WWPI-LD

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WWPI-LD
WWPI logo 2023.svg
City Fort Kent, Maine
Channels
BrandingWWPI 16
Programming
Affiliations16.1: NBC
Ownership
Owner
WAGM-TV
History
First air date
January 7, 2020
(4 years ago) (2020-01-07)
Call sign meaning
Presque Isle
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 181585
Class LD
ERP 4.1 kW
HAAT 52.6 m (173 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 46°43′43.0″N68°00′1.0″W / 46.728611°N 68.000278°W / 46.728611; -68.000278
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WWPI-LD (channel 16) is a low-power television station licensed to Fort Kent, Maine, United States, serving the Presque Isle, Maine, area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS/Fox/CW+ affiliate WAGM-TV (channel 8). The two stations share studios on Brewer Road in Presque Isle, where WWPI-LD's transmitter is also located.

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WWPI-LD is the only NBC affiliate in Maine not tied in with the Tegna-owned News Center Maine network (consisting of WCSH in Portland and WLBZ in Bangor). Prior to WWPI's sign-on as an NBC affiliate, WLBZ served as the default affiliate for Aroostook County.

History

On June 3, 2019, Gray Television changed the call letters of W16DA-D in Fort Kent, previously a translator of WAGM-TV, to WWPI-LD, after having filed with the FCC on May 21 for a construction permit to move the translator's city of license from Fort Kent to Presque Isle (the FCC granted that CP on August 7); [2] WWPI-LD then fell silent. [3] On June 24, 2019, Gray announced that WWPI-LD would be converted into an NBC affiliate by the end of 2019; however, this was delayed pending completion of the station's new transmitter. [4] The station officially signed-on January 7, 2020, [5] which leaves ABC as the only network to not have an over-the-air affiliate in Presque Isle; that network's programming is carried on cable via WVII-TV from the adjacent Bangor market.

News operation

WWPI-LD mostly simulcasts all of WAGM-TV's weekday newscasts, airing the 6 p.m. newscast an hour later at 7 p.m. WWPI-LD does not air newscasts on weekends, opting for syndicated programming.

Subchannel

Subchannel of WWPI-LD [6]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
16.1 1080i 16:9 WWPINBCMain WWPI-LD programming / NBC

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WWPI-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "FCCdata.org - powered by REC". fccdata.org.
  3. ↑ "RabbitEars.Info". www.rabbitears.info.
  4. ↑ "WAGM announces launch of NBC Affiliation". WAGM-TV. Gray Television. June 24, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ "WAGM-TV". www.facebook.com.
  6. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for WWPI". www.rabbitears.info.
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