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| History | |
| Founded | January 4, 1988 |
Last air date | August 28, 2017 (license cancelled) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73207 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°45′8.1″N 73°58′2.1″W / 40.752250°N 73.967250°W |
| Translator(s) | W19EH-D Stamford, CT |
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WMUN-CD (channel 45) was a low-power, Class A television station in New York City. The station was owned by Local Media TV Holdings.
History[edit]
As W57BC, WLIG, and WLNY[edit]
Founded in 1988 as W57BC, the station was owned by Long Island–based independent station WLIG (now WLNY-TV). It was a translator station out of Mineola, New York; a previous WLIG translator, W44AI (later WNYX-LD), had moved its license to New York City as an independent station airing public access TV. The call letters changed to WLIG-LP in 1995, to WLNY-LP in 1996, and to WLIG-CD in 2010; despite the call changes, the station continued to relay WLNY-TV's programming. After WLNY-TV was sold to CBS Television Stations, WLIG-CD was sold to Local Media in 2012 and temporarily ceased broadcasting.
As WMUN-CD[edit]
In mid-2012, the call letters changed to WMUN-CD, and the station began running Classic Arts Showcase full-time. By late 2012, CAS was dropped and the station began airing infomercials. The following year, children's programming was added to fulfill E/I requirements, plus locally produced programming such as Community Impact. In the summer of 2014, The Balancing Act was added to the station's afternoon lineup.
WMUN-CD was the third television station that operated translator station W19EH-D in Stamford, Connecticut, after WEBR-CD, WCBS-TV and WPIX.
Community Impact was moved to late afternoons in 2015, and additional children's programming was added for an hour on weekday and weekend afternoons, thus exceeding the E/I requirements. A few weeks later, the children's programming, along with public affairs programming, was dropped and the station began to air infomercials full-time. The following year, E/I programming returned on the air.
On April 13, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that WMUN-CD was a successful bidder in the spectrum auction, and would be surrendering its license in exchange for $23,191,413.[2] Local Media TV surrendered WMUN-CD's license to the FCC for cancellation on August 28, 2017.
Subchannels[edit]
The station's signal was multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 45.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WMUN-CD | Infomercials |
| 45.2 | WMUN-2 | Jewelry TV |
In March 2015, home shopping channel Jewelry TV was added to the station's 45.2 sub-channel under the name WMUN-2.
References[edit]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WMUN-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction — Auction 1001 Winning Bids