WXSP-CD
MyNetworkTV affiliate in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
WXSP-CD (channel 15) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, serving West Michigan. It is programmed primarily as an independent station, but maintains a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV. WXSP-CD is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate WOOD-TV (channel 8) and ABC affiliate WOTV (channel 41); Nexstar's Tegna subsidiary owns fellow ABC affiliate WZZM (channel 13). WXSP-CD, WOOD-TV and WOTV share studios on College Avenue Southeast in the Heritage Hill section of Grand Rapids; WXSP-CD's transmitter is located in Walker (along I-96). Another repeater station licensed to Grand Rapids, WOLP-CD (channel 35), utilizes and is co-located with WOOD-TV's transmitter southwest of Middleville.
History
The station signed on the air on July 23, 1986, as W29AD, broadcasting on UHF channel 29. It moved to UHF channel 15 and acquired the W15AM calls on January 12, 1988. In the station's early days, it was a translator for World Harvest Television from WHME-TV in South Bend, Indiana, which is owned by LeSEA Broadcasting (now Family Broadcasting Corporation). The station was then purchased by LIN TV, the owner of WOOD-TV, and converted to the station's Local Weather Station (LWS) format with the call sign WOWD-LP (variation on WOOD-TV). WOWD and its low-power network of repeaters aired 24-hour weather information direct from WOOD-TV's weather center, including current conditions and severe weather coverage. This was in an early pre-digital format comparable to the now defunct NBC Weather Plus.
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