WXMI
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Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek, Michigan United States |
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| City | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Branding | Fox 17 (general) Fox 17 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Our West Michigan |
| Channels |
Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 17 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | W17DF-D 17 Muskegon W42CB-D 42 Hesperia 17 Battle Creek 30 Kalamazoo |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (WXMI, LLC) |
| First air date | March 18, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're FoX MIchigan (callsign predates network by three years) |
| Former callsigns | WWMA-TV (1982–1983) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 17 (UHF, 1982–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: Independent (1982–1987) DT2: The Tube (2006–2007) |
| Transmitter power | 750 kW |
| Height | 334 meters (1,096 ft) |
| Facility ID | 68433 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°41′15″N 85°31′57″W / 42.68750°N 85.53250°W |
| Website | fox17online |
WXMI, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 19), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting division of the Tribune Media Company. WXMI maintains studio facilities on Plaza Drive (near M-37) on the northern side of Grand Rapids, and its transmitter is located southwest of Middleville.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
From August 2006 to September 2007, The Tube aired on the station's second digital subchannel. In July 2010, the station reactivated the 17.2 digital subchannel to carry This TV, which moved to 17.3 on December 9 in anticipation of the December 31 launch of Antenna TV.
WXMI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 19, using to display WXMI's virtual channel as 17 on digital television receivers.
In addition to its main signal, the station also operates two translators, mainly to provide clear service of the station to lakeshore cities with varying terrain blocking reception of the main signal, and to address interference in farther portions of the market by sister station WGN-TV from Chicago, which also broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 19. Two additional transmitters in the southern part of the market, officially classed as WXMI digital repeaters, serve the direct Kalamazoo area on channel 30 from the tower of WGVU-TV's Kalamazoo satellite WGVK, along with a second repeater licensed to Battle Creek on channel 17 transmitting from the city's south side; all four translators carry WXMI and its subchannel services, and all map via PSIP to channel 17. This means it is possible for a television in the Grand Rapids market receiving an over-the-air signal to map out up to four different WXMI signals in its channel map.
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