WVNC-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station in Watertown, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, the station maintains studios at Public Square in downtown Watertown, and its transmitter is located on Miser Road in the town of Rutland.[3]
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| Founded | March 24, 2015 |
First air date | December 1, 2016 |
Former call signs | W45EI-D (2015–2016) |
Former channel number(s) | Digital: 45 (UHF, 2016–2020) |
Call sign meaning | Watertown Television North Country |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 188838 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 107.2 m (352 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°58′4.6″N 75°48′21.2″W / 43.967944°N 75.805889°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
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First air date | August 26, 2016 |
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Call sign meaning | disambiguation of WVNC |
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| Facility ID | 182618 |
| ERP | 0.075 kW |
| HAAT | 64.4 m (211 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°38′54.8″N 75°1′6.4″W / 44.648556°N 75.018444°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
Due to WVNC-LD's low-power status, its broadcast radius only covers the immediate Watertown area. Therefore, it must rely on cable and satellite to reach the entire market.
WVNV-LD (channel 45) in Potsdam operates as a translator of WVNC-LD; this station's transmitter is located on Bagdad Road southwest of Potsdam.
History
editAlthough the channel 45 frequency had never been used in Watertown prior to 2015, the adjacent channel 46 was the home of WLOT-LP, Watertown's UPN affiliate, until its owner died in 2005 and the station went dark (its frequency has never been reactivated and would eventually be taken out of service in the late-2010s spectrum reallocation).
On August 28, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the transfer of control of a low-power digital television license in Watertown, W45EI-D, from Sunrise, Florida–based DTV America Corporation to SagamoreHill Broadcasting.[4] The new owners promptly renamed the station WVNC-LD and signed it to an affiliation deal with NBC, giving the Watertown area its first locally-based full-time NBC affiliate. The new station signed on December 1, 2016. Prior to WVNC-LD's sign-on, North Country cable systems received either WSTM-TV in Syracuse or WPTZ in Plattsburgh, depending on the location. WWNY-TV previously had a secondary affiliation with the network until 1995.[5] WPTZ and WSTM-TV are still available on cable along with WVNC-LD.
Programming
editWVNC-LD's main channel clears the entire NBC schedule, including The More You Know, NBC's E/I-compliant block which, as a low-power station, it is not required to clear.
In addition to NBC programming, WVNC-LD operates the Watertown market's Antenna TV affiliate on its LD2 subchannel. Until recently,[when?] WVNC-LD2 also carried programs from the MyNetworkTV programming service, filling in programming for all time slots outside of the MyNetworkTV programming schedule with the Antenna TV schedule.[6][7]
Local programming
editWVNC-LD airs no local news programming, despite station officials stating at its launch that planning was underway to open a news department by early 2018. The station does, however, stream events of local interest on its YouTube channel.
Subchannels
editThe station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 45.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WVNCNBC | NBC |
| 45.2 | 480i | Antenna | Antenna TV | |
| 45.3 | ION | Ion Television | ||
| 45.4 | GritTv | Grit | ||
| 45.5 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 45.6 | CourtTv | Court TV | ||
| 45.7 | QVC | QVC |
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WVNC-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WVNV-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ a b "RabbitEars TV Query for WVNC". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
- ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1731564.pdf [dead link]
- ^ Dwyer, Brian. "NBC will Soon be Local in Watertown; News Department in 2018". Time Warner Cable News. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- ^ "Interactive Affiliate Map". AntennaTV.com. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ www.nbcwatertown.com
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WVNV". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved August 22, 2024.