That same year, Makupson was hired by WGPR-TV, the nation's first African American owned television station, to anchor Big City News and the Detroit focused talk show Porterhouse.
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In 1985, Makupson co-anchored WKBD's Ten O'Clock News and later anchored Eyewitness News at 11 on WKBD's sister station, WWJ-TV.
As an example, new affiliates WDJT in Milwaukee and WGNX in Atlanta — both cities that are home to NASCAR races — and WWJ in Detroit, close to Michigan International Speedway, were on the UHF band (channels 14–69), meaning that they had a significantly reduced broadcast area compared to former affiliates WITI, WAGA-TV, and WJBK, respectively.
The Free Press entered a news partnership with CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV channel 62 in March 2009 to produce a morning news show called "First Forecast Mornings".
There are no AM Radio Stations in range of Mio, Michigan, although WWJ can be faintly heard during the nighttime.
The following year, he moved to Detroit to work for WJR Radio to call games for the NBA Detroit Pistons (1980–1981), and then to WWJ Radio in to call football and basketball for the University of Michigan from 1981–1987.
WXYT-FM, a radio station (97.1 FM) that was known as WWJ-FM from 1948 to 1981