WDTI

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WDTI
Channels
BrandingDaystar
Programming
Affiliations
  • 69.1: Daystar
  • 69.2: Daystar Español
  • 69.3: Daystar Reflections
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
June 8, 1988(36 years ago) (1988-06-08)
Former call signs
  • WBUU (1988–1991)
  • WTBU (1991–2004)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 69 (UHF, 1988–2009)
  • Digital: 44 (UHF, until 2019)
Call sign meaning
"Daystar Television Indianapolis"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 7908
ERP 18.2 kW
HAAT 293 m (961 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 39°53′39.2″N86°12′20.5″W / 39.894222°N 86.205694°W / 39.894222; -86.205694
Links
Public license information
Website www.daystar.com

WDTI (channel 69) is a religious television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network through its subsidiary Indianapolis Community Television. WDTI's offices are located on Crawfordsville Road in northwestern Indianapolis (near Speedway), and its transmitter is located on Walnut Drive, also on the city's northwest side (near Meridian Hills). Daystar also separately operates a low-power television station in Indianapolis, WIPX-LD (channel 51).

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History

Channel 69 first signed on the air on June 6, 1988, as WBUU, an educational independent station founded by Butler University. It changed its call letters to WTBU in 1991.

In 1992, WTBU joined PBS as its fourth member station in the Indianapolis market—after WFYI (channel 20), Bloomington-based WTIU (channel 30) and Muncie-licensed WIPB (channel 49); through PBS' Program Differentiation Plan, a fraction of the network's programming was distributed between all four stations, with WFYI carrying most of PBS' programs as the primary PBS outlet for the market. In 2004, Butler University sold WTBU to Indianapolis Community Television, Inc., an arm of the Daystar Television Network. The new owners began carrying programming from the religious broadcast network.

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannels of WDTI [2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
69.1 1080i 16:9 WDTI-DT Daystar
69.2 720p WDTI-ESDaystar Español
69.3 480i WDTI-SDDaystar Reflections

Analog-to-digital conversion

WDTI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 69, on November 10, 2008. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 69. [3]

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WDTI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "RabbitEars TV Query for WDTI". RabbitEars.info . Retrieved January 5, 2025.
  3. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.