Affiliations defunct | ||
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8 (PSIP) Owner Withers Broadcasting Companies
(Estate of W. Russell Withers, Jr., Dana R. Withers, Executor) First air date 1986; 31 years ago (1986) Last air date November 19, 2015 (2015-11-19)
(date of license cancellation) Call letters' meaning Deliverance
Healing
Salvation
(station formerly broadcast religious programming) | ||
WDHS was a television station in Iron Mountain, Michigan, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 8. WDHS was owned by Withers Broadcasting Companies, along with WDTV in Weston-Clarksburg, West Virginia.
The station was dark for much of its history; it came on the air only for a short period on an annual basis merely as a way to keep its Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license active. The WDHS license was canceled on November 19, 2015, months after an FCC policy change negated the 'once per year broadcast' method of retaining a station license which had been exploited in the radio industry to 'warehouse' prominent call letters in small markets, along with television broadcasters holding out for sales partners.
When WDHS was on the air, it could be seen in parts of Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Florence (WI), Forest (WI), Gobegic, Houghton, Iron, Langlade (WI), Marinette (WI), Marquette, Menominee, Oconto (WI), Oneida (WI), and Vilas (WI) counties in Michigan and in Wisconsin.