WIFR-LD

"WSLN" redirects here. For the former radio station in Delaware, Ohio, that held the call sign WSLN until 2012, see OWU Radio.

WIFR-LD
Channels
Branding
  • WIFR
  • Stateline CW (WSLN/WIFR-LD5)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WSLN
History
First air date
May 31, 2017
(7 years ago) (2017-05-31)
Former call signs
W22EE-D (2011–2017)[a]
Former channel number(s)
  • Digital: 41 (UHF, 2017–2020)
Call sign meaning
  • WIFR-LD: Wisconsin, Illinois, Freeport, Rockford
  • WSLN: State Line Region
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID183744
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT215.8 m (708 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°17′48.3″N 89°10′15″W / 42.296750°N 89.17083°W / 42.296750; -89.17083
Links
Public license information
LMS
Websitewww.wifr.com
Former license
WIFR
History
First air date
September 12, 1965 (1965-09-12)
Last air date
  • May 31, 2017 (2017-05-31)
  • (51 years, 261 days)
Former call signs
  • WCEE-TV (1965–1977)
  • WIFR-TV (1977–1991)
  • WIFR (1991–2017)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 23 (UHF, 1965–2009)
  • Digital: 41 (UHF, 2003–2017)
Technical information
Facility ID4689
ERP170 kW
HAAT219.7 m (721 ft)

WIFR-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station in Rockford, Illinois, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on North Meridian Road in Rockford.

Until 2017, WIFR operated as a full-power television station licensed to nearby Freeport. Under its current low-power license, WIFR-LD continues to use channel 23 as its virtual channel. WIFR is the only television station in the Rockford market to retain the same network affiliation since it first signed on.

Since WIFR's over-the-air coverage area is effectively limited to Rockford itself and close-in suburbs in Winnebago County, it relies mostly on cable and satellite for its viewership. Its third digital subchannel is simulcast on a subchannel of NBC affiliate WREX (VHF channel 13.6, mapped to virtual channel 23.10).

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference tvnc-w22eegray was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WIFR-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.


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