WPAG-TV (channel 20) was a television station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, which operated from 1953 to 1957.
In later years, ABC provided such programs as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Sky King; the station also added a five-minute local newscast on weeknights, featuring WPAG radio's Dave Prince reading wire service copy.
Channel 20 even managed a ten-fold increase in power (to 17,500 watts) in late 1955, but there were still few UHF viewers in the expanded 30-to-40-mile (48–64 km) coverage radius around Ann Arbor.
[5] On December 31, 1957, WPAG-TV suspended operations after a failed attempt to get an allocation for Channel 12 in Flint, Michigan (apparently unaware that WJR radio in Detroit already held a construction permit for this frequency), with the ownership claiming to have lost $145,680 over the previous four years.
After WPAG's demise, Ann Arbor would not see another TV station for a generation; WUOM-TV, to be operated by the University of Michigan, was assigned a construction permit for Channel 26 in 1953, but never made it to the air.