WKUW-LD

WKUW-LD is a Digital Low-Powered Television Station that is licensed to White House, Tennessee and is expected to serve the Nashville, Tennessee area. The Station is currently Silent.^[2]

History

Originally licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, the station began broadcasting on October 17, 2002, as a TBN translator station, under the call sign W60DC, and was owned and operated by The Trinity Broadcasting Network.

On October 5, 2004, TBN announced that they would sell the translator to Budd Broadcasting. The sale was finalized on December 1, 2004. A year later on June 9, 2005, Budd Broadcasting changed the call sign to WKUW-LP.

On December 31, 2010, Budd Broadcasting took WKUW silent temporarily, to upgrade the station to digital operations and also to relocate the station to the White House, Tennessee, area. The station will also serve the Nashville, Tennessee, area, once the relocation of the station is completed. The station upgraded to digital on Channel 40 and left the Channel 60 position. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display the station's virtual channel as its current UHF digital channel 40 rather than its former UHF analog channel 60, when the station resumes broadcasting. Channel 60 which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. The callsign was also changed to WKUW-LD.

The station is currently silent and it is unknown when the station will resume broadcasting.

In 2015, it was announced that WKUW-LD, along with WKUT-LD will be operated by DTV America Corporation, making WKUW and WKUT the sister station of Bowling Green-based Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV dual affiliate WCZU-LD. ^[3][4]

References

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WKUW
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WKUW-TV
• WKUW-LD REC Broadcast Query