WYGA-CD,

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16 ( UHF digital channel 29), is a low-powered, Class A

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by

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and licensed to HC2 LPTV Holdings.Digital TV Market Listing for WYGA-CD
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History

Originally granted the callsign W07CP in November 1997, it became W55CR in December 1998, broadcasting on channel 55. The station then was granted the call letters WDAH-CA from January 2004 to July 2005. After a change in ownership, the station changed call letters and became WYGA-CA. In filings with the

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, WYGA-CA had been forced to cease operations on a full-time basis on its allocated channel 55 due to issues with its transmit site, likely due to MediaFLO subscription

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using the same channel, or nearby W55BM, or both. The station's call sign was changed to the current WYGA-CD on May 27, 2014. In 2009, the FCC required U.S. television stations to vacate channels 52-69, which have been removed from the UHF TV

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and reassigned for other purposes. Consequently, WYGA-CA, which had been operating on channel 55, had applied to the FCC for the displacement channel 45. The channel 45 application was disputed by

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(channel 46) because it is an

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, causing

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in certain areas. However, WGCL opted to keep its allocated digital channel 19 after the

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, thus eliminating the adjacent-channel interference situation from WYGA-CA on channel 45. In order to avoid losing the

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on channel 45 due to a

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12-month cutoff, WYGA-CA had been broadcasting on a

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on channel 45 at a low power (2 kW ERP) until WGCL ended its

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period on June 26. Its application is for 150 kW in the direction of

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, equivalent to 115 kW in the

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. The

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produces a

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shape, with the major lobes of its

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toward the north-northeast and west-southwest. The station was granted a

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for WYGA-LD on channel 16, from the same location as analog 45, which is on the same tower as

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TV 43 (69.1) in the southern part of the

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neighborhood and southeast of Cabbagetown along Interstate 20 and Memorial Drive. The

is similar, but has less of a

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toward the northwest. First issued in 2006, it was modified in late April 2009, and expires in late October 2009. WYGA-CA signed off March 5, 2009 in the wake of the

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of owner

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. In the

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that followed on April 16, WYGA was sold to Mako Communications. The sale closed on June 30, 2009. WYGA-LD started digital broadcasting on channel 16 from September 5, 2009, though it had been testing prior to that. The digital signal was

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ed into four

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s: 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, and 16.4. The only active channel with programming was 16.2, carrying the

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network, although the station initially carried White Springs Television when it first signed on. The

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identifies the station as on all four channels, and the

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identifies all programs as (where ''x'' is the appropriate number for each subchannel) with no descriptions, and lasting three hours each, changing at 1:59, 4:59, 7:59, and 10:59 AM and PM. In late September 2009, the station applied to the

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to change its digital broadcast channel to 18 (vacated by analog WNGH-TV in

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), due to higher-than-expected

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from WGXA-TV in

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on channel 16. WYGA-LD's permit for channel 18 is for the same

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, transmitting from the same tower at a slightly different

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and with a slightly different

. In June 2013, WYGA-LD was slated to be sold to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations; the sale fell through in June 2016. Mako Communications sold its stations, including WYGA-CD, to HC2 Holdings in 2017.

Digital channels

References

External links

WYGA official website
* {{HC2 Holdings Innovate Corp. YGA-CD Television channels and stations established in 1990 Low-power television stations in the United States