WMAM is a class D AM radio station in Marinette, Wisconsin

Marinette, Wisconsin

Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 11,749 at the 2000 census.Marinette is the principal city of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marinette County, Wisconsin and Menominee...

, serving the Marinette/Menominee, Michigan

Menominee, Michigan

Menominee is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,131. It is the county seat of Menominee County. Menominee is the fourth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, and Escanaba...

 area. They operate omnidirectionally

Omnidirectional antenna

In radio communication, an omnidirectional antenna is an antenna which radiates radio wave power uniformly in all directions in one plane, with the radiated power decreasing with elevation angle above or below the plane, dropping to zero on the antenna's axis. This radiation pattern is often...

 with a daytime power of 250 watt

Watt

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s and a reduced nighttime power of 100 watts.

WMAM was purchased on 19 December 2006 from Quicksilver Broadcasting by Armada Media. WMAM currently carries ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...

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History

The call letters WMAM were previously assigned to a radio station in Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...

, from August 1922 until October 1923.

WMAM in Marinette started in 1939, where the call letters reportedly stand for "Marinette and Menominee," or, "Wisconsin Michigan Air Messenger."

WMAM filed for a television license in July 1952, as WMBV-TV channel 11. By 1959, WMBV-TV moved to Green Bay and became WLUK-TV

WLUK-TV

WLUK-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Fox River Valley area and Northeastern Wisconsin. Licensed to Green Bay, Wisconsin, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter on Scray's Hill in Ledgeview; the station also broadcasts in...

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Ownership

1939: M & M Broadcasting, Inc.

1956: Guild Films Co. purchases both WMAM and WMBV-TV

(Year Unknown): Quicksilver Broadcasting, LLC

2006: Armada Media - Menominee, Inc. a/k/a Armada Media Corporation

Personnel

A notable personality at WMAM was Howard Emich, who worked at WMAM from 1940 to 1980. Known as “Marinette’s Newsman”, he delivered over 10,000 news broadcasts and was inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1998.

External links

• Armada Media website