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| Branding | Daystar |
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First air date | June 8, 1988 (1988-06-08) |
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Call sign meaning | "Daystar Television Indianapolis" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 7908 |
| ERP | 18.2kW |
| HAAT | 293 m (961 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°53′39.2″N86°12′20.5″W / 39.894222°N 86.205694°W /39.894222; -86.205694 |
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| Website | www |
WDTI (channel 69) is areligious television station inIndianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station isowned and operated by theDaystar Television Network through its subsidiary Indianapolis Community Television. WDTI's offices are located on Crawfordsville Road in northwestern Indianapolis (nearSpeedway), and its transmitter is located on Walnut Drive, also on the city's northwest side (nearMeridian Hills). Daystar also separately operates alow-power television station in Indianapolis,WIPX-LD (channel 51).
Channel 69 first signed on the air on June 6, 1988, as WBUU, aneducationalindependent station founded byButler University. It changed itscall letters to WTBU in 1991.
In 1992, WTBU joinedPBS as its fourthmember station in the Indianapolis market—afterWFYI (channel 20),Bloomington-basedWTIU (channel 30) andMuncie-licensedWIPB (channel 49); through PBS'Program Differentiation Plan, a fraction of the network's programming was distributed between all four stations, with WFYI carrying most of PBS' programs as the primary PBS outlet for the market. In 2004, Butler University sold WTBU to Indianapolis Community Television, Inc., an arm of theDaystar Television Network. The new owners began carrying programming from the religious broadcast network.
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 69.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WDTI-DT | Daystar |
| 69.2 | 720p | WDTI-ES | Daystar Español | |
| 69.3 | 480i | WDTI-SD | Daystar Reflections |
WDTI shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 69, on November 10, 2008. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, usingvirtual channel 69.[3]
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