WEPT-CD

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WEPT-CD
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerVenture Technologies Group, LLC
History
FoundedJanuary 24, 1996
First air date
December 1997(26 years ago) (1997-12)
Former call signs
  • W39CE (1997–1998)
  • WVBX-LP (1998–2002)
  • WVBX-CA (2002–2003)
  • WNYA-CA (2003–2013)
  • WEPT-CA (2013–2014)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 39 (UHF, 1997–2003), 15 (UHF, 2003–2014)
  • Digital: 22 (UHF, 2014–2020)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 30429
Class CD
ERP 15 kW
HAAT 200.6 m (658 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°57′39″N73°55′21″W / 40.96083°N 73.92250°W / 40.96083; -73.92250 (WEPT-CD)
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Public license information

WEPT-CD (channel 15) is a low-power, Class A television station in Peekskill, New York, United States, affiliated with Jewelry Television. The station is owned by Venture Technologies Group.

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History

The station originated on January 24, 1996, [2] as a construction permit for W02CJ, [3] which was to have operated on channel 2 in Manchester, Vermont, from a tower at the studios of radio station WJAN (95.1 FM, now WVTQ). [2] However, that facility was never built, and later that year owners Ronald and Jan Morlino, who also owned WJAN, transferred W02CJ to Vision 3 Broadcasting, [4] [5] which on May 9, 1997, modified the permit to instead serve Easton, Glens Falls, Hudson Falls, and Saratoga Springs on channel 39 from Willard Mountain, [6] making the station W39CE. [3] The station was designed to be a repeater of WVBG-LP (channel 25) from Albany; however, when channel 39 signed on in December 1997 as an independent station, it was the first of Vision 3's three stations to launch, [7] ahead of W49BU (channel 49, later renamed WVBK-LP; now WHNH-CD channel 2) in Manchester, which signed on in March 1998, [8] and WVBG itself, which debuted in August 1998. [9] Channel 39 became WVBX-LP on April 10, 1998. [3]

On October 5, 1998, WVBX, along with parent station WVBG, became a UPN affiliate; [10] it already carried the UPN Kids block, [11] but the network's prime time programming had previously been seen in the Capital District through secondary affiliations with Fox affiliate WXXA-TV (channel 23) [11] and Pax station WYPX (channel 55), [12] as well as cable carriage of WSBK-TV from Boston. [10] [12] However, from its inception, the station could not get carriage on Time Warner Cable, [11] which chose to continue its carriage of WSBK; [10] this was despite acquiring several sports packages, including Big East football and basketball, the Boston Red Sox (the telecasts of which were dropped following a territorial complaint by the New York Yankees), [13] and the Boston Celtics. [14]

Vision 3 did win must-carry rights in Washington County (in the WVBX coverage area) on December 3, 1999. [15] However, the UPN affiliation ended at the start of 2000 when cable-only "WEDG-TV" (known later as "UPN 4") signed on as a joint operation between Time Warner Cable and WXXA. [16] WVBX would then revert to being an independent station, heavily emphasizing its status as a primarily over-the-air station; [17] that June, Vision 3 put WVBG and WVBX up for sale, [18] and by 2001 much of the station's schedule was taken up by America One [19] and Resort Sports Network programming. [20]

In 2002, a year after parent station WVBG was sold to Wireless Access, Vision 3 was granted a construction permit to move WVBX to channel 15 from a transmitter on the Helderberg Escarpment in New Scotland, near the location of the WVBG transmitter, in effect moving the station to Albany. [21] The new facility was also granted class A status, [21] with the call sign WVBX-CA. [3] On May 22, 2003, Vision 3 sold WVBX to Venture Technologies Group, [22] who took channel 39 off-the-air that June. [23] During this time, Venture built the channel 15 facility, gave it the call letters WNYA-CA on June 30, 2003, [3] and announced that the station would serve as a repeater of WNYA (channel 51) from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which Venture was in the process of launching; this resulted in the unusual circumstance of a repeater station older than its parent station. [24] Together, the two stations came on the air September 1, 2003, as the Capital District's new UPN affiliate (replacing "WEDG-TV"), [24] operated by Freedom Communications, then-owner of WRGB (channel 6), under a joint sales agreement. [25]

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge to form a new network, The CW; the new network immediately named WEWB-TV (channel 45, now WCWN) its Capital District affiliate after then-owner Tribune Broadcasting signed a ten-year affiliation deal with the new network on most of its WB stations. [26] On February 22, News Corporation announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV; on March 9, it was announced that WNYA (and in turn WNYA-CA) would join this network, which launched on September 5. [27] A few months after the affiliation change, on December 5, 2006, Freedom Communications purchased WCWN from Tribune, in effect giving it control over three stations in the Capital District; [28] in February 2007, the joint sales agreement with WRGB was terminated, [29] and WNYA moved from WRGB's studios in Niskayuna to a facility in Rotterdam that formerly housed WMHT-FM-TV. [30] In April 2011, WNYA-CA replaced WNYA's main programming with Antenna TV, simulcast from WNYA's second digital subchannel. [31]

On February 25, 2013, Hubbard Broadcasting announced that it would purchase WNYA to form a duopoly with its local NBC affiliate WNYT, for $2.3 million, pending FCC approval. [32] [33] The sale did not include WNYA-CA, which remained with Venture Technologies. [34] Under a clause of the sale of WNYA that required WNYA-CA to use a new call sign that does not feature the letters "N" or "Y", [33] channel 15 became WEPT-CA on March 8, 2013. [3] On May 29, 2013, the FCC approved the sale of WNYA to Hubbard, [35] which was completed July 15; [36] that September, WEPT-CA dropped its WNYA-DT2 simulcast to join AMGTV, [37] moved its transmitter to New Baltimore, and changed its city of license to Kinderhook. Venture then filed on September 25 to construct a digital companion facility on channel 22 broadcasting from Overlook Mountain in Woodstock; [38] the permit was granted on December 23. [39] On December 18, 2014, the station was issued a license for digital operation, with its city of license moving from Kinderhook to Newburgh and its call sign changing to WEPT-CD. The station, which had remained in the Albany television market while licensed to Kinderhook, [40] became part of the New York City market following the move to Newburgh. [41]

On January 10, 2018, WEPT-CD went silent due to antenna and line issues. [42] Per an FCC filing on August 14, 2018, the station resumed operations as of August 7, 2018. [43] On October 22, 2018, WEPT went silent in preparation for the FCC's Phase 4 repack. [44] On March 25, 2020, WEPT-CD filed a Suspension of Operations and Request for Silence STA with the FCC due to what the station called in its filing, "reflective power issues" [45] On September 29, 2020, WEPT-CD resumed operations [46]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WEPT-CD [47]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
15.1 480i 4:3 WEPT-CD Jewelry TV
15.2WEPT-2Blank

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