WYDN

WYDN
Worcester/Boston, Massachusetts
United States
City Worcester, Massachusetts
Channels Digital: 47 (UHF)
Virtual: 48 (PSIP)
Subchannels 48.1 Daystar
Affiliations Daystar (2001–present)
Owner Educational Public Television Corporation
First air date May 5, 1999
Call letters' meaning We're
Your
Daystar
Network station
Former channel number(s) Analog:
48 (UHF, 1999–2009)
Former affiliations Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (1999–2001?)
Transmitter power 365 kW
Height 217 m
Facility ID 18783
Transmitter coordinates 42°18′27″N 71°13′27″W / 42.30750°N 71.22417°W / 42.30750; -71.22417
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.daystar.com

WYDN, virtual channel 48 (UHF digital channel 47), is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station serving Boston, Massachusetts, United States that is licensed to Worcester. The station is owned by the Educational Public Television Corporation subsidiary of Daystar sister company Word of God Fellowship, Inc. WYDN maintains studio facilities located on Sprague Street in Dedham, and its digital transmitter is located at the WBZ-TV tower in Needham, MA. On cable, WYDN is available on Comcast Xfinity digital channel 295 and on Verizon FiOS channel 25.

History

The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1999, as an affiliate of the Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (now God's Learning Channel) network, simulcast from KMLM in Odessa, Texas.[1] WYDN operated its analog transmitter atop Asnebumskit Hill in Paxton (a site which is and has been used by Worcester area FM and TV stations since Major Armstrong put an FM there in the 1940s) until the June 12, 2009 digital transition; its digital transmitter operates from the WBZ-TV tower in Needham. By the early 2000s, the station switched its affiliation to Daystar, after it was acquired by an arm of the network's subsidiary Word of God Fellowship, Inc.; the station had also become available on cable providers throughout the market.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
48.1 480i 16:9 WYDN-DT Main WYDN programming / Daystar

Analog-to-digital conversion

WYDN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 47.[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 48.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-990521.html
  2. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WYDN
  3. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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