WILX-TV Channel 10 Onondaga/Lansing

Slogan: WILX 10; Coverage You Can Count On

Programming:

Power/Height: 14,800 watts / 979 feet
- Service Area

Construction permit: 30,000 watts / 979 feet
- Service Area

Digital Channel: 10

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Call Sign History:

Call Sign Origin: Lansing X (Roman number 10)

Network Affiliation History: NBC

On Air Date: 1959

Telephone: (517) 393-0110

Notes/History:

9/2009: Construction permit granted to increase digital power from 14,800 to 30,000 watts.

2/17/2009: Analog broadcasting on channel 10 ends as the station moves to digital-only regular broadcasts on that channel. Prior to February 17th, WILX broadcast its digital signal on Channel 57.

4/2008: Construction permit granted for post-transition digital facilities on Channel 10. License to cover granted October, 2011.

4/2002: Announced that Gray Communications will be purchasing assets of Benedek Broadcasting.

19xx: Station changes hands several times, the WILX ownership roster include Figgie Communications, Adams Television, Brissette Broadcasting, Forward Communications and Benedek Broadcasting.

1972: WKAR-TV 23 signs on as Lansing's full-time PBS affilate, WMSB signs off and Channel 10 becomes solely WILX-TV.

1959: WILX-TV signs on along with WMSB using Channel 10; WILX is owned by Jackson Telecasters, WMSB is owned by Michigan Statue University. As WILX/WMSB from 1959, the channel was shared: part-time NBC programming, part-time public/educational programming which moved from WKAR-TV Channel 60.

Transmitter location:

Ingham County

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