WSMH
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| City | Flint, Michigan |
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| WEYI-TV, WBSF | |
| History | |
First air date | January 13, 1985 |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 66 (UHF, 1985–2009) |
| Independent (1985–1986) | |
Call sign meaning | First names of the children of founding partner Harley G. Hunter |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 21737 |
| ERP | 245 kW |
| HAAT | 365.5 m (1,199 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°13′31″N 84°4′33″W / 43.22528°N 84.07583°W |
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| Website | midmichigannow |
WSMH (channel 66) is a television station licensed to Flint, Michigan, United States, serving northeastern Michigan as an affiliate of Fox and NBC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Saginaw-licensed WEYI-TV (channel 25); Sinclair also operates CW affiliate WBSF (channel 46) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Cunningham Broadcasting. The three stations share studios on West Pierson Road in Mount Morris Township; WSMH's transmitter is located on Amman Road northeast of Chesaning.
WSMH went on the air on January 13, 1985, as an independent station. Its first months on air were marked by a dispute over tower construction and a fire that kept the fledgling station off the air for more than a month. WSMH was sold in 1986 to Cincinnati businessman Gerald J. Robinson and affiliated with the new Fox network that year. Sinclair acquired it in 1996. In 2002, the station debuted its first local newscast, which was also the first to use Sinclair's partially centralized News Central format in which national segments and weather originated from a facility in Maryland. When News Central was wound down in 2006, WSMH instead began airing a 10 p.m. newscast from local CBS affiliate WNEM-TV.
Sinclair acquired Barrington Broadcasting in 2013 and assumed operational control, but not the licenses, of WEYI and WBSF. WEYI's newsroom assumed production responsibility for the 10 p.m. newscast two years later. On December 10, 2025, the NBC subchannel of WEYI moved to WSMH.