WAWW-LD
| Rochester, New York United States | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Digital: 30 (UHF) |
| Programming | |
| Subchannels | 30.1 HSN[1] |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Squirrel Broadcasting Company |
| History | |
| First air date | April 20, 1990 |
| Former channel number(s) |
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| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 27573 |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°8′7″N 77°35′6″W / 43.13528°N 77.58500°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Links | |
WAWW-LD (channel 30) is a low-power television station licensed to serve Rochester, New York, United States. The station is owned by Squirrel Broadcasting Company, a joint venture of James Smisloff and New York radio and TV station owner Craig Fox. Its lone subchannel broadcasts HSN.
History
Hometown Vision, Inc., received a construction permit on July 31, 1989, to build a new low-power TV station on channel 38 in Rochester with call sign W38AW. Construction began by year's end on the new station's studios on Monroe Avenue.[2] Test broadcasts began April 20, 1990, with All News Channel as a primary program source and the station filling the last 30 minutes of each hour with local and national syndicated shows.[3] The station's fare also included dubbed South American soap operas, 1920s movies, and professional wrestling.[4] Programming from HSN began to appear on W38AW in 1994.[5]
In 1995, Hometown Vision sold W38AW for $125,000 to Kaleidoscope Affiliates of Little Rock, Arkansas.[6] Kaleidoscope owned a service known as "America's Disability Channel", which channel 38 began to air as Kaleidoscope's 16th such station; the service included programs with audio description for the visually impaired and closed captioning for the hearing impaired.[7] The call letters were changed to WAWW-LP in December 1995, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permitted the use of conventional four-letter call signs by low-power television stations. Kaleidoscope Affiliates changed its name in 1998 to Equity Broadcasting Corporation. Equity then sold WAWW-LP to Venture Technologies Group in January 2002.[8]
After moving to channel 20 in 2005 due to displacement by the digital facility of WKBW-TV in Buffalo, Squirrel acquired WAWW-LP from Venture for $10,000.[9] It continued to broadcast in analog until the final shut-off date for low-power stations in the United States, July 13, 2021,[10] and resumed broadcasting in digital for the first time by the start of December.[11]
References
- ↑ "RabbitEars query for WAWW-LD". rabbitears.info. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ↑ Dorland, Charles (December 21, 1989). "Rochester's 6th TV station is set to air in March". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 1A, 16A. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Dorland, Charles (April 20, 1990). "New low-power TV channel signs on today in Rochester". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 1C. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Orr, Jim (January 19, 1993). "Microwave breakdown KO's W38AW; Honeoye boy's story on '911'". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 2C. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Marino, Eugene (June 29, 1994). "Top-rated 'Roseanne' rates No. 1 for filth in media survey". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 2C. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ DeChick, Joe (August 31, 1995). "Channel 38's vanishing act may end soon". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 1C. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Marino, Eugene (October 18, 1995). "Visually- and hearing-impaired get their own channel". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. p. 2C. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "BALTTL-20011207ABF Application for Transfer of Control". fcc.gov. December 7, 2001. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
- ↑ "Deals". Broadcasting & Cable. April 2, 2005. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
- ↑ "LMS #157034 Request for Silent Authority of an Analog LPTV Station Application". FCC Licensing and Management System. August 12, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
- ↑ "LMS #176717 License To Cover for LPTV Station Application". FCC Licensing and Management System. December 2, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
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