WJMN-TV Channel 3 Escanaba

Programming from WFRV-TV 5 Green Bay, WI

Slogan: CBS 3 (WJMN), CBS 5 (WFRV)

WJMN web site: www.wjmntv.com

WFRV web site: www.wfrv.com

Analog Power/Height/Offset: 100,000 watts / 1191 feet / +
- Analog Service Area

Digital Channel: 48

Digital Power/Height: 989,000 watts / 1073 feet (CP)
directional antenna
- Digital Service Area (CP)

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More Technical Information:

Call Sign History: WJMN-TV, assigned 10/2/1969

Network Affiliation History:

On Air Date: 1969

Telephone: (906) 786-7767

Notes/History:

WJMN offers news cut-ins and weather that are separate from what WFRV airs. WJMN also airs different local advertising from WFRV.

2/2006: The sale of Green Bay's WFRV-TV Channel 5 along with WJMN-TV 3 Escanaba to Liberty Media from CBS TV is announced. The complex sales agreement results in essentially a tax-free exchange with Liberty returning $64 million worth of CBS stock (7,591,249 shares) along with $170 million in cash in exchange for the licenses of WFRV and WJMN. The FCC approves the deal in March 2007.

1992: CBS purchases WFRV/WJMN combination as larger deal that acquired Midwest Communications of Minnesota. Affiliation of stations switched from ABC to CBS upon closure of sale.

1983: Affiliation switches from NBC to ABC as the NBC affiliation moves to WLUK TV 11 Green Bay

198x: WFRV/WJMN purchased by the Murphy and McNally families from the Morton Norton family

Transmitter location:

Delta County