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First air date | March 7, 1989 (36 years ago) (1989-03-07) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 28199 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 145.6 m (478 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°48′01″N86°04′39″W / 39.80028°N 86.07750°W /39.80028; -86.07750 (WDNI-CD) |
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| Website | telemundoindy |
WDNI-CD (channel 19) is alow-power,Class A television station inIndianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language networkTelemundo. The station is owned by the Radio One subsidiary ofUrban One as one of the company's only two broadcast television properties (alongsideWQMC-LD inColumbus, Ohio). WDNI-CD's studios are currently located at 40Monument Circle indowntown Indianapolis, and its transmitter is located on North Hawthorne Lane and 23rd Street (south ofI-70) on the city's near-northeast side.
The station first signed on the air on March 7, 1989, as W53AV, broadcasting on UHF channel 53; founded by Hoosier Radio and TV, it was branded on-air as either "WAV53" or as "Hoosier TV 53". The station aired a variety of programming includingpublic domain movies andMajor League Baseball games from theCincinnati Reds; it also carried thewrestling programECW Hardcore TV on Sunday evenings. For a brief period in the early 1990s, the station served as an affiliate of the defunctNetwork One, and during the mid-1990s carried music programming (primarily in the overnights) from MuchUSA (nowFuse).[2] Local personality Bill Shirk also hosted certain programs seen on the station. In 1999, the station moved its allocation to UHF channel 65 and changed its callsign to W65DW.
The station was purchased by Radio One in 2000, which changed its call sign to the lettered WDNI-LP the following year; at the same time, WDNI rebranded asIndy's Music Channel, adopting amusic video format focused on therock,alternative rock,hip-hop,R&B,dance andheavy metal genres.
The station's weekday programming featured music shows such asDrive Time with Reka;The Tease with host (andmusic director) Deacon;The Main Attraction with Scotty Davis;Max Hits with Mikey V;Free Style with JJ;The Rock Block with Rusty;The List with Stick;Hip Hop Rhythm & Vibes with Jay Rio andThe After Party with DJ Wrekk1. The station also producedThe Amos Brown Show, an hour-long locally produced weekdaytalk show that spotlighted notable figures inCentral Indiana'sAfrican American community; the program was discontinued in 2007. Religious programming under the banner "IMC Goes to Church" aired for much of the day on Sundays. In 2009, the station relocated its signal to UHF channel 19.
On March 6, 2013, Radio One announced that it had signed an agreement withTelemundo to affiliate with WDNI-CD, making it the first television station in the Indianapolis market to carry programming from a major commercialSpanish-language network sinceWIIH-CA (channel 17) discontinued its affiliation withUnivision in January 2009. WDNI-CD's affiliation switch to Telemundo became official on March 11, 2013.[3][4]
WDNI-CDblacked out Telemundo's first ever Spanish-language coverage of theIndianapolis 500 in 2022 to prevent Central Indiana viewers from attempting to watch the race live before thetape-delayed broadcast onWTHR, as per the requirements of theIndianapolis Motor Speedway.
WDNI-CD presently shows seven hours of locally produced newscasts (more like apublic affairs format) each week (with one hour daily); the station currently does not produce any traditional newscasts other than periodic local weather updates and forecasts. The newscast that the station produces is the hour-long public affairs programEn Contexto, which airs weekend mornings at 9 a.m. and weekday mornings at 5 a.m.; the program is hosted by Luis Navarro, who served as a special assignment reporter and main weather forecaster for WIIH's 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts during that station's tenure as a Univision affiliate.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 19.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WDNI-HD | Telemundo |
| 19.2 | 480i | 4:3 | TeleXit | TeleXitos |
The station shut down its analog signal andflash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 19 in February 2009. Because theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a license upgrade toClass A status after it transitioned to digital-only broadcasts, WDNI's call letters were not given an "-LD" or "-CA" suffix, but rather the then-rarely used "-CD" suffix.
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