WARP-CD,

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20 (

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channel 22), is a low-powered, Class A

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licensed to

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. The station is owned by the Sunshine Broadcasting Company.

History

WARP originally began as an affiliate of The Box until that network's acquisition by Viacom in 2001, it became

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. Since then, the station began to broadcast more infomercials on its schedule. Broadcasting on a tower on Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg, adjacent to Goodwill, WARP broadcasts on an east–west beam, towards central Pinellas County and Tampa, to protect the signals of Gainesville's ABC affiliate WCJB-TV and

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affiliate

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, both also broadcasting on channel 20. The station, previously WARP-CA, began broadcasting a digital-only signal in late 2009. WARP-CA's call sign suffix (CA for Class A) was changed to WARP-CD (Class A Digital) automatically upon grant of WARP-CA's digital license in late 2009. WARP-CD currently broadcasts four channels of

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: 20.1, 20.2, 20.3 and 20.4. Longtime owner Randolph Weigner (who controls Sunshine Broadcasting Company) sold WARP, along with sister station

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, to LocusPoint Networks in November 2012. The deal made WARP a sister station to

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, which LocusPoint acquired a month later.

External links

* ARP-CD Low-power television stations in the United States {{Florida-tv-station-stub