WHNH-CD

{{Short description|Television station in Hartford, Connecticut}}

{{Infobox television station

| callsign = WHNH-CD

| city = Manchester, etc., Vermont{{r|fcc-wycxcitiesanddigital}} (nominal city of license, to move to Hartford, Connecticut{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91910af3d40191335abe5f1e33&id=25076f91910af3d40191335abe5f1e33&goBack=N|title=Modification of a Licensed Facility for Digital Class A TV Station Application|work=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=October 3, 2024|accessdate=February 2, 2025}})

| logo =

| branding =

| analog =

| digital = 2 (VHF), to move to 25 (UHF){{r|whnh25}}

| virtual = 2

| translators =

| affiliations = {{ubl|2.1: Daystar|2.2: Daystar Español}}

| subchannels =

| country = United States

| founded = January 24, 1996

| airdate = {{start date and age|1998|3|p=y}}

| last_airdate =

| location = Hartford, Connecticut

| callsign_meaning =

| former_callsigns = {{ubl|W49BU (1996–1998)|WVBK-LP (1998–2003)|WVBK-CA (2003–May 2013)|WVBK-CD (May–October 2013)|WYCX-CD (2013–2021)}}

| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|Analog: 49 (UHF, 1998–2004), 2 (VHF, 2004–2013)}}

| owner = Daystar Television Network

| licensee = Word of God Fellowship, Inc.

| sister_stations =

| former_affiliations = {{ubl|Independent (March–October 1998, January–June 2000, 2024–2025)|UPN (October 1998–January 2000)|America One (June 2000–2003)|Outside TV (2003–2013, 2021−2022)|Retro TV (2013–2018)|Heroes & Icons (2018–2021)|This TV (2022–2024)}}

| erp = {{ubl|3 kW|8 kW (CP){{r|whnh25}}}}

| haat = {{convert|459.9|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| facility_id = 26996

| class = CD

| coordinates = {{coord|41|42|13|N|72|49|55|W|type:landmark_region:US-CT}}

| licensing_authority = FCC

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

}}

WHNH-CD (channel 2) is a low-power, Class A religious television station serving Hartford, Connecticut, United States, but nominally licensed to Manchester, Vermont.{{cite web|title=Application for Class A Television Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License (WVBK-CD)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1553496&Service=DC&Form_id=4&Facility_id=26996|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014|date=May 2, 2013|quote=The full communities of license for this station, for which no change is requested, are Manchester and Londonderry, Vermont, and South Charlestown, New Hampshire.}} Owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network, the station maintains a transmitter on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut.

History

A construction permit for what is now WHNH-CD was granted on January 24, 1996, for operation on UHF channel 49, to serve Manchester, Vermont;{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WHNH-CD, 1)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=198035|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} the new station was issued the call sign W49BU.{{cite web|title=Call Sign History (WHNH-CD)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=26996&Callsign=WHNH-CD|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} The original owners, Heritage Broadcasting Company of New York (who had applied for channel 49 in 1994, several months before selling Fox affiliate WXXA-TV (channel 23) in Albany, New York, to Clear Channel Communications), sold the station to Vision 3 Broadcasting on June 19, 1997.{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WHNH-CD, 2)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=241393|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WHNH-CD, 3)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=247346|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} Vision 3 modified the permit to add Londonderry, Vermont, as a second city of license on January 8, 1998.{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WHNH-CD, 4)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=256535|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} The station was designed to be a repeater of WVBG-LP (channel 25) from Albany; however, when channel 49 signed on in March 1998 as an independent station, it was the second of Vision 3's three stations to launch,{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Rob|title=WVBG channels make slow debut|page=D4|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5916790|access-date=March 22, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=March 27, 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212190240/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5916790|archive-date=December 12, 2013}} after W39CE (channel 39, later renamed WVBX-LP) in Easton, New York, which signed on in December 1997.{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Rob|title='Daily' takes shot at the whole year|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5842392|page=D6|access-date=March 22, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=December 9, 1997}} WVBG-LP itself would not go on the air until August 1998.{{cite news|last=Pinckney|first=Barbara|title=Most powerful of low-power trio of TV stations goes on air|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/1998/08/31/story8.html?page=all|access-date=March 22, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=August 31, 1998}} Channel 49 became WVBK-LP on April 24, 1998.

On October 5, 1998, WVBK-LP, along with parent station WVBG-LP, became a UPN affiliate;{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=Channel 25 is now affiliated with UPN|page=D6|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5886521|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=September 30, 1998}} it already carried the UPN Kids block,{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Rob|title=Cable systems may not carry new TV station|page=D4|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5878103|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=August 14, 1997}} but the network's prime time programming had previously been seen in the Capital District through secondary affiliations with WXXA-TV and Pax station WYPX-TV (channel 55),{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=Pax TV, UPN form contradictory alliance|page=D1|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5882229|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=September 4, 1998}} as well as cable carriage of WSBK-TV from Boston. The lineup of UPN and syndicated programming was supplemented by several sports packages, including Big East football and basketball, the Boston Red Sox (the telecasts of which were dropped following a territorial complaint by the New York Yankees),{{cite news|last=Dougherty|first=Pete|title=WVBG forced to stop showing Red Sox games|page=C2|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5882229|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=September 18, 1998}} and the Boston Celtics.{{cite news|last=Dougherty|first=Pete|title=WVBG shoots airballs on two Celtics' telecasts|page=C8|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5973849|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=February 19, 1999}}

The UPN affiliation ended at the start of 2000 when cable-only "WEDG-TV" (known later as "UPN 4") signed on as a joint operation between Time Warner Cable and WXXA-TV.{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=WVBG hurt by UPN deal|page=D5|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5957674|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=November 17, 1999}} WVBK-LP would then revert to being an independent station, heavily emphasizing its status as a primarily over-the-air station;{{cite news|last=Pinckney|first=Barbara|title=WVBG/TV 25 proving there is life after UPN|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2000/02/14/story8.html?page=all|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=February 14, 2000}} that June, Vision 3 put its sister stations, WVBG-LP and WVBX-LP, up for sale,{{cite news|last=Pinckney|first=Barbara|title=Vt. owner puts independent WVBG on the block|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2000/06/12/story7.html?page=all|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=June 12, 2000}} and by 2001 much of the station's schedule was taken up by programming from America One{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report (WVBK-LP)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVidNew/public/report/19/report.faces?id=25631|date=July 10, 2001|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} and the Resort Sports Network (RSN), the predecessor to Outside Television.{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=Westminster purebreeds pure ratings for USA|page=D1|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6092351|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=February 14, 2001}} While WVBG-LP was sold to Wireless Access in 2001{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WVBG-LP)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=564193|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} (subsequently moving to channel 41 in Greenwich) and WVBX-LP was sold to Venture Technologies Group in 2003{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WEPT-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=656285|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} (subsequently moving to channel 15 first as WNYA-CA in Albany, then as WEPT-CA in Kinderhook), Vision 3 kept WVBK-LP, making it a separate station. America One was dropped in 2003, making the station a full RSN affiliate.{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report (WVBK-LP)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVidNew/public/report/19/report.faces?id=44425|date=November 3, 2003|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}}{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report (WVBK-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVidNew/public/report/19/report.faces?id=46542|date=March 11, 2004|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} The station moved to channel 2 in 2004{{cite web|title=APPLICATION FOR CLASS A TELEVISION BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE (WVBK-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1002280&Service=CA&Form_id=4&Facility_id=26996|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014|date=July 13, 2004}} and upgraded to class A status.{{cite web|title=APPLICATION FOR CLASS A TELEVISION BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE (WVBK-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=592449&Service=CA&Form_id=4&Facility_id=26996|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014|date=January 17, 2002}}

On February 28, 2005, Vision 3 purchased the construction permit for W47CS{{cite web|title=Call Sign History (WVBQ-LP)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=130233&Callsign=DWVBQ-LP|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} (channel 47) in Windsor{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WVBQ-LP, 1)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=619662|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} from MTC North,{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WVBQ-LP, 2)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1034451|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} who was granted the permit on April 22, 2003. Vision 3 changed its call letters to WVBQ-LP on June 16, 2005, moved the station to Newport and Charlestown, New Hampshire on February 16, 2006,{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WVBQ-LP, 3)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1081414|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} and signed it on that March{{cite web|title=APPLICATION FOR A LOW POWER TV, TV TRANSLATOR OR TV BOOSTER STATION LICENSE (WVBQ-LP)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1118813&Service=TX&Form_id=347&Facility_id=130233|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014|date=March 30, 2006}} as a satellite of WVBK-CA.

Vision 3 filed to sell WVBK-CA and WVBQ-LP to New Hampshire 1 Network, a company controlled by William H. Binnie, in November 2010;{{cite news|title=Binnie buy to lead to something bigger for the Granite State?|url=http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/binnie-buy-to-lead-to-something-bigger-for-the-granite-state.html|access-date=January 18, 2011|newspaper=Television Business Report|date=December 28, 2010}} the deal was called off in June 2011.{{cite web|last=Carbonara|first=Daniel N.|title=Notification of Non-consummation|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1432811&Service=CA&Form_id=905&Facility_id=26996|date=June 29, 2011|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=July 6, 2011}} Vision 3 then filed to sell WVBQ-LP to Cross Hill Communications that November; under the terms of the deal, Cross Hill also held an option to acquire WVBK,{{cite web|title=APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF A CORPORATE LICENSEE OR PERMITTEE, OR FOR ASSIGNMENT OF LICENSE OR PERMIT OF TV OR FM TRANSLATOR STATION OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1450686&Service=TX&Form_id=345&Facility_id=130233|date=November 4, 2011|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=December 22, 2011}} which was exercised in June 2012.{{cite news|last=Seyler|first=Dave|title=Second LPTV for New England owner|url=http://rbr.com/second-lptv-for-new-england-owner/|access-date=July 13, 2012|newspaper=Television Business Report|date=June 22, 2012}} Under Cross Hill, the station increased its local programming, branding as YCN, an initialism for "Yankee Communications Network"; its programming added a half-hour weeknight newscast (which originally aired at 6 p.m. with repeats at 6:30 p.m. and from 10 to 11 p.m., and as a result was initially branded as YCN News Hour).

WYCU-LD began broadcasting in digital on channel 26 in December 2012; although this facility was applied for as WVBQ's digital companion channel, Cross Hill ended broadcasts on analog channel 47 on December 20, 2012, and returned the analog WVBQ-LP license to the FCC,{{cite web|title=Application for Class A Television Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License (WVBQ-LD)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1525931&Service=LD&Form_id=347&Facility_id=189163|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014|date=December 14, 2012}} which canceled it on January 3, 2013. Channel 26 had changed its call letters from WVBQ-LP to WYCU-LD on December 13, 2012.{{cite web|title=Call Sign History (WYCU-LD)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=189163&Callsign=WYCU-LD|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=May 18, 2014}} In May 2013, WVBK-CA converted to digital broadcasts; on October 18, it changed its call letters to WYCX-CD. Following their digital conversions, WYCX-CD and WYCU-LD added subchannels to carry RTV, Tuff TV, and PBJ.{{cite news|last=Marcucci|first=Carl|title=Luken, Canny, Yankee Comm. sign triple play deal|url=http://rbr.com/luken-canny-yankee-comm-sign-triple-play-deal/|access-date=May 18, 2014|newspaper=Television Business Report|date=September 18, 2012}}

The station changed its call sign to WHNH-CD on October 12, 2021.

On October 3, 2024, the FCC approved Vision Communications' proposal to move WHNH-CD's RF channel to 25, and its city of license to Hartford, Connecticut, although the change has not taken place yet.{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91910af3d40191335abe5f1e33&id=25076f91910af3d40191335abe5f1e33&goBack=N|title=Modification of a Licensed Facility for Digital Class A TV Station Application|work=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=October 3, 2024|accessdate=February 2, 2025}}

On November 20, 2024, the Daystar Television Network filed to purchase WHNH-CD for $7.5 million;{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/assignmentDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=25076f9192df88460193261422804055&id=25076f9192df88460193261422804055&goBack=N|title=Assignments|work=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=November 20, 2024|accessdate=February 2, 2025}} the sale was completed on January 29, 2025.{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/consummationDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff3949de9bb0194b7b591f14dd5&id=25076ff3949de9bb0194b7b591f14dd5&goBack=N|title=Notification of Consummation|work=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=January 30, 2025|accessdate=February 2, 2025}}

Technical information

=Subchannels=

The station's signal is multiplexed:

class="wikitable" \|+Subchannels of WHNH-CD{{cite web\|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WHNH-CD#station\|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WHNH-CD\|website=RabbitEars\|accessdate=February 2, 2025}} ! scope = "col" \| Channel ! scope = "col" \| Res. ! scope = "col" \| Aspect ! scope = "col" \| Short name ! scope = "col" \| Programming
scope = "row" \| 2.1 \| rowspan=1\|1080i \|\| rowspan=2\|16:9 \|\| WHNH-CD \|\| Daystar
scope = "row" \| 2.2 \| rowspan=1\|720p \|\| WHNH-ES \|\| Daystar Español
scope = "row" \| 2.3 \|\|480i \|\| rowspan=2\|4:3 \|\| WHNH-SD \|\| Daystar SD

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|+Subchannels of WHNH-CD{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WHNH-CD#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WHNH-CD|website=RabbitEars|accessdate=February 2, 2025}}

! scope = "col" | Channel

! scope = "col" | Res.

! scope = "col" | Aspect

! scope = "col" | Short name

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scope = "row" | 2.1

| rowspan=1|1080i || rowspan=2|16:9 || WHNH-CD || Daystar

scope = "row" | 2.2

| rowspan=1|720p || WHNH-ES || Daystar Español

scope = "row" | 2.3

||480i || rowspan=2|4:3 || WHNH-SD || Daystar SD