WGTU

WGTU in Traverse City, Michigan, and WGTQ in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, collectively branded ABC 29&8, are television stations serving as the ABC affiliates for the northern Lower and eastern Upper peninsulas of Michigan. They are owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, alongside NBC affiliates WPBN-TV and WTOM-TV. The stations share studios on M-72 just west of Traverse City; WGTU's transmitter is located east of Kalkaska, Michigan, and WGTQ's transmitter is near Goetzville in southeastern Chippewa County, in addition to simulcasts on WPBN-TV and WTOM-TV's transmitters. The two stations, together known with WPBN/WTOM as "UpNorthLive", carry the same programming and serve one of the largest television markets east of the Mississippi River.