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 Analog: 25 (UHF)
Affiliations Defunct
Owner Martinsen Investments
(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.

Additionally, WAST also sold its own commercial time.

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.[citation needed]

In August 2006, the station stopped its operations and went off the air.

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