WTSD-CD

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WTSD-CD
Channels
Programming
Affiliations Independent
Ownership
Owner
  • Local Media TV Holdings LLC [1]
  • (Local Media TV Philadelphia, LLC [2] )
History
FoundedNovember 28, 1980
First air date
July 8, 1981;42 years ago (1981-07-08)
Last air date
2017;7 years ago (2017)
Former call signs
  • W61AN (1980–1988)
  • W14BG (1988–1995)
  • WXHL-LP (1995–2002)
  • WTSD-CA (2002–2013) [3]
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 61 (UHF, 1981–1988), 14 (UHF, 1988–2011)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, June 24 – July 3, 2012)
Classic Arts Showcase
Technical information
Facility ID 191340
Class CD
ERP 15 kW
HAAT 332 m (1,089 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°2′19.7″N75°14′12.8″W / 40.038806°N 75.236889°W / 40.038806; -75.236889 (WTSD-CA)

WTSD-CD (channel 14) was a low-power, Class A independent television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station was owned by Local Media TV Philadelphia, LLC.

Contents

WTSD-CD left the air in 2017 as a result of the incentive auction, in which it was paid more than $62 million to leave the air.

History

In Delaware

On November 28, 1980, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an application by Francis J. Tafelski for a construction permit for a new TV translator station on channel 61 (W61AN) to serve Newark and Brookside, Delaware, rebroadcasting WGCB-TV (channel 49) of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, with an effective radiated power of 100 watts. [4] [5] The station applied for a license to cover on July 8, 1981. [6] [7]

When a full-power station, WTGI, signed on channel 61 in 1985, it forced W61AN to move. In 1988, the FCC granted the station a move to channel 14, increasing power to 1 kilowatt and assigning it the new call sign of W14BG. [8] [9] [10] [11] Tafelski sold the translator to Priority Communications Ministries, Inc., in 1991. [12] [13] The station relaunched in 1992 as "Family Vision" with an expanded program lineup and studios at Faith City Family Church. Local programming included church services and a contemporary Christian music video show, CCM-TV. [14] On August 21, 1995, the W14BG call sign was changed to WXHL-LP, [3] complementing Priority's Christian radio station WXHL-FM; by this time, channel 14 was airing local Christian programming. [15] It soon changed to a format of contemporary Christian music videos. [16]

WXHL-LP was approved in 1996 to increase its effective radiated power to 71 kilowatts; the community of license was changed to Wilmington, with new facilities approved in Christiana. [17] [18] [19] [20] In 2000, WXHL-LP was approved for Class A status. [19] [21] [22] [23]

Move to Philadelphia and back

On March 12, 2002, WXHL-LP was granted a construction permit to make a major move to the Roxborough antenna farm, used for television in Philadelphia. [24] [25] At the same time, the call letters were changed to WTSD-CA. [3] In 2006, the station suffered through a blown transmitter tube and then was forced to go silent when it lost its leased transmitter site. [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] Priority Communications continued to own WTSD-CA, but it fell into bankruptcy in 2007. [33] [34] [35]

The station reemerged from silence in June 2007, having moved back from Roxborough to the Christiana site from which it previously broadcast under special temporary authority; this would be extended nine times from 2007 to 2011. [36] [37] [38] [39]

In September 2011, the sale of WTSD-CA to Loop Media, LLC, for $300,000, was announced. [40] On December 29, 2011, WTSD-CA ceased analog transmission from its temporary site in Wilmington. [41] [42] [43] Three months later, Loop sold WTSD-CA to Local Media TV Philadelphia, LLC, a subsidiary of Local Media TV Holdings LLC of Alexandria, Virginia. [44] [45] [46] [47] [48]

On June 24, 2012, WTSD-CA returned, this time in digital. It had moved from channel 14 to 16, so as to avoid any 52 dBu contour overlap within a 130-kilometer (81 mi) radius of New York City, where channel 14 is allocated to land mobile services. [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] However, channel 16 in New York City is allocated to its public safety communications system, which immediately began experiencing interference when the WTSD-CA digital facility was activated. At the request of the city of New York, WTSD-CD ceased operating to allow New York officials to investigate on July 3. [54] [55] [56] [57] In the meantime, WTSD-CA was allowed to reduce its power to 22 watts. [58] [59] [60]

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the New York City government concluded that it would not have the resources to do the testing necessary to investigate keeping WTSD-CA on channel 16. As a result, with the blessing of the city, WTSD-CA filed to move to channel 23, where it resumed operations on June 11, 2013, and was licensed as WTSD-CD three days later. [61] [62] [63]

In the incentive auction to free up space for wireless services, and in which Class A stations were eligible to participate, WTSD-CD received $62,788,846 to leave the air permanently. [64]

Subchannels

The station's signal was multiplexed:

Subchannels of WTSD-CD
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
14.1 480i 4:3 WTSD-CA Independent
14.2WTSD-2

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