NF8M Photo Gallery / Broadcast Towers / Ann Arbor, Mich., area broadcast sites / WTKA, 10 kW-D, 0.5 kW-N, DA-2, Ann Arbor

WTKA, 10 kW-D, 0.5 kW-N, DA-2, Ann Arbor

Four tower array
Tower 3 base and isocoupler
Array
Two-way antenna
Transmitter building
Unused doghouse and antenna base
ASR number sign

WTKA moved to this site in 1993. Originally WPAG (for founders Paul and Arthur Greene), the station first went on the air in 1945 from a transmitter site near Maple and Scio Church Roads. In 1962, around the time that Interstate 94 was built through the area, a new site on a hillside on Waters Road near Saline Road south of Ann Arbor went on the air with a three-tower DA at 5 kW. In 1967, WPAG-FM (107.1) went on the air with the antenna side-mounted on one of the elements of the directional. Commercial interests purchased the Waters Road site, valuable for its proximity to the I-94 freeway interchange and rapidly developing residential construction, for retail development in the 1990s and the station owners moved the AM to the present Stony Creek Road site. The FM, now WQKL, was moved to the top of the 27-story Tower Plaza, the tallest building in downtown Ann Arbor.

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