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| Broadcast area | Marquette County, Michigan |
| Frequency | 1320kHz |
| Branding | Marquette County's Greatest Hits |
| Programming | |
| Format | Oldies |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WCHT,WIMK,WJPD,WMIQ,WZNL | |
| History | |
First air date | 1931 (1931) (as WBEO) |
Former call signs | WBEO (1931–1939) |
Call sign meaning | Daily Mining Journal |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 24448 |
| Class | D |
| Power |
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| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | Greatest Hits 1320 WDMJ - Radio Results Network |
WDMJ (1320AM) is anoldies radio station licensed toMarquette, Michigan, with a power output of 5,000 watts during the day and 140 watts at night, covering much ofMarquette County, Michigan. The station is owned byArmada Media Corporation, through licensee AMC Partners Escanaba, LLC, doing business as theRadio Results Network and broadcasts from studios on Ridge Street in West Marquette.[2]
WDMJ has been broadcasting for nearly 100 years. It is the oldest radio station inMarquette County, Michigan and is the second oldest in theUpper Peninsula, only behindWCCY inHoughton.[3]
First known as WBEO, AM 1320 began broadcasting on July 2, 1931, later changing itscall sign to WDMJ on November 15, 1939,[4] with DMJ standing for theDaily Mining Journal, Marquette's daily newspaper. The newspaper would later add an FM station in 1966, known as WDMJ-FM, and would later becomeWHWL.[5]
The station's call sign also appeared on the Upper Peninsula's first television station. WDMJ-TV was launched in 1956 from studios on the top floor of theMining Journal building onWashington Street in Downtown Marquette, until it moved to Negaunee Township in 1964. The TV station was sold to the Post corporation, owners ofWLUK-TV inGreen Bay, Wisconsin in 1964, who changed the calls toWLUC-TV.[6]
On May 11, 2020, a fire broke out at the WDMJ transmitter site, causing a "Complete antenna failure," according to the station's Special Temporary Authority (STA) filing with theFederal Communications Commission.[7] The station requested to use a temporary long wire antenna and to reduce operations to 100 watts.
WDMJ's programming was simulcast on 1240WIAN, prior to July 30, 2020, when Sovereign Communications surrendered WIAN's license.[8]
In March 2022, WDMJ along withWJPD and several stations in Iron Mountain were sold to AMC Media Partners.[9] WDMJ's programming has been re-aligned to feature the same lineup of syndicated conservative talk radio as sister stationsWCHT andWMIQ.[10]
WDMJ resumed operation at full power of 5,000 watts during the day and 140 watts at night under a construction permit issued in November 2023 from a newly rebuilt tower on Tower Road inMarquette Township. The tower also house the antenna for the booster transmitter for sister stationWUPG[11] and low powered FM religious station WNOA.[12]
On July 1, 2024, WDMJ changed their format from conservative talk to oldies.[13]
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