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| City | Corning, New York |
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| Founded | October 2, 1989 |
First air date | September 6, 1994 (31 years ago) (1994-09-06) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 62219 |
| ERP | 55kW |
| HAAT | 311 m (1,020 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°8′31.2″N77°4′38.8″W / 42.142000°N 77.077444°W /42.142000; -77.077444 |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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| Website | wydc-tv |
WYDC (channel 48) is atelevision station licensed toCorning, New York, United States, serving as theFox affiliate for theElmira area. It is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting CompanyLLC alongsidelow-powerMyNetworkTV affiliateWJKP-LD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on East Market Street in Downtown Corning; WYDC's transmitter is located on Higman Hill.
On June 9, 1988, theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Rural New York Broadcasting, owned by Robert Walker ofAlbany, to build a new television station in Corning. In 1992, Walker moved to Florida and donated the permit toCornerstone Television, a Christian broadcaster fromPittsburgh.[2] Cornerstone never built the station, and instead it was Molly and David Grant, with investors known as Standfast Broadcasting, who put WYDC on the air in 1994 asindependent "Big TV".[3]
Big TV rapidly grew. It built translators in Elmira andBath, became an affiliate ofUPN andThe WB in 1995,[4] and added Fox in October 1996.[5]
Vision Communications, headed by William Christian, leased the station with an option to buy in 1997 and moved to shift the station's focus to Fox, eliminating UPN and WB programs.[6] The new ownership upgraded the facilities with a $2 million investment.[7] The Grants went on to start another station known as Big TV, UPN affiliateWBGT-LP inRochester, which Vision acquired in 2002.[8]
Vision Communications filed to sell its broadcast properties toStandard Media in 2019.[9] The sale was never consummated.[10]
In July 2021, Waypoint Media and its related entity, Vision Communications, announced that they would sell nine of their television stations, including WYDC, WJKP-LD, and WECY-LD, toCumming, Georgia–based Coastal Television for $36.9 million. The sale was completed on January 4, 2022.[11]
The station airs a 10 p.m. weeknight newscast branded asBig Fox News at 10, using Coastal's partly-centralizedNews Hub fromLittle Rock, Arkansas.[12]
WYDC's transmitter is located on Higman Hill.[1] The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 48.1 | 720p | 16:9 | WYDC | Fox |
| 48.2 | WJKP | MyNetworkTV (WJKP-LD) | ||
| 48.3 | 480i | 4:3 | MeTV | MeTV |
| 48.4 | 16:9 | Grit | Grit | |
| 48.5 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 48.7 | Ion Plus | Ion Plus |
WYDC shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 50 to channel 48.[14]
In addition to its main signal, WYDC can also be seen on five low-power digitalrepeaters. WYDC was also formerly repeated on WMYH-LP in Elmira/Watkins Glen, which is no longer licensed.
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