Gerity Broadcasting Company Scholarship Endowment

James Gerity began broadcasting in the Mid-Michigan area when he purchased AM radio station WGRO in 1952. The station went off the air in 1953 when Mr. Gerity applied for a license to start a local TV station, which later became WNEM TV-5, going on the air on February 16, 1954 as an NBC affiliate. Gerity Broadcasting also owned a powerful local radio station, WGER-FM, originally on 102.5 FM. The call letters of that station took their roots in the original owner’s name (GERity). Gerity Broadcasting eventually sold WNEM to the Meredith Corporation in 1969