Michigan Radio
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| City | WUOM: Ann Arbor, Michigan WFUM: Flint, Michigan WVGR: Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| Branding | Michigan Radio |
| Slogan | Your State, Your Stories, Your NPR News Station |
| Format | Public radio: News/talk |
| Affiliations |
National Public Radio Public Radio International American Public Media BBC World Service |
| Owner | University of Michigan |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
Michigan Radio is a network of three public radio stations (WUOM, WFUM, and WVGR) operated by the University of Michigan through its broadcasting arm, Michigan Public Media. The station is a founding member of National Public Radio and an affiliate of Public Radio International and American Public Media. Its main studio is located in Ann Arbor, with satellite studios in Flint and offices in Grand Rapids.
The stations are known as Michigan Radio: Your NPR News Station. The network currently airs NPR news and talk, which it has since July 1, 1996. All three stations broadcast in HD Radio, although there are currently no HD subchannels.
Combined, the three stations of Michigan Radio cover most of the southern two-thirds of the Lower Peninsula.
Before the university had applied for its own radio station, the University of Michigan Extension Service Bureau of Broadcasting produced programs for other stations starting the 1920s. For instance, in November 1944, the Bureau of Broadcasting produced "Stump the Professor" for WJR in Detroit and "The Balkan States: Places and Nations in the News" for WKAR in East Lansing.
In the early 1940s, the University of Michigan applied for an AM radio station. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) turned down the application because there were not any available frequencies at the time. (WPAG, now WTKA, would become Ann Arbor's first radio station in 1945.) Around this time the university began working on plans for a statewide network of four FM stations to be located in Ann Arbor, Mount Pleasant, Manistique and Houghton. The university applied to the FCC on September 11, 1944 for a station at 43.1 FM (part of a band of frequencies used for testing of Frequency Modulation) with a power of 50,000 watts; by 1947, the new station was given the call letters WATX and was assigned to 42.1 FM. (At the time, a station on the new FM band was seen as being at a significant disadvantage.)
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