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WAX-TV in Henderson, NC

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RadioDze

In 1990, low power TV station W34AX, channel 34, signed on in Henderson using "WAX-TV" on-air. Judging by the FCC website, they appear to have left the air. If this is the case, how long have they been off and what's the story...finances, DTV, etc?
 
I've seen references to the station in the listings of some syndicated program suppliers, so I know they existed. However, no listings for this station could be found in either RECnet or the FCC database.

Due to the location of adjacent analog channels in the region, they could not have had much power. My guess is that the owners aggressively pushed the station until they realized that they could not get enough eyeballs watching to make it viable financially.

Some owners in that situation will just take the station dark and not inform the FCC in hopes that someone will buy it off of them. Others will do as the law requires and turn in the license, in which case the FCC will cancel the allocation and remove the records from the database.

That appears to be what happened in this case.
 
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