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| Branding | Big Bend CTN 45 |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 45.1: CTN |
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| History | |
First air date | May 11, 1984 |
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Call sign meaning | Station was an affiliate of UPN in the early 2000s |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 3032 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 260.6 m (855 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°34′28″N 84°12′9″W / 30.57444°N 84.20250°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | ctnonline |
WVUP-CD (channel 45) is a low-power, Class A television station in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's studios are located on Capital Circle Northeast in Tallahassee, and its transmitter is located on Thomasville Road in northern Leon County, Florida, near the Georgia state line. WVUP-CD offers 24-hour religious programming, much of which is produced either locally or at the CTN home base in Clearwater, Florida.
The station went on the air in 1984 as W17AB and was one of the most successful low-power TV stations anywhere in the United States in the 1980s. However, the advent of a new full-power independent station led to its conversion to home shopping programs and then to local Christian programming. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the station briefly returned to a general entertainment format as a UPN affiliate. However, its owner, Southern Nights Entertainment Corporation, was insufficiently capitalized. As a result, the station was sold at public sale in 2001 to The Note Capital Corporation. CTN then purchased it and returned it to the air with its Christian programming in 2003.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WVUP-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.