WFUM
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- For the co-owned radio station in Flint, WFUM-FM, see Michigan Radio.
| WFUM | |
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| Flint, Michigan | |
| Branding | Michigan Television |
| Channels | Analog: 28 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | University of Michigan |
| First air date | August 23, 1980 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Flint University of Michigan |
| Sister station(s) | WFUM-FM |
| Transmitter Power | 2160 kW (analog) 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | 258 m (both) |
| Facility ID | 69273 |
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| Website | www.michigantelevision.org |
WFUM, also known as Michigan Television, is a PBS member station in Flint, Michigan. It is owned and operated by the University of Michigan, with studios based at the U of M's Flint campus' William S. White Building. WFUM's transmitter is located on Hill Road, just north of the town of Goodrich in southeastern Genesee County. WFUM's transmitter is 846 feet (258 meters) tall. WFUM programing is enjoyed in the Flint/Tri-Cities and as far away as Port Huron, Michigan and Lansing.
WFUM first went on the air on August 23, 1980. Prior to then, Flint had been one of the few areas of Michigan without over-the-air PBS service. Most cable systems in the area, then as now, piped in Bay City's WDCP, Detroit's WTVS, East Lansing's WKAR-TV, Mount Pleasant's WCMU-TV or Toledo's WGTE.
WFUM was, and still is, U of M's only TV station, but is no stranger to the medium -- U of M produced a syndicated educational series, "University of Michigan Presents", which was syndicated to TV stations nationwide from the 1960s into the early-1980s. Over the years WFUM has produced several of its own shows, including Passing Through with Karen Sherrin, and High School Challenge with Jim Gaver.
On cable, WFUM can be seen on Comcast Flint channel 3, Charter Saginaw channel 12, Bright House Livonia channel 22 and WOW! Plymouth channel 8. Charter added WFUM in its Bay City and Midland operations on April 20, 2007 on channel 16. It is not seen on Cogeco's systems in Windsor, Ontario or Comcast systems in Detroit and the southern suburbs, though it's available on Comcast systems in Ann Arbor and Detroit's western and northern suburbs. It is unknown if Charter in Mount Pleasant will be offering the channel.
WFUM-HD can be seen on Comcast digital cable channel 240 in the Flint market.
[edit] Digital Channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| 28.1 | PBS HD programming |
| 28.2 | Main WFUM Programming |
WFUM currently broadcasts in digital on Channel 52, but will return to Channel 28 to broadcast digitally after the February 2009 DTV transition. This is necessary as the current digital channel is outside the FCC's core channels allotment (Channels 2-51).
[edit] External links
- Michigan Television Homepage
- The Michigan Channel Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WFUM
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WFUM-TV
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