WAQP

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WAQP
City Saginaw, Michigan
Channels
BrandingTCT
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WTLJ
History
First air date
March 26, 1985(39 years ago) (1985-03-26)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 49 (UHF, 1985–2009)
  • Digital: 48 (UHF, 2006–2020)
TBN (1985–2007)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 67792
ERP 1,000 kW
HAAT 287 m (942 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 43°13′18″N84°3′14″W / 43.22167°N 84.05389°W / 43.22167; -84.05389
Links
Public license information
Website www.tct.tv

WAQP (channel 49) is a religious television station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan, United States, serving northeastern Michigan as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter is located near Chesaning, Michigan.

Contents

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WAQP [2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
49.1 1080i 16:9 WAQP HD TCT
49.2 480i SBN SBN
49.3ONTV4U OnTV4U (Infomercials)
49.4LAFF Laff
49.5CrtMyst Ion Mystery
49.6Grit Grit
49.7IONPlus Ion Plus [3]
49.8INFO CHInfomercials
49.10TrueCri True Crime Network
49.11GetTV get

Analog-to-digital conversion

WAQP ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 49, 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 remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48, [4] [5] using virtual channel 49. Its physical channel was later moved to 36.

Translators

WAQP previously operated a rebroadcaster on channel 27 in Lansing, which uses the callsign WLNM-LD . That channel was originally W69BJ (channel 69), but it relocated to channel 27 as W27CN in November 2003. Since July 2009, WLNM-LD has been broadcasting in digital-only format. The WLNM-LD digital broadcast uses the station's former analog channel 27 number, both in actual channel designation and via PSIP display, and mirrored the main WAQP broadcast. On February 14, 2020, TCT agreed to sell WLNM-LD to Gray Television for $175,000; [6] the sale, which was completed on May 1, [7] includes a lease agreement allowing TCT to program a WLNM subchannel for five years after closing (it was placed on the station's seventh subchannel). [8] WLNM-LD now operates as a translator of NBC affiliate WILX-TV (channel 10), and WILX-DT7 also carries TCT throughout the entire market as a side effect of the transaction.

WAQP also originally had a repeater serving Jackson, W59CA (channel 59), which was relocated to Ann Arbor in November 2000 and renamed W27CJ (channel 27), repeating a low-power TCT station in Detroit, WDWO-CD. In October 2007, W27CJ was sold to SMG Media Group for $80,000, with the intent on operating the channel as "WFHD-LP"; that station, however, would soon go silent altogether.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WAQP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for WAQP". www.rabbitears.info.
  3. ↑ Keys, Matthew (June 28, 2024). "Scripps replacing Defy TV with Ion Plus on broadcast TV". TheDesk.net. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
  4. ↑ "FCC.gov - Appendix B: All Full Power Television Stations by DMA, Indicating Those Terminating Analog Service on or before February 17, 2009" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "CDBS Print". licensing.fcc.gov.
  6. ↑ "Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low-Power Television Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
  7. ↑ "CDBS Print". licensing.fcc.gov.
  8. ↑ Digital Sub-Channel Lease Agreement
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