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Weather Nation TV station.
- Thread starter TLBSQ9
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Actually, WIWN. I presume it stands for "WIsconsin Weather Nation". I believe it went on the air from Milwaukee on Tuesday.
The antenna is on the MPTV tower with channels 10 and 36. (and if I recall properly, several other stations) In the general vicinity of Shorewood.
From a legal standpoint, it's technically a Fond du Lac station. It was first authorized in 1987 and was first licensed in 2000. (it may have operated under its construction permit before that) For quite awhile it was authorized to operate from the same site as Trinity Broadcasting Network's channel 52 in the general vicinity of Holy Hill. I'm not sure it actually ever operated from there. To the best of my knowledge, the last site it actually operated from was a small, low-power facility within the city of Fond du Lac.
The antenna is on the MPTV tower with channels 10 and 36. (and if I recall properly, several other stations) In the general vicinity of Shorewood.
From a legal standpoint, it's technically a Fond du Lac station. It was first authorized in 1987 and was first licensed in 2000. (it may have operated under its construction permit before that) For quite awhile it was authorized to operate from the same site as Trinity Broadcasting Network's channel 52 in the general vicinity of Holy Hill. I'm not sure it actually ever operated from there. To the best of my knowledge, the last site it actually operated from was a small, low-power facility within the city of Fond du Lac.
w9wi said:
It did operate from the Iron Ridge tower for about six years, carrying FamilyNet programming and getting Time Warner carriage on their Green Bay systems, but like KFIZ in the late 60's on Channel 34, nobody watched (and it seemed like Pappas barely acknowledged it existed). I got it a few times in Sheboygan, but the conditions had to be very, very perfect in order to get the signal over the Kettle Moraine. Charter never bothered to carry it, even in FdL because they were carrying FamilyNet on their religious tier anyways.
mrschimpf said:
How long have you been in Sheboygan?
I'm wondering how long WHBL-TV operated. They held a permit for channel 28 for much of the 1980s. I saw it once during a visit -- but have never heard from anyone else who ever saw the station. Most DXers don't believe it ever existed. (I wouldn't, if I hadn't seen it myself..)
w9wi said:
All my life; unfortunately I was six when WHBL 28 was testing so I didn't even know it existed. I remember reading about fourteen years back in the local paper also that someone wanted to get 28 running so that they could try to get an oddball midmarket UPN affiliation to serve both Milwaukee and Green Bay, but the plans were scuttled once WTMJ claimed 28 for their digital channel, and it hasn't come back to the table.
Seems to be one of those phantoms 
I just went back & found, somewhat to my surprise, there are some details left in the FCC CDBS database...
WHBL applied for a TV station in October 1983. It was granted 13 months later with 18.62kw/244' from the AM transmitter site on Washington St. a bit west of 141. They got the permit extended to August 1986, but a request for a second extension to February 1987 was denied. So any testing must have taken place between November 1984 and August 1986. At that power level it wouldn't have gotten much out of Sheboygan proper.
In 1996 Pappas (same folks who own WIWN) applied to use the same channel 28 assignment. 5000kw/373m from Ridge Road in "Keywaskum", I assume they meant Kewaskum , I think it would have qualified as a Milwaukee-market station though the signal would have been pretty marginal down there. Doesn't matter as the FCC dismissed the application in 2001.
All unused channel allotments were deleted with the DTV transition, so there is no channel assigned to Sheboygan anymore.
I just went back & found, somewhat to my surprise, there are some details left in the FCC CDBS database...
WHBL applied for a TV station in October 1983. It was granted 13 months later with 18.62kw/244' from the AM transmitter site on Washington St. a bit west of 141. They got the permit extended to August 1986, but a request for a second extension to February 1987 was denied. So any testing must have taken place between November 1984 and August 1986. At that power level it wouldn't have gotten much out of Sheboygan proper.
In 1996 Pappas (same folks who own WIWN) applied to use the same channel 28 assignment. 5000kw/373m from Ridge Road in "Keywaskum", I assume they meant Kewaskum
, I think it would have qualified as a Milwaukee-market station though the signal would have been pretty marginal down there. Doesn't matter as the FCC dismissed the application in 2001. All unused channel allotments were deleted with the DTV transition, so there is no channel assigned to Sheboygan anymore.
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