WLPD-CD
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| City | Plano, Illinois |
| Channels | |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 30.2TBN Inspire for others, seeWWTO-TV#Subchannels |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WWTO-TV | |
| History | |
| Founded | June 30, 1988 |
Former call signs | WLPD-LP: W30AL (1988–1997) WSPY-LP (1997–2013) WLPD-CD: WSPY-LD (2011–2013) WSPY-CD (2013) |
| AIN(secondary) America One/Youtoo TV | |
Call signmeaning | LocusPoint Digital (station's owner from 2013–2018) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 189058 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 373.1 m (1,224 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°53′56.1″N87°37′23.2″W/ 41.898917°N 87.623111°W |
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Public license information | |
WLPD-CD(channel 30) is alow-power,Class Areligioustelevision stationlicensed toPlano, Illinois,United States. Owned by theTrinity Broadcasting Network,the station carries itsdigital multicast channelTBN Inspire,along with ahigh-definitionsimulcast ofSmileon its second subchannel. WLPD-CD issistertoNaperville-licensed TBN stationWWTO-TV(channel 35); through achannel sharingagreement, the two stations transmit using WLPD-CD's spectrum from an antenna atop theJohn Hancock Center.
History[edit]
WLPD-CD was founded June 30, 1988 asW30AL,a sister station ofWSPY-FM(107.1). It used tosimulcaston former sister stationW24AJ(channel 24) in Aurora, before it was sold to Polnet in the summer of 2009. In the 2011 edition of theSandwichFair Times,they stated that they would sign on "DTV 35" in November 2011, with two additional subchannels yet to be determined, with "twice the amount of power as before".
The station was sold toLocusPoint Networksfor $6 million on May 10, 2013.[2]It was then sold to TBN in late January 2018 for $13 million; LocusPoint had already established a channel sharing agreement with TBN, which moved its WWTO-TV (then licensed toLa Salle) onto the space in November 2017.[3]In October 2019, switched from 35 to 32 in Chicago, Illinois.
References[edit]
- ^"Facility Technical Data for WLPD-CD".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"WSPY-CD Plano, IL, Sold For $6 Million - TVNewsCheck.com".www.tvnewscheck.com.Retrieved2 March2018.
- ^"Trinity Buying New York And Chicago LPTVs".TVNewsCheck.30 January 2018.Retrieved30 January2018.
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