The WWJ Building (Oak Park, Michigan)

USA / Michigan / Oak Park / Oak Park, Michigan / West 8 Mile Road (M-102), 12700
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This historical building was once used for the studios of radio station WWJ. The transmitter tower to the north remains in use by various television stations.

The building was designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn and built in 1936 for the Scripps family, which owned WWJ and The Detroit News, from whose offices the station originally aired its broadcasts. The station went on the air on Aug. 20, 1920 and was known by the call signal 8MK until 1921. The transmitter building shuttered in 1995.

There are plans to convert it into a new restaurant named "8MK", the original experimental callsign for WWJ Newsradio 950.

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Coordinates:   42°26'45"N   83°10'22"W
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