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| Branding | Buckeye Cable Sports Network |
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| Affiliations | Buckeye Cable Sports Network |
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| History | |
| Founded | January 24, 1990 |
First air date | February 20, 1992 (1992-02-20) |
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Call sign meaning | Findlay |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 21475 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 102 m (335 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°06′40.0″N83°38′54.0″W / 41.111111°N 83.648333°W /41.111111; -83.648333 |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | http://www.wfnd-findlay.com/ |
WFND-LD (channel 19) is alow-powertelevision station licensed toFindlay, Ohio, United States, serving theToledo area as aBuckeye Cable Sports Networkaffiliate owned byBlock Communications. Its licensee is West Central Ohio Broadcasting, Inc., a Block subsidiary.[3] Block also owns several other assets in Northwestern Ohio, includingThe Blade,Buckeye Broadband andWLIO. Engineering operations and monitoring are performed from West Central Ohio Broadcasting's operation center at 1424 Rice Avenue inLima. The engineering supervisor is Frederick Vobbe.
The station transmitter is a Gates Air model ULXTE-4 with an Alive Telecomm ATC-BCE48C1R-U Elliptical polarized antenna, (transmitter output power of 1,740 watts), electrical beam tilt of 1 degree (R/C AGL: 86 m R/C AMSL: 331.3 m). The pattern is the same as WFND when on Channel 22.
In 2004, the station was acquired from low-power broadcasting giantEquity Broadcasting by Metro Video Productions of Lima. Five years later, the station was purchased byBlock Communications of Toledo.
On January 8, 2013, the station made a flash cut to digital channel 22, and is operating with 15kilowatts of power from a site located at 3800 North County Road 220 inAllen Township, north of theWhirlpool plant.
On June 11, 2018, the station completed itsconstruction permit to move from channel 22 to channel 19. The programming for WFND is now theBuckeye Cable Sports Network in HD.
On August 1, 2025,Gray Media announced it would acquire all of Block's broadcast television stations, including WFND-LD, for $80 million.[4][1]
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