Wausau Wire Footprint Media Landscape

The City Pages owner is not stated on the outlet's own site; Wikipedia's list names an individual, and the roster files it as MMC-owned.

shawanoleader.com no longer belongs to the newspaper: all 2,990 sitemap URLs were sponsored SEO posts at probe. Wikipedia's list still names Capital Newspapers/Lee Enterprises as the Leader's owner, which conflicts with the live NEW Media footer.

No Hmong-community news outlet with an online archive was found in the footprint; the Hmong American Center site posts events and staff pages only and wnrb.org did not resolve at probe.

Wausau Pilot & Review describes itself as an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom serving central Wisconsin.

Wausau Pilot & Review launched in March 2017.

Wausau Pilot & Review received its first major gift, $50,000 from the White Family Foundation, in February 2017.

Wausau Pilot & Review is digital only: it distributes original content through its website and social media, and does not endorse candidates or publish unsigned institutional editorials.

Wausau Pilot & Review is a member of LION Publishers, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Wausau Pilot & Review's office is at 235 Forest St. #117, Wausau.

The Wausau Pilot & Review site offers a language menu with English, Hmong, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Wausau Pilot & Review's sitemap index holds 51 post sitemaps (about 51,000 URLs) reaching back to January 2017.

WSAW-TV (digital channel 7) is licensed to Wausau; the licensee is Gray Television Licensee, LLC.

WSAW describes itself as a Gray Local Media station, and Gray Media lists WSAW as its station for the Wausau-Rhinelander market.

WSAW-TV first went on the air on October 24, 1954, originally as WSAU-TV (call sign used 1954 to 1981).

WSAW's subchannels carry CBS (7.1), MyNetworkTV/MeTV (7.2), Fox as 'Fox WZAW' (7.3) and The CW (7.4).

WZAW-LD (low-power channel 33, Wausau) is also licensed to Gray Television Licensee, LLC.

WAOW (digital channel 9) is licensed to Wausau; the licensee is Wausau TV License Company, LLC.

The WAOW website footer names Allen Media Broadcasting at 1908 Grand Ave, Wausau.

WAOW first went on the air on May 7, 1965, and is the ABC affiliate on channel 9.1.

WSAU (550 kHz AM, Wausau) is licensed to WRIG, Inc.; WSAU-FM (99.9 MHz) is licensed to Rudolph, WI, also to WRIG, Inc.

WSAU is heard on 550 AM in Wausau, 95.1 FM in Wausau and 99.9 FM Stevens Point.

WSAU's format is talk radio with Fox News Radio as its network; it first aired August 8, 1948.

Midwest Communications, Inc., owner of WSAU, is headquartered at 904 Grand Ave., Wausau, and describes itself as a family-owned company with 81 radio stations serving nine states since 1958.

WRIG, Inc. holds licenses for WSAU, WRIG (1390 AM, Schofield), WIFC (95.5 FM), WDEZ (101.9 FM) and WOZZ (94.7 FM, Mosinee) in Marathon County, plus WSAU-FM.

Wisconsin Public Radio traces its origin to UW's 9XM, which as WHA began broadcasting to the public in 1917.

WPR runs news bureaus in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Wausau, La Crosse, Eau Claire and Superior, and says its 39 stations reach about 330,000 listeners a week.

In Wausau, WHRM 90.9 FM carries the WPR News network and WLBL 91.9 FM carries WPR Music.

WHRM-FM, WLBL-FM, WLBL (930 AM, Auburndale) and WHRM-TV (channel 24, Wausau) are licensed to the State of Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.

98.9 WXCO is Civic Media's Wausau station, on 98.9 FM and 1230 AM, with studios at 301 North 3rd St, Wausau.

Civic Media, Inc. is the licensee of WXCO (1230 AM, Wausau), WFHR (1320 AM, Wisconsin Rapids), WIRI (105.5 FM, Nekoosa) and translators W255DN (98.9, Wausau) and W248DE (97.5, Wisconsin Rapids).

The City Pages, a Wausau paper, describes itself as online daily and weekly in print.

The City Pages footer lists Antigo Times, Hub City Times, Merrill Foto News, Stevens Point Gazette and Wausau Times as "our other local newspapers"; The City Pages site is powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions.

Hub City Times (Marshfield), Merrill Foto News, Tomahawk Leader, Antigo Times and Wisconsin Rapids City Times all run on Creative Circle Media Solutions, and each footer lists some of the others under "Our other local newspapers". Wikipedia lists Hub City Times under Multi Media Channels, LLC (MMC).

The Tomahawk Leader's footer lists Antigo Times, Merrill Foto News, Northwoods Star Journal and Wausau Times as sister papers. Wikipedia's list calls it independent, which the live footer contradicts.

Wikipedia's list names USA Today Co. as owner of Merrill Foto News, but the paper's own site runs on Creative Circle and cross-lists MMC sister papers.

stevenspoint.news, the Stevens Point Gazette domain, now redirects to waupacanow.com, a Multimedia Channels (MMC) site whose /stevens-point/ section carries Stevens Point stories.

centralwinews.com hosts five papers: The Record-Review (Athens, Edgar, Marathon, Stratford), the Tribune-Phonograph (Abbotsford, Colby, Dorchester, Unity, Curtiss, Milan), the Tribune Record Gleaner (Loyal, Spencer, Greenwood, Granton), The Star News (Medford) and the Courier Sentinel.

The Tribune-Phonograph and The Record-Review were bought by their current owning family in 1971, which started the Central Wisconsin Shopper in 1981.

The Tribune Record Gleaner was formed in 1969 by combining the Loyal Tribune, the Spencer Record and the Greenwood Gleaner (serving the area since 1894), and was bought by the centralwinews.com publisher in 2011.

The first newspaper in Taylor County, the Taylor County News, was published March 31, 1875; the Star News traces its history to it.

Wikipedia's newspaper list names TP Printing as owner of the Tribune-Phonograph, The Record Review and the Star News.

The centralwinews.com sitemap froze in December 2020, so the four footprint papers are crawled through /news-source/{paper}/page/N/ listings.

The Point/Plover Metro Wire was founded in November 2017.

The Point/Plover Metro Wire sells digital subscriptions at $7.99 a month or $85 a year.

NEW Media Inc. publishes Shawano-area news at newmedia-wi.com from 1464 E. Green Bay St., Shawano. The internal roster identifies it as the home of the Shawano Leader and the Wittenberg Enterprise & Birnamwood News (unverified).

The Antigo Daily Journal publishes from 612 Superior Street, Antigo, on the BLOX (TownNews) platform.

Wikipedia's newspaper list names Adams Publishing Group as owner of the Antigo Daily Journal; the newsletter sender domain on the outlet site (adamspg-email.com) is consistent with that.

Central Wisconsin Broadcasting (Neillsville) runs 107.5 WCCN, 92.7 WPKG and 1370 WCCN, and calls itself family-owned radio serving all of central Wisconsin.

Central Wisconsin Broadcasting's studios are in the Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.

Central Wisconsin Broadcasting, Inc. holds FCC licenses for WCCN (1370 AM), WCCN-FM (107.5), WPKG (92.7), WDLB (1450 AM, Marshfield) and WOSQ (92.3, Spencer).

WDLB (1450 AM / 98.7 FM, Marshfield) is a Central Wisconsin Broadcasting station with its own news, obituary and community pages.

The Clark County Press site went dormant; its newest RSS item at the roster probe was dated January 10, 2024.

TCH Daily News is the Shawano County newsroom of Results Broadcasting (WTCH 960 AM and sister stations).

Results Broadcasting Inc. holds licenses for WTCH (960 AM, Shawano), WOWN (99.3 FM, Shawano), WATK (900 AM, Antigo) and WACD (106.1 FM, Antigo).

K99 WKEB (99.3 FM) and WIGM (1490 AM) serve Medford; both are licensed to WIGM, Incorporated/WIGM, Inc.

Bluejay 96.3 FM / 730 AM brands itself as Merrill's hometown voice; WJMT (730 AM) and translator W242CZ (96.3) are licensed to Sunrise Broadcasting LLC.

WJFW-TV (Newswatch 12, Rhinelander) is owned by Northland Television, LLC and covers the Lincoln and Langlade edge.

WNRB-LP (93.3 FM, Wausau), the footprint's one Hmong-community station, is licensed to the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Association.

The Wausau Daily Herald traces its roots to the Torch of Liberty (1875) and became the Wausau Daily Record-Herald in 1907.

Wikipedia lists the Wausau Daily Herald's owner as USA Today Co. (Gannett's USA TODAY Network).

Gannett announced the closure of the Wausau Daily Herald's Wausau printing plant in 2017 and announced the sale of its Scott Street offices in August 2021.

The Wausau Daily Herald was a 1985 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Journalism for a special section on Wausau's Hmong refugee community.

The Stevens Point Journal was founded in 1853 as the Wisconsin Lumberman, renamed in 1872, sold to Thomson in 1997 and to Gannett in 2000.

Wikipedia's list names USA Today Co. as owner of the Marshfield News-Herald and the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune as well as the Wausau and Stevens Point dailies.

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The Pointer, UW-Stevens Point's student newspaper, returned HTTP 403 to WausauWireBot on its home page and robots.txt at probe.

WTPX-TV (channel 19, Antigo) is licensed to ION Television License, LLC; WMEI (channel 31, Shawano) is licensed to WMEI-TV Limited Partnership.

Muzzy Broadcast Group, LLC holds licenses for WSPT (97.9 FM) and WPCN (1010 AM) in Stevens Point; the group's web presence carries no local news archive.

The FCC records sealed for the footprint list 95 currently licensed broadcast facilities (FM, FM translator, low-power FM, AM, TV and low-power TV) with a community of license inside the eight counties.

Wausau Wire's news roster counts 28 active publisher plans, 2 parked and 20 excluded across the eight counties.