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Full-power digital · channel 8 · MARQUETTE, MI
| Facility ID | 4318 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | BOARD OF TRUSTEES, NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY |
| Community of licence | MARQUETTE, MI
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 46.35278, -87.85417 |
| Effective radiated power | 15.5 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 769.7 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://wnmutv.nmu.edu/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W14EM-D | 14 | LPT | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| W17FD-D | 17 | LPD | |
| WZMQ | 19 | DTV | WZMQ, LLC |
| W21FE-D | 21 | LPT | |
| W25GN-D | 25 | LPD | |
| W27EY-D | 27 | LPT | |
| WLUC-TV | 35 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WNMU | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WNMU | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.