WNHO-LD

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Wikipedia

WNHO-LD
Channels
Programming
Affiliationssee § Subchannels
Ownership
OwnerMetro Video Productions, Inc.
WLMO-LD
History
First air date
March 2, 1992; 33 years ago (1992-03-02)
Former call signs
  • W19BN (1992–1997)
  • WDFM-LP (1997–2018)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 19 (UHF, 1992–?), 26 (UHF, ?–2019)
  • Virtual: 44 (until 2025)
Call sign meaning
Northwest Ohio's Hometown Television
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID73389
ClassLD
ERP3.4 kW
HAAT116.2 m (381 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°57′14″N 84°53′7″W / 40.95389°N 84.88528°W / 40.95389; -84.88528
Links
Public license information
LMS

WNHO-LD (channel 26) is a low-power television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, owned by Metro Video Productions, Inc. The station's transmitter is located on Whittern Road near Monroeville, Indiana.

Prior to 2024, WNHO-LD, then licensed to Defiance, Ohio, was a translator of Lima-based religious/secular independent station WLMA (channel 44) which was owned by American Christian Television Services. WNHO-LD's broadcast area included most of Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding and Williams counties.

Until 2018, the station was operated by iHeartMedia's WDFM radio at 98.1 FM. Its schedule consisted primarily of syndicated programming with a variety of topics including gardening, motorsports, agriculture, home improvement, and personal health.

History

Lankenau Small Media Network, which owned WDFM radio, established WNHO-LD on March 2, 1992, on channel 19 as W19BN. In March 1997, its calls changed to WDFM-LP.[citation needed]

In December 1998, Jacor Broadcasting, which would later merge with Clear Channel, acquired WDFM and WDFM-LP from Lankenau.[citation needed]

WDFM-LP later moved its frequency from channel 19 to channel 26 to make way for the digital signal of Fort Wayne's WISE-TV, which broadcasts its digital signal on channel 18.[citation needed]

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television.[2] However, WDFM-LP was not included in the sale, as it was operated directly by the radio station, instead of the television group.

In July 2018, what was now iHeartMedia filed to donate WDFM-LP to American Christian Television Services (then-owner of WTLW, now WLMA in Lima, Ohio), with a requirement that ACTS switch the call letters.[3][4] The transfer was complete on October 5, 2018, at which point the station's call sign was changed to WNHO-LP.[5] ACTS acquired the station to provide a UHF repeater of WTLW, which broadcast on physical channel 4 and struggled with full-market over-the-air penetration due to being on a low-VHF frequency.

In early 2019, WTLW announced plans to upgrade WNHO-LP to a digital station and move its broadcast channel to 35. WNHO-LD signed on the air on October 4, 2019.[6]

On August 1, 2024, WNHO ended operations, as WLMB prepares to relocate onto UHF physical channel 35, effectively making WNHO-LD superfluous.

On July 25, 2025, WNHO returned to the air as a Fort Wayne station on UHF channel 35.[7]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WNHO-LD[8]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
26.1 480i16:9NBC LXNBC American Crimes
26.2 COMETComet
26.3 NBC LXOne America Plus
26.4 OAN+Newsmax2
26.5 QVC1QVC
26.6 JTVJewelry Television
26.7 SHOP LCShop LC
26.8 WISH-TVWISH-TV newscasts

Notes

  1. ↑ Originally licensed to Defiance, Ohio; moved to Fort Wayne in 2025.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WNHO-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners" (Press release). Clear Channel Communications. April 20, 2007. Archived from the original on April 25, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2014 – via Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Holy Toledo! An iHeart Act Of Defiance | Radio & Television Business Report". Radio & Television Business Report. 23 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "iHeart's Low Power "TV 26" WDFM-LP In Defiance Donates Station To Lima's American Christian Television Services". Mercer County Outlook. 25 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "CDBS Print". licensing.fcc.gov.
  6. ↑ "The New WNHO, TV26 Announces Re-Scan Date | WNHO".
  7. ↑ "Resumption of Operations of a LPTV Station Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commissiondate=July 25, 2025. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  8. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for WNHO-LD". RabbitEars. Retrieved August 7, 2025.