WYDN
WYDN, virtual channel 48 (UHF digital channel 33), is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station serving Boston, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire, United States that is licensed to Lowell, Massachusetts. The station 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 transmitter facilities with Concord, New Hampshire-licensed Ion Television owned-and-operated station WPXG-TV (channel 21) on Fort Mountain near Epsom, New Hampshire. On cable, WYDN is available on Comcast Xfinity digital channel 295 and on Verizon FiOS channel 25.
| Lowell/Boston, Massachusetts/ Manchester, New Hampshire United States | |
|---|---|
| City | Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Channels | Digital: 23 (UHF) (shared with WPXG-TV[1]) Virtual: 48 (PSIP) |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Daystar |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Word of God Fellowship, Inc. (Educational Public TV Corporation) |
| History | |
First air date | May 5, 1999 (in Worcester, Massachusetts; license moved to Lowell in 2018[2]) |
Former channel number(s) |
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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) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 18783 |
| ERP | 80.6 kW |
| HAAT | 342 m (1,122 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°11′4″N 71°19′10″W |
| Translator(s) | W40BO-D Boston |
| Links | |
Public license information | Profile LMS |
| Website | www |
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.[3] 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[4] and reached a channel sharing agreement with Ion Television O&O WPXG-TV;[1] it began broadcasting from WPXG's transmitter on April 23, 2018.[5] As WPXG's broadcasting radius does not cover Worcester, WYDN changed its city of license to Lowell, Massachusetts.[2]
Digital television
Analog-to-digital conversion
WYDN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 47.[7] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 48.
See also
References
- WYDN-WPXG-TV CSA
- WYDN Form 2100 - Community of License Change
- http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-990521.html
- "Here are the local TV stations selling their broadcast frequencies". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. April 13, 2017.
- "Explanation of Circumstances - Channel Share (WYDN)". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. April 20, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
- RabbitEars TV Query for WYDN
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.