Near Highland Lake area,
north of Springville, south of Oneonta.
Power (ERP):
5 MW.
Height Above Average
Terrain (HAAT):
1,115 feet.
Antenna:
Directional: Nulled
to the northwest.
Other Information:
Stereo
DTV Information:
Channel 45
Height: 1,014
Power (ERP): 225 kW
Programming: 44.1 ION
East / 44.2 qubo / 44.3 ION Life / 44.4 Worship
Station History:
At one point this station
was a repeater of WTTO channel 21 in Birmingham back when it was a Fox
affiliate. The calls were WNAL at the time. At one point the station was
a CBS affiliate and had it's own newscast as "44 News". That didn't last
long, and the station moved to the then fledgling PAX network of family
friendly programming. They repeated WVTM-13's Birmingham-based newscast
for a while. This station became one of the Birmingham market's first digital
television stations, signing on in November 2002 on channel 45. Changed
to the new "i" Independent Television Network in July 2005, which is now
known as ION. As with most ION station, the digital broadcast is
heavily multiplexed, with the kids-oriented qubo and lifestyle ION Life
network, as well as the Worship religious channel. qubo is one of
the few channels that heavily uses SAP, or second audio program, for Spanish-language
audio. They also do a lot of Spanish language captioning on the CC3
track.
This station has elected
to keep analog broadcasts on until the new June 12th deadline.
