Branding True North TV-25 Affiliations Defunct Last air date August 1, 2006 | Channels Analog: 25 (UHF) Founded January 12, 1995 | |
Owner Martinsen Investments
(True North TV 25 LLC) | ||
WAST-LP was a low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin, broadcasting locally on UHF channel 25 and cable channel 9 as a UPN affiliate. The station was a semi-satellite of KBJR's second digital subchannel, then-called Northland UPN and Northland 9, but was owned by a separate entity, Martinsen Investments, which also owns a large percentage of the property in Ashland. The station sold local advertising specifically for the Ashland area, pre-empting KBJR-DT2's advertising breaks.
The station once carried its own local newscasts, concentrating on Ashland and northern Wisconsin events, but they were canceled after the LMA to simulcast KBJR-DT2 went into effect, accompanied by the staff reduced to a skeleton crew to keep the station in operation with the KBJR-DT2 rebroadcast.
On August 1, 2006, the station ended operations and went off the air, a month short of KBJR-DT2's conversion to MyNetworkTV. Despite being off the air for eight years, long after most stations licenses are cancelled for not broadcasting, WAST-LP's license remained active until January 3, 2014 when its previous license to broadcast was fully exhausted.