WPVS-LD
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HAAT | 229.2 m (752 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°5′46.2″N 87°54′15″W / 43.096167°N 87.90417°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
WPVS-LD (channel 29) is a
History
In Sheboygan
For seventeen years, the station acted as the local translator station for
Several factors influenced the sale of the station, including a declining audience via antenna for TBN's translator stations, and the signals of religious stations WTLJ (channel 54) and WLLA (channel 64) from Western Michigan being easily receivable during the summer months in the Sheboygan area.
The launch by TBN of
The station was taken
FCC records indicate that the station returned to the air on channel 29 as W29DJ on March 6, 2008, but from a different transmitter located south of
A return to Sheboygan became unlikely around July 2008, when the tower, transmitter, and TBN's satellite equipment was removed from the Weeden Creek Road site after LTC ended their lease with the city of Sheboygan for the land within the industrial park, leaving only the transmitter shed remaining for storage; it was eventually sold off for new development to a local commercial bakery.
The station previously covered the eastern part of
In Milwaukee
According to FCC records, Sheboygan Community Broadcasting sold the station on November 23, 2009, to Polnet Communications, which provides ethnic programming in
A construction permit for channel 36 from the Milwaukee PBS Tower in Milwaukee was contested by Milwaukee PBS (then branded as MPTV) itself, which asserted their existing analog rights from WMVT being on analog channel 36 to place a digital translator station for WMVS there to address inefficiencies with WMVS's digital channel 8 signal in Milwaukee proper. Polnet subsequently withdrew the application for 36 and petitioned for a digital application on channel 30 in early December 2009, also from the Milwaukee PBS Tower. The placement of the station's transmitter in Milwaukee likely meant that Polnet did not intend to keep any kind of service to Sheboygan, and the placement of the analog tower in Random Lake was solely intended to "skip" the station down to Milwaukee, a move allowed under FCC regulations.
On April 9, 2010, the station was reclassified as a low-power station, and took the lettered calls WPVS-LP. On January 3, 2011, the FCC authorized the change of city of license from Sheboygan to Milwaukee[6] with a license expiration of December 2013. The station's license was to expire on December 1, 2021; it has continued to operate under 'silent and licensed' authority from the FCC, with occasional operation from the rented Random Lake site to maintain the license while it looks to permanently operate from the Milwaukee PBS Tower.
On July 31, 2018,
On November 3, 2021, it was announced that SagamoreHill Broadcasting would purchase WPVS-LP for $100,000 under subsidiary Roseland Broadcasting;[1] the sale was completed on June 29, 2022.[10]
The station was licensed for digital operation on channel 9 effective January 14, 2022. As of October 2023, the station broadcasts four subchannels, with the main channel carrying a network of unknown origin called SportStak. Before the end of 2023, when it began to map channels by its originally intended physical channel of 29, it had mapped its channels from channel 9.2 for its physical channel, presumably to avoid any confusion with Chicago's
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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29.1 | 480i | 16:9 |
NOST | NOST |
29.2 | 4:3 |
WPVS-LD | SportStak | |
29.3 | OnTV4U | OnTV4U
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29.4 | 16:9 |
JTV | Jewelry Television | |
29.5 | 4:3 | Sonlife | Sonlife
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References
- ^ a b "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. November 3, 2021. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPVS-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Broadcasting News-April 2007".
- ^ http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/biz/index.php?ntid=202840&ntpid=1 [dead link]
- ^ http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TX1335451.html [dead link]
- ^ "Station Search Details".
- ^ Jacobson, Adam (June 5, 2018). "Windy City LPTV Secured For Azteca Owner". Radio & Television Business Report. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
- ^ "ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT by and between HC2 STATION GROUP, INC., as Buyer, and POLNET COMMUNICATIONS, LTD., as Seller". Federal Communications Commission. July 31, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ^ "Displacement for LPTV Station Application". Federal Communications Commission. August 21, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ^ "Notification of Consummation". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. June 29, 2022. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
- ^ "Digital TV Listing for WPVS". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved October 7, 2023.