WUPT-CA (channel 25) was a low-power, Class A television station licensed to

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, United States, which served the western

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as an affiliate of

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. The station was owned by Western Upper Peninsula Television. WUPT-CA also had a

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with the callsign WUPT-LP, broadcasting on channel 43.

History

The station was founded on January 18, 1980, and began broadcasting on December 10 of that same year. It was granted Class A status on March 8, 2001, and moved to channel 25 in October of that year. The station became a UPN affiliate when the network launched on January 16, 1995. The station removed UPN programming in January 2000, while carrying the

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until March 1 when it switched to

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. UPN programming returned to the station in January 2001, while later switching to

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in September of that year. When WUPT moved its UPN affiliation to

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affiliate WMQF (as a secondary affiliation) on May 9, 2003, it switched to UATV and signed off in July. The

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(FCC) canceled the station's license on October 27, 2003.

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