The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1999, as an affiliate of Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (now
God's Learning Channel) as a straight simulcast of
KMLM in
Odessa, Texas.[5] Originally licensed to
Worcester, Massachusetts, WYDN operated its analog transmitter atop Asnebumskit Hill in
Paxton (a site which is and has been used by Worcester area FM and TV stations since
FM pioneer
Edwin Howard Armstrong erected the tower in the 1940s) until the June 12, 2009, digital transition; its digital transmitter operated from the
WBZ-TV tower in
Needham. By the early 2000s, the station switched to
Daystar after it was acquired by its Word of God Fellowship, Inc. licensing subsidiary, and Daystar immediately pushed for successful
must-carry carriage from local cable providers.
WYDN sold its frequency rights as part of the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s 2017 spectrum incentive auction[6] and reached a channel sharing agreement with Ion Television O&O WPXG-TV;[1] it began broadcasting from WPXG's transmitter on April 23, 2018.[7] As WPXG's broadcasting radius does not cover Worcester, WYDN changed its city of license to Lowell, Massachusetts.[2]
WYDN shut down its analog signal, over
UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 47,[9] using
virtual channel 48.
^"For the Record"(PDF). Broadcasting. October 23, 1989. p. 96.
ProQuest1014732522.
Archived(PDF) from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2023 – via World Radio History.