WLUC-TV Channel 6 Marquette

Slogan: WLUC TV6- Someplace Special

Translator stations:

Power/Height/Offset: 100,000 watts / 971 feet / -
- Analog Service Area

Digital Channel: 35

Digital Power/Height: 83,000 watts / 860 feet
- Digital Service Area

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More Technical Information:

Call Sign History:

Call Sign Origin: Lucky 6

Network Affiliation History:

On Air Date: 1956

Telephone: (906) 475-4161

Notes/History:

6/2006: FCC approves sale of WLUC and translators W07DB Marquette and W14CE Escanaba from Raycom Media to Barrington Broadcasting.

3/2006: Announced that Raycom will be selling station to Barrington Broadcasting as part of a larger deal involving several other stations across the country.

1992: WJMN switches from ABC to CBS with CBS' purchase of WJMN and Green Bay station WFRV; WLUC then switches from CBS to NBC as its primary affliation. Some programming from FOX is also shown on WLUC.

19xx: WJMN switches main affiliation from NBC to ABC; WLUC switches its secondary affiliation from ABC to NBC but stays as a primary CBS affiliate.

1968: With the sign-on of WJMN-TV 3 Escanaba, WLUC drops NBC programming which is carried on WJMN. Station maintains its CBS affiliation.

1964: Sold to owners of WLUK Channel 11 Green Bay, WI. Call sign changes to WLUC-TV "Lucky 6".

1956: Signs on as WDMJ-TV and becomes the Upper Peninsula's first television station, owned by Daily Mining Journal newspaper. Primary affiliation was with CBS but also carried programming from NBC and ABC.

Transmitter location:

Marquette County

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