WYDC (channel 48) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving as the

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affiliate for the Elmira area. It is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company

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alongside low-power

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affiliate WJKP-LD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on East Market Street in Downtown Corning; WYDC's transmitter is located on Higman Hill.

History

On June 9, 1988, the

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(FCC) granted a construction permit to Rural New York Broadcasting, owned by Robert Walker of Albany, to build a new television station in Corning. In 1992, Walker moved to Florida and donated the permit to

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, a Christian broadcaster from

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. Cornerstone never built the station, and instead it was Molly and David Grant, with investors known as Standfast Broadcasting, who put WYDC on the air in 1994 as

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"Big TV". Big TV rapidly grew. It built translators in Elmira and

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, became an affiliate of

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and

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in 1995, and added Fox in October 1996. Vision Communications, headed by William Christian, leased the station with an option to buy in 1997 and moved to shift the station's focus to Fox, eliminating UPN and WB programs. The new ownership upgraded the facilities with a $2 million investment. The Grants went on to start another station known as Big TV, UPN affiliate WBGT-LP in Rochester, which Vision acquired in 2002. Vision Communications filed to sell its broadcast properties to

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in 2019. The sale was never consummated. In July 2021, Waypoint Media and its related entity, Vision Communications, announced that they would sell nine of their television stations, including WYDC, WJKP-LD, and WECY-LD, to Cumming, Georgia–based Coastal Television for $36.9 million. The sale was completed on January 4, 2022. The station airs a 10 p.m. weeknight newscast branded as ''Big Fox News at 10'', using Coastal's partly-centralized

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from

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Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WYDC shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 50 to channel 48.

Translators

In addition to its main signal, WYDC can also be seen on five low-power digital

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. WYDC was also formerly repeated on WMYH-LP in Elmira/ Watkins Glen, which is no longer licensed. *

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References

External links

Official website
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