City Nashville, Tennessee Affiliations Silent Transmitter power 16.4 kW | Channels Analog: 14 (UHF) Owner U.S. Television LLC. | |
Former affiliations Univision (1999-2003)
Daystar (2003-2012)
MTV 2 (2012-2015) | ||
WIIW-LP is a low-powered television station that is licensed to Nashville, Tennessee.
History
The station first signed on in the late 1990s under the ownership of Equity Broadcasting, and broadcast programming from Univision 24 hours a day. On December 18, 2003, Equity Broadcasting sold WIIW to U.S. Television. Soon after the sale, programming from Univision was replaced with programming from Daystar. Univision's programming moved to Equity's newly acquired station, WNTU-LP, in 2006. Daystar's programming was discontinued in 2012 and replaced with programming from MTV 2. On December 1, 2015, WIIW was taken silent and will return to the air as an independent station when the conversion to digital operations are completed.
WIIW maintained two construction permits, one to broadcast on digital UHF channel 29, and the other to broadcast on digital channel 25. Since digital channel 25 is already occupied with full-powered CBS affiliate WTVF, WIIW would have ended up with digital channel 29. However, both of those construction permits for WIIW-LP have been canceled by The FCC, but WIIW-LP still has its analog license along with two other construction permits for the station. Through the use of PSIP, the station’s channel will still be displayed as its analog channel 14.
The deadline for the digital television transition for low-powered stations was supposed to be in September 2015, However, the cutoff date for standard LPTVs and translators still broadcasting in analog had been suspended until further notice. Therefore, WIIW-LP maintains its analog signal on Channel 14. The analog signal on Channel 14 remains silent until it is known if the FCC will force WIIW-LP off the air, especially since it is a low power station.