Whois & Analysis for wdio.com

WDIO-DT (digital channel 10) is the ABC and MeTV-affiliated television station for north-central and northeastern Minnesota, and northwestern Wisconsin.

The station is licensed to Duluth, Minnesota, and its studios and transmitter are located on Observation Road in Duluth.

Iron Range refers collectively or individually to a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada.

Despite the word "range," the iron ranges are not mountain chains, but outcrops of Precambrian sedimentary formations containing high percentages of iron.

These cherty iron ore deposits are Precambrian in age for the Vermilion Range, while middle Precambrian in age for the Mesabi and Cuyuna Ranges.

Similarly, the Gogebic Range in Wisconsin and the Marquette Iron Range and Menominee Range in Michigan.

Natural ores and concentrates were produced from 1848 until the mid 1950s, when taconites and jaspers were concentrated and pelletized started to become the major source of iron production.

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north.

Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous.

The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan.

The state is divided into 72 counties.

The Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin, are located at the western part of Lake Superior (the westernmost of North America's Great Lakes) and together are considered the largest freshwater port in the world.

They are twin cities and seaports, connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

The Twin Ports are at the core of the U.S. Census Bureau's "Duluth, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area", which includes all of Wisconsin's Douglas County, and Minnesota's Carlton and Saint Louis counties.

With a 2010 census population of 279,771, the Duluth MSA ranked as the 165th largest metropolitan area in the United States.

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake".

Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area (the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River).

Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.