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Revision as of 03:13, 10 December 2013 by MrSchimpf (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) "WEMP" redirects here. For the Milwaukee radio station that held the WEMP calls from 1935-2004, see WSSP. For the New York station which held the WEMP calls from 2011-2012, see WFAN-FM. Radio station in Two Rivers, Wisconsin
WEMP
Broadcast areaManitowoc County and Sheboygan County
Frequency98.9 MHz
Ownership
Owner
  • Mark Heller
  • (Metro North Communications, LLC)
Sister stationsWGBW
History
First air dateDecember 7, 2013 (2013-12-07) (two day program test authority)
Call sign meaningHeritage call sign formerly used by WSSP Milwaukee
Technical information
Facility ID85300
ClassA
Power6 kW
ERP0.038 kW
HAAT89.4 m

WEMP (98.9 FM) is an FM radio station licensed to Two Rivers, Wisconsin that is currently silent as it attempts to acquire a transmitter site and their license to cover. The station covers the Manitowoc/Two Rivers market, along with eastern Sheboygan County, including Sheboygan. The station is owned by Mark Heller via Metro North Communications, LLC, which is the station's licensee. While the station goes through its PTA, its broadcast currently originates from the WLKN studios in Cleveland. The station has been proposed since 1996, going through three owners who failed to build the facilities before Heller's purchase of the license in 2013.

The station began broadcasting via program test authority on the evening of December 7, 2013 at 10pm, ended on December 9 at midnight, using an hour loop of easy listening music with some Christmas music mixed in, along with weather and sports updates and small talk from Heller, and station identifications done by WGN's Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong, along with several jingles from the original WEMP in Milwaukee; the WEMP call letters were coincidentally made available when the last holder in New York re-called their station in mid-2012. The PTA happened nine days ahead of the expiration of the station's construction permit after the station's original plan to build a new tower in Newton was rejected by the town board. The PTA was performed using the facilities of WLKN (98.1) just west of Newton, which went off the air to allow the PTA to go forward using their antenna and transmitter (and also streamed the PTA in full using their website), and ended with the signal re-tuned to 98.1 and WLKN's programming resuming as scheduled.

The station has an unactioned request to move the city of license to Howards Grove, north of Sheboygan, which is reflected in the on-air station identification as "WEMP, Two Rivers, Howards Grove".

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List of radio stations in Wisconsin
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