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29-404: WJMK may refer to: WJMK (AM) , a radio station (1250 AM) licensed to serve Bridgeport, Michigan, United States WBMX (FM) , a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois, United States, which held the call sign WJMK from 1984 to 2017 WZRL , a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to serve Plainfield, Indiana, United States, which held

58-449: A leading Top 40 hit music station in Saginaw, competing with WSAM (1400 AM) and Flint's WTAC (600 AM, now WSNL ). Among the station's history was the acquisition of a sister television station in the 1950s, and was also the radio home of 1950s country music artist "Little" Jimmy Dickens. WKNX's resident "legend" would take form of University of Cincinnati graduate Robert Dyer, who joined

87-404: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WJMK (AM) WJMK's history can be traced back as early as April 17, 1947, when the station first signed on the air at 1210 AM as WKNX, owned by Lake Huron Broadcasting. The station was like many of its day, programming a full-service format of music, news, and talk. For many years, it was also

116-627: Is powered at 2800 watts and broadcasts from an antenna in Mount Forest Township near Pinconning. Its signal reaches the Saginaw, Midland, and Bay City metropolitan area and other surrounding cities. Programming comes from Fox Sports Radio , the station was previously an affiliate of ESPN Radio . WLUN has broadcast a variety of different formats since it first took the air on November 15, 1983. Formats included country music , adult contemporary, and classic hits. For much of its early history, it

145-602: Is simulcasted on FM translator station W257EO at 99.3 MHz, which can be picked up in the immediate Saginaw area. WLUN WLUN (100.9 FM ) is a commercial radio station licensed to Pinconning, Michigan . The station broadcasts a Sports radio format . It is owned by the Michigan Baseball Foundation, owner of the Great Lakes Loons , with studios at Dow Diamond in Midland, Michigan . WLUN

174-618: The directional antenna array beamed towards the north. The station was also simulcasted via the Internet on WNEM's website, except for sports coverage. In a coincidental situation, WNEM-TV rival WEYI-TV was founded as WKNX-TV, a sister station to WKNX radio; it was sold off in 1972. This also once again gave WNEM-TV a radio sister, which they lost in 1969 when Gerity Broadcasting, which owned WNEM-FM (now WIOG ), sold WNEM-TV to Meredith. The FCC granted WNEM permission in January 2006 to operate at

203-1073: The 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that owns Dow Diamond, helped finance the purchase. MBF also funded the construction of the radio studio in the Dow Diamond press box, overlooking the baseball field, which was completed in January 2009. In addition to being the flagship station of the Great Lakes Loons (Single-A, Midwest League ), the station serves as the home for the Detroit Pistons , Michigan State Spartans , Northwood Timberwolves and high school sports in mid-Michigan. The station has featured on-air personalities including: Mike Greenberg , Mike Golic , Colin Cowherd , Scott Van Pelt , Ryen Russillo , Bill Simonson, Dan Le Batard , Jon Weiner , Trey Wingo , Stephen A. Smith and Matt Shepard . On October 2, 2023, WLUN switched to Fox Sports Radio from Premiere Radio Networks . The change in affiliation followed

232-579: The Meredith Corporation for $ 1.1 million. In the summer of 2004, the parent company of WNEM-TV , Meredith Corporation , purchased WKNX. Soon after the purchase, the call sign was changed to "WNEM" and shifted its studios to the television studio building in downtown Saginaw at 107 North Franklin Street. Unlike its TV counterpart, however, the AM station does not serve Flint or areas south of Saginaw County, due to

261-506: The Saginaw-Bay City market. However, the station ran into financial troubles by the end of the decade and fell silent. WLFS remained silent for a period of about two years. It was acquired on March 11, 1991 by P & G Media Corporation for $ 55,000. Much of the next year was spent getting the station back on the air, as much of the station's property had been liquidated through bankruptcy proceedings. The station returned in 1992 under

290-508: The call letters changed prior to sign-on. The station is fondly remembered by some in the Tri-Cities market for its time as Top 40 /album rock station WFXZ, "Foxy 101," in the early 1980s. The station then changed format to easy listening in 1984, changing its call letters to WWRM, marketing itself as "Warm 101", taking the call letters and format from another station in Gaylord which had abandoned

319-546: The call sign WJMK from 1964 to 1974 WJMK (group) , a K-pop group Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WJMK . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WJMK&oldid=914385607 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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348-546: The daytime hours. WKNX was granted permission to broadcast at night two years later with a power output of 129 watts, directional. Concurrent with the application, WKNX moved its studio and office operations from Frankenmuth to its transmitter facility at 2850 Gabel Road in Bridgeport Township. In January 2004, Frankenmuth Broadcasting applied for a power increase from 1,000 to 5,000 watts. Two months later, Frankenmuth Broadcasting entered into an agreement to sell WKNX to

377-528: The end of the 1980s, both stations had separated ownership, ran into financial trouble and fell silent. 100.9 was spun off to a new owner in 1991, but WXOX remained silent. Bell would then have WKNX assume WXOX's 1250 AM frequency and its abandoned three-tower directional transmitter site in Bridgeport. In January 1997, WKNX signed on at 1250 AM, and 1210 AM was placed at WXOX and assigned the new call letters WJZZ, though it did not sign back on from Frankenmuth or

406-517: The format and call letters that year in favor of a Top 40 format. Three years after this format was adopted, the station went through its first ownership change, separating itself from the AM station. The new licensee, BC Communications, acquired the station on May 20, 1987 for $ 345,000. The company was owned by Floyd Biernat and Milton Carles. BC Communications then changed the station's call letters to WLFS, shifted its music focus to soft adult contemporary and marketed itself as "Sunny 101", targeting

435-475: The new call sign WBTZ, and boasting an album rock format, originating from its new FM sister station, WUVE-FM in Saginaw. Unlike the television market, Saginaw and Bay City were separate radio markets and were allowed under the more restrictive FCC ownership limits at the time (though they would be relaxed within a year). Station business was conducted out of WUVE's facilities on Gordonville Road in Midland. In 1994,

464-604: The new power levels with the addition of a fourth tower in its directional antenna pattern. At one point programmed as an all-news station , WNEM's primary programming later consisted of simulcasts of WNEM-TV's newscasts, syndicated talk shows (including Michael Patrick Shiels in the Morning , The Neal Boortz Show , and The Dave Ramsey Show ), and syndicated regional sports and additional programming. WNEM picked up Detroit Red Wings ice hockey coverage in late 2005, making it mid-Michigan's only source of NHL hockey. Following

493-616: The parent station's coverage area. Ave Maria Radio later moved the studios to A-M Church Supply at 3535 Bay Road in Saginaw Township. On April 4, 2018, WHHQ was sold for $ 175,000 to Northern States Broadcasting Corporation. The station changed call letters to WJMK (last used by 104.3 FM in Chicago ) on April 3, 2018, and picked up the MeTV FM easy oldies format originating on WRME-LP (87.7 FM) in Chicago run by Weigel Broadcasting. The station

522-558: The station changed ownership to WMJK-FM LLC, in a transaction for $ 222,750. With the change came the change of the station's call letters to mirror that of its new licensee. Concurrently, the station began rebroadcasting a new sister FM station in Saginaw, WMJA, which had signed on in 1992. Both stations, branded as "Magic 101 and 104", then switched to a 70's based format blend of classic rock and oldies. As WYLZ, 100.9 FM and its former sister station, WILZ , were known together as "Wheelz 104.5 and 101" from 1999 to 2007. In June 2007, WYLZ

551-519: The station from Last Bastion, with FCC approval. ( ESPN 100.9-FM to launch in Bay City/Midland (Michiguide.com: Michigan's Guide to Radio and Television Broadcasting) ). On March 31, 2008, WYLZ changed their call letters to WLUN. With the debut of ESPN 100.9-FM, the sports-talk format returned to the Tri-Cities area for the first time since 1440 AM WMAX discontinued its simulcast of WTRX in Flint. MBF,

580-457: The station in 1950 and remained a part of its staff for more than half a century. In 1977, Lake Huron Broadcasting acquired an FM station in the Tampa Bay region of Florida -- WQYK-FM , a station that also carried a country format. The following year, in 1978, WKNX underwent a major change when it was purchased by Radiocom Limited, a company headed by Robert Dana McVay. WKNX's city of license

609-834: The station's sale and format change, coverage of Red Wings games moved to WSGW . The station was not profitable, as it had a poor signal in which it would drop from a daytime high of about 5,000 to 1,000 watts at night. Meredith looked for a buyer to no avail, thus looking to donate the station instead. By May 1, 2013, with Meredith giving up ownership, the station went dark. On May 30, 2013, Meredith had donated WNEM radio's license, equipment, tower and land to Ave Maria Communications, which currently brokers all its Catholic-related programming on WMAX (1440 AM) in Bay City. The station changed its call sign to WHHQ on June 18, 2013. The two stations were to be complementary programmed. WHHQ simulcasted WMAX's programming, despite its considerable overlap of

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638-453: The summer of 2007. The satellite country format was a stopgap measure to keep the station on the air until it could be sold to a new owner and debut a permanent format. WILZ 104.5 maintains its classic rock format and Cumulus ownership. On March 24, 2008, WYLZ announced it would change formats to all sports radio , with programming from ESPN Radio , under a new moniker, "ESPN 100.9," effective March 25. The Michigan Baseball Foundation acquired

667-400: The surrounding area. (The former WXOX calls have since been recycled for a Cleveland low-powered TV station, now WTCL-LD .) The FCC then granted WJZZ a request to change its city of license to Kingsley, a village near Traverse City , located on the other side of Michigan. The move allowed WJZZ to increase its power from 10,000 to 50,000 watts, as it was no longer in the path of WCHB. WJZZ

696-630: Was immediately changed to Frankenmuth, and the station's studios and offices were moved to 306 West Genesee Avenue in Frankenmuth, where it was later joined by a Tuscola-licensed sister FM station, WGMZ-FM (now WWBN ), which programmed beautiful music . (The WGMZ calls and format moved from 107.9 FM, which became WCRZ "Cars 108" in 1984.) By the early 1990s, WKNX-AM was programming big band music and adult standards . Radiocom owned WKNX and leased out WGMZ (which would later become country-formatted WKMF and move its operations to Flint) until 1994, when WKNX

725-491: Was later sold and later became WLDR (now WJNL ). WKNX continued its format of middle-of-the-road music under the moniker "Memories 1250". Six months after the frequency change, WKNX was sold by Bell Broadcasting to Frankenmuth Broadcasting, a company owned by WKNX announcer John Blehm and his wife Kathy, who were committed to keeping the station in Frankenmuth. Four years later, the music became more rock-and-roll oldies-based and also added religious-based talk programming during

754-422: Was purchased by Detroit-based Bell Broadcasting Company in a frequency swap involving another AM station in Bay City (1250 WXOX), which had been silent since the early 1990s. Bell Broadcasting owned WCHB, an AM station licensed to Taylor , which operated at a daytime signal of 25,000 watts and a nighttime signal of 1,000 watts. WCHB was a talk station targeted to an African-American audience. The company's intent

783-414: Was sold by Citadel Broadcasting (along with ten other stations) to The Last Bastion Station Trust, as part of ABC Radio 's absorption into Citadel. Upon ending the simulcast, WYLZ switched to a satellite-fed country format ("Mainstream Country" from Dial Global ) under the "Thunder Country" moniker. Despite the programming changes, WYLZ continued to air play-by-play of Great Lakes Loons baseball during

812-452: Was the co-owned sister of WXOX (now WJMK ), originally licensed to Essexville, but over time marketed itself as a Bay City station. The station was originally signed on by Wegerly Broadcasting Corporation, headed by Robert Naismith, who also served as station general manager. However, the construction permit for the station was first issued in 1982 to Wigwam Bay Broadcasting, who chose the call letters WHFU. The permit would later be sold and

841-399: Was to acquire WKNX's frequency of 1210 and silence it in order to provide WCHB with a 50,000-watt daytime signal. WKNX would then acquire the license of WXOX, which had first signed on in 1956 as a station first licensed to Essexville. Over time, the 1,000-watt station, operating at 1250 kHz, began broadcasting from Bay City with its co-owned Pinconning-licensed FM sister at 100.9 . By

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