WMIC

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WMIC
Broadcast area (Daytime)
Frequency 660 kHz
BrandingWMIC 660 AM
Programming
Format Full service radio atation - news talk and country music
Affiliations ABC News Radio
Genesis Communications Network
USA Radio Network
Westwood One
Michigan Farm Radio Network
Ownership
OwnerSanilac/GB Broadcasting
WBGV, WTGV
History
First air date
June 27, 1968
Former frequencies
1560 kHz
Call sign meaning
Wireless MICrophone
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 59026
Class D
Power 1,000 watts day
Transmitter coordinates
 43°23′34″N82°50′06″W / 43.39278°N 82.83500°W / 43.39278; -82.83500
Translator(s) 95.3 W237EQ (Sandusky)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website sanilacbroadcasting.com

WMIC (660 AM) is a full service radio station licensed to Sandusky, Michigan with a power output of 1,000 watts. WMIC covers Sanilac County, Michigan and The Thumb area of Michigan. The station is owned by Sanilac/GB Broadcasting and broadcasts from studios on Elk Street in Downtown Sandusky, along with sister stations WTGV and WBGV. Its programming is also simulcasted on FM Translator W237EQ, also licensed to Sandusky at 95.3 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 250 watts.

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WMIC's transmitter is located south of Sandusky off Cooper Road Road in Sanilac County. WMIC provides a strong signal to both eastern Michigan and western Ontario due to its low dial position and corresponding long wavelength. On clear weather days, the station can be heard as far away as Roscommon, Ann Arbor, and Lansing. [2] The station, however, must sign off at sunset to protect WFAN New York City, a 50,000 watt clear channel radio station.

History

WMIC was first granted a construction permit to operate at 1560 kHz on May 10, 1965, and at a thousand watts maximum power. The station was authorized to operate only from sunrise to sunset, protecting WQXR. Transmitter facilities were constructed along Cooper Road near M-19, about a mile and a half south of Sandusky. Shortly before sign-on, the station set up studios at 19 South Elk Street in downtown Sandusky. [3]

The call letters were assigned that October. Unforeseen delays resulted in extensions being granted, pushing its actual sign-on date to 1968. Prior to sign-on, the station was granted pre-sunrise authority of 500 watts, which allowed it to sign on two hours before local sunrise, keeping its sign-on time consistent to 6:00 am daily. The call letters were previously used by a now defunct radio station in St. Helen, Michigan.

In 1969, George Benko, a Croswell resident, bought into Sanilac Broadcasting Company. He and his family still control the station today.

In 1971, WMIC-FM signed on the air, giving Sandusky radio listeners local service after sunset, but this would change six years later, when both entities would separate programming and WMIC-FM would become WTGV.

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Former logo

In 1987, WMIC moved to the stronger dial position of 660 kHz, but retained its same power values and daytime-only status.

In 2021, Sanilac Broadcasting added FM Translator W237EQ 95.3 FM. The addition of this translator allows WMIC to have 24-hour programming for the first time. 95.3 FM is not affected by WFAN New York, and Federal Communications Commission rules allow FM Translators to continue to broadcast, even if their parent station is of daytime only status.

Programming

WMIC features a full service radio station that consists of both local news and programming, as well as syndicated news talk programs weekday afternoons. The station also airs a classic country program weekday mornings from 9:00 a.m. to noon, as well as a popular long-running polka program on weekend afternoons.program on weekend afternoons.

Being a full service radio station, WMIC finds itself in competition with many area radio stations for listeners, including co-owned WBGV which has a 24 hour country format. Port Huron radio stations WSAQ (country) and WPHM (news-talk) compete with WMIC from the south. Other Thumb area stations with similar formats include WLEW in Bad Axe and WKYO in Caro.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WMIC". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ WMIC Coverage
  3. ↑ Broadcasting station license record
  4. ↑ "The Morning Fury".
  5. ↑ "The Dan Bongino Show".
  6. ↑ Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine - About Us
  7. ↑ "WMIC Programming Schedule".

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