Jackson/Lansing, Michigan United States |
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Branding | My 18 |
Channels |
Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 18 (PSIP) |
Subchannels | 18.1 MyNetworkTV 18.2 Jewelry TV |
Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–present) |
Owner |
Venture Technologies Group (Spartan TV, LLC) |
Operator | E. W. Scripps Company |
First air date | August 20, 1999 |
Last air date | April 30, 2017 |
Call letters' meaning | TeleVision |
Sister station(s) | WSYM-TV |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 18 (UHF, 1999–2009) |
Former affiliations |
Bloomberg/Jewelry TV (1999–2000) UPN (2000–2006) |
Transmitter power | 185 kw |
Height | 263 m |
Class | DT |
Facility ID | 29706 |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°22′25.5″N 84°4′10.2″W / 42.373750°N 84.069500°W |
Website | my18.tv |
WHTV is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Central Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Licensed in Jackson, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 (or virtual channel 18.1 via ) from a transmitter on M-52 in Lyndon Township. Owned by Venture Technologies Group, the station is operated through a local marketing agreement (LMA) by E. W. Scripps Company as a sister outlet to Fox affiliate WSYM-TV. Both stations share studios on West Saint Joseph Street, along I-496, in downtown Lansing. The station is carried on channel 8 on most cable systems in the market. WHTV sold its spectrum space in the FCC incentive auction and will cease operation on April 30, 2017.
The station signed-on August 20, 1999 carrying programming from Bloomberg Television and Jewelry Television. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 18 from a transmitter near Onondaga on the Ingham and Jackson County line. It became a UPN affiliate on October 16, 2000, and prior to this, programming from that network was seen on area cable systems from Detroit's WKBD. From 2002 until 2006, WHTV's internal operations (such as advertising sales) were housed at the studios of ABC affiliate WLAJ, which was then owned by Freedom Communications, on South Pennsylvania Avenue in Lansing. It then relocated to the facilities of CBS outlet WLNS-TV on East Saginaw Street after entering into a joint sales agreement with WLNS' then-owner Young Broadcasting.