WYDN
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| City | Lowell, Massachusetts[a] |
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| Affiliations | Daystar |
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| Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (1999–2001) | |
Call sign meaning | backronym for "Your Daystar Network" (pre-dated ownership and existence of Daystar; call sign sequentially assigned by the FCC in 1989[3][b]) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| ERP | 80.6 kW |
| HAAT | 342 m (1,122 ft) |
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| Translator(s) | W26EU-D Boston |
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| Website | www |
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WYDN (channel 48) is a religious television station licensed to Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Daystar Television Network to the Boston area. It is owned by the Educational Public TV Corporation, a subsidiary of Daystar sister company Word of God Fellowship, Inc. WYDN's studios are co-located with those of local public access channel Dedham TV on Sprague Street in Dedham, and it shares spectrum with Concord, New Hampshire–licensed Ion Television station WPXG-TV (channel 21), transmitting from Fort Mountain near Epsom, New Hampshire.
History
The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1999, as an affiliate of Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (now God's Learning Channel) as a straight simulcast of KMLM in Odessa, Texas.[5] Originally licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, WYDN operated its analog transmitter atop Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton (a site which is and has been used by Worcester area FM and TV stations since FM pioneer Edwin Howard Armstrong erected the tower in the 1940s) until the June 12, 2009, digital transition; its digital transmitter operated from the WBZ-TV tower in Needham. By the early 2000s, the station switched to Daystar after it was acquired by its Word of God Fellowship, Inc. licensing subsidiary, and Daystar immediately pushed for successful must-carry carriage from local cable providers.
WYDN sold its frequency rights as part of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s 2017 spectrum incentive auction[6] and reached a channel sharing agreement with Ion Television O&O WPXG-TV;[2] it began broadcasting from WPXG's transmitter on April 23, 2018.[7] As WPXG's broadcasting radius does not cover Worcester, WYDN changed its city of license to Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]
Technical information
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Analog-to-digital conversion
WYDN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, 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. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 47, using virtual channel 48.[8]
See also
- Channel 33 digital TV stations in the United States
- Channel 48 virtual TV stations in the United States
- List of television stations in Massachusetts
- List of Daystar (TV network) affiliates
Notes
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- ^ Originally licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts; moved to Lowell in 2018.[1]
- ^ Other stations assigned call signs that same day include WYDC in Corning, New York, and WYDO in Greenville, North Carolina.
References
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- ^ a b WYDN Form 2100 - Community of License Change
- ^ a b WYDN-WPXG-TV CSA
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 23, 1989. p. 96. Template:ProQuest. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2023 – via World Radio History.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WYDN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."North East RadioWatch: May 21, 1999". www.bostonradio.org.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Here are the local TV stations selling their broadcast frequencies". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. April 13, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Explanation of Circumstances - Channel Share (WYDN)". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. April 20, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.
External links
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