Three Goals: (1) Facilitate online collaboration events after each local broadcast (more).
(2) Select local small businesses to be listed and prioritized for articles and productions.
(3) Links to support and services to help sustain and grow local small businesses.
 
Michigan
Population: 10 Million (go to US Census data)
Small Businesses: 750,000
Targeted Viewers: 550,000 per week (go to broadcasts)
Targeted profiles: 7500 owners (go to The List)



Small Business Resources by DMA
Designated Market Area -- the broadcast
reach of each PBS-member station

Small Business Advocates: These pages of listings are for small business advocate within the PBS-member stations within the State of Michigan. If you help small businesses to be successful and you are not listed, please advise us.

  • Economic Development Corporation
    By Designated Market Areas     (stations where we will propose locally-produced episodes)
    • Alpena: WCML-TV (See Mount Pleasant)
    • Bad Axe / Ulby: WDCP-TV (See University Center)
    • Cadillac: WCMV-TV (See Mount Pleasant)
    • Detroit: WTVS-TV (3) Detroit Educational Television Foundation
    • East Lansing: WKAR-TV (1) Michigan State University
    • Flint / Saginaw / Bay City: WFUM-TV (2) University of Michigan - Flint
    • Grand Rapids: WGVU-TV (1) Grand Valley State University
    • Kalamazoo: WGVK-TV (See Grand Rapids)
    • Manistee: WCMW-TV (See Mount Pleasant)
    • Marquette: WNMU-TV (1) Northern Michigan University
    • Mount Pleasant WCMU-TV (2) Central Michigan University
      (52 counties in central and northern Michigan)
    • Traverse City: W46AD-TV (See Mount Pleasant)
    • University Center: WDCQ-TV (1) Delta College
      13 county area includes Arenac, Bay, Genesee, Gladwin, Gratiot, Huron, Iosco, Isabella, Midland, Ogemaw, Saginaw, Shiawassee and Tuscola.
Additional small business resources:
We invite your questions or comments.