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49 (

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channel 14), is a low-powered

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- affiliated

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. The station is owned by DC Broadcasting, Inc. which itself is wholly owned by Christopher Blair of

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, Colorado.

History

The station was granted its initial construction permit in 1990. At the time, it was owned by Robert E. Kelly of

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with the callsign W63BP. The station never made it to air; the permit, initially scheduled to expire in January 1991, was extended multiple times through 1995. At that point, the FCC denied a further request for extension, the permit expired, and the station was deleted from the FCC database. The construction permit was again applied for and granted in 2001, and W63BP signed on October 31. Immediately, the station applied to move to channel 49 from the

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tower in northwest Washington; the

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was granted in February 2004. In 2005, Kelly sold both W63BP and dormant W61BY (now

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) to DC Broadcasting, Inc. for $10. Channel 49 went back on the air in 2006. It was the

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of the WUFO TV Network, which was on the air for nine months during 2007–2008. The network was funded and programmed by Mike Gravino. The WUFO TV Network aired an eclectic mix of "alternative knowledge" programming, including information about UFOs, crop-circles, alternative history, new science, alternative religion, environmental and social activism, human potential and sci-fi, until August 10, 2008, when the network stopped over-the-air broadcasts. WWTD-LP was then leased to

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, who turned it into an analog relay of local

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affiliate

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in late October 2008. However, that lease and the ABC transmissions ended on February 9, 2009. After WJLA's lease on WWTD expired, WWTD went dark. Before the digital transition, WWTD-LP was granted a construction permit for a corresponding digital signal on channel 38. The station was later displaced by

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to channel 14, as any low-powered station must move if a full-powered station wants its channel allocation. WWTD-LP

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to digital as WWTD-LD on July 19, 2011, in order to reuse its existing antenna and

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. Through the use of

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, digital television receivers display as channels 49.1 to 49.6. The station added two channels from

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beginning February 1, 2015:

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on channel 49.4 and

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on 49.5.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wwtd-Ld Television channels and stations established in 1990 Low-power television stations in the United States WTD-LD