WWTO-TV

WWTO-TV
LaSalle, Illinois
Channels Digital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 35 (PSIP)
Affiliations TBN
Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc.
(TCCSA, Inc., d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network)
First air date December 1986[1][2]
Call letters' meaning Wide
World of
TOmorrow
Former callsigns Digital:
WWTO-DT (2003–2009)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
35 (1986–2009)
Transmitter power 80 kW
Height 415 metres (1,362 ft)
Facility ID 998
Transmitter coordinates (NAD83)
Website http://www.tbn.org

WWTO-TV is a television station licensed to LaSalle, Illinois, owned-and-operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, broadcasting a digital signal on VHF channel 10. Before 2009, the station broadcasted on analog channel 35. Though nominally within the Chicago television media market, LaSalle is geographically at the far edges of several television markets.

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Digital subchannels

This station's digital signal, like most other full-service TBN owned-and-operated stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.

Channel Video Name Programming
35.1 480i TBN Main network programming
35.2 480i The Church Channel Televised church services
35.3 480i JCTV Christian music videos and other programs for ages 12-34
35.4 480i Enlace USA Spanish-language religious programming
35.5 480i Smile of a Child TV E/I children's programming

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.

History

The first station to broadcast on channel 35 from LaSalle went on the air on November 7, 1957 as WEEQ, a broadcast relay station of WEEK-TV in Peoria.[3][4] WEEK and WEEQ were acquired by a company related to Kerr-McGee, but sold off after Senator Robert S. Kerr's death.[5] The sale, approved by the FCC on 13 July 1966, was for $3,088,650 ($20,902,400 adjusted for inflation) and transferred the stations to Mid-America Television Co., owned by Kansas City Southern Industries.[6] The station still appeared in the 1973 Broadcasting Yearbook but not the 1974 edition.

WWTO-TV began its operations in early December 1986.[1][2]

Cable carriage

LaSalle lies at the far western end of its nominal Chicago media market. The Federal Communications Commission has declared many communities in Chicago area cable systems to be outside WWTO-TV's market, and denied must-carry status. In 1997 ruling in favor of Time Warner Cable, the FCC noted that "WWTO-TV has at best a minimal viewing presence in the Chicago, ADI as a whole, and the communities are located approximately 65 to 70 miles from WWTO-TV. Furthermore, the station has never been carried on the cable system in question, offers no programming specifically for the relevant communities, and provides no over-the air signal coverage of the Communities."[7] The FCC made a similar ruing in 1999 concerning dozens of cable services in McHenry, DuPage, Lake, Cook, Kane, and Will Counties in Illinois and Lake, Porter, LaPorte and, Jasper Counties in Indiana. In that order, the FCC noted that "out of the 10 counties herein, the A.C. Nielsen 1997 County/Coverage Survey does not even list WWTO-TV and for the one where it is listed, Will County, only minimal viewership is recorded."[2]

With the switch of many of Comcast's Chicago systems to analog to digital-exclusive, that provider has added WWTO and its subchannel services to their system, with each of the services segmented according to genre: JCTV is within the music tier for instance, while TBN and The Church Channel are near other traditional religious networks. It is likely however that the services are acquired directly via satellite from Olympusat (which contracts to provide the TBN networks to cable providers) due to the distance between LaSalle and Chicago and the need for a viewable signal.

Translators

Until 2010, WWTO rebroadcast its signal on translators throughout Northern and Central Illinois; however, due to financial strains endured by TBN, these translators closed down in early 2010.

External links

References

  1. ^ a b For the 1986 air date, the Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says December 1, while the Television and Cable Factbook says December 5.
  2. ^ a b c DA-99-307: Memorandum Option and Order: Jones Cable TV Fund 12-A, Ltd./Jones Cable TV Fund 15-A, Ltd. and TCI of Illinois, Inc. and its Affiliates. For Modification of the ADI of Station WWTO-TV, LaSalle, Illinois. CSR-5314-A and CSR-5315-A. Federal Communications Commission. 5 February 1997. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  3. ^ 1960 Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc.. 1960. p. A-39. http://www.davidgleason.com/Broadcasting%201960%20Yearbook%20Page%20Range%20Guide_files/1-100%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201960.pdf#page=39. 
  4. ^ Quick, Doug (2009-03-13). "Other Television History". Vermilion County, Illinois. http://www.dougquick.com/othertelevisionhistory2.html. Retrieved 2009-09-29. 
  5. ^ Corarito, Gregory (1967). "Chapter 4: KVOO". The History and Development of Television in Tulsa, Oklahoma. University of Tulsa, Graduate School. http://tulsatvmemories.com/tvthesi4.html.  Thesis cites Tulsa Tribune of 5 December 1957 as its reference for Kerr-McGee adding some stations.
  6. ^ 1967 Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc.. 1967. p. A-96. http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1967/A%20TV%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201967-2.pdf#page=94. 
  7. ^ DA-97-545: Memorandum Option and Order: Time Warner Entertainment - Advance Newhouse Partnership, dba Time Warner Cable. Granted petition for special relief for modification of the television market of Station WWTO-TV, La Salle, Illinois. Federal Communications Commission. 14 March 1997. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  8. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 28, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1365766&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=1006. Retrieved April 29, 2010. 
  9. ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1368700&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=68061
  10. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 27, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1365565&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=988. Retrieved April 28, 2010. 
  11. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 26, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1365221&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=67930. Retrieved April 27, 2010. 
  12. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 13, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1369021&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=68045. Retrieved May 14, 2010. 
  13. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 27, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1365552&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=994. Retrieved April 28, 2010. 
  14. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 28, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1365701&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=1007. Retrieved April 29, 2010. 
  15. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 14, 2010. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1369104&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=1013. Retrieved May 17, 2010. 
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