WRUP is a radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to Munising, Michigan

Munising, Michigan

Munising is a city on the southern shore of Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,539. It is the county seat of Alger County...

 broadcasting a satellite-fed classic rock

Classic rock

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 format from Jones Radio Networks

Jones Radio Networks

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. The station was previously a country

Country music

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 and then an oldies

Oldies

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 station (as WHCH "Hot Country Hits" and then "Oldies 98") before changing over to the current format. The station transmits its signal from an antenna 1,018 feet in height atop a hill located northwest of Marquette and broadcasts with an effective radiated power

Effective radiated power

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 of 2,600 watts. WRUP"s transmitter was moved in October 2008 to Marquette County from Munising where it had been located since the station first went on the air in the early 1970s.

As WQXO-FM, the station in the early 1970s simulcast the MOR/adult contemporary format of AM sister WGON (later and now WQXO

WQXO

WQXO is a radio station licensed to Munising, Michigan. It broadcasts an oldies music format. WQXO signed on in the late 1950's as WMAB "Munising Alger Broadcasting" operating from studios above the First National Bank building . Owned by The Munising News, WMAB operated daytime only at first,...

) during the day, and aired beautiful music

Beautiful music

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 during non-simulcast dayparts. By the early 1980s, WQXO-AM/FM were simulcast 24/7 with an adult contemporary format. This was followed in the early 1990s by the WHCH calls and country and then oldies music, and then the current calls and format.

The WRUP calls were previously used in Marquette, Michigan

Marquette, Michigan

Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...

 in the 1980s on 103.3 FM as "UP 103"; the station is now WFXD

WFXD

WFXD is a radio station broadcasting a country music format in Marquette, Michigan.The station began broadcasting in the 1970s at 100.1 FM as WUUN, a live-assist Top 40/adult contemporary music station known as "Stereo 100." In 1985, the station moved to its current 103.3 frequency and became WRUP...

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