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WBUP
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| WBUP | |
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| Ishpeming/Marquette, Michigan | |
| City of license | Ishpeming, Michigan |
| Branding | ABC 10 |
| Channels | Analog: 10 (VHF) Digital: 11 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Stephan Marks (Lake Superior Community Broadcasting Corporation) |
| Founded | October 28, 1996 (as WBKP) August 1997 (as W28BX) 2003 (as WBUP) |
| Call letters meaning | W Beautiful Upper Peninsula |
| Sister station(s) | WBKP |
| Transmitter Power | 133 / 100 kW |
| Website | www.wbuptv.com |
WBUP (Channel 10) is a television station licensed to Ishpeming, Michigan and serving Marquette and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as an affiliate of the ABC television network. The station signal was formerly simulcast on WBKP in the Western U.P. until July 2007.
WBUP's transmitter is located at WNMU's tower, 25 miles west of Marquette in Ely Township.
The station began operations on October 28, 1996 as WBKP, affiliated with ABC. (Monday Night Football was their first televised program.) In 1997, the station began airing weekday newscasts at 6pm and 11pm, with Dick Reynolds as news anchor.
Shortly thereafter, in August 1997, the station set up a repeater station in Marquette, W28BX. The low power repeater's over-the-air signal was very weak and could only be picked up in the city of Marquette and Negaunee.
In 2001, the station moved its studios from their old home in Calumet, to the Marquette Mall. However, in March 2002, the station dropped its local newscasts, due to low ratings and budget cuts. In January 2003, the station replaced its low-power repeater with a full-power satellite, WBUP channel 10 in Ishpeming, Michigan, and the stations took the branding "ABC 5 & 10."
In January 2004, original owner Tom Scanlon sold both WBKP and WBUP to Lake Superior Community Broadcasting, a company owned by Stephan Marks of Maryland. Shortly afterward, a new newscast, UGN News (with "UGN" meaning "Upper Great Lakes News Network"), debuted, originating from WBUP and sister station WBKB-TV in Alpena, featuring news from the entire Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan regions. (In addition to WBKP, WBUP, and WBKB, Marks also owns KYUS-TV in Miles City, Montana and KXGN-TV in Glendive, Montana.)
In July 2007, the two stations split. WBUP in Ishpeming is now carrying ABC programming as "ABC 10" including UGN News; WBKP in Calumet is now carrying programming from The CW Plus as "CW 5".
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WJMN 3 (CBS) - WBKP 5 (The CW) - WLUC 6 (NBC) (The Tube on DT3) - WDHS 8 (Infomercials) - WBUP 10 (ABC) - WNMU 13 (PBS) - WMQF 19 (Fox) - W40AN 40 (Fox) |
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WXYZ 7 Detroit • WBUP 10 Ishpeming/Marquette • WJRT 12 Flint • WZZM 13 Grand Rapids • WGTU 29 1 Traverse City • WGTQ 8 1 Sault Ste. Marie • WOTV 41 Battle Creek • WLAJ 53 Lansing |
| See Also: CBS, The CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Michigan |