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W33BY
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| W33BY, a.k.a. "WHPR" (a Class-A station) |
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| Detroit, Michigan | |
| Branding | "TV 33"; "WHPR"; "UHF 68 Highland Park" |
| Channels | 33 (UHF), 68 (UHF, airs a separate schedule?) analog, None, for either digital |
| Affiliations | Independent station |
| Owner | R. J.'s Late Night Entertainment Corporation (Highland Park Broadcasting, LP) |
| Founded | August 31, 1990 |
| Call letters meaning | W Highland Park Radio (unofficial calls, named after its sister radio station) |
| Former callsigns | W68CH (1990-2003) |
| Former affiliations | The Box, AIN, UATV (exact dates unknown, though AIN and The Box left the station by December 2000) |
| Transmitter Power | 15 kW/111.6 m |
| Website | Official Site |
WHPR is the unofficial call sign of TV channel 33 (officially called W33BY), and is a low-power broadcasting station based in Highland Park, Michigan.
The station is a Class-A operation, even though the station's official calls are still translator-style calls.
Neither Comcast Detroit, Bright House Livonia nor Cogeco Windsor has this channel in their line-ups. According to WHPR's web site, it is carried on Comcast channel 20, but as of current, it is not actually on Comcast's line-up.
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WHPR is the Detroit area's first Black-owned TV station since channel 62 (then WGPR) became a CBS affiliate.
The station's television airtime is occupied mostly by phone-in talk shows (most are radio simulcasts), televangelism, fundraising, traditional television commercials and apparently Bloomberg-inspired on-screen advertising. Its sister radio station, WHPR-FM, was admonished by the FCC in 2001 for running advertising contrary to its status as "Noncommercial Educational Station." At night music videos are seen.
The station started out as W68CH on channel 68 back in 1990, and branded itself as "UHF 68, Highland Park". The station "moved" to W33BY in November, 2001, but the station still operated on both channels. This continued until August 2002, when 33 and 68 carried separate schedules. Channel 68 would close down for good in September 2003. However, as of July 2006, TVguide.com still shows the station as on the air, carrying a schedule separate from W33BY. [1] As of current, however, the FCC database has no listings for W68CH, or any channel 68, in the Detroit area.
Here is a list of its former call signs, from most recent to oldest, from fccinfo.com.
- W33BY from Oct 11 2002
- W68CH from Jun 3 1999
- W33BY from Jun 2 1999
- W68CH from Jun 2 1999
- DW68CH from Mar 12 1996 (D in callsign signifies deleted callsign)
- W68CH from Aug 31 1990
| DMA 11: Detroit | WDWO-CA 18 / W27CJ 27* (TCT) • WUDT-CA 23 (UNI) • WLPC-LP 26 (FN) • WPXD 31* / W48AV 48 (ION) • W33BY 33 (IND) • WADL 38* (IND / JTV / WORD) • W66BV 66 (TBN) |
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| DMA 39: Grand Rapids - Battle Creek - Kalamazoo | WUHQ-LP 29 (A1 / MTV3) • WUHO-LP 36 (IND) • WMKG-LP 38* (FN) • WZPX 43 (ION) • WTLJ 54* (TBN) • WLLA 64 (FN) |
| DMA 66: Flint - Saginaw - Bay City - Midland | WHNE-LP 32 (A1) • W46CR 46 (3ABN) • WAQP 49 (TBN / TCT) • WXON-LP 54 / W09CK 9 (IND) |
| DMA 112: Lansing - Jackson | W27CN 27 (TBN / TCT) |
| DMA 113: Traverse City - Cadillac - Sault Ste. Marie | WLLZ-LP 12 (A1) |
| DMA 178: Marquette - Escanaba | WDHS 8* (EWTN) |
| DMA 39: Alpena | W18BT 18 (TBN) |
| Footnotes | *These stations are licensed outside of the core cities. |
| Check these other Michigan Stations | ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and PBS |
| Check these other Ontario Stations | CBC, CTV, Global, SRC and Other |