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| City | Lowell, Massachusetts[a] |
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| Affiliations | Daystar |
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| History | |
First air date | May 5, 1999 (1999-05-05) |
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| Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (1999–2001) | |
Call sign meaning | backronym for "Your Daystar Network" (pre-dated ownership and existence of Daystar; call sign sequentially assigned by the FCC in 1989[3][b]) |
| Technical information[4] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 18783 |
| ERP | 80.6kW |
| HAAT | 342 m (1,122 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°11′4″N71°19′10″W / 43.18444°N 71.31944°W /43.18444; -71.31944 |
| Translator(s) | W26EU-D Boston |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WYDN (channel 48) is areligious television station licensed toLowell, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting theDaystar Television Network to theBoston area. It isowned and operated by the Educational Public TV Corporation, a subsidiary of Daystar sister company Word of God Fellowship, Inc. WYDN's studios are co-located with those of localpublic access channel Dedham TV on Sprague Street inDedham, and itshares spectrum withConcord, New Hampshire–licensedIon Television stationWPXG-TV (channel 21), transmitting from Fort Mountain nearEpsom, New Hampshire.
The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1999, as an affiliate of Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (nowGod's Learning Channel) as a straight simulcast ofKMLM inOdessa, Texas.[5] Originally licensed toWorcester, Massachusetts, WYDN operated its analog transmitter atop Asnebumskit Hill inPaxton (a site which is and has been used by Worcester area FM and TV stations sinceFM pioneerEdwin Howard Armstrong erected the tower in the 1940s) until the June 12, 2009, digital transition; its digital transmitter operated from theWBZ-TV tower inNeedham. By the early 2000s, the station switched toDaystar after it was acquired by its Word of God Fellowship, Inc. licensing subsidiary, and Daystar immediately pushed for successfulmust-carry carriage from local cable providers.
WYDN sold its frequency rights as part of theFederal Communications Commission (FCC)'s 2017 spectrum incentive auction[6] and reached a channel sharing agreement with Ion Television O&O WPXG-TV;[2] it began broadcasting from WPXG's transmitter on April 23, 2018.[7] As WPXG's broadcasting radius does not cover Worcester, WYDN changed its city of license to Lowell, Massachusetts.[1]
WPXG-TV and WYDN transmit using WPXG-TV's spectrum from a tower on Fort Mountain nearEpsom, New Hampshire.[4]
| License | Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| WPXG-TV | 21.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 21.2 | 480i | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 21.3 | Laff | Busted | |||
| 21.4 | Bounce | Bounce TV | |||
| 21.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | |||
| 21.6 | GameSho | Game Show Central | |||
| 21.8 | HSN2 | HSN2 | |||
| WYDN | 48.1 | WYDN | Daystar |
WYDN 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 continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 47, usingvirtual channel 48.[9]
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