KALAMAZOO, Mich. — News Channel 3/WWMT turned 75 Sunday and will kick off several months of special coverage looking back at the past 75 years Monday.
The station’s history dates to the early 1920s when the founder, John Fetzer, began his own experimental radio station at Emmanuel Christian College, now Andrews University, in Berrien Springs. Fetzer and a group of engineers turned to television shortly after WWDT, now WDIV, Detroit Channel 4, began broadcasting as Michigan’s first television station in the 1940s…