WTMJ-TV
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States |
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| Branding | Today's TMJ4 |
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Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | December 3, 1947 |
| Call letters' meaning |
W-The Milwaukee Journal Derived from sister station WTMJ and former sister newspaper |
| Sister station(s) | WTMJ (AM), WKTI |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 272.6 meters (894 ft) |
| Facility ID | 74098 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°5′28.5″N 87°54′7.3″W / 43.091250°N 87.902028°WCoordinates: 43°5′28.5″N 87°54′7.3″W / 43.091250°N 87.902028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WTMJ-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 28), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. WTMJ-TV maintains studio facilities located on Capitol Drive (Wisconsin Highway 190) in Milwaukee (an Art Deco facility that is known as "Radio City", in tribute to the New York complex of the same name), and its transmitter is located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of downtown Milwaukee.
The Journal Company (owner of the Milwaukee Journal, which was consolidated with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1995 to become the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) was granted its first television station license in September 1931 for W9XD. The experimental station used a low-definition electromechanical system to transmit its signal, and conducted field tests from 1931 to 1933; in 1934, Journal converted W9XD's facilities to experimental high-fidelity apex radio unit W9XAZ in 1934. Its license was withdrawn by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1938 as part of an effort to limit broadcast licenses to stations that would actively engage in the development of television. No publicly announced television programming was broadcast by W9XD during this experimental period.
The Journal Company obtained one of the first construction permits issued by the FCC for a commercial television station on December 7, 1941, under the call letters WMJT (for "Milwaukee Journal Television"), and built a new broadcast facility to transmit its signal by August 1942. However, the company's television plans were suspended when the U.S. War Production Board halted the manufacturing of television and radio broadcasting equipment for civilian use from April 1942 to August 1945, in order for such equipment to be allocated for use by the military during World War II.
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