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WWUP
WWTV (channel 9) and WWUP-TV (channel 10) are television stations licensed respectively to Cadillac and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States, serving as the CBS affiliates for the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan. They are owned by locally based 910 Media Group, which provides certain services to Cadillac-licensed dual Fox/ CW+ affiliate WFQX-TV, channel 32 (and its Vanderbilt-licensed full-time satellite, WFUP, channel 45) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Cadillac Telecasting. The stations share studios on Broadcast Way (near US 131) in Cadillac; WWTV's transmitter is located on 130th Avenue northeast of Tustin, while WWUP's tower is near Goetzville, Michigan. WWUP operates as a full-time satellite of WWTV; aside from the transmitter, it does not maintain any physical presence in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Together, the two stations are known on-air as 9&10 and serve the largest television market east of the Mississippi River: 23 cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local 32
WFQX-TV (channel 32) and WFUP (channel 45) are television stations licensed respectively to Cadillac and Vanderbilt, Michigan, United States, serving the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan as affiliates of Fox and The CW Plus. They are owned by Cadillac Telecasting Company, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with 910 Media Group, owner of Cadillac-licensed CBS affiliate WWTV, channel 9 (and its Sault Ste. Marie–licensed full-time satellite, WWUP-TV, channel 10), for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios on Broadcast Way (near US 131) in Cadillac; WFQX-TV's transmitter is located on 130th Avenue northeast of Tustin, while WFUP's tower sits on Hudson Lookout in southeastern Charlevoix County. WFUP operates as a full-time satellite of WFQX; its existence is only acknowledged in station identifications. Unlike its parent station, WFUP does not carry any of WFQX-TV's subchannels and has a different subchannel lineup. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFQX-TV
WFQX-TV (channel 32) and WFUP (channel 45) are television stations licensed respectively to Cadillac and Vanderbilt, Michigan, United States, serving the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan as affiliates of Fox and The CW Plus. They are owned by Cadillac Telecasting Company, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with 910 Media Group, owner of Cadillac-licensed CBS affiliate WWTV, channel 9 (and its Sault Ste. Marie–licensed full-time satellite, WWUP-TV, channel 10), for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios on Broadcast Way (near US 131) in Cadillac; WFQX-TV's transmitter is located on 130th Avenue northeast of Tustin, while WFUP's tower sits on Hudson Lookout in southeastern Charlevoix County. WFUP operates as a full-time satellite of WFQX; its existence is only acknowledged in station identifications. Unlike its parent station, WFUP does not carry any of WFQX-TV's subchannels and has a different subchannel line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fetzer
John Earl Fetzer (March 25, 1901 – February 20, 1991) was an American radio and television executive who was best known as the part-owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1956 to 1961 and sole owner from 1961 through 1983. Under his ownership, the 1968 Tigers won the World Series. Biography Born in 1901 in Decatur, Indiana, Fetzer moved with his mother to Lafayette, Indiana, after his father died when Fetzer was 2 years old. There, his brother-in-law, a telegraph operator for the Wabash Railroad, introduced young John to the early workings of wireless communication. Via telegraph reports, they would track the baseball games of the Detroit Tigers, which he would later own. Radio was still in its infancy, but Fetzer took it seriously and built his first transmitter-receiver in 1917 and began communicating from his home in Indiana with a man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1922, he came to Michigan and enrolled at Emmanuel Missionary College, now known as Andrews University, in Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGTU
WGTU (channel 29) and WGTQ (channel 8) are television stations licensed respectively to Traverse City and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, United States, serving as the ABC affiliates for the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan. They are owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which contracts with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of regional NBC affiliates WPBN-TV and WTOM-TV, to provide services and advertising sales functions. The stations share studios on M-72 just west of Traverse City; WGTU's transmitter is located east of Kalkaska, Michigan, and WGTQ's transmitter is near Goetzville in southeastern Chippewa County, in addition to simulcasts on WPBN-TV and WTOM-TV's transmitters. The two stations, known as "ABC 29&8" and together with WPBN/WTOM as "UpNorthLive", carry the same programming and serve one of the largest television markets east of the Mississippi River. WGTU went on the air in 1970 and provided full ABC network service to Traverse City for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPBN-TV
WPBN-TV (channel 7) and WTOM-TV (channel 4) are television stations licensed respectively to Traverse City and Cheboygan, Michigan, United States, serving as the NBC affiliates for the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan. They are owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to regional ABC affiliates WGTU and WGTQ under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting. However, Sinclair effectively owns WGTU/WGTQ as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The stations share studios on M-72 just west of Traverse City; WPBN-TV's transmitter is located east of Kalkaska, Michigan, and WTOM-TV's transmitter is on US 23 east of Cheboygan, in addition to simulcasts on WGTU and WGTQ's transmitters. The two stations, known as "TV 7&4" and together with WGTU/WGTQ as "UpNorthLive", carry the same programming and one of the largest television markets east of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadillac, Michigan
Cadillac ( ) is a city in and county seat of Wexford County, Michigan, Wexford County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,371 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the second most-populated city in the Northern Michigan region, after Traverse City, Michigan, Traverse City. Cadillac was settled as early as 1871 and formerly known as the village of Clam Lake before incorporating as a city in 1877. The city is located upon the shores of Lake Cadillac, connected by the Clam Lake Canal to Lake Mitchell (Michigan), Lake Mitchell. The Clam River (Michigan), Clam River, which begins in Cadillac, is part of the Muskegon River watershed. Cadillac is the junction of three major highways: U.S. Route 131, US Highway 131, M-55 (Michigan highway), M-55, and M-115 (Michigan highway), M-115. The geographic center of Michigan is approximately north-northwest of Cadillac. Cadillac is the primary city of the Cadillac micropolitan area, which includes all of Wexf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior craton, Superior Geological Province of the Canadian Shield, a vast rocky plateau located mainly north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River (Ontario), French River, Lake Nipissing, and the Mattawa River. The statistical region extends south of the Mattawa River to include all of the District of Nipissing. The southern section of this district lies on part of the Grenville Orogeny, Grenville Geological Province of the Shield which occupies the transitional area between Northern and Southern Ontario. The extended federal and provincial quasi-administrative regions of Northern Ontario have their own boundaries even further south in the transitional area that vary according to their respective governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, internet, wi-fi, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was established pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the previous Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries in North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Wilson
Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. (October 17, 1918 – March 25, 2014) was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL), the league with which the NFL merged in 1970, and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL, at age 95. His 54 years of ownership was the third longest tenure by one owner in league history behind George Halas and Art Rooney. Wilson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009. Career Wilson grew up in Detroit, Michigan, the son of salesman Ralph Wilson Sr. and his wife Edith Cole.Gaughan, MarkFather's example inspired Wilson in football and business ''The Buffalo News''. Retrieved March 26, 2014. Choosing to go out of state to attend the University of Virginia (where he joined the Phi Delta Theta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East division. The team plays its home games at Highmark Stadium (New York), Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park (town), New York, Orchard Park, New York, and is building a New Highmark Stadium, new stadium which will be completed in 2026. Founded in 1959 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), the team joined the NFL in 1970 NFL season, 1970 following the AFL–NFL merger. The Bills' name is derived from an All-America Football Conference (AAFC) Buffalo Bills (AAFC), franchise from Buffalo that was in turn named after western frontiersman Buffalo Bill. Drawing much of its fanbase from western New York and neighboring southern Ontario, the Bills are the only NFL team that plays home games in the state of New York. The franchise is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Color Television
Color television (American English) or colour television (British English) is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set. It improves on the monochrome or black-and-white television technology, which displays the image in shades of gray (grayscale). Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world upgraded from black-and-white to color transmission between the 1960s and the 1980s. The invention of color television standards was an important part of the history of television, history and technology of television. Transmission of color images using mechanical scanners had been conceived as early as the 1880s. A demonstration of mechanically scanned color television was given by John Logie Baird in 1928, but its limitations were apparent even then. Development of electronic scanning and display made a practical system possible. Monochrome transmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids is the largest city and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. With a population of 198,917 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 200,117 in 2024, Grand Rapids is the List of municipalities in Michigan, second-most populous city in Michigan. The Grand Rapids metropolitan area has a population of 1.16 million and a combined statistical area population of 1.5 million. Grand Rapids is situated along the Grand River (Michigan), Grand River approximately east of Lake Michigan and is the economic and cultural hub of West Michigan. A historic furniture manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies and is nicknamed "Furniture City". As a result of the numerous micro and craft breweries, many with notable reputations nationally such as Founders and New Holland which are known globally, Grand Rapids is also known as "Beer City USA". Due to the prominence of the Grand River, many l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
