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This is a list of stations owned by Innovate Corp. either under the HC2 Broadcasting, HC2 Holdings or DTV America holding company names. Innovate owns and operates 251 television stations, 248 of which are low-power facilities (with 39 as Class A licenses) and three of which operate as full-service facilities. These stations span across 112 designated market areas in the United States ranging from as large as New York, New York, to as small as Quincy, Illinois, and Traverse City, Michigan.

These stations have no local operations and rely almost entirely upon outsourced programming from third parties or the 24-hour feeds of digital multicast television networks for content. Station identification is crudely inserted from Innovate's central hub without regard to each network's local insertion opportunity and midstream during programming. There is no differentiation in the sequence, all made up of a ten-second PowerPoint slide with calls, channel number and city of license in italicized Calibri, and an inexplicably-placed default clock wipe in the middle of the sequence using the same production music cut. Some station identifications at times have displayed incorrect or out-of-date cities of license, or even the wrong identification for another station on the other side of the United States.

Innovate's companies sometimes operate on licenses for stations hundred of miles away, and "jump" their city of license multiple times until they land in the right metropolitan area; in one case, a station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, instead serves St. Louis, and is low power, not even having rimshot coverage of a part of the Springfield market.

One of their networks, Azteca América, was owned by Innovate Corp. until ending operations on December 31, 2022. Former affiliates of Azteca América, many of which have not announced replacement programming, are listed as <Was AA>.

Current stations

Former stations

Notes

1. Nominally licensed to Van Nuys, California.
2. Nominally licensed to DeSoto, Texas.
3. Nominally licensed to Mesquite, Texas.
4. Nominally licensed to Macon, Georgia.
5. Nominally licensed to Concord, New Hampshire.
6. Nominally licensed to Rochester, Minnesota.
7. ^ Nominally licensed to Canton, Ohio.
8. owned by Amazing Facts Inc, operated by HC2
9. Nominally licensed to Stockton, California, but signal does not reach there.
10. Nominally licensed to Florence, South Carolina.
11. Nominally licensed to Lumberton, North Carolina.
12. The two New Athens LPTVs have different cities of license. W09DL-D is licensed to Mount Vernon, Illinois, which it does not cover. WLEH-LD is erroneously listed by the FCC as licensed to "St. Louis, Illinois"; the transmitters barely cover areas on the other side of the Mississippi River.
13. Nominally licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky.
14. Nominally licensed to White House, Tennessee.
15. Nominally licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts.
16. Nominally licensed to Topeka, Kansas.
17. WDOX-LD and WXOD-LD are nominally licensed to Palm Beach, Florida.
18. Nominally licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky.
19. Nominally licensed to Gainesville, Florida.
20. Nominally licensed to Ocala, Florida.
21. Nominally licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
22. Nominally licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
23. KENH-LD and KWMO-LD are nominally licensed to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
24. Nominally licensed to Midland, Michigan.
25. Between Lafayette and Baton Rouge, but reaching neither city.
26. The transmitter is equidistant between Lincoln and Omaha.
27. Nominally licensed to Wolcott, Indiana.
28. KCEB (licensed to Longview, Texas) is a full-service TV station hosted by the low-power KPKN-LD.
29. W30EH-D is operating in ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) format.
30. Nominally licensed to Crowley, Louisiana.
31. Nominally licensed to Lumberton, Mississippi.
32. Nominally licensed to Lincoln, Nebraska.
33. Nominally licensed to Quincy, Illinois.
34. ^ Gray traded this station to Edge Spectrum in 2019 in exchange for WGCW-LD.
35. Converted into a replacement signal for CBS affiliate WIFR-TV after the FCC's Broadcast incentive auction.
36. Signed on by Woodland as ABC affiliate WPBY-LD.
37. A 2018 purchase attempt by Roseland Broadcasting (with Bahakel Communications operating via an SSA) failed to be consummated.
38. Converted by Gray into Telemundo affiliate WBGS-LD.
39. Signed on by SagamoreHill as NBC affiliate WVNC-LD.
40. Signed on as KNXG-LD, an ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) simulcast of KBTX.
41. Signed on as K28QF-D, a translator for Sherman, Texas, CBS affiliate KXII.

References

1. "Stations for Owner - HC2 Holdings". RabbitEars. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
2. "Subchannel Listing". HC2 Broadcasting. Innovate Corp. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
3. ^
   • "Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $720,000". TVNewsCheck. August 2, 2016. Archived from the original on February 20, 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
   • "APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF A CORPORATE LICENSEE OR PERMITTEE, OR FOR ASSIGNMENT OF LICENSE OR PERMIT OF TV OR FM TRANSLATOR STATION OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. July 28, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
4. "Low Power Digital TV Assignment of Authorization: BAPDTL-20181005AAN". Federal Communications Commission. October 5, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
5. ^ Jacobson, Adam (June 17, 2019). "Licensee Problems Lead To SagamoreHill Deal Shift". Radio & Television Business Report. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
6. ^ Miller, Mark (May 19, 2021). "Station Trading Roundup: 3 Deals, $62,500". TV News Check. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
7. Ellis, Jon (August 23, 2021). "Update: Christian Network Completes Purchase of Iowa City TV Station". NorthPine: Upper Midwest Broadcasting. Retrieved January 28, 2023.
8. RabbitEars TV Query for KNXG-LD

External links

• Innovate Corp. - official website
• HC2 Broadcasting - official website
• DTV America - official website