In addition, WFQX's full-powered satellite WFUP in Vanderbilt served areas around greater Alpena although not in the city proper.
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The station first went on-the-air September 22, 1975 as the first of two stations in Alpena to sign-on that year (the other being WCMU-TV satellite WCML that launched in November).
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Syndicated programming on the station includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Ellen, and Dr. Phil among others.
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Owned by the Marks Radio Group, WBKB has studios on North Bagley Street in Alpena.
He was replaced as WNBQ anchor by Floyd Kalber in 1962; he then moved to ABC owned-and-operated WBKB-TV.
After spending a couple years at WBKB, Custer moved to WSMH, a Fox affiliate, near his hometown in Flint, Michigan, as both a reporter and a producer.
Goldenson, whose first-born daughter was born with cerebral palsy, co-founded United Cerebral Palsy in 1949 and used station WBKB (at the time owned by United Paramount Theatres) to be the flagship station for the inaugural UCP telethon that year.