Both outlets share studios at the Edgar L. Harden Learning Resource Center on the university's campus in Marquette; the television station's transmitter is located in Ely Township southwest of Ishpeming.

In most of the Eastern UP, cable or satellite are required to receive any PBS service; when the digital conversion took place in 2009, the Eastern UP lost terrestrial PBS service when WCMU satellite WCML in Alpena lowered its transmitter power for its digital broadcasts.

The future of WNMU radio and TV was threatened in recent years, as budget cuts led to a proposed sale or closure of the stations.

In 2012, a broadcast titled Mauvais Sort: Spellbound won a Good News Award for uplifting and excellent journalism.

[4] The station's signal is multiplexed: WNMU ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.