WMUN-CD
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Founded | January 4, 1988 |
Last air date | August 28, 2017 | (license cancelled)
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 73207 |
Class | CD |
ERP | 15 kW |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°45′8.1″N 73°58′2.1″W / 40.752250°N 73.967250°W |
Translator(s) | W19EH-D Stamford, CT |
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WMUN-CD (channel 45) was a low-power, Class A television station in New York City. The station was owned by Local Media TV Holdings.
History[edit]
As W57BC, WLIG, and WLNY[edit]
Founded in 1988, the station was owned by WLIG (now WLNY-TV). It was an independent translator station out of Mineola, New York, after W44AI (later WNYX-LD) moved the license to New York City as an independent station airing public access TV. In the following years, the call letters changed to WLIG-LP in 1995, to WLNY-LP in 1996, and to WLIG-CD in 2010. Despite the call changes, the programming stayed much the same. After WLNY-TV was sold to CBS Television Stations, the translator station was sold to Local Media in 2012 and temporarily ceased broadcasting.
As WMUN-CD[edit]
In mid-2012, the call letters changed to WMUN-CD, and the station began running Classic Arts Showcase full-time. By late 2012, CAS was dropped and the station began airing infomercials. The following year, children's programming was added to fulfill E/I requirements, plus locally produced programming such as Community Impact. In the summer of 2014, The Balancing Act was added to the station's afternoon lineup.
WMUN-CD was the third television station that operated W19EH-D as a translator, behind WEBR-CD, WCBS-TV and WPIX.
Community Impact was moved to late afternoons in 2015, and additional children's programming was added for an hour on weekday and weekend afternoons, thus exceeding the E/I requirements. A few weeks later, the children's programming, along with public affairs programming, was dropped and the station began to air infomercials full-time. The following year, E/I programming returned on the air.
On April 13, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that WMUN-CD was a successful bidder in the spectrum auction, and would be surrendering its license in exchange for $23,191,413.[2] Local Media TV surrendered WMUN-CD's license to the FCC for cancellation on August 28, 2017.
Subchannels[edit]
The station's signal was multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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45.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WMUN-CD | Infomercials |
45.2 | WMUN-2 | Jewelry TV |
In March 2015, home shopping channel Jewelry TV was added to the station's 45.2 sub-channel under the name WMUN-2.
References[edit]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WMUN-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction — Auction 1001 Winning Bids
External links[edit]
- 1988 establishments in New York (state)
- 2017 disestablishments in New York (state)
- Defunct mass media in New York (state)
- Defunct television stations in the United States
- Low-power television stations in New York (state)
- Mineola, New York
- Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
- Television channels and stations established in 1988
- Television stations in New York City
- Northeastern United States television station stubs