WXMI TV Channel 17 Grand Rapids 
Translator stations:
Slogan: Fox 17
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Web site: www.wxmi.com
E-mail: visit web site
Power/Height/Offset: 1,700,000 watts / 1096 feet / -
- Analog Service Area
Digital Channel: 19
Digital Power/Height: 725,000 watts / 1004 feet
directional antenna
- Digital Service Area
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More Technical Information:
- engineering data
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- Recnet Broadcast Query
- WXMI tower photos, thanks West Michigan SBE 102
Call Sign History:
- WXMI: 8/15/1983
- WWMA-TV: 6/1/1981
Call Sign Origin: Michigan
Network Affiliation History: FOX
On Air Date: March 1982
Owner: Tribune
Telephone: (616) 364-8722
Notes/History:
- 4/2006: W52DB granted construction permit to change to channel 31 for digital-only operations.
- 3/2006: W42CB granted construction permit to convert to digital-only operations. This the first Michigan LPTV to receive a construction permit to covert to digital
- 2/2004: W52DB moves from Big Rapids to Muskegon
- 6/2003: License to cover granted for CP to change ERP to 1,700,000 watts from 1,290,000
- 1/2003: Construction permit granted to change ERP from 1,290,000 watts @ 1096 feet to 1,700,000 watts @ 1096 feet
- 2000: Translator in Big Rapids is licensed on ch. 52 as W52DB (moved from ch. 58 W58CU)
- 9/1999: Application filed for digital facilities on channel 19 (for WXMI 17)
- 5/1999: Construction permit approved to move W58CU Big Rapids to channel 52 as W52DB
- 1999: WXMI begins offering 10 PM newscasts
- 6/1998: Station is sold to Emmis Broadcasting who subsequently traded the station to Tribune Company
- 5/1989: A New York-based company headed by Robert Dudley purchases WXMI.
- 1987: Becomes a charter member of the new FOX television network
- 3/1982: On-air as independent WMMA-TV (We're West Michigan's Alternative)
WXMI transmitter location:
Barry County
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