WDPM-DT (channel 18) is a religious television station licensed to Mobile, Alabama, United States, serving southwest Alabama and northwest Florida. The station is owned by the Daystar Television Network. WDPM-DT's transmitter is located near Robertsdale, Alabama.

History

The station signed on after the analog signal of PBS member station WSRE (channel 23) signed off for the last time on February 17, 2009.

Since the "channel 23.1" series of virtual channel designations already identifies the existing PBS station's digital subchannels, this numbering sequence would not be available to the new station. According to the ATSC standard, WDPM-DT's channel numbers would therefore need to be displayed using numbering based on WSRE's digital channel number, 31.[2] From sign-on until February 2010, the station displayed as channel 4.1, which is considered a violation of these standards.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WDPM-DT[3]
Channel Res. Short name Programming
18.1 1080iWDPM-DTDaystar
18.2 720pWDPM-ESDaystar Español
18.3 480iWDPM-SDDaystar Reflections

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WDPM-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ ATSC standard A/65C Archived December 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Annex 'B', Advanced Television Systems Committee, May 2006.
  3. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WDPM
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDPM-DT