WOMT (1240 AM/107.9 FM) is a

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Manitowoc, Wisconsin Manitowoc () is a city in and the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The city is located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River. According to the 2020 census, Manitowoc had a population of 34,626, with over ...

owned by locally based Seehafer Broadcasting, which airs a mix of news, sports and

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music under a

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format, both locally spun by local staff and in the evening and weekend hours provided by

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's "

Adult Contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

" network. The station serves the twin cities of Manitowoc and Two Rivers, along with Sheboygan, Algoma and Kewaunee. The station is

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on the FM dial through W300EE, which is also licensed to Manitowoc, and launched in early May 2020 as a part of the

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's AM revitalization plan. WOMT airs news and features from

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, including ''

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'' and commentary from

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and bottom of the hour sports updates from

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, along with the locally based ''Money Talks'' financial program and several other local programs such as ''Be My Guest'' and the ''Air Exchange'', and the Monday night ''Sports Talk'' program with Brewers Radio Network engineer Kent Sommerfeld as a regular guest. The station is the Lakeshore area's home of Brewers, Bucks,

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and

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play-by-play, and also airs the

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; however the station only carries team play-by-play, forgoing the postgame shows of each radio network. The station also shares coverage of Manitowoc Lincoln, Two Rivers, and Manitowoc Roncalli High School sports with sister station

WQTC-FM WQTC-FM (102.3 FM, "Classic Rock Q102") is a radio station licensed to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, owned by Seehafer Broadcasting Corporation and serves that community, along with the nearby twin city of Two Rivers and fringe coverage of (though not d ...

. In early 2018, Seehafer Broadcasting filed for an FM translator station involving WOMT with the FCC as part of the agency's January 2018 AM revitalization translator window; the application was duplicative of one filed for

WCUB WCUB (980 AM/97.1 FM) is a Country formatted radio station licensed to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, that serves the Two Rivers, Manitowoc, and Sheboygan areas, along with strong city-grade coverage of Brown County and Green Bay. The station is o ...

, which it then decided to continue pursuing while seeking an alternate application for WOMT. Seehafer then filed a second translator application for WOMT, which was successful and launched in May 2020, at the same time as WCUB's 97.1 translator

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* * OMT Radio stations established in 1926 {{Wisconsin-radio-station-stub