WKDH (channel 45) is a defunct

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licensed to

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, United States, which served as the

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affiliate for the

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. WKDH was owned by Southern Broadcasting, which was headed by Walter D. Spain whose father, Frank K. Spain, owned Tupelo-based

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affiliate

WTVA WTVA (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Tupelo, Mississippi, United States, serving the Columbus–Tupelo market as an affiliate of NBC and ABC. It is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, which provides certain services to West Poi ...

(channel 9). As such, the station was operated under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with WTVA; the Spain family also operated

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–licensed

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affiliate

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(channel 27) under a separate LMA with Lingard Broadcasting. The three stations shared studios on Beech Springs Road (

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681) in

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; WKDH's transmitter was located in

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History

The station signed on June 18, 2001, as the fourth

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station in the

. WKDH was an ABC affiliate from the start, and was its second affiliate in the market; WLOV-TV carried ABC programming from 1983 (as WVSB-TV) until switching to Fox in October 1995. In the six years that the market had no ABC affiliate,

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systems in the area piped in WPTY-TV from

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(which became an ABC affiliate in December 1995 and formerly served as the default Fox affiliate for the area) or WCFT-TV from

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(which became a semi-satellite of Birmingham ABC affiliate

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in September 1996). On January 26, 2007, at 5 a.m., WKDH " flash-cut" its analog signal to digital on UHF channel 45, becoming the first station in the market to make the transition. The station did not offer much local content, serving largely as a "pass-through" for ABC programming. It did produce a public affairs show, ''Community Edition'', hosted by Stan Allen. WKDH ceased broadcasting at 11:59 p.m. on August 31, 2012, after more than 11 years on the air; this is due to the Spain family's decision not to renew its LMA with Southern Broadcasting. The ABC affiliation for the Columbus–Tupelo–West Point market moved to the second digital subchannel of WTVA; before this announcement, Comcast had planned to import an out-of-market ABC affiliate. Though a sale of the station was explored, the only buyer found pulled out of the deal, and on January 31, 2013, Southern Broadcasting surrendered the WKDH license to the

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, which canceled it on February 7.

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