WNGN-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WNGN-LP / WNGX-LP
city = Troy, New York / Schenectady, New York
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 35 (app. to move to 38)
digital =
other_chs = 42 WNGX-LP Troy, New York
affiliations = FamilyNet
founded = 1994
location = Albany / Schenectady / Troy, New York
callsign_meaning = Northeast Gospel Network
former_callsigns = None
owner = Brian A. Larson
licensee =
former_affiliations = None
effective_radiated_power = WNGN-LP: 50 kW (ERP below Horizontal Plane (Beam Tilt): 68.65 kW)
WNGX-LP 1.02 kW
HAAT = WNGN-LP: 76 m
WNGX-LP: 11 m
class = Low-Power
facility_id =
homepage =
coordinates = coord|42|47|8|N|73|37|45|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline,title

WNGN-LP channel 35 and WNGX-LP channel 42 are low-power television stations in the Albany/Schenectady/Troy, New York market. The stations are owned by Brian A. Larson and carry FamilyNet programming. WNGN is licensed to Troy, while WNGX is licensed to Schenectady and is officially considered to be a WNGN translator.

WNGN-LP started as W04AT, then received the call-sign and channel W26BL on channel 26 on September 21, 1994, before receiving its current channel and call-sign on December 23, 1994. In 1992, Larson acquired WNGN-LP (then W26BL), a small TV translator in Hoosick Falls, that rebroadcast educational programming for the Hoosick Falls Central School District. He applied to switch the City of Licence (COL) to Troy, NY, and eventually moved the transmitter to its current site on Bald Mountain.

WNGX-LP started with an experimental license and callsign of "940414FX" on January 18, 1996. It was upgraded to become W04DA on channel 4 later that same day. On July 13, 1998, the station was upgraded again to become WGNX-LP and gained its current channel allocation.

Larson holds a construction permit to convert the station to a Low-power Digital (-LD) transmitter with an effective radiated power of only 0.14 kW. He will retain the analog channel number by using what is known as digital flash.

WTEN-DT has decided to use channel 35 for its digital home, thus displacing WNGN-LP from the dial. Under the Commission's rules, low power stations must surrender their channel to a full power applicant. On February 2nd, 2007, WNGN-LP applied to move its analog channel to 38. It is interesting to note that this is the second time WTEN has displaced WNGN-LP. For over ten years WNGN-LP broadcast on channel 26 until that was designated for WTEN to use for digital transmissions causing WNGN-LP to move to channel 35.

History

The table of allotments for the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metro originally designated channel 35 as a reserved non-commercial channel. Local public station WMHT had expressed interest in the allotment for years but switched focus to digital upgrades on channel 17. Prior to being reserved for noncommercial use, channel 35 originally signed on the air in 1952 as the first UHF station in the region. After only two years on the air the station failed because most television receivers were incapable of receiving UHF signals. The owners switched to VHF Channel 13 in Saratoga Springs which later moved to Albany, where today they still operate as NBC affiliate WNYT. WNGN-LP also transmits on channel 35 from the same tower and transmitter building as the original 35 used.

External links

*TVQ|WNGN
*TVQ|WNGX