WYGN-LD
WYGN-LD is a low power TV station on channel 10 in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and is an affiliate of 3ABN. WYGN originally signed on July 22, 1988 in South Bend, Indiana as W12BK channel 12, a low-power repeater of WCIU-TV, the former Telemundo affiliate which became a Univision affiliate in 1989, and became an English-language Independent station in Chicago, Illinois at the end of 1994, it would switch to being a low-power repeater of WBND-LP, the ABC affiliate in South Bend on May 26, 1996, and that the license would move to Berrien Springs, Michigan that same year. On March 14, 2002, the station was transferred to its current owner, Good News Television, who had previously been broadcasting 3ABN programming on the now-WCWW-LD channel 25 in South Bend.
Berrien Springs, Michigan | |
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Slogan | Good News Television |
Channels | Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 10.1 (PSIP) |
Affiliations | 3ABN |
Owner | Good News Television |
First air date | July 22, 1988 (in South Bend, Indiana; license moved to Berrien Springs, Michigan in 1996) |
Call sign meaning | Your Good News |
Former call signs | WYGN-LP (2002-2009) WRDY-LP (2001-2002) W12BK (1988-2001) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 12 (1988-2009) |
Former affiliations | Independent (via WCIU-TV, 1988-1996) ABC (via WBND-LP, 1996-2002) Secondary: Telemundo (via WCIU-TV; 1988) Univision (via WCIU-TV; 1989-1994) UPN (via WBND-LP; 1996-2002) |
Transmitter power | 3 kW |
Website | andrews.edu/ILS |
One of the board members of Good News Television, Dr. Robert Moon, is also the treasurer of the Raymond S. and Dorothy N. Moore Foundation, which owns W07CL in Auburn, Indiana, also a 3ABN affiliate.
In January 2007, WYGN-LP was granted a construction permit for a digital companion channel on Channel 10. The FCC granted a license to operate on Channel 10 on July 1, 2009.
Digital television
WYGN-LD's digital signal on channel 10 is multiplexed into the following subchannel lineup:
Channel | Video | Aspect | Programming |
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10.1 | 480i | 4:3 | Main WYGN-LP Programming/3ABN |
10.2 | 480i | 4:3 | 3ABN Latino |
10.3 | Audio | 3ABN Radio | |
10.4 | Audio | Radio 74 |