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WPNM-LP, UHF analog channel 27, is a low-powered television station licensed to Leipsic, Ohio, United States. It translates station WOHL-CD (channel 15), which is affiliated with the ABC (35.1) and CBS (35.2) television networks. WPNM-LP's transmitter is located at the corner of County Road Y, and County Road 2, in NE Putnam County. WPNM-LD is owned by Block Communications, it is a sister station to WOHL-CD, full-powered dual NBC/Fox affiliate WLIO (channel 8), and low-powered digital station WAMS-LD which is presently off the air during the F.C.C. Repack (Incentive Auction) but will return in 2020 on channel 29 from Minster, Ohio.
History
The station signed-on May 28, 1996 with the calls W18BP as a full-time translator of sister station WOHL-CA (now WOHL-CD). It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 18. The channel was spun off in 1999 and became a UPN affiliate in 1999 with the calls WLQP-LP.
In 2006, UPN merged with The WB to form The CW and chose as its Lima affiliate WB 100+ station "WBOH", operated by then-rival NBC affiliate WLIO. At the same time, Fox, the network with which WOHL-CA, WLQP-LP's sister station, was affiliated, was forming MyNetworkTV for UPN and WB affiliates that were not chosen. Metro Video Productions, both stations' owners, opted to pursue the MyNetworkTV affiliation on behalf of WOHL-CA and signed an affiliation deal for WLQP-LP with ABC. The deal took effect on September 1, restoring ABC to the Lima area for the first time since WLIO dropped its secondary ABC affiliation in 1982; thereafter, the network's affiliates in Columbus (WSYX), Dayton (first WDTN, then WKEF after August 2004), Fort Wayne (WPTA), and Toledo (first WNWO-TV, then WTVG after October 1995) served as the network's default affiliates for the market. At one point, WLQP-LP carried America One on secondary basis that was shared with WLMO. In 2006, WLQP-LP applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to perform a "flash-cut" of its signal to digital. However, in mid-2009, the station decided instead to apply for a displacement low-power digital station on UHF channel 45 with the calls WLQP-LD. On June 8, 2010, the FCC granted WLQP-LP a construction permit for their new digital signal. On September 28, 2009, WLMO terminated their analog operations and programming was shifted to WOHL-CD.
On November 29, 2008, it was announced that Metro Video Productions would sell its stations to West Central Ohio Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Block Communications (owner of WLIO). While Block assumed control of the station's operations after the sale's completion, it was initially stated that the company would not consolidate WLQP-LP's facilities on South Central Avenue with WLIO. It has since been stated that some consolidation would take place with this station moving to WLIO's studios on Rice Avenue.
On September 28, 2009, WLQP-LP terminated its analog operations and programming was shifted to WOHL-CD. Fox and MyNetworkTV programming which had been seen on that channel continues to be aired on WLIO-DT2 as well as Charter Spectrum channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 709. To avoid automatic license termination, on June 10, 2010, the FCC granted WLQP-LP special temporary authority to restore analog service on WOHL's former analog allotment on channel 25 because of interference with NBC affiliate WISE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana which is currently operating its digital signal on channel 18. WLQP's analog signal was restored on September 13. WLQP-LP's previous logo looks similar to Medford, Oregon's KDRV which is also an ABC affiliate. However, neither station is related to the other.
On November 7, 2018, WLQP-LP's call sign was changed to WPNM-LP. By 2019, Block Communications had filed with the FCC to eventually convert WPNM-LP into a digital translator of WOHL-CD for the northern part of the market, licensed to Leipsic, Ohio, offering ABC and CBS programming over digital channels 27.5 and 27.6, virtually mapped to channels 35.1 and 35.2, respectively, in likely anticipation of the new July 13, 2021 low-power analog television shutdown date announced by the FCC on May 17, 2017.
On November 21, 2019. WPNM-LD signed on the air under a Construction Permit issued by the Federal Communications Commission. The station uses a Gates Air ULXTE-6 transmitter with Alive Telecom antenna. The analog transmission from Rice Avenue was shut-down, and equipment deactivated.
References
- https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101340694&formid=346&fac_num=21476
- http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1340694.pdf
- "Phipps flips Lima low-power cluster". Television Business Report. November 29, 2008. Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
- Sowinski, Greg (December 2, 2008). "WLIO owner buys Fox affiliate, other stations for $2.4 million". The Lima News. Archived from the original on December 6, 2008. Retrieved December 2, 2008.
- Linkhorn, Tyrel (February 6, 2009). "Sale of WOHL to WLIO parent company complete". The Lima News. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
- https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101336229&formid=910&fac_num=21476
- http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1359104&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=21476
- https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101336232&formid=911&fac_num=21476
- http://wlio.net/index.php?entry=entry100913-153749
- "Media Bureau Call Sign Actions" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 14, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- Cite error: The named reference
wpnm-ldwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - "The Incentive Auction Task Force and Media Bureau Announce Procedures for Low Power Television, Television Translator and Replacement Translator Stations During the Post-Incentive Auction Transition" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. May 17, 2017.
External links
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