WLUC-TV
 
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Marquette, Michigan United States |
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| Branding | TV 6 (general) TV 6 News (newscasts) Fox UP (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Upper Michigan's Source |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 6 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 6.1 NBC 6.2 Fox 6.3 Grit |
| Translators | 14 (UHF) Virtual: 6 (PSIP) W14EM-D Marquette |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | April 28, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | LUCky 6 (former sister station to Green Bay's WLUK-TV) |
| Former callsigns | WDMJ-TV (1956–1964) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 6 (VHF, 1956–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: CBS (1956–1992) ABC (1992–1995) Secondary: ABC (1956–1983) NBC (1956–1969, 1983–1995) Fox (1992–1995) DT2: Universal Sports |
| Transmitter power | 63 kW |
| Height | 257 m |
| Facility ID | 21259 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°20′12.6″N 87°50′56.7″W / 46.336833°N 87.849083°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WLUC-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Michigan's Central Upper Peninsula licensed to Marquette. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 (PSIP virtual channel 6.1) from a transmitter on South Helen Lake Road southeast of Republic in rural Marquette County. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 785. Owned by Gray Television, WLUC has studios on US 41/M-28 in Negaunee Township.
On April 28, 1956, Channel 6 signed in as WDMJ-TV, the Upper Peninsula's first television station. The station carried programming from all three networks offered at that time, but was a primary CBS affiliate. WDMJ was owned by the Daily Mining Journal along with WDMJ radio (1320 AM). Its studios were on the top floor of the Mining Journal building on Washington Street in Downtown Marquette. The station quickly outgrew its facilities. In 1959, the station moved into its current studios in Negaunee. In 1964, it was sold to Post Corporation, owners of WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, who changed the calls to WLUC-TV to match its moniker at the time "Lucky 6". Some locals would say it actually meant "With Luck You C TV"). WLUC first aired network programs in color in 1963, and with the purchase of color video tape equipment, it began broadcasting all locally produced programs in color in 1969. The station moved its transmitter to southeast of Republic in 1980 and dismantled the original one near its current studios in Negaunee.
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