197:. For many years, it was widely believed that WJMY never made it to the air at all except for a test signal consisting merely of a card displaying its calls and city-of-license in 1968. Additional research by Victor Edward Swanson and K. M. Richards in 2015, however, revealed this to be incorrect: WJMY was actually on the air for just over eight months, from October 7, 1962, to June 10, 1963. The station was the second to operate on channel 20 in southeastern Michigan; the channel had previously been home to
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channel 20 with little change in programming, for the $ 413,832 it had accumulated in out-of-pocket expenses. Land mobile interests pushed back against the sale, seeking that channel 20 be reassigned for their use in metro
Detroit. The FCC approved the move in June 1972, and WXON moved from channel 62 to channel 20, using the former WJMY construction permit, on December 9, 1972.
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January 1967, the paper stated it would air that fall, and after having missed that date, WJMY was said to be planned for a late 1968 debut. However, tests were made periodically of the new
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