WELL-LP

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WELL-LP
Willow Grove/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Channels	Analog: 8 (VHF)
Affiliations	Daystar
Owner	Daystar (Word of God Fellowship, Inc.)
Founded	November 30, 1988
Former callsigns	WELL-CA, W08CR
Transmitter Power	100 W
Height	175 m
Facility ID	10558

WELL-LP is a low-power, evangelical Christian television station in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, serving the Philadelphia market. It broadcasts locally in analog on VHF channel 8 as a Daystar Television Network owned-and-operated station.

[edit] History

The station began as a construction permit issued November 30, 1988 to Charles W. Loughery to build a low-power television station on VHF channel 8, callsign W08CR, to serve Warminster, Pennsylvania. After several extensions of the construction permit, the FCC licensed the station on March 5, 1992. In 1997, Loughery got authorization to move the transmitter and to change the cities of license to Willow Grove and Cheltenham; at the same time, he arranged to sell the station to RJ Broadcasting Company. The sale was completed in September 1997, and the new owners completed the transmitter move and changed the station's call letters to WELL-LP. In October 2000, RJ Broadcasting sold the station to Daystar Television Network, who upgraded the license to Class A and changed the callsign to WELL-CA. Daystar received permission to move the station to UHF channel 15, however, the new channel location created interference to New York City land mobile operations on channel 15, which WELL-CA was not able to resolve. WELL-CA has been forced to apply to move to UHF channel 45, but in the meantime, moved back to channel 8. In October 2006, Daystar changed the license back to non-Class A low-power and changed the station's callsign back to WELL-LP.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WELL-LP

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Philadelphia / Camden / Wilmington market (Nielsen DMA #4) Local stations KYW 3 (CBS) · WPVI 6 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT3) · WELL-LP 8 (DS) · WCAU 10 (NBC; Weather Plus on DT2) · WHYY 12 (PBS) · WPHL 17 (MNTV) · WNJS 23/WNJT 52 (PBS/NJN) · W25AW 25 (A1) · WFPA-CA 28 (TFR; also on WUVP DT2) · WTXF 29 (Fox) · WZPA-LP 33 (Azteca América) · WQAV-LP 34 (AV/Ind) · WYBE 35 (Public) · WLVT 39 (PBS) · W40AZ 40 (Smile; also on WGTW DT5) · WMGM 40 (NBC) · WGTW 48 (TBN) · WTVE 51 (Religious) · WPSG 57 (The CW) · WBPH 60 (FamNet) · WPPX 61 (ION) · WWSI 62 (TEL) · WUVP 65 (UVN) · WFMZ 69 (Ind, AccuWX TV on DT2) Digital-only channels WMCN 44 (Ind) Local cable channels CN8 · Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia · La Salle 56 (La Salle U.) · MCTV 26 (Mercer Co., NJ) Defunct local stations W07CB 7 (Ind.) · WVUE 12 (NBC/DuMont/Ind) · WKBS 48 (Ind) See also Broadcast television in the New York City, Scranton/Wilkes Barre, Baltimore, Washington, Susquehanna Valley markets

v • d • e Other Television Stations in the state of Pennsylvania Independent Stations: WYBE 35 (Philadelphia)* - WGCB 49 (Red Lion) - WTVE 51 (Reading) - WBGN-LP 59 (Pittsburgh) - WJAL 68 (Chambersburg/Hagerstown) - WFMZ 69 (Allentown) Religious Stations: W07BV / W19CI (EWTN, Wilkes-Barre) - WELL-LP 8 (Daystar, Willow Grove) - W35BT 35 (CSTV, Dillsburg) - WPCB 40 / WKBS 47 (CSTV, Greensburg / Altoona) - WBPH 60 (FamilyNet, Allentown) Other Stations: WQEX 16 (ShopNBC, Pittsburgh) - WFPA-CA 28 (TeleFutura, Philadelphia) - WIIC-LP 29 (MTV2, Pittsburgh) - WBYD-CA 35 (S@H, Pittsburgh) - WYLN-LP 35 (A1, Hazelton) - WLLS-LP 49 (A1, Indiana) - WQPX 64 (ION, Scranton) *WYBE is a non-commercial independent station. See article. See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and PBS stations in Pennsylvania