WQDI-LD,

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20 ( UHF

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channel 21), is a low-power

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, United States and serving Northeastern Ohio. The station is owned by

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History

The

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issued the station's initial

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for W21DI-D on May 17, 2011. The current WQDI-LD call sign was adopted on December 4, 2015. The station signed on the air on May 31, 2016 as an

Estrella TV Estrella TV () is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media subsidiary of HPS Investment Partners, LLC. The network primarily features programs, the vast majority of which are produced by the network ...

affiliate on its main channel only one or two months after

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WEKA-LD signed on. At an unknown date, the station switched to

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, a

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network similar to Estrella TV. In April 2017,

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started broadcasting over the air with DTV America affiliating five stations including WQDI with the network.

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, a Cheddar advertiser, was handing out free digital antennas at events in the stations' markets to publicize the over the air launch. On December 31, 2022,

ceased operations. WQDI replaced Azteca America programming with

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, an English-language network airing classic TV shows.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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* * Estrella TV affiliates Comet (TV network) affiliates The Nest (TV network) affiliates Catchy Comedy affiliates Low-power television stations in Ohio Innovate Corp. Television channels and stations established in 2016 QDI-LD {{Ohio-tv-station-stub