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Green Bay/Fox Cities, Wisconsin United States |
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| City | Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| Branding | Fox 11 (general) Fox 11 News (newscasts) TV 11.2 (Antenna TV) |
| Slogan | Your Station for Balanced News and Severe Weather Coverage |
| Channels | Digital: 11 (VHF & Virtual ) |
| Subchannels | 11.1 Fox 11.2 Antenna TV 11.3 TBD-TV |
| Translators | W40AN-D 40 Escanaba, Michigan |
| Affiliations | Fox (1995–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLUK Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 11, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | LUcKy Eleven (original on-air slogan) |
| Sister station(s) | WCWF |
| Former callsigns | WMBV-TV (1954–1959) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1954–2009) Digital: 51 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1954–1959, 1983–1995) ABC (1959–1983) Secondary: NTA (1956–1961) |
| Transmitter power | 40 kW |
| Height | 384 m |
| Facility ID | 4150 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°24′32″N 87°59′31″W / 44.40889°N 87.99194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | fox11online |
WLUK-TV, VHF digital channel 11, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). The two stations share studios located on Lombardi Avenue (U.S. 41) on the line between Green Bay and Ashwaubenon, next to the Resch Center; WLUK maintains transmitter facilities located on Scray's Hill in Ledgeview. The station's signal is relayed in Upper Michigan on digital translator W40AN-D (channel 40), licensed to Escanaba, Michigan and transmitting from a tower in Wells Township.
WLUK signed on the air on September 11, 1954 as WMBV-TV; it was originally licensed to Marinette, Wisconsin (the callsign stood for "Marinette/Bay/Valley"). The station was owned by William Walker and was largely constructed from the assets of a failed ABC affiliate in Oshkosh, WOSH-TV on channel 48. Walker sold the station to Morgan Murphy Stations in 1958. By 1959, the station changed its city of license to Green Bay and on August 22 changed its call sign to the current WLUK-TV (in reference to its then on-air slogan "Lucky 11") when it began broadcasting at full power from a new tower near Green Bay. Just before the changeover, the station also switched affiliations with WFRV-TV (channel 5), becoming an ABC affiliate. WLUK first broadcast network programs in color in 1959 and local programs began to be broadcast in color starting in 1965. Morgan Murphy then sold WLUK to Post Corporation (a small media chain not affiliated with The Washington Post Company or its Post-Newsweek Stations division), whose properties included the Post-Crescent newspaper in nearby Appleton and a sister station in Marquette, Michigan, WLUC-TV. in 1965. In 1966, WLUK built a new studio and office building on Highland Avenue, which would eventually become Lombardi Avenue in 1968 after Vince Lombardi resigned his head coaching duties with the Green Bay Packers. It aired some local entertainment programs, including a Saturday night polka show and a daily children's cartoon show using the franchised Bozo the Clown character.
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