Organizations WVGR (Radio station : Grand Rapids, Mich.)

WVGR

Michigan Radio is a network of four FM public radio stations (WUOM/Ann Arbor, WFUM/Flint, WVGR/Grand Rapids, and WRSX/Port Huron) in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan operated by the University of Michigan through its broadcasting arm, Michigan Public Media. The network is a founding member of National Public Radio and an affiliate of Public Radio International, American Public Media, and BBC World Service. Its main studio is located in Ann Arbor, with satellite studios in Flint and offices in Grand Rapids. It currently airs news and talk, which it has since July 1, 1996. WUOM (91.7 FM) in Ann Arbor is the flagship station of Michigan Radio, broadcasting with a 93,000 watt transmitter from a 237 meters (778 ft) tower near Pinckney. The University of Michigan applied to the FCC on September 11, 1944, for a station at 43.1 FM (part of a band of frequencies used for testing of Frequency Modulation) with a power of 50,000 watts. At the time an assignment on the new FM band was seen as a significant disadvantage. Read more at Wikipedia...

Inception: 1960

Owned by: University of Michigan
Website:  http://www.michiganradio.org/ 
Associated Place(s): Grand Rapids, Michigan

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