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WHTV

WHTV
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Jackson/Lansing, Michigan
United States
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; 17 years ago (1999-08-20)
Last air date April 30, 2017; 19 days' time (2017-04-30)
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 / 42.373750; -84.069500
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.


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