WLNM-LD (channel 29) is a low-power television station in

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, United States. It is a

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-licensed

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affiliate

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(channel 10) which is owned by

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. WLNM-LD's transmitter is located on River Street along the Red Cedar River southeast of Lansing; its parent station maintains studios on American Road (near

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) in the city.

History

WLNM-LD first signed-on the air in 1991 as W69BJ on channel 69, as a translator of

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-based

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(channel 49), a station owned by

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(TCT). The station relocated to channel 27 as W27CN in November 2003. The station was an owned-and-operated transmitter of TCT, which also carried many programs from

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(TBN). In 2007, TCT discontinued carriage of TBN programming, instead relying on productions of its own programs and direct carriage of programs from other ministries. In July 2009, the station's digital transmitter was put into service with a

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, ending its analog service and adding a -D suffix to its callsign at that time. The station's callsign changed to the lettered WLNM-LD on February 8, 2016. On February 14, 2020, TCT agreed to sell WLNM-LD to

for $175,000; the sale, which was completed on May 1, includes a lease agreement allowing TCT to continue carrying a subchannel on the station for five years after closing.Digital Sub-Channel Lease Agreement
/ref> WLNM-LD has since operated as a translator of WILX-TV, allowing homes with issues receiving WILX-TV's VHF signal or only a UHF antenna to receive WILX-TV in some form.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* NBC network affiliates MeTV affiliates Start TV affiliates Story Television affiliates Movies! affiliates Decades (TV network) affiliates Tri-State Christian Television affiliates Gray Television LNM-LD Television channels and stations established in 1991 1991 establishments in Michigan Low-power television stations in the United States {{Michigan-tv-station-stub