WUPT (100.3 FM, "100.3 The Point") is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

broadcasting a

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...

music format. Licensed to

Gwinn, Michigan Gwinn is an unincorporated community in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes and has no legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population of the CDP was 1,784 ...

, United States, the station is currently owned by

Armada Media Corporation Armada Media Corporation is a Wisconsin-based media corporation founded in 2006 that owns radio stations in the Midwestern United States. Armada Media operates in small unrated markets. Armada Media is based in Fond du Lac and operates 28 radio st ...

, through licensee AMC Partners Escanaba, LLC.

History

The

Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction ...

issued a

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for the station on June 9, 2005. The station was assigned the

call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally assigne ...

WUPF on September 29, 2006, and received its license to cover on July 29, 2008. On August 7, 2008, the station changed its call sign to the current WUPT., WUPT is now part of the Radio Results Network owned by Armada Media Partners Escanaba Michigan Currently, WUPT airs a Classic Hits music format and is the Flagship station for Northern Michigan University Sports.

References

The Point airs a Classic Hits format and NMU sports,along with Totally 80s Flashback.

External links

* * UPT Classic hits radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2008 {{Michigan-radio-station-stub