WANF-LD

WANF-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 20, is a low-powered television station licensed to Jackson, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television of Atlanta, Georgia. The station broadcasts its signal from a transmitter along New Deal Road just off U.S. Route 70 in unincorporated Madison County, Tennessee just outside of Jackson.

WANF-LD
Currently silent
Jackson, Tennessee
United States
ChannelsDigital: 20 (UHF), to move to 32
Virtual: 20
Ownership
OwnerGray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
History
First air date
January 2016 (2016-01)
Former call signs
W20DJ-D (2011-2016)
WHJK-LD (2016–2021)
Escape/Court TV Mystery, Laff (2016-2020)
Technical information
Facility ID185366
ERP5 kW
HAAT358 feet (109 m)
Transmitter coordinates35°42′17″N 88°44′46″W

History

The station's construction permit was granted on February 22, 2011, under the ownership of local businesswoman Sarah W. Stopford.[1] Stopford would sell the station in 2015, to DTV America who would sign the station on a year later in January 2016.[2] The station would sign on as an affiliate of Escape (now Court TV Mystery) and Laff until 2020.[3]

WHJK and WYJJ-LD were two of several dozen DTV America stations that would be purchased by HC2 Holdings in October 2017.[4][5][6]

It was announced in 2020 that Atlanta-based 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 finalizes future plans for the station.[7][8][9] Gray is currently in the process of relocating the facility to channel 32 from a site northwest of Jackson due to interference from adjacent-channel WJKT (channel 21).

Digital channels
Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming [10]
20.1 480i 4:3 Silent
20.2

References
  1. "Application Search Details".
  2. "Application Search Details".
  3. Find Us - Escape slip away.
  4. "HC2 to Acquire Majority Interest in DTV America". 27 June 2017.
  5. http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1031/DA-17-1058A1.pdf
  6. "Application Search Details".
  7. "Application Search Details".
  8. "Application Search Details".
  9. "Facility Details « Licensing and Management System Admin « FCC".
  10. "RabbitEars.Info".


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