WDHC-LD

Last updated
WDHC-LD
City Dickson, Tennessee
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerR & F Communications, Inc.
WDKN
History
FoundedMarch 31, 1987 (1987-03-31)(in Lebanon, Kentucky; relocated to Dickson, Tennessee, in 2021) [2]
First air date
  • 1995;29 years ago (1995) (first incarnation in Lebanon, Kentucky)
  • April 2021;3 years ago (2021-04) (current incarnation in Dickson, Tennessee)
Last air date
March 15, 2021 (2021-03-15) (first incarnation)
Former call signs
  • W06AY (1987–2009)
  • W06AY-D (2009-2021)
Former channel number(s)
 Analog: 6 (1987-2009)
Technical information [3]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 70498
ERP 300 watts
HAAT 305 feet (93 m)
Transmitter coordinates 37°35′12″N85°12′15″W / 37.58667°N 85.20417°W / 37.58667; -85.20417
Links
Public license information
LMS
Webcast Watch Live
Website wdhc-tv11.com

WDHC-LD is a low-power television station that is licensed to and serving Dickson, Tennessee. It is affiliated with The Family Channel network, and it is owned by R & F Communications, Inc. of Dickson, Tennessee. It broadcasts on VHF channel 6.

Contents

The station's transmitter is located near Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee.

History

The Lebanon, Kentucky years

The station was founded at the time by W&H Broadcasting Company in 1987 and was licensed to and served Lebanon, Kentucky. The station would not sign on until 1995, when it began to carry programming from America One. [4] The station was initially owned by the management of WLBN radio, which operated the television station from the studios of WLBN/WLSK. [5]

Due to its very low power output of 300 watts (0.3 kW), the station's signal originally served all of Marion County, along with northern Taylor and Washington Counties, all of which is in the Louisville, Kentucky media market. [6] [7] On a clear day, the station could be picked up in western Boyle County, which is in the Lexington TV market.

On December 4, 1998, the station would be sold to B&B Management, the sale would be finalized a year later on January 5, 1999. [8] Eleven months later on December 20, 1999, the station would be sold to local businessman Gary White, and the sale would be finalized one month later on January 25, 2000. [9]

W06AY-D was also carried on Time Warner Cable systems in Marion and Washington Counties, as well as in Nelson County, which includes the Bardstown area when the station was in Lebanon. Until its 2021 closure of its Lebanon operations, the station was also a sponsor of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival.

Relocation to Dickson, Tennessee

On June 23, 2020, Gary White would sell W06AY to R & F Communications, Inc. of Dickson, Tennessee, led by Lori Reddon Forte (a native of Dickson) and her husband Kenneth Forte, the latter of which also owns local country music radio station WDKN. [10] Also with the sale of the station, R & F Communications announced that the station would relocate from Lebanon, Kentucky to Dickson, Tennessee, share studios with radio station WDKN, will begin to broadcast local sports, other local programming and will affiliate with The Family Channel (a network owned by Reach High Media Group) [11] and would change its call sign to WDHC-LD. [12] [13] [14] [15] The station went off the air on March 15, 2021, in preparations to relocate to its new broadcasting location of Dickson, Tennessee, and would officially change its callsign eleven days later on March 26, 2021. [16] [17]

Indiana news on a Tennessee station

On October 19, 2023, It was reported that R&F Communications co-owner and president, Kenneth Forte and Circle City Broadcasting owner, president, and CEO, DuJuan McCoy entered into an agreement to broadcast all news programming of Circle City's Indianapolis-based CW affiliate WISH-TV over the R&F-owned WDHC-LD, which will bring WISH's news content to an additional 1.7 million people. The new affiliation agreement is set to start on November 1, 2023. [18] With this agreement, WDHC will become one of five other non-local stations to carry WISH-TV's news programming, joining stations in Chicago, Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Louisville. [19]

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgramming
6.1 480i WDHC-LDMain WDHC-LD programming/The Family Channel
6.2 The Action Channel
6.3 WISH-TV news programming (beginning November 1)
6.4Silent (Coming Soon)
6.5

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References

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  2. ↑ Digital TV Market Listing for WDHC-LD RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WDHC-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ↑ "Application Search Details".
  5. ↑ Nash, Francis M. (1995). Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State (PDF). Host Communications Incorporated. pp. 320, 321. ISBN   9781879688933 – via World Radio History.
  6. ↑ "Google Maps".
  7. ↑ "Central Kentucky Television | Channel 6 TV".
  8. ↑ "Application Search Details".
  9. ↑ "Application Search Details".
  10. ↑ "Application Search Details". licensing.fcc.gov.
  11. ↑ "The Family Channel". Get After It Media.
  12. ↑ "Nashville DTV News & More". nashvilledtvnews.info.
  13. ↑ "WDKN owner plans TV station for Dickson".
  14. ↑ "New Dickson-based TV station begins broadcasting next month". The Tennessean.
  15. ↑ "Call Sign History".
  16. ↑ "Application Search Details".
  17. ↑ "Call Sign History".
  18. ↑ Miller, Mark (October 18, 2023). "WISH Indianapolis To Be Carried On WDHC-LD Dickson-Nashville". tvnewscheck.com. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  19. ↑ Stratton, Meghan (October 18, 2023). "WISH-TV adds WDHC-LD in Dickson / Nashville as news affiliate". WISH-TV. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
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