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Low-power digital · channel 19 · DECATUR, IL
| Facility ID | 794530 |
| Licence status | Not stated by the FCC for this facility (code CP) |
| Licensee | TV-49, INC. |
| Community of licence | DECATUR, IL
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 39.86225, -88.96947 |
| Effective radiated power | 15 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 326.1 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-11-07.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
No website is on file for this station, so there is nothing to check. Websites come from Wikidata; a station missing there is absent from this section rather than scored zero.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WLCF-LD | 17 | LPD | CHRISTIAN TELEVISION NETWORK, INC. |
| WAND | 20 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| WBUI | 22 | DTV | GOCOM MEDIA OF ILLINOIS, LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/W19FQ-D | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=W19FQ-D | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.