WDFM-LP

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WDFM-LP
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Defiance, Ohio
Branding TV 26
Slogan Community Television for Northwest Ohio
Channels Analog: 26 (UHF)

Digital: no

Affiliations independent
Owner Clear Channel Communications
(Citicasters Licenses)
Founded 1992
Call letters’ meaning W Defiance FM
(after its sister radio station)
Former callsigns W19BN (1992-1997)
Former affiliations none
Transmitter Power 7.5 kW
Height 182 m
Class Translator station
Facility ID 73389
Transmitter Coordinates 41°17′29.0″N, 84°32′15.0″W
Website http://www.tv26.net

WDFM-LP is a low-power television station (LPTV) licensed to serve Defiance, Ohio in the Toledo DMA. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

WDFM-LP is operated by Clear Channel's WDFM radio (98.1 MHz). The station broadcasts from a broadcast antenna tower located in Sherwood, Ohio.

Programming on WDFM-LP is basically local programming, with spotlights of people, places, events and businesses in Defiance, Fulton, Williams and Henry Counties under the All Around... banner, along with local advertising. WDFM-LP's signal carries to most of the five Ohio counties of Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding and Williams Counties. WDFM-LP also carries weather reports and radar, provided by Fort Wayne's Indiana's NewsCenter.

It has also been determined to be a "must-carry" station by the FCC which means its signal is on all local cable systems in addition to its over-the-air coverage.

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Lankenau Small Media Network, who owned WDFM-FM 98.1, established WDFM-LP in 1992 on channel 19, as W19BN. In March 1997, its calls would change to WDFM-LP.

In December 1998, Jacor Broadcasting (which would later merge with Clear Channel) acquires WDFM-FM and WDFM-LP from Lankenau.

WDFM-LP would later move its frequency from channel 19 to channel 26, to make way for the digital signal of Fort Wayne's WISE-TV, which broadcasts its digital signal on channel 19.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television.[1] However, WDFM-LP was not included in the sale, as it was operated directly by the radio station, instead of Clear Channel's television group. This, in effect, made WDFM-LP the only remaining television station in the Clear Channel family.

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