WAST-LP

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For the former WAST-TV in Albany, New York, see WNYT.

WAST-LP
Ashland, Wisconsin
Branding	True North TV-25
Channels	25 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	Defunct
Owner	True North TV 25 LLC
Founded	January 12, 1995 (operations ceased August 2006)
Call letters meaning	Wisconsin AShland Television
Former callsigns	W25CA (1995-2000)
Former affiliations	America One (until 2005) UPN (2005-2006)
Transmitter Power	52 kW

WAST-LP was a low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin, broadcasting locally on UHF channel 25 and cable channel 9 as a UPN affiliate. The station was a semi-satellite of KBJR's digital subchannel, then-called Northland UPN and Northland 9, but was owned by a separate entity, Martinsen Investments which also owns a large percentage of the property in Ashland including rentals of all kinds, restaraunts, the BIA building, hotel(s), and more.
The station once carried its own local newscasts, concentrating on Ashland and northern Wisconsin events, but they were cancelled after a sudden change in management accompanied by employee upheaval which resulted in the entire staff being fired on the spot. Additionally, local commercials were sold by WAST. In August 2006, the station stopped its operations and went off the air. While the station was on the air it played mainly poor quality talk shows and court shows.

[edit] External links

• Business North: "Mavericks plan to relaunch Ashland TV station" (from March 2005)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WAST