WAST-LP (Wisconsin)

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WAST-LP (channel 25) was a low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin, United States. The station was a semi-satellite of the UPN-affiliated second digital subchannel of KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, then-called Northland UPN and Northland 9, but was owned by a separate entity, Martinsen Investments. WAST-LP sold local advertising specifically for the Ashland area, preempting KBJR-DT2's advertising breaks.

Since 1997, WAST-LP had been owned by Superior Water Logged Lumber. It struggled financially. A 2001 attempt to sell the station to ESI Broadcasting Corporation of Montana failed; ESI hoped to combine the station with KDUL-LP, then Duluth's UPN affiliate.[2] The station then went off the air.[3]

In December 2005, Hank Martinsen and Julie Nuutinen put WAST-LP back on the air. The station featured two daily newscasts focusing on Wisconsin-area news. It had news sharing agreements with KBJR-TV and KUWS radio in Superior.[3] The effort was short-lived. On May 2, news director Julie Moravchik was fired; she claimed she was dismissed for not making ownership-ordered staffing cuts. Newsroom employees refused to work for anyone else; 10 of them were fired the following day. To fill the void, newscast replays from KDLH-TV, commonly operated with KBJR, were added to the station's programming.[4] Moravchik was then hired to set up the newsroom at KQDS-TV in Duluth.[5]

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 canceled for not broadcasting, WAST-LP's license remained active until January 3, 2014, when its previous license to broadcast was fully exhausted.[6]

References

  1. ↑"Facility Technical Data for WAST-LP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑Casey, Chris (June 23, 2001). "Deal for Ashland TV station canceled: Link with Duluth's KDUL on hold for now". Duluth News Tribune. p. 2B.
  3. ١ ٢ "محطة تلفزيونية في آشلاند ستبدأ البث قريبًا" . صحيفة شيبويجان برس . شيبويجان، ويسكونسن. أسوشيتد برس. ٦ ديسمبر ٢٠٠٥. ص. أ٦ . تم الاطلاع عليه في ١٠ أبريل ٢٠٢٤ - عبر موقع Newspapers.com. 
  4. ↑ باسي، بيتر (23 مايو 2006). "محطة WAST تدرس توجهًا جديدًا - البث: تحاول محطة آشلاند التلفزيونية التعافي من خسارة مديرها العام وعشرة موظفين آخرين". صحيفة دولوث نيوز تريبيون .
  5. ↑ باسي، بيتر (24 أكتوبر 2006). "موظفو محطة آشلاند السابقة يفوزون بجائزة إيمي - لا للتدخين: اثنان من محطة WAST-TV يُعيدان للمحطة السابقة التقدير لإخراجهما وإنتاجهما إعلانات توعية عامة للإقلاع عن التدخين". صحيفة دولوث نيوز تريبيون ، صفحة B5. 
  6. ↑ هاشم زاده، حسين (3 يناير 2014). "فيما يتعلق بمحطة LPTV/TV للترجمة..." (ملف PDF) . الوصول العام لـ CDBS . لجنة الاتصالات الفيدرالية . تم الاطلاع عليه في 6 يناير 2014 .