War Production Board halted the manufacturing of television and radio broadcasting equipment for civilian use from April 1942 to August 1945, in order for such equipment to be allocated for use by the military during World War II. However, the company's television plans were suspended when the U.S. The Journal Company obtained one of the first construction permits issued by the FCC for a commercial television station on December 7, 1941, under the call letters WMJT (for " Milwaukee Journal Television"), and built a new broadcast facility to transmit its signal by August 1942. No publicly announced television programming was broadcast by W9XD during this experimental period.
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Its license was withdrawn by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1938 as part of an effort to limit broadcast licenses to stations that would actively engage in the development of television. The experimental station used a low-definition electromechanical system to transmit its signal, and conducted field tests from 1931 to 1933 in 1934, Journal converted W9XD's facilities to experimental high-fidelity apex radio unit W9XAZ in 1934. The Journal Company (owner of the Milwaukee Journal, which was consolidated with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1995 to become the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) was granted its first television station license in September 1931 for W9XD. ( May 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. In January 2021, it became a sister station to WPXE-TV, after Ion and its stations were purchased by Scripps WPXE-TV currently operates out of separate studios in Glendale, Wisconsin, though it had been operated from the WTMJ-TV studios under a joint sales agreement (JSA) from 2000 to 2005. The radio stations are now owned by Good Karma Brands, but continue to share studios and some operations (including a long-term weather forecasting agreement and engineering staff) with Scripps and WTMJ-TV Good Karma's WAUK (540 AM) moved to Radio City in 2019 to consolidate their local operations. WTMJ-TV's studios are located on Capitol Drive (WIS 190) in Milwaukee (an Art Deco facility that is known as "Radio City", in tribute to the New York complex of the same name), and its transmitter is located approximately four miles (6.4 km) north of downtown Milwaukee.įrom its inception until October 31, 2018, WTMJ-TV was a sister station to WTMJ radio (620 AM) and WKTI (94.5 FM).
Scripps Company alongside Kenosha-licensed Ion Television station WPXE-TV (channel 55). WTMJ-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with NBC.
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