WMUN-CD,

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channel 45, was a low-powered, Class A

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licensed to

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, United States. The station was owned by Local TV Media Holdings.

History

As W57BC, WLIG, and WLNY

Founded in 1988, the station was owned by WLIG (now

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). It was an independent translator station out of

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, after W44AI (now WNYX-LD) moved the license to New York City as an

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station airing public access TV. In the following years, the call letters changed to WLIG-LP in 1995, to WLNY-LP in 1996, and to WLIG-CD in 2010. Despite the call changes, the programming stayed much the same. After WLNY-TV was sold to

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, the translator station was sold to Local Media in 2012 and temporarily ceased broadcasting.

As WMUN-CD

In mid-2012, the call letters changed to WMUN-CD, and the station began running

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full-time. By late 2012, CAS was dropped and the station began airing

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s. The following year, children's programming was added to fulfill E/I requirements, plus locally produced programming such as ''Community Impact''. In the summer of 2014, ''The Balancing Act'' was added to the station's afternoon lineup. WMUN-CD was the third television station that operated W19EH-D as a translator, behind WEBR-CD,

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and

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. ''Community Impact'' was moved to late afternoons in 2015, and additional children's programming was added for an hour on weekday and weekend afternoons, thus exceeding the E/I requirements. A few weeks later, the children's programming, along with public affairs programming, was dropped and the station began to air infomercials full-time. The following year, E/I programming returned on the air. On April 13, 2017, the

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(FCC) announced that WMUN-CD was a successful bidder in the spectrum auction, and would be surrendering its license in exchange for $23,191,413.FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction — Auction 1001 Winning Bids
/ref> Local Media TV surrendered WMUN-CD's license to the FCC for cancellation on August 28, 2017.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed: In March 2015, home shopping channel

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was added to the station's 45.2 sub-channel under the name WMUN-2.

References

External links

Call Sign History – Federal Communications Commission
Mineola, New York MUN-CD Low-power television stations in the United States Television channels and stations established in 1988 1988 establishments in New York (state) Defunct television stations in the United States Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017 2017 disestablishments in New York (state) MUN-CD {{NewYork-tv-station-stub