WNYI

WNYI
kW;
HAAT	260 m (853 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	42°48′5.2″N 76°26′12.8″W / 42.801444°N 76.436889°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.daystar.com

WNYI (channel 52) is a

UHF channel 38 from a transmitter in Onondaga

.

History

The original

color bars from a tower location near Ithaca College.^[4]

The station was sold to Caroline Pawley in June 2003

full service station despite its low signal power terrestrially, had applied for must-carry access to Time Warner Cable in Syracuse in May 2005.^[7]

While Ithaca is nominally in the Syracuse market area, the terrestrial WNYI signal had always been inadequate to reach Syracuse or other communities outside of Ithaca itself. The station had made various applications for an increase in licensed power but no decisions had been made by the FCC on these requests.

WNYI was the only full-service television station in upstate New York to provide Spanish language programming.

At auction on April 16, 2009, Daystar bought WNYI, pending approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Daystar changed programming to its namesake network.

Spectrum

), causing little to no impact for viewers, and due to various technical issues which often plagued Equity's stations, steadied the area's access to the network.

Technical information

Subchannels

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming^[9]
52.1	1080i	16:9	WNYI-HD	Daystar
38.2	480i	16:9	WDSS-LD	Daystar Español

Analog-to-digital conversion

WNYI shut down its analog signal, over

construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.^[11]

Both the ability of WNYI to transition to digital and its ability to continue broadcasting were directly jeopardized as on December 8, 2008, the

analog broadcasting on (the end of DTV transition in) 2009, regardless of whether digital facilities are operational by that date. The station will file authority to remain silent if so required by the FCC."^[12]

While the

full service

station on a frequency which is to be reallocated for non-broadcast use at the end of the digital television transition.

On June 12, 2009, a license to cover was granted to Word of God Fellowship for WNYI by the FCC.[14] That firm was required to construct digital television facilities on an in-core frequency before WNYI could be returned to the air, which needed to occur before June 12, 2010, lest the license be automatically forfeited to the FCC. On the weekend of May 22–23, WNYI commenced digital broadcasts on channel 20, within weeks of its license deadline.^[15]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for WNYI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ "WNYI Channel 52 Television".
^ "CDBS Print".
^ Northeast Radio Watch, December 2002 WNYI as "the long-delayed debut of a TV station that almost didn't make it"
^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=625629 ^{[dead link]}
^ Northeast Radio Watch, April 2004 announcement of Equity acquisition of WNYI, WNGS
^ SPANISH-LANGUAGE TV SEEKING CABLE ACCESS; STATION IN ITHACA INSISTS TIME WARNER MUST CARRY ITS PROGRAMS IN CNY, William LaRue, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), May 24, 2005
^ "Web Page Under Construction". Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2009.
^ RabbitEars TV Query for WNYI
^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.
^ "Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115".
^ "CDBS Print".
^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1284597 ^{[dead link]}
^ "CDBS Print".
^ Fybush, Scott (May 24, 2010). Two Station Sales in New York. NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved 2010-05-24.

[1] "Facility Technical Data for WNYI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] "WNYI Channel 52 Television".

[3] "CDBS Print".

[4] Northeast Radio Watch, December 2002 WNYI as "the long-delayed debut of a TV station that almost didn't make it"

[5] ttp://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=625629 ^{[dead link]}

[6] Northeast Radio Watch, April 2004 announcement of Equity acquisition of WNYI, WNGS

[7] SPANISH-LANGUAGE TV SEEKING CABLE ACCESS; STATION IN ITHACA INSISTS TIME WARNER MUST CARRY ITS PROGRAMS IN CNY, William LaRue, The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), May 24, 2005

[8] "Web Page Under Construction". Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2009.

[9] RabbitEars TV Query for WNYI

[10] "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.

[11] "Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115".

[12] "CDBS Print".

[13] ttp://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1284597 ^{[dead link]}

[14] "CDBS Print".

[fybush524-15] Fybush, Scott (May 24, 2010). Two Station Sales in New York. NorthEast Radio Watch. Retrieved 2010-05-24.

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