''The Mining Journal'' is the predominant daily
newspaper
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of
Marquette, Michigan
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, and the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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.
Like most market-dominant daily papers, the ''Journal'' is a six-day paper. ''The Mining Journal'' is distributed over a wide area, in part because Marquette is the largest city for a considerable radius in any direction. The ''Journal'' can be found in 14 of the 15
Upper Peninsula
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counties on weekends; distribution on other days is limited because of budget reductions. ''The Mining Journal'' either maintains bureaus in many of the cities of the U.P., or shares news coverage with other Ogden-owned papers.
In August 2019, the ''Journal'' announced that they would be discontinuing the Sunday print edition and become a six-day-per-week newspaper.
Broadcasting
The Mining Journal was the proprietor of Marquette's first television and radio stations. First known as WBEO, AM 1320 began broadcasting in 1931, later changing its
call sign
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to
WDMJ on November 15, 1939;
DMJ standing for ''Daily Mining Journal''. The newspaper would later add an FM station in 1966, known as WDMJ-FM, and would later become
WHWL. Both stations remain on the air, albeit no longer under newspaper's ownership. The AM station is now owned by
Armada Media Corporation also known as the Radio Results Network, while the FM station is owned by the
Gospel Opportunities Radio Network. The radio station moved out of the newspaper building to the
Hotel Northland in 1955.
In 1956, The Mining Journal launched WDMJ-TV, the Upper Peninsula's first television station. Its studios were on the top floor of the ''Mining Journal'' building on
Washington Street in Downtown Marquette, until it moved to its present studios in
Negaunee Township in 1964. The TV station was sold to the Post Corporation, owners of
WLUK-TV
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in
Green Bay, Wisconsin
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in 1964, who changed the calls to
WLUC-TV
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. The station is now owned by
Gray Media
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.
Notes
External links
''The Mining Journal''official site
Newspapers published in Michigan
Marquette County, Michigan
Newspapers established in 1841
1841 establishments in Michigan
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