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WMKG-CD is a low-powered television station on channel 49 (virtual channel 38) for Muskegon, Michigan. Its studio is located on Airline Road in the suburb Norton Shores, Michigan near the junction of I-96 and US 31. Owned by Kelley Enterprises, it is affiliated with The Family Channel.
WMKG-CD was founded by Bud Kelley and his family in 1989 as W40AK. It first went on the air on April 1, 1990. It originally broadcast on channel 40. The call letters were changed to WMKG-LP in 1995. It moved to channel 38 in 2004. In September 2006, Comcast cable dropped the station from its analog channel lineup to allocate more bandwidth for video on demand services. 1 Currently, the station is available on digital cable and broadcasting on 49, but displaying channel 38 through PSIP.
The station held LP calls until c. October 2009, when it acquired Class A television service status to become WMKG-CA. Despite the station's low-power status, its location near Lake Michigan assures amplification of their signal across the lake into the Milwaukee market within the Port Washington and Sheboygan areas (Milwaukee itself is served by analog low-power station WTSJ-LP on Channel 38). The station was issued its license for digital operation on October 10, 2014, at which point it changed its call sign to WMKG-CD.
The station has had several minor network affiliations throughout its history, and currently affiliates with The Family Channel; this is a duplicative affiliation within the Grand Rapids market, as WLLA (Channel 64) also carries that network over their 64.1 subchannel.