WYDN (channel 48) is a religious

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licensed to

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, United States, broadcasting the Daystar network to the

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area. It is

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by the Educational Public TV Corporation, a subsidiary of Daystar sister company Word of God Fellowship, Inc. WYDN's studios are co-located with those of local public access channel Dedham TV on Sprague Street in Dedham, and it shares transmitter facilities with

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–licensed Ion Television station WPXG-TV (channel 21) on Fort Mountain near

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History

The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1999, as an affiliate of Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (now

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) as a straight simulcast of KMLM in Odessa, Texas. Originally licensed to

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, WYDN operated its analog transmitter atop Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton (a site which is and has been used by Worcester area FM and TV stations since FM pioneer

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erected the tower in the 1940s) until the June 12, 2009, digital transition; its digital transmitter operated from the

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tower in Needham. By the early 2000s, the station switched to Daystar after it was acquired by its Word of God Fellowship, Inc. licensing subsidiary, and Daystar immediately pushed for successful must-carry carriage from local cable providers. WYDN sold its frequency rights as part of the

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(FCC)'s 2017 spectrum incentive auction and reached a channel sharing agreement with Ion Television O&O WPXG-TV; it began broadcasting from WPXG's transmitter on April 23, 2018. As WPXG's broadcasting radius does not cover Worcester, WYDN changed its city of license to Lowell, Massachusetts.

Technical information

Analog-to-digital conversion

WYDN shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 47. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 48.

References

External links

Daystar Television Network
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History

Technical information

Analog-to-digital conversion

See also

References

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