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channel 23, is a low-power

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, United States, and also serving Pittsylvania, Halifax and

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counties. Owned by the Star News Corporation, it is

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to fellow independent station

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. WMDV-LD's transmitter is located atop White Oak Mountain south of

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. Under former owners

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(TCT), the station aired the schedule of full-power Christian station

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from

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. Star News re-launched the station as an independent station serving the cities of Martinsville and Danville.

History

The station first broadcast in 1993 as W18BG. The majority of its programming was provided by the

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through WLXI. This arrangement ended in April 2007 when TCT replaced TBN programming with its own programming for all of its stations. In November 2008, TCT decided to divest itself of its Danville translator. In June 2009, TCT passed ownership of W18BG to Star News, which temporarily took the station

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. In early May 2010, the

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(FCC) issued the construction permit to build the station on RF channel 45, with a

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number of 44 since

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affiliate

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uses 45 as its virtual channel. The station's callsign was changed to WMDV-LP on October 9, 2009. WMDV-LP returned to the air on the afternoon of May 26, 2010, after about 50 weeks of being dark.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

2017 auction and repack

In 2017, the FCC authorized the auction of TV channels 38 and above, and the subsequent relocation of all TV stations operating on those channels to new locations below channel 37. On September 1, 2018, WMDV-LD ceased broadcasting on channel 45 and commenced operation on RF channel 23. The station has also moved its virtual channel to 23 to match its RF channel.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wmdv Television channels and stations established in 1993 1993 establishments in Virginia MDV-LD Independent television stations in the United States Low-power television stations in the United States