WXON-LD
WXON-LD is an independent low-power television station in Flint, Michigan and licensed to Millington, Michigan. It is not to be confused with the former WXON-TV, which is now WMYD, the independent station in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario—the station's owners, P&P Cable Holdings, got the WXON calls shortly after that station became WDWB—then of which becoming WMYD. P&P is known for picking up calls no longer used by Michigan's TV and radio stations and reusing them for their own LPTV properties.
Channels | |
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Programming | |
Affiliations | 9.1 Retro TV 9.2 Ace TV 9.3 Jewelry TV 9.4 Rev'n 9.5 The Family Channel 9.6 QVC 9.7 Heartland[1] |
Ownership | |
Owner | P & P Cable Holdings |
History | |
Founded | December 22, 1999 |
Former call signs | W54DA (1999-2003), WXON-LP (1999-2012) |
Independent | |
Call sign meaning | Call letters previously used in Detroit |
Technical information | |
ERP | 1500 W[2] |
The station broadcast on channel 54, but did not cover all of Flint. The station broadcast at 100 watts from a transmitter on Dort Highway (M-54, fittingly), covering a small area to the southeast of Mount Morris. It had a construction permit to increase power to 150 kW from a location near Otisville, which would have covered Flint and northwestern Genesee County with its directional beam; however, the construction permit expired in February 2008, and was not renewed.
The station had a translator station, W09CK, which covers part of the north side of Flint at 85 watts.
Since the DTV transition in the United States did not affect low power stations, WXON-LP never applied to broadcast in digital.
The actual date of the station's closure is unknown; the license for WXON-LP was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission in January 2012. The FCC re-licensed the station on July 14, 2021. The station transmits from a communications tower on Lewis Road east of Clio, Michigan.[3]
References
- "Wxon-Ld Millington, Mi".
- "Wxon-Ld Millington, Mi".
- "TV Query Results". Retrieved 2023-09-11.
External links
- "Michiguide: More info on Flint's WXON". Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
- "Michiguide: More info on P&P Cable Holdings". Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
- FCC records for WXON-LP