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WYYW-CD

television station in Indiana, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ17091023
Source-derived summary

WYYW-CD (channel 15) is a low-power, Class A television station in Evansville, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. The station is owned by Three Sisters Broadcasting alongside Antenna TV affiliate WTSN-CD (channel 20).

History

Until 2009, WYYW-CD was co-owned by the Evansville Low Power Partnership and Comcorp, as a sister station to Evansville CBS affiliate WEVV-TV.

On May 19, 2009, the then-WTSN-LP ceased broadcasting My44 and MyNetworkTV programming, and on June 1, the station flash cut to digital as WTSN-LD and changed its affiliation to America One. WEVV now carries MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation on digital channel 44.2.

In August 2010, both WTSN-LD and WYYW-LP were granted Class A status by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Class A designation protects them from being relocated to another channel by a full-power station.

In November 2011, WTSN-CD and WYYW-LP became affiliates of the classic programming network MeTV.

On December 12, 2012, WTSN-CD and WYYW-CD swapped call signs. The original WTSN-CD became WYYW-CD, while the original WYYW-CD became WTSN-CD.

On February 25, 2014, WYYW-CD dropped MeTV and took on the Heartland affiliation. The station also added a second digital subchannel to carry The Family Channel on 15.2 on that same date. MeTV was still seen on WTSN-CD until October 23.

Editorial summary

“WYYW-CD” enters the record as television station in Indiana, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what WYYW-CD, television and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around WYYW-CD, television and station.
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Why this record matters

“WYYW-CD” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, WYYW-CD, television and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17091023. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from WYYW-CD” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.