WYDN

WYDN, virtual channel 48 (UHF digital channel 47), is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station serving Boston, Massachusetts, United States that is licensed to Worcester. The station is owned by the Educational Public Television Corporation subsidiary of Daystar sister company Word of God Fellowship, Inc. WYDN maintains studio facilities located on Sprague Street in Dedham, and its digital transmitter is located at the WBZ-TV tower in Needham, MA. On cable, WYDN is available on Comcast Xfinity digital channel 295 and on Verizon FiOS channel 25.

History

The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1999, as an affiliate of the Prime Time Christian Broadcasting (now God's Learning Channel) network, simulcast from KMLM in Odessa, Texas. 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 Major Armstrong put an FM there in the 1940s) until the June 12, 2009 digital transition; its digital transmitter operates from the WBZ-TV tower in Needham. By the early 2000s, the station switched its affiliation to Daystar, after it was acquired by an arm of the network's subsidiary Word of God Fellowship, Inc.; the station had also become available on cable providers throughout the market.