WEIN-LD

WEIN-LD is a low-powered digital television station that is licensed to and serving Evansville, Indiana. The station is owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida, and it broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 40, which originates from a transmitter located near Chandler, Indiana.[1] The station is an affiliate of Cozi TV, the NBCUniversal-owned classic TV network.[2]

WEIN-LD
Evansville, Indiana
United States
ChannelsDigital: 40 (UHF)
Virtual: 40 (PSIP)
Programming
Subchannels40.1 Cozi TV
40.2 Escape
Ownership
OwnerDTV America Corporation
W27DH-D
History
FoundedSeptember 22, 2011
First air date
circa January 2016 (2016-01)
Former call signs
W40DH-D (2011–2015)
Silent (2011–2016)
Laff (2016)
Call sign meaning
W Evansville INdiana
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID187934
ERP15 kW
HAAT387 feet (118 m)
Transmitter coordinates38°1′26.6″N 87°21′43.2″W
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS

History

The station's construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission as W40DH-D on September 22, 2011.[3] The station changed its call letters the current WEIN-LD on June 8, 2015.[4] At some point in January 2016 the station signed on to provide the programming schedule of the Laff network, a Katz Broadcasting-operated comedy-oriented network involving several sitcoms and movies.[2] With WEIN-LD now on the air, it is DTV America's first-ever station based in the state of Indiana, and also holds the title of Evansville's newest television station. The station is also Laff's second affiliate in Indiana, the first being WRTV-DT3 of Indianapolis. WEIN-LD2, a second digital subchannel was also launched to serve as an Escape network affiliate. With both Laff and Escape available on WEIN, and Grit available on WFIE-DT3,[5] Evansville now offers all three Katz Broadcasting-operated multi-cast networks.

It is possible that the either the Doctor Television Channel (DrTV), the Sonlife Broadcasting Network, MundoMax (now defunct), Estrella TV, Soul of the South, or Buzzr could also be launched by WEIN-LD or an even newer station, W27DH-D, DTV America's other silent station in the market, in the near future as DTV America has acquired rights to launch affiliates of those aforementioned networks.[6][7] DrTV did have plans to affiliate with a station in Evansville after that network's initial launch in 2014.[8] DTV America also has rights to launch affiliates of Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV, but in the Evansville area, those two networks already have affiliation agreements with WTSN-CD and WEVV-DT2/WEEV-LD, respectively, the latter of which is also Evansville's Fox affiliate.[2]

Laff was launched over WEHT-DT2 in June 2016. As a result, Cozi TV replaced Laff on the main channel in December 2016.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
40.1 480i 4:3 WEIN-LD Cozi TV
40.2 Court TV Mystery

References
  1. Service contour map for WEIN-LD (Bing Maps)
  2. Rabbirears.Info -- Digital TV Market Listing for WEIN-LD
  3. https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=187934
  4. https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=187934&Callsign=WEIN-LD
  5. Find Us - Grit - Television with Backbone
  6. Query on DTV America (from RabbitEars.Info)
  7. ”Programming.” DTVAmerica.com.
  8. Affiliates - DRTV ChannelDRTV Channel
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