WWMT
 
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Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids/Battle Creek, Michigan United States |
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| City | Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| Branding |
.1: CBS 3 .2: CW 7 West Michigan |
| Slogan |
.1: Live, Local, Breaking News .2: TV Now |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 3 () |
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| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WWMT Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | June 1, 1950 |
| Call letters' meaning |
We're West Michigan Television |
| Sister station(s) | WEYI-TV, WBSF, WSMH, WPBN-TV / WTOM-TV, WGTU / WGTQ, WSBT-TV |
| Former callsigns | WKZO-TV (1950–1985) |
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| Transmitter power | 25 kW |
| Height | 257 m |
| Facility ID | 74195 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°37′56″N 85°32′16″W / 42.63222°N 85.53778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wwmt |
WWMT, virtual channel 3 (VHF digital channel 8), is an CBS-affiliated television station serving Grand Rapids, Michigan that is licensed to the city of Kalamazoo and owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. WWMT maintains studios on West Maple Street in Kalamazoo, and its transmitter is located in northwest Yankee Springs Township on Chief Noonday Road/M-179 near Patterson Road. The station can also be seen on Charter Communications and Comcast channel 3. There is a high definition feed offered on Comcast digital channel 233 and Charter digital channel 782.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
On April 4, 2006, WWMT announced it would affiliate with The CW on a new second digital subchannel.
West Michigan is one of the largest television markets where The CW was not available through over-the-air analog broadcasts and is one of the few stations the new network was awarded that had not previously been affiliated with either The WB or UPN. WXSP joined MyNetworkTV when the network launched on September 5 and WWMT did the same with The CW when it began on September 18. From that date through early-December, WWMT-DT2 was branded as "West Michigan's CW"; it has since changed its branding to "The CW 7".
WWMT shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal moved from its pre-transition VHF channel 2 to channel 8 (which was formerly used for the analog signal of WOOD-TV), using to display the WWMT's virtual channel as 3 on digital television receivers.
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