WLLA
Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids/ Battle Creek, Michigan United States | |
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City | Kalamazoo, Michigan |
Branding | Family Television |
Slogan | West Michigan's Home for Family Television |
Channels |
Digital: 45 (UHF) Virtual: 64 (PSIP) |
Subchannels | (see article) |
Affiliations | Christian Independent |
Owner | Christian Faith Broadcast, Inc. |
First air date | June 30, 1987 |
Call letters' meaning | We Love KaLAmazoo |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 64 (UHF, 1987-2008) |
Transmitter power | 440 kW (digital) |
Height | 330.8 m (digital) |
Facility ID | 11033 |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°33′52″N 85°27′31″W / 42.56444°N 85.45861°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www.wlla.tv |
WLLA-DT, virtual channel 64 (UHF digital channel 45), is a religious independent television station serving the media market around Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States that is licensed to Kalamazoo. The station is owned by Christian Faith Broadcast, Inc., who also owns WGGN-TV in Sandusky, Ohio. The station's studios are located on East N Avenue in Kalamazoo, and its transmitter is located near Stewart Lake in Orangeville Township.
History
The station signed on the air on June 30, 1987. In 2007, the station entered a revenue sharing agreement with long distance telephone carrier Accxx Communications.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[1] |
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64.1 | 480i | 4:3 | WLLA-DT | Main WLLA programming |
64.2 | WLLA-D2 | MeTV | ||
64.3 | WLLA-D3 | Retro TV |
The station began carrying programming from MeTV on digital subchannel 64.2 on July 4, 2013.[2]
Analog-to-digital conversion
WLLA shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 64, on November 1, 2008.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45, using PSIP to display the WLLA's virtual channel as 64 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
References
- ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WLLA
- ↑ Me-TV Adds Seven New Affiliates, TVNewsCheck, April 5, 2013.
- ↑ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WLLA
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WLLA-TV
- WLLA TV Channel 64 Kalamazoo. Michigan's Radio and TV Broadcast Guide.