WANF-LD

{{Short description|LPTV station in Dyersburg, Tennessee}}

{{Merge to|WMC-TV|discuss=Talk:WMC-TV#Proposed_merger|date=January 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox television station

| callsign = WANF-LD

| above = {{nowrap|Translator of WMC-TV, Memphis, Tennessee}}

| digital = 32 (UHF)

| virtual = 5

| logo = WMC (2023).svg

| logo_size = 150px

| translators =

| location = Dyersburg, Tennessee

| country = United States

| owner = Gray Media

| licensee = Gray Television Licensee, LLC

| airdate = {{start date and age|2016|1}}

| callsign_meaning = Used to park the WANF call sign for later use in Atlanta{{efn|This station became WANF-LD on November 1, 2021. WGCL-TV in Atlanta became WANF "Atlanta News First" on October 3, 2022.}}

| sister_stations =

| former_callsigns = {{ubl|W20DJ-D (2011–2016)|WHJK-LD (2016–2021)}}

| former_affiliations = {{ubl|Escape/Court TV Mystery, Laff (2016–2020)|Silent (2020–2022)}}

| former_channel_numbers = 20 (UHF, 2011–2021)

| erp = 10 kW

| haat = {{convert|111.2|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| facility_id = 185366

| coordinates = {{coord|36|4|38.6|N|89|29|28.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}

| licensing_authority = FCC

| website = {{URL|https://www.actionnews5.com/}}

}}

WANF-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in Dyersburg, Tennessee, United States. Owned by Gray Media, it is a translator of WMC-TV (channel 5), the NBC affiliate in Memphis. The transmitter is located on Perciful Road off SR 182 near the I-155/US 412 interchange west of Dyersburg.

Prior to 2020, the station broadcast to Jackson, Tennessee, which remained its nominal city of license until January 2023, on channel 20. It carried national digital multicast networks. Gray acquired it from HC2 Holdings in 2020 and relocated it away from Jackson due to interference issues and to reduce the loss area from the planned conversion of WMC-TV to the UHF band in Dyersburg.

==History==

The station's construction permit was granted on February 22, 2011, under the ownership of local businesswoman Sarah W. Stopford.{{Cite web |title=Application Search Details |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1360990 |website=licensing.fcc.gov}} Stopford would sell the still-unbuilt W20DJ-D in 2015 to DTV America, who would sign the station on a year later in January 2016 as WHJK-LD.{{Cite web |title=Application Search Details |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1659018 |website=licensing.fcc.gov}} The station would sign on as an affiliate of Escape (now Ion Mystery), and Laff until 2020.{{Cite web |title=ION Mystery |url=https://ionmystery.com/ |access-date=January 30, 2024 |website=ionmystery.com |language=en}}

WHJK and WYJJ-LD were two of several dozen DTV America stations that would be purchased by HC2 Holdings in October 2017.{{Cite press release|url=https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/06/27/1029746/0/en/HC2-to-Acquire-Majority-Interest-in-DTV-America.html|title = HC2 to Acquire Majority Interest in DTV America|date = June 27, 2017}}{{Cite web |title=Daily Releases |url=http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1031/DA-17-1058A1.pdf |access-date=January 30, 2024 |website=transition.fcc.gov}}{{Cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1771986|title=Application Search Details}}

It was announced in 2020 that Gray Television would be acquiring WHJK-LD from HC2 Holdings. The process would be finalized on July 30, 2020; on August 1, the station would be taken silent and go off the air while Gray finalized future plans for the station.{{Cite web |title=Application Search Details |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1818647 |website=licensing.fcc.gov}}{{Cite web |title=Application Search Details |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=2040592 |website=licensing.fcc.gov}}{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=185366|title = Facility Details « Licensing and Management System Admin « FCC}} Gray relocated the facility to channel 32 from a site northwest of Jackson due to interference from adjacent-channel WJKT (channel 21).

In its present Dyersburg configuration, WANF-LD is one of three such low-power TV stations set up by Gray to reduce the loss area in its proposed conversion of WMC-TV from VHF channel 5 to UHF channel 30. The others are W20DW-D covering Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Helena, Arkansas, and WDDY-LD (channel 15), which—while nominally licensed to Jackson—covers Corinth, Mississippi.{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/25076f917edb994b017ee5ab9ea328fe|title=Amended Petition for Channel Change|date=February 10, 2022|author=Gray Television|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}