WWTO-TV

Not to be confused with WTWO or WTTO.
WWTO-TV
CityNaperville, Illinois
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Trinity Broadcasting Network
  • (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
WLPD-CD
History
First air date
December 12, 1986; 38 years ago (1986-12-12)[1][2] (in LaSalle, Illinois; license moved to Naperville in 2017)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 35 (UHF, 1986–2009)
  • Digital: 10 (VHF, until 2017), 35 (UHF, 2017–2019)
Call sign meaning
"Wide World of Tomorrow"[citation needed]
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID998
ERP15 kW
HAAT373.1 m (1,224 ft)
Transmitter coordinates41°53′56.1″N 87°37′23.2″W / 41.898917°N 87.623111°W / 41.898917; -87.623111
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.tbn.org

WWTO-TV (channel 35) is a religious television station licensed to Naperville, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago area outlet for the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is sister to Plano-licensed TBN Inspire station WLPD-CD (channel 30). Through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WLPD-CD's spectrum from an antenna atop the John Hancock Center.

Although WWTO-TV is licensed as a full-power station, it shares spectrum with WLPD-CD, whose low-power signal only covers the immediate Chicago area. Therefore, WWTO-TV relies on cable carriage to reach the entire market.

History

The first station to broadcast on UHF channel 35 licensed to LaSalle went on the air on November 7, 1957, as WEEQ, a satellite station of WEEK-TV in Peoria.[4][5] WEEK and WEEQ were acquired by a company related to Kerr-McGee, but sold off after Senator Robert S. Kerr's death.[6] The sale, approved by the Federal Communications Commission on July 13, 1966, was for $3,088,650 ($29,004,800 adjusted for inflation) and transferred the stations to Mid-America Television Co., owned by Kansas City Southern Industries.[7] The station still appeared in the 1973 Broadcasting Yearbook but not the 1974 edition.

Late 1980s

WWTO-TV began broadcasting operations in early December 1986 and was originally licensed to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), owned by evangelists Nicky Cruz and Sonny Arguinzoni. The station's first chief engineer and general manager was Glen Dingley, who would oversee the building of its studios and transmitter before returning to Houston in 1990.[1][2]

Until November 13, 2017, WWTO-TV's transmitter[8] was located in Deer Park Township, LaSalle County (near Starved Rock State Park) and maintained studios on East Stevenson Road in Ottawa. From Deer Park, the station also served the Peoria and Rockford markets over-the-air.

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannels of WLPD-CD and WWTO-TV[9]
License Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
WLPD-CD 30.1 480i 16:9 inspire TBN Inspire
30.2 720p TBN HD TBN
WWTO-TV 35.1
35.2 Merit Merit Street Media
35.3 480i 4:3 ONTV4U OnTV4U (infomercials)
35.4 16:9 POSITIV Positiv

Former translators

WWTO rebroadcast its signal on translators throughout Northern and Central Illinois; however, due to financial strains endured by TBN, these translators were shut down in early 2010.

W19CX would later be sold to Luken Communications, the parent company of Retro Television Network, under the licensee name "Digital Networks - Midwest".[18]

W22AJ would later be sold to one of the owners of KAXT-CD in San Jose, California, under the licensee name of "Chicago 22, LLC".[19] The callsign was changed to WRJK-LP on January 18, 2013.[20]

W34DL, W51CT and W51DT would later be donated to the Minority Media and Television Council (MMTC);[21] however W34DL and W51CT would later be cancelled, due to inactivity for over one year.[22] The current occupant of channel 34 in Champaign, W34EH-D, is on a new license under a different owner,[23] while W51DT is now WSIO-LD and owned by Get After It Media, but has remained silent for nearly a decade.

W40BY would be purchased by Spanish-language broadcaster Liberman Broadcasting, the parent of Estrella TV in February 2010, giving that network a station in Chicago. The sale was completed on December 6, 2010, with the call letters changed to WESV-LD.

TBN let the licenses for W25CL, W29BG and W50DD lapse in 2013 after a failed 2012 attempt to sell those licenses to Regal Media, among many others.[24]

Cable carriage

LaSalle lies at the far western end of its nominal Chicago media market. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared many communities served by Chicago-area cable systems to be outside of WWTO-TV's designated market, and denied must-carry status. In 1997 ruling in favor of Time Warner Cable, the FCC noted that "WWTO-TV has at best a minimal viewing presence in the Chicago ADI as a whole, and the communities are located approximately 65 to 70 miles from WWTO-TV. Furthermore, the station has never been carried on the cable system in question, offers no programming specifically for the relevant communities, and provides no over-the air signal coverage of the Communities."[25] The FCC made a similar ruling in 1999 concerning dozens of cable services in McHenry, DuPage, Lake, Cook, Kane and Will counties in Illinois and Lake, Porter, LaPorte and Jasper counties in Indiana. In that order, the FCC noted that "out of the 10 counties herein, the A.C. Nielsen 1997 County/Coverage Survey does not even list WWTO-TV and for the one where it is listed, Will County, only minimal viewership is recorded."[2] Even with the move of the station's transmitter to the John Hancock Center, Xfinity continues to source most of TBN's networks via their national feeds within the Chicago market, outside of must-carry situations where WWTO-DT1's signal must be utilized (the must-carry designation disallows TBN from asking for carriage of its subchannels).

References

  1. ^ a b For the 1986 air date, the Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says December 1, while the Television and Cable Factbook says December 5.
  2. ^ a b c DA-99-307: Memorandum Option and Order: Jones Cable TV Fund 12-A, Ltd./Jones Cable TV Fund 15-A, Ltd. and TCI of Illinois, Inc. and its Affiliates. For Modification of the ADI of Station WWTO-TV, LaSalle, Illinois. CSR-5314-A and CSR-5315-A. Federal Communications Commission. February 5, 1997. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  3. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWTO-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ^ 1960 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1960. p. A-39.
  5. ^ Quick, Doug (March 13, 2009). "Other Television History". Vermilion County, Illinois. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
  6. ^ Corarito, Gregory (1967). "Chapter 4: KVOO". The History and Development of Television in Tulsa, Oklahoma. University of Tulsa, Graduate School. Thesis cites Tulsa Tribune of December 5, 1957, as its reference for Kerr-McGee adding some stations.
  7. ^ 1967 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1967. p. A-96.
  8. ^ WWTO-TV, Naperville, Illinois - Status of Operation
  9. ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WLPD". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
  10. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 28, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  11. ^ "Application View ... Redirecting".
  12. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 27, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  13. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 26, 2010. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
  14. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 13, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
  15. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 27, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  16. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 28, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2010.
  17. ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 14, 2010. Retrieved May 17, 2010.
  18. ^ FCC application: "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA" for W19CX
  19. ^ FCC application: "APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONSTRUCT OR MAKE CHANGES IN A LOW POWER TV, TV TRANSLATOR OR TV BOOSTER STATION" for W22AJ
  20. ^ "Call Sign History".
  21. ^ FCC document: "COMMENTS OF LPTV ENTREPRENEURS", December 17, 2010.
  22. ^ "Re: Applications for Assignment of License…" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. November 30, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
  23. ^ FCC records for W34EH-D
  24. ^ FCC document: "Asset Purchase Agreement: Trinity Christian Center Of Santa Ana, Inc. / Trinity Broadcasting Of Arizona, Inc. (Sellers) and Regal Media, Inc. (Buyer)
  25. ^ DA-97-545: Memorandum Option and Order: Time Warner Entertainment - Advance Newhouse Partnership, dba Time Warner Cable. Granted petition for special relief for modification of the television market of Station WWTO-TV, La Salle, Illinois. Federal Communications Commission. March 14, 1997. Retrieved September 29, 2009.

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