WAST-LP
- For the former WAST-TV in Albany, New York, see WNYT (TV).
| Ashland, Wisconsin | |
|---|---|
| Branding | True North TV-25 |
| Channels | Analog: 25 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Defunct |
| Owner |
Martinsen Investments (True North TV 25 LLC) |
| Founded | January 12, 1995 |
| Last air date | August 1, 2006 |
| Call letters' meaning | Wisconsin AShland Television |
| Former callsigns | W25CA (1995-2000) |
| Former affiliations |
America One (1995-2005) UPN (2005-2006) |
| Transmitter power | 52 kW |
WAST-LP was a low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin, broadcasting locally on UHF channel 25 and cable channel 9 as a UPN affiliate. The station was a semi-satellite of KBJR's second digital subchannel, then-called Northland UPN and Northland 9, but was owned by a separate entity, Martinsen Investments, which also owns a large percentage of the property in Ashland. The station sold local advertising specifically for the Ashland area, pre-empting KBJR-DT2's advertising breaks.
The station once carried its own local newscasts, concentrating on Ashland and northern Wisconsin events, but they were canceled after the LMA to simulcast KBJR-DT2 went into effect, accompanied by the staff reduced to a skeleton crew to keep the station in operation with the KBJR-DT2 rebroadcast.
On August 1, 2006, the station ended operations and went off the air, a month short of KBJR-DT2's conversion to MyNetworkTV. Despite being off the air for eight years, long after most stations licenses are cancelled for not broadcasting, WAST-LP's license remained active until January 3, 2014 when its previous license to broadcast was fully exhausted.[1]
References
- ↑ Hashemzadeh, Hossein (January 3, 2014). "In re: LPTV/TV Translator Station…" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
External links
- Business North: "Mavericks plan to relaunch Ashland TV station" (from March 2005)
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WAST