WTSN-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 20, is a low-powered, Class A

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by Three Sisters Broadcasting, as part of a duopoly with

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(channel 15).

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originally occupied its digital signal on UHF channel 20 just before that station shut down permanently in 2011.

History

The low-powered channel 20 was founded on September 22, 2011, as WYYW-CD, and became a

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affiliate two months later. This happened three weeks after

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affiliate

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began broadcasting

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network programming on its second digital subchannel. On December 12, 2012, WYYW-CD and sister station WTSN-CD swapped call signs. The original WTSN-CD became WYYW-CD, while the original WYYW-CD became WTSN-CD. The station became a

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(H&I) affiliate on October 23, 2014, while MeTV relocated to WFIE-DT3; five days later, MeTV moved to WFIE-DT2. Then on January 17, 2015, WTSN replaced its Heroes and Icons affiliation with

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's E/I programming repeats from its sister station on Saturday mornings because of its Sunday religious and local programming up until the Heartland affiliation with WYYW-CD ended. On October 25, 2019, WTSN dropped the H&I affiliation, replacing it with Antenna TV.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

WTSN webpage
{{Evansville TV TSN-CD Heroes & Icons affiliates Antenna TV affiliates Television channels and stations established in 2011 Low-power television stations in the United States 2011 establishments in Indiana