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6 unusual facts about Wausau


1969 in radio

WSAU-FM in Wausau, Wisconsin changes to Top 40 as WIFC, and continues with those calls and format nearly 40 years later.

ALCO RSC-2

The Milwaukee Road was the first railroad to take delivery of the RSC-2, initially assigning them to their Valley Division (headquartered near Wausau, Wisconsin) in November 1946.

Jeff Dellenbach

Jeffrey Alan Dellenbach (born February 14, 1963 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Johannes Nevala

On several occasions his art was included in the ”Birds in Art” exhibition arranged by Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Robert McRay

Robert McRay (born 1962, Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American television actor, sculptor, and personal trainer.

Wally Gilbert

In December 1938, Gilbert was signed as the player-manager of the Northern League franchise at Wausau, Wisconsin.


Dean G. Witter

Dean G. Witter (August 2, 1887, Wausau, Wisconsin – May 1969, San Francisco, California) was a U.S. businessman who co-founded Dean Witter & Company, which became the largest investment house on the West Coast.

Duey

Duey and Julia Wright House, Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home constructed in Wausau, Wisconsin in 1959

Herman Marth

Herman Arthur Marth (January 28, 1880 - March 11, 1970) was a chef, restaurateur, union organizer, and Socialist state legislator from Wausau, Wisconsin who served two terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, from 1918-1920.

Jerry Petrowski

Petrowski was born on June 16, 1950 in Wausau, Wisconsin and graduated from Newman High School before briefly attending UW–Marathon County and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.

NRG Media

With the exception of their stations in Omaha, Grand Island/Kearney, and Lincoln, Nebraska and Wausau-Stevens Point, Wisconsin, NRG owns properties in small or medium, unrated markets.

Russ Decker

Born in Athens, Wisconsin, Decker graduated from Athens High School, afterward attending Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin as an apprentice bricklayer.

WHRM

WHRM-TV, a television station at channel 20 licensed to Wausau, Wisconsin that is a member of the Wisconsin Public Television Network

Wisconsin Reporter

The publication also provides local coverage in the cities of Beloit, Chippewa, La Crosse, Kenosha, Eau Claire, Wausau and Stevens Point.

WJFW-TV

It can be seen on a digital translator, W27AU-D channel 27, in Wausau from a transmitter on Mosinee Hill southwest of the I-39/US 51/WIS 29 interchange.

WKQH

Licensed to Marathon, Wisconsin, USA, the station serves the Wausau-Stevens Point area.

WLBL

WLBL-FM, a radio station (91.9 FM) licensed to Wausau, Wisconsin, United States

WOZZ

In the late 1990s-early 2000s, it began simulcasting with its sister station WIZD 99.9 FM under the name "The Oldies Station;" this was done to allow the entire Wausau-Stevens Point radio market to be linked with one oldies station.

WSAU

WSAU-FM was until 1969 the callsign of WIFC (95.5 FM) licensed to Wausau, Wisconsin, United States

WSAW-TV

Channel 7 originally operated from the Plumer Mansion, a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building that was located on N. 5th St in Wausau and torn down in 1972, one year after the station moved to its current home.


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