WXON-LP

WXON-LP was an independent low-power television station in Flint, Michigan. It is not to be confused with the former WXON-TV, which is now WMYD, the MyNetwork TV affiliate for Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario—the station's owners, P&P Cable Holdings, got the WXON calls shortly after that station became WDWB—then of which becoming WMYD. P&P is known for picking up calls no longer used by Michigan's TV and radio stations and reusing them for their own LPTV properties.

WXON-LP
Flint, Michigan
ChannelsAnalog: 54 (UHF)
Programming
AffiliationsDefunct
Ownership
OwnerP & P Cable Holdings
History
FoundedDecember 22, 1999
Last air date
January 10, 2012 (cancellation)
Former call signs
W54DA (1999-2003)
Independent
Technical information
ERP100 W
Translator(s)9 (VHF) W09CK

The station broadcast on channel 54, but did not cover all of Flint. The station broadcast at 100 watts from a transmitter on Dort Highway (M-54), covering a small area to the southeast of Mount Morris. It had a construction permit to increase power to 150 kW from a location near Otisville, which would have covered Flint and northwestern Genesee County with its directional beam; however, the construction permit expired in February 2008, and was not renewed.

The station had a translator station, W09CK, which covers part of the north side of Flint at 85 watts; this translator is still in operation.

Since the DTV transition in the United States did not affect low power stations, WXON-LP never applied to broadcast in digital.

The actual date of the station's closure is unknown; the license for WXON-LP was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission in January 2012.


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