WMLQ

WMLQ
City of license	Manistee, Michigan
Broadcast area
Branding	News 97 & 98
Frequency	97.7 MHz
Translator(s)	107.7 W299CB (Ludington)
First air date	1970 (as WMTE-FM)
Format	News/Talk (WLDN simulcast)
ERP	2,500 watts
HAAT	157 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	39787
Former callsigns	WVXM (1/17/95-6/1/06) WMTE-FM (3/25/91-1/17/95) WRRK (1980s-3/25/91) WMTE-FM (1970-1980s)
Owner	Todd Mohr (Synergy Lakeshore Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	WKLA, WKLA-FM, WKZC, WLDN, WWKR

WMLQ (97.7 FM, "News 97 & 98") is a radio station located in Manistee, Michigan broadcasting a news/talk format, simulcasting WLDN 98.7 FM Ludington.

The station began broadcasting in 1970 under the WMTE-FM call sign (the current WMTE-FM, at 101.5, is unrelated, but was a sister station of WMLQ for a short time in 2012 and 2013). In the 1980s, the station was WRRK, playing Top 40 music. From 1995 to 2006, the station simulcast WVXU in Cincinnati, Ohio as WVXM, an affiliate of the "X-Star Radio Network," which featured a variety of programs, including news, talk, jazz, and adult standards.

After WVXU was sold to the owners of classical station WGUC in Cincinnati, all of WVXA's former repeater stations were sold off to other owners; 97.7 FM was purchased by Synergy Media, owners of classic rock station WWKR in Hart, Michigan. Synergy Media has installed a commercial Soft AC/Oldies/Easy Listening format on 97.7 FM as "The Coast."

The WMLQ calls were formerly used in the 1980s and 1990s at an FM station in Rogers City, Michigan, which coincidentally also operated on the 97.7 FM frequency (it later moved to 96.7) and also played an AC format, under the name "Mello-Q." Also coincidentally, the original WMLQ in Rogers City later became WVXA, also an X-Star Radio Network affiliate; it is now WRGZ and simulcasts WATZ-FM, a commercial country music station in Alpena, Michigan.

On February 1, 2016 WMLQ switched to a simulcast of news/talk-formatted WLDN 98.7 FM Ludington.

Translators

Broadcast translators of WMLQ
Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	FCC info
W299CB	107.7	Ludington, Michigan	250	FCC

References

Michiguide.com - WMLQ History

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WMLQ

Radio-Locator information on WMLQ

News/Talk radio stations in the state of Michigan

All-news	WWJ – Detroit

Full-Time News-Talk	WABJ – Adrian WATT – Cadillac WBCK – Battle Creek WBRN – Big Rapids WCHT – Escanaba WDMJ – Marquette WHTC - Holland WILS – Lansing WIOS - Tawas City WJIM – Lansing WJML – Petoskey WJNL – Kingsley/Traverse City WJR – Detroit WJRW – Grand Rapids WKBZ – Muskegon WKHM - Jackson WKZO – Kalamazoo WLDN – Ludington WMIQ – Iron Mountain WMLQ - Manistee WMMI – Shepard/Mt. Pleasant WMKT – Charlevoix/Traverse City WOOD – Grand Rapids WOOD-FM – Muskegon WPNW – Zeeland WSGW – Saginaw WSJM – St. Joseph/Benton Harbor WTCM – Traverse City WTRC – Niles WWCK – Flint WXYT – Detroit WZTK – Alpena

Part-Time News-Talk	WMIC – Sandusky WMPL – Hancock/Houghton WPHM – Port Huron WQTX - St. Johns/Lansing WSGW-FM – Carrollton/Saginaw WDBC - Escanaba WSOO - Sault. Ste. Marie

Defunct	WATZ - Alpena WMTE - Mansitee WNEM - Bridgeport / Saginaw

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Michigan

Coordinates: 44°12′40″N 86°17′53″W / 44.211°N 86.298°W / 44.211; -86.298

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