WBKP
 
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Calumet/Marquette, Michigan United States |
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| City | Calumet |
| Branding | CW 5 (general) CW 5 News NOW ABC 10 (on DT2) |
| Slogan | The U.P.'s First Primetime Newscast |
| Channels |
Digital: 5 (VHF) & WBUP-DT 10.2 (VHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP) & WBUP-DT 10.2 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 5.1 CW+ 5.2 ABC |
| Affiliations | CW+ (2007–present) |
| Owner |
Marks Radio Group (Lake Superior Community Broadcasting Corporation) |
| Founded | April 26, 1996 |
| First air date | October 30, 1996 |
| Call letters' meaning | Beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula |
| Sister station(s) | WBUP, WBKB-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1996–2009) 28 W28BX Marquette (UHF translator, 1997–2003) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1996–2007) |
| Transmitter power | 6.4 kW 4.8 kW (WBUP-DT2) |
| Height | 301 m 105 m (WBUP-DT2) |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 76001 59281 (WBUP-DT2) |
| Transmitter coordinates |
47°2′11.0″N 88°41′43.0″W / 47.036389°N 88.695278°W 46°21′10.0″N 87°51′15.0″W / 46.352778°N 87.854167°W (WBUP-DT2) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
WBKP is the CW-affiliated television station for Michigan's Central Upper Peninsula that is licensed to Calumet, part of The CW Plus. It broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 5 from a transmitter on Tolonen Hill near unincorporated Painesdale of Adams Township. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 2. Owned by the Marks Radio Group, WBKP is part of a duopoly with ABC affiliate WBUP and the two outlets share studios on Ash Street in Ishpeming of Ishpeming Township.
Since WBKP cannot be seen over the air in Marquette, it is simulcasted in standard definition on WBUP's second digital subchannel (VHF channel 10.2) from a transmitter, south of Ely Township, in unincorporated Marquette County.
WBKP (standing for "Beautiful Keweenaw Peninsula") launched on October 30, 1996, as the market's fourth television station from facilities in the historic Calumet and Hecla Bath House. The Monday Night Football game that night between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles was the first ABC program shown on the station. Before it launched, the Central Upper Peninsula could see the network from affiliations of WLUC-TV in Marquette, and before 1992 from WJMN-TV in Escanaba (a semi-satellite of Green Bay, Wisconsin's WFRV-TV) that was purchased by CBS and switched to that network in March 1992.
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