray Hill (also known possessively as Scray's Hill) is an summit in Brown County, Wisconsin, at . Located just south of De Pere, much of the hill is in the Town of Glenmore; some of its northwestern edges are in the Town of Ledgeview. Scray Hill is home to many television, radio, and communications towers and transmitters, as well as the Central Brown County Water Authority (CBCWA) storage facility. Scray Hill is part of the Niagara Escarpment (locally called the Ledge), a long, steep slope marking the edge of a plateau that stretches from New York to Wisconsin. History The Scray family was among the first settlers on the hill. They farmed, quarried, and constructed the first road on the hill. The Daanen-Janssen Co. continues to operate and excavate at the Scray Quarry. Many of the radio stations for Green Bay and the adjacent Fox Cities, and all of the market's television stations, have their transmitting facilities atop of the hill. According to an urban legend, the near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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