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Low-power digital · channel 20 · BANGOR, ME
| Facility ID | 187895 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| Community of licence | BANGOR, ME
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 | 44.85272, -68.78414 |
| Effective radiated power | 10 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 180.1 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WLBZ | 2 | DTV | TEGNA EAST COAST BROADCASTING, LLC |
| WEXZ-LD | 5 | LPD | JOSEPH JURKENAS |
| WVII-TV | 7 | DTV | BANGOR COMMUNICATIONS, LLC |
| WFVX-LD | 7 | LPD | ROCKFLEET BROADCASTING III, LLC |
| WABI-TV | 13 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| W15DS-D | 15 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| W19FA-D | 19 | LPD | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| W32FS-D | 32 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| W34EQ-D | 34 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/W20ER-D | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=W20ER-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.