WXID-LP,

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channel 49, was a low-powered

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station's

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was located atop

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, north-northwest of Atlanta.

History

Since being permitted in 1988, it was W55BM until March 2008, becoming W49DE after it was forced to change

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s due to the

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(which resulted in channel 55 being

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ed to

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). The station was previously owned by the

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, which sold it in 2010 to Word of God Fellowship, which changed the station to its current

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in mid October 2010. Originally airing The Box, it later became a

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for TBN-owned

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. The station later affiliated with the TBN-owned

network, making it one of the few TBN-owned analog stations to carry programming other than TBN. This programming was also seen on one of WHSG's

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63.3, via RF channel 44. The station was analog TV channel 55 with 11.6 kW ERP and used an

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. In 2007, the station went off-air, possibly due to the use of channel 55 by

. It obtained a

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to move to channel 49 with an extremely

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, aimed southeast toward

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and North Atlanta. The maximum ERP in that direction is 48.3 kW, and the nearly-circular coverage area centers on Sandy Springs, and ironically covers much less of Marietta. It also had an application to modify this permit to

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as its

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channel (as all channels above 51 are being revoked from the TV

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), but the FCC dismissed this, possibly due to a request from TBN. TBN again took W49DE silent on February 12, 2010, this time citing declining support. This has been attributed to the

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, but it is also due to WHSG moving much closer (right into Atlanta proper instead of the far southwest side of

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), making a

unnecessary. A month later, on March 19, a deal was reached to sell W49DE to Word of God Fellowship, owner of the

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; the deal made it a

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. The station had an application to

to digital on channel 49, which would make it WXID-LD. This permit would have also moved the station's transmitter into the city at the North Druid Hills site. On March 28, 2011, the FCC cancelled WXID-LP's license, due to the station having been silent for more than twelve months. The FCC also deleted the WXID-LP call sign from its database, and WUEO-LD now broadcasts via digital television on Virtual Channel 49 in Macon.

References

External links

previous coverage map

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