WTSN-LP
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WTSN-LD channel 36 is the Me-TV affiliate in Evansville, Indiana
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 117,429. It is the county seat of Vanderburgh County and the regional hub for both Southwestern Indiana and the...

. It is licensed in Evansville. Formerly a Pax
I (TV network)
Ion Television is a United States broadcast television network. Owned by ION Media Networks, the networked commenced broadcasting on August 31, 1998 as PAX TV, a named it used until July 1, 2005, when it became i: Independent Television; the network was rechristened Ion on January 29, 2007...

, UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 and My Network TV affiliate, it became an affiliate of America One in June 2009.

Until 2009, WTSN-LP was co-owned by the Evansville Low Power Partnership and Communications Corporation of America
Communications Corporation of America
Communications Corporation of America is a broadcasting company in the United States that owns television stations in smaller markets. The company is headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana...

 (ComCorp), which owns Evansville CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 affiliate WEVV
WEVV
WEVV-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Evansville, Indiana. The station operates on digital channel 45, or virtual channel 44 via PSIP, from a transmitter located in Henderson, Kentucky. WEVV is owned and operated by Communications Corporation of America...

. WEVV carries My Network TV on its digital signal, on digital channel 44.2.

On May 19, 2009 WTSN-LP ceased broadcasting My44 and MyNetwork programming, and on June 1, the station flash cut to digital as WTSN-LD and changed its affiliation to America One.

In August 2010, both WTSN-LD and its translator, WYYW-LP (see below) were granted Class A
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...

 status by the Federal Communications Commission. The Class A designation protects them from being relocated to another channel by a full-power station.

In November 2011, WTSN-LD and WYYW-LP became an affiliate of the classic programming network Me-TV.

Translator

WTSN-LD has one translator, WYYW-LP channel 41. From March 16, 2007 to January 12, 2009, channel 36 was the translator, and its call letters were W36DF.

On February 23, 2009, WTSN and WYYW switched channels, and the Evansville Low Power Partnership also applied for a construction permit to make channel 36 a low-power digital station serving a larger area around Evansville.

From 1995 until 2007, there was a translator on channel 56, W56DN.
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