WMKE-CD
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States |
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| Channels | Digital: 21 (UHF and Virtual/) |
| Affiliations | Rev'n |
| Owner | LocusPoint Networks |
| First air date | November 1985 |
| Call letters' meaning | W MilwauKEe (also the airport code for General Mitchell International Airport) |
| Former callsigns | W08BY (1985–1994) WMKE-LP (1994–2001) WMKE-CA (2001–2015) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 8 (VHF, 1985–2000) 7 (VHF, 2000–2014) |
| Former affiliations |
MuchMusic (1985–1990) The Box (1990–2001) MTV2 (2001–2006) America One (2006–2012) Gem Shopping Network (2012–2014) Soul of the South (2015-2016) |
| Transmitter power | 3 kW |
| Height | 180 m |
| Facility ID | 35091 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°2′20.0″N 87°55′4.0″W / 43.038889°N 87.917778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
WMKE-CD, VHF digital channel 21, is a television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by LocusPoint Networks. WMKE maintains studio facilities located at 3974 South 27th Street in Milwaukee, and its transmitter is co-located at the Milwaukee PBS tower on Milwaukee's northwest side.
The station first signed on the air in November 1985, broadcasting on VHF channel 8; it offered a mix of locally produced programming, public domain movies and television series, and music videos, with the rest of its broadcast day filled by programming from the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic; MuchMusic programming was dropped in 1990, and replaced with the viewer request music network The Box. After The Box was acquired by Viacom in 2001, the station became an MTV2 affiliate with some programming in Korean (the station's ownership, KM Communications, is made up of Korean Americans). In August 2000, WMKE moved to VHF channel 7 to allow for PBS member station WMVS (channel 10) to operate its digital signal on channel 8.
As an analog station, the station's transmitter was located atop the Hilton Milwaukee City Center in downtown Milwaukee (which was previously used by WVTV, channel 18, and WDJT-TV, channel 58, before both stations moved their transmitter facilities to Milwaukee's northeast side). The station's signal was directed north from that site to prevent interference with the former main digital signal of WLS-TV in Chicago (which broadcasts on virtual channel 7 and used that allocation until 2012 to carry the station inner-city after a move of the main signal to digital channel 44), and was localized to within Milwaukee County.
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