Call letters' meaning W Evansville INdiana Height 387 feet (118 m) Owner DTV America Transmitter power 15 kW | Former callsigns W40DH-D (2011–2015) Facility ID 187934 Date founded 22 September 2011 Sister station(s) W27DH-D | |
Subchannels 40.1 Cozi TV
40.2 Escape First air date circa January 2016; 1 year ago (2016-01) Channels Digital: 40 (UHF); Virtual: 40 (PSIP) Former affiliations Dark (2011–2016), Laff (2016) | ||
WEIN-LD is a low-powered digital television station that is licensed to and serving Evansville, Indiana. The station is owned by DTV America Corporation of Sunrise, Florida, and it broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 40, which originates from a transmitter located near Chandler, Indiana. The station is an affiliate of Cozi TV, the NBCUniversal-owned classic TV network.
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History
The station’s construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission as W40DH-D on September 22, 2011. The station changed its call letters the current WEIN-LD on June 8, 2015. At some point in January 2016 the station signed on to provide the programming schedule of the Laff network, a Katz Broadcasting-operated comedy-oriented network involving several sitcoms and movies. With WEIN-LD now on the air, it is DTV America’s first-ever station based in the state of Indiana, and also holds the title of Evansville’s newest television station. The station is also Laff’s second affiliate in Indiana, the first being WRTV-DT3 of Indianapolis. WEIN-LD2, a second digital subchannel was also launched to serve as an Escape network affiliate. With both Laff and Escape available on WEIN, and Grit available on WFIE-DT3, Evansville now offers all three Katz Broadcasting-operated multi-cast networks.
It is possible that the either the Doctor Television Channel (DrTV), the Sonlife Broadcasting Network, MundoMax (now defunct), Estrella TV, Soul of the South, or Buzzr could also be launched by WEIN-LD or an even newer station, W27DH-D, DTV America's other silent station in the market, in the near future as DTV America has acquired rights to launch affiliates of those aforementioned networks. DrTV did have plans to affiliate with a station in Evansville after that network’s initial launch in 2014. DTV America also has rights to launch affiliates of Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV, but in the Evansville area, those two networks already have affiliation agreements with WTSN-CD and WEVV-DT2/WEEV-LD, respectively, the latter of which is also Evansville’s Fox affiliate.
Laff was launched over WEHT-DT2 in June 2016. As a result, Cozi TV replaced Laff on the main channel in December 2016.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed: