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MacDonald Broadcasting is a privately held radio broadcasting company in Michigan owned by Kenneth MacDonald, Jr. The family-owned broadcasting group is headquartered in Saginaw and owns eight radio stations across Mid-Michigan , including stations in the Tri-Cities and Lansing markets.
In October 1994, the MacDonald Broadcasting Company applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station. After this and several other applications were "frozen" while the FCC determined how to allocate these permits, an auction was finally held in July 2010 in which MacDonald Broadcasting prevailed. [3]
The Lansing Broadcasting Company, original owners of WILS, made two attempts to enter the world of television. The first was an unsuccessful UHF station, WILS-TV, which began broadcasts in 1953. A year later, the company leased it to another group, under which it operated as WTOM-TV until its 1956 demise.
MacDonald Broadcasting Company: Soft adult contemporary WSAM: 1400 AM: Saginaw: The MacDonald Broadcasting Company: Soft adult contemporary WSAQ: 107.1 FM: Port Huron:
In 2006, MacDonald Broadcasting purchased WXLA and sister station 96.5 WQHH for $3.65 million. MacDonald switched from the urban adult contemporary format (as "Mix 1180") to ABC Radio 's " Timeless " (formerly known as "Stardust") Middle of the Road / Oldies /Adult Standards format in October 2006.
The station, owned by MacDonald Garber Broadcasting, Inc. airs the Fox Sports Radio format of sports. WMBN went on the air in April 1947 and is the oldest continuously operating radio station still on the air in Petoskey, though its claim of being "Petoskey's first radio station" is technically incorrect since it was preceded on the air by the ...
WKCQ (98.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan, and broadcasting on 98.1 mHz with an effective radiated power of 50,000 watts.The station has broadcast a popular country music format since 1968 (the country format began under the station's original calls of WSAM-FM).
The station started broadcasting from its new home, Biederman's Radio Centre building in downtown Traverse City, in 2002. The building also houses Ross Biederman's other properties, WCCW-AM-FM (along with recent sign-on WCZW-FM 107.9 Charlevoix , which simulcasts WCCW-FM "Oldies 107-5") and Top 40 WJZQ 92.9 FM (Z93).