WELL-LD
WELL-LD is a low-power, evangelical Christian television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts locally in digital on UHF channel 30 as a Daystar Television Network owned-and-operated station.
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.
On February 18, 2010 Daystar launched a digital signal at the same location of WELL-LP's current facility under the call sign WELL-LD on UHF channel 30, with its city of license moved to Philadelphia; the analog signal on channel 8 closed soon afterward.
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KYW (3.1 CBS) · WPVI (6.1 ABC, 6.2 LWN HD, 6.3 LWN SD) · WWJT-LP 7 (Ind) · WELL-LD (8.1 Daystar) · WCAU (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Nonstop, 10.3 USTN) · WHYY (12.1 PBS, 12.2 Create, 12.3 World) · WPHL (17.1 MNTV, 17.2 Antenna TV, 17.3 This TV, 17.4 Tango Traffic) · WNJS (23.1 PBS / NJTV) · WFPA-CA 28 (TFU) · WTXF (29.1 Fox) · WZPA-LP 33 (AZA) · WQAV-LP 34 (AV/Ind) · WYBE (35.1 Public Ind, 35.2 NHK World, 35.3 MHz WorldView, 35.66 WFME-DT1 simulcast) · WPHA-CA 38 (Ind) · WWDD-LP 40 (DS) · WNAI-LP 41 (HSN) · WGTW (48.1 TBN, 48.2 Church, 48.3 JCTV, 48.4 Enlace, 48.5 Smile) · WPSG (57.1 CW) · WPPX (61.1 ION, 61.2 Qubo, 61.3 ION Life) · WUVP (65.1 UNI, 65.2 WFPA-CA)
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Pennsylvania Broadcast television: Binghamton, NY • Buffalo, NY • Elmira, NY • Erie • Johnstown/Altoona/State College • New York City • Philadelphia • Pittsburgh • Scranton/Wilkes-Barre • Susquehanna Valley (Harrisburg) • Washington, DC • Youngstown, OH
See also Baltimore TV, Salisbury TV
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Independent Stations: WSCP-CA 13 (Johnstown/Altoona/State College) - WYBE 35 (Philadelphia)* - WGCB-TV 49 (Red Lion) - WTVE 51 (Reading) - WBGN-LP 59 (Pittsburgh) - WJAL 68 (Chambersburg/Hagerstown) - WFMZ-TV 69 (Allentown)
Religious Stations: W07BV / W19CI (EWTN, Scranton) - WELL-LD 8 (Daystar, Philadelphia) - W35BT 35 (CSTV, Dillsburg) - WPCB-TV 40 (CSTV, Greensburg) - WKBS-TV 47 (CSTV, Altoona) - WBPH-TV 60 (FamilyNet, Allentown)
Other Stations: WINP-TV 16 (ShopNBC/ION/Qubo/ION Life, Pittsburgh) - WFPA-CA 28 (TeleFutura, Philadelphia) - WIIC-LP 29 (Unknown, Pittsburgh) - WBYD-CA 35 (S@H, Pittsburgh) - WYLN-LP 35 (A1, Hazleton) - WLLS-LP 49 (A1, Indiana)
*WYBE is a non-commercial independent station. See article.
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See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Pennsylvania
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KCBU 3.1 (Price, UT) • KDTN 2.1 (Denton, TX) • KDYW 34.1 (Waco, TX) • KTLJ 22.1 (Galveston, TX) • KOCE 48.3 (Huntingdon Beach, CA) • KQUP 24.1 (Pullman, WA) • KQVE-LP 46 (San Antonio, TX) • KSXC-LP 5 (Sioux City, IA) • KUTF 12.1 (Logan, UT) • KWBM 31.1 (Springfield, MO) • KWBN 44.1 (Honolulu, HI) • WBBZ-TV 67.4 (Buffalo, NY) • WBIF 51.1 (Panama City, FL) • WCDN-LP 53 (Cleveland, OH) • WDCI-LP 57.1 (Chicago, IL) • WDMI-LD 62.1 (Minneapolis, MN) • WDPM-DT 4.1/31.1 (Pensacola, FL/Mobile, AL) • WELL-LP 8 (Willow Grove, PA) • WKOB-LP 8 (New York City, NY) • WNYI 52.1 (Ithaca, NY/Syracuse, NY/Elmira, NY) • WRID-LP 48 (Richmond, VA) • WTSF 44.1/61.1 (Ashland KY/Huntington, WV) • WUDT-LD 8.1/23.1 (Detroit, MI/Windsor, ON) • WYDN 48.1 (Worcester/Boston, MA)
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