WFND-LD (channel 19) is a low-power

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, United States, serving the Toledo area as a

Buckeye Cable Sports Network BCSN is a regional sports network founded in 2003 (and first went on the air on January 7, 2004) to carry sports broadcasting, which had previously been aired on fellow cable-only station WT05. Overview The station airs Toledo Mud Hens games, B ...

affiliate owned by

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. Its licensee is West Central Ohio Broadcasting, Inc., a Block subsidiary. Block also owns several other assets in Northwestern Ohio, including '' The Blade'', Buckeye CableSystem and

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. Engineering operations and monitoring are performed from West Central Ohio Broadcasting's operation center at 1424 Rice Avenue in

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. 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.

History

In 2004, the station was acquired from low-power broadcasting giant Equity Broadcasting by Metro Video Productions of Lima. Five years later, the station was purchased by

of Toledo. On January 8, 2013, the station made a flash cut to digital channel 22, and is operating with 15 kilowatts of power from a site located at 3800 North County Road 220 in Allen Township, north of the

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plant. On June 11, 2018, the station completed its construction permit to move from channel 22 to channel 19. The programming for WFND is now th
Buckeye Cable Sports Network
in HD.

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* Television stations in Ohio Television channels and stations established in 1990 Low-power television stations in the United States {{Ohio-tv-station-stub