WDTA-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WDTA-LP
station_
station_slogan =
analog = 53 (UHF), 50 (CP)
digital = applied for 47
station_branding =
affiliations = Daystar
founded = 1988
location = Fayetteville/Atlanta, Georgia
callsign_meaning = W Daystar Television Atlanta
former_callsigns = W53BR (2001-1992) W22AH (1988-1992)
owner = Daystar Television Network ("Word of God Fellowship")
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 112 kW
facility_id = 17545
homepage = "None."

WDTA-LP is a low-power television station in Atlanta, owned by Word of God Fellowship. Broadcasting from the Bank of America Plaza (coord|33|46|15|N|84|23|10|W|display=inline,title) in midtown Atlanta, its city of license is Fayetteville, Georgia, a significant distance beyond its coverage area. It is an affiliate of Daystar.

Originally W22AH on channel 22, it was licensed in 1988 to Columbus, Georgia, over 100km away. The station changed to channel 53 and became W53BR in the early 1990s, and later moved northeast into metro Atlanta around 1995, becoming WDTA-LP in 2001.

Because all stations are being forced from channels above 51, the station had a construction permit for channel 28, and an application to modify their permit for a much stronger upgrade on channel 50. This application has now been approved as a construction permit, and will move the station antenna a few blocks south into downtown Atlanta to become the first broadcaster on the SunTrust Plaza (One Peachtree Center) building (coord|33|45|45|N|84|23|14|W).

It will also give it an omnidirectional broadcast range, as opposed to its current cardioid directional antenna with a sharp null in its radiation pattern to the northwest. WDTA-LP has been granted class A status, and will become WDTA-CA once the change happens. Its new city of license will be Atlanta.

Additionally, the licensee has applied for a digital facility on channel 47 from the same building, but only at 2kW, equivalent to only 10kW analog. The station's effective radiated power is currently 112kW on 53, and will be 150kW with beam tilt (116kW in the horizontal plane) on 50. Being at the same height, it appears that both the analog and digital transmitters will be diplexed into the same antenna.

External links

*TVQ|WDTA-LP
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=167015 FCC query for digital application]