WUDL-LD
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Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| Channels | Digital: 19 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | See below |
| Owner | King Forward, Inc. |
| Founded | unknown; early-1980s |
| Call letters' meaning | Disambiguation of former callsign, W47DL-D |
| Former callsigns | K66BV (1980s) W66BV (to 2011) W47DL-D (2011-2015) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 66 (UHF, to 2010) Digital: 47 (UHF), early 2010's-2016) |
| Former affiliations | SIN / Univision (1980s-early 1990s) Analog / DT1: Trinity Broadcast Network (1990s-2015) DT2: JCTV / JUCE TV (2010-15) ESAT (2015-16) DT3: Smile of a Child (2010-15) DT4: TCC (2010-15) Newsmax (2016-2017) DT5: TBN Enlace USA (2010-15) |
| Transmitter power | 11.6 kW |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
WUDL-LD is a low-powered television station in Detroit, Michigan. The station broadcasts on digital channel 47 at 2.7 kW with a northerly-aimed directional antenna (to protect adjacent-channel WMNT-CD in Toledo, Ohio), from a tower located at the Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit. The signal can be seen throughout the city of Detroit, its suburbs and the nearby Windsor area.
The station initially signed on sometime in the early 1980s as a SIN affiliate owned by Washington, DC-based Los Cerezos Television, first with the calls K66BV, later switched to W66BV. The station folded in the early-1990s. Shortly after its closedown, the transmitter and license was sold to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, in which, shortly afterward, returned to the air as a full-time repeater of TBN's national feed.
In February 2006, the station was granted a construction permit to begin converting operations to digital television. Upon completion, the station would become a digital repeater of TBN, broadcasting all five TBN services at 19.7 kW (though later signed-on at 2.7 kW). The station was also approved for relocation to channel 47 – this is due to channels 52 to 69 being phased out of television broadcasting.
At some point on the evening of November 9, 2009, the analog signal of W66BV had gone dark entirely, showing only static. The station's analog feed has been on the air intermittently since that date. TBN has since notified the Federal Communications Commission that W66BV had ceased operations March 25, 2010 due to declining support, which has been attributed to the digital transition. However, on May 12, 2010, the repeater has since resumed broadcasting for about a month, before going silent again. During the analog era, the station had broadcast on UHF 66 with an effective radiated power of 19.7 kW, though it now broadcasts on UHF 47 with an effective radiated power of just 2.7 kW (with a construction permit to increase to 10 kW).
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