WHMI-FM (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from the

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area. The station broadcasts a

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format with local news, sports, traffic and weather and bills itself as Livingston County's Own. It also airs hourly news updates from

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. WHMI is owned by Rodney Krol through licensee Krol Communications Inc.

History

WHMI began as an

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station at 1350 kHz in 1957. The call letters could be said to stand for both "Howell, Michigan" and "Heart of Michigan", a reference to an ad campaign of the late 1950s which promoted Livingston County as a good place to live. An FM signal at 93.5 was added in 1977, simulcasting the AM. Originally, WHMI was a small-town station typical of its era, with

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music and a strong news commitment. The AM signal, which was inferior to the FM signal, was silenced in 1995. Since then WHMI has been solely on FM. During the late 1990s, WHMI's music programming gradually evolved from

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into the current "classic hits" format. In 2001, WHMI moved out of its longtime studios on Grand River Avenue in Howell into a state-of-the-art facility at 1277 Parkway Drive in

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References

Michiguide.com - WHMI-FM History

External links

* HMI-FM Classic hits radio stations in the United States Livingston County, Michigan Radio stations established in 1977 1977 establishments in Michigan {{Michigan-radio-station-stub