WYGN-LD, virtual and

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channel 10, is a low-powered

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by Good News Television.

History

WYGN originally signed on July 22, 1988 in

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as W12BK on channel 12, a low-power repeater of

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, the former

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affiliate which became a

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affiliate in 1989, and then became an English-language

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at the end of 1994. It would switch to being a low-power repeater of

WBND-LP WBND-LD (channel 57) is a low-power television station in South Bend, Indiana, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Weigel Broadcasting (as the company's only ABC affiliate), and is sister to CW affiliate WCWW-LD (channel 25) and ...

, the

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affiliate in

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on May 26, 1996, and that the license would move to Berrien Springs, Michigan that same year. On March 14, 2002, the station was transferred to its current owner, Good News Television, who had previously been broadcasting 3ABN programming on the now-

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channel 25 in South Bend. One of the board members of Good News Television, Dr. Robert Moon, is also the treasurer of the Raymond S. and Dorothy N. Moore Foundation, which owns another 3ABN affiliate,

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. In January 2007, WYGN-LP was granted a construction permit for a digital companion channel on Channel 10. The FCC granted a license to operate on Channel 10 on July 1, 2009.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* {{Other Michigan Stations YGN-LD Three Angels Broadcasting Network Low-power television stations in the United States Television channels and stations established in 1988 1988 establishments in Indiana