WSPF-CD
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Facility ID | 11559 |
Class | Class A |
ERP | 15 kW |
Transmitter coordinates | 27°49′46.0″N 81°15′59.0″W / 27.829444°N 81.266389°W |
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Public license information |
WSPF-CD,
History
The station first signed on the air in 1989 as W35AJ, which originally operated as an owned-and-operated station of Channel America (in effect, becoming the first network-owned commercial station in the Tampa Bay market). However, the station was operated only intermittently, and would be off the air for weeks at a time. W35AJ was already dark for a couple of years when the St. Petersburg city government acquired the station in February 1995. Until that point, St. Petersburg's government-access television channel, first established in January 1990, was seen exclusively on cable television on cable channel 15 (since moved to digital channel 615 in December 2007). Prior to then, the city presented some programs on a local origination channel on Paragon Cable (since succeeded by Bright House Networks and Charter Communications).
Under the ownership of the City of St. Petersburg, the station broadcast City Council meetings and other public service programming for area residents, including the required three weekly hours of
On November 3, 2011, it was announced that the City of St. Petersburg was in discussions to sell WSPF-CA to
On or around June 30, 2012, WSPF-CA signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 38, the frequency formerly used by the analog signal of
On May 30, 2014, it was announced that WSPF-CD would be carried market-wide on Bright House for its digital cable subscribers, beginning August 1.[3]
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's signal is
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[4] |
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35.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
WSPF-CD | Main WSPF-CD programming / TCT |
35.2 | 480i | 4:3 |
Coming | No content - 100% color bars pattern |
35.3 | ShopLC | Shop LC | ||
35.4 | Coming | No content - 100% color bars pattern | ||
35.5 | 16:9 |
America | América Tevé |
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WSPF-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ a b St. Petersburg Times: "City's TV channel may have a buyer", November 4, 2011.
- ^ Bright House Networks ad in Tampa Bay Times, May 30, 2014.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WSPF-CD