The television station, currently owned and operated by the University of Michigan, would broadcast from Bay City to the metro Detroit area, Interim University President Kathy Wilbur said the board viewed it as an opportunity to significantly expand the university’s coverage into critical areas such as southeast Michigan.
“It allows us to expand academic programs on the behalf of CMU, especially through Prof Ed,” Wilbur said. “We’re so focused on our enrollment question and retention question, this gives us another avenue in which to pursue that.”
The Board met in special session today in the President’s Conference Room in the Bovee University Center to discuss the television station.
A purchase and interim management agreement will now be drafted so CMU can take over the station as soon as possible.
“This is very common in the broadcast world because of the normal delays in getting approval for a change in ownership through the FCC,” said Ed Grant, general manager for CMU Public Broadcasting.
WFUM is presently owned by the University of Michigan with a transmitter located in Goodrich MI, and has an application to move to channel 28 with 500,000 watts with an antenna at 258 meters (846 feet). The station is likely going to remain an PBS station under Central Michigan University ownership. Goodrich is WNW of Detroit, between Flint and Detroit. One change that probably will happen is a call sign change to better reflect the new ownership.
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