WZPA-LD

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WZPA-LD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States
Channels Digital: 33 (UHF)
Virtual: 33 (PSIP)
Subchannels (see Digital channels table)
Affiliations 33.1 IQRA TV
33.2 Home Shopping Network
33.3 Sonlife Broadcasting Network
33.4 LATV
33.5 Rev'n
33.6 Peace TV
33.7 Azteca
33.8 MiCasa Network
Owner Mako Communications, LLC[1][2]
First air date Digital: July 22, 2011[3][4]
Last air date Analog: October 8, 2010[5][6]
Sister station(s) W36DO-D[7]
Former callsigns W33BT (1998-2005)
WXSI-LP (2005-2007)
WZPA-LP (2007-2012)[8]
Former channel number(s) Analog: 33 (UHF)
Former affiliations 33.1 Cubana de Television
33.1 QVC<br.33.1 Soul of the South Network
Transmitter power 3 kW
Height 181 m (594 ft)
AMSL: 244 m (801 ft)
Class LD (Digital LPTV)
Facility ID 72536
Transmitter coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., Roxborough, Philadelphia
51 dBu Service Contour
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS

WZPA-LD channel 33 is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania independent commercial digital low power (LPTV) television station broadcasting on UHF 33 with broadcast range Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and its closer suburbs, part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania TV market area.

WZPA-LD city of license is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with transmitter located within Roxborough, Philadelphia antenna farm. WZPA-LD is owned by Mako Communications, LLC of Corpus Christi, Texas since October 2, 2006.[9][10]

History

Before the first license was granted the FCC granted numerous construction permits and CP extensions with city of license Camden, New Jersey:

Date Call sign UHF ERP kW Coordinates CP Extension
November 18, 1994 68 17.74 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [11][12] [13][14]
January 22, 1997 68 10.069 [15][16] [17][18]
July 29, 1988 33 [19][20]
August 4, 1998 W33BT 33 21.687 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [21][22]

On August 4, 1998 FCC issued new station JF0415DX call signs W33BT and W68CV.[8]

On April 1, 1999 William E. Mattis, Jr. sold construction permit to Mediacasting LLC of Greenville, Delaware.[23][24]

On March 28, 2000 FCC granted W33BT license for ERP 20.3 kW at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[25][26]

Between November 6, 2003 and May–August 2004 W33BT was silent.[27][28][29]

On April 4, 2005 W33BT granted construction permit for ERP 150 kW channel 33 at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. with city of license Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[30][31] October 31, 2006 WXSI-LP granted modification to locate at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[32][33] January 9, 2007 WXSI-LP granted modification.[34][35]

On April 28, 2005 W33BT call sign changed to WXSI-LP.[8]

On July 20, 2006 WXSI-LP was granted a STA to operate at ERP 1.5 kW, because transmitter broke down and using a replacement.[36][37]

On October 2, 2006 Mediacasting LLC of Greenville, Delaware sold WXSI-LP to Mako Communications, LLC of Corpus Christi, Texas.[9][10]

Between December 7, 2006 – January 3, 2007 WXSI-LP went silent after terminated its lease and completion of construction permit at Roxborough, Philadelphia antenna farm.[38][39][40]

On February 19, 2007 WXSI-LP call sign changed to WZPA-LP.[8]

Between July 1, 2009 – October 10, 2009 WZPA-LP was silent when lost its network affiliation.[41][42][43]

On October 8, 2010 WZPA-LP analog transmission ceased to convert to digital.[5][6][44][45]

About June 18, 2012 WZPA began digital television programming with four 480i virtual channels, while subchannel 33.1 CUBANA without programming. On June 19, 2012 WZPA added fifth 480i subchannel 33.5 UVM with Azecta programming.

On June 30, 2012 subchannel 33.1 CUBANA began Cubana de Television programming.

On July 16, 2012 WZPA-LP call sign changed to WZPA-LD.[8]

On October 2, 2012 added sixth 480i subchannel 33.6 PeaceTV with color bars and October 3, 2012 began Peace TV programming.

About February 24, 2013 added seventh 480i subchannel 33.7 UVM with Azteca America programming.

Sometime between February 28, 2013–March 20, 2013 subchannel 33.1 became QVC programming.

Sometime between March 20, 2013–March 28, 2013 subchannel 33.5 became color bars.

In June 2013, WZPA-LD was sold to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations.[46]

Digital channels

Channel Video Aspect Language PSIP Short Name Programming
33.1 480i 4:3 English SOUL IQRA TV
33.2 HSN Home Shopping Network[47]
33.3 En & Sp SBN Sonlife Broadcasting Network[48]
33.4 Spanish LATV LATV[49]
33.5 4:3 (PSIP)
16:9 (better)		 English REVN REV'N[50]
33.6 4:3 PeaceTV Peace TV[51]
33.7 Spanish UVM Azteca[52]
Table data as of January 1, 2015

References

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