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Low-power digital · channel 26 · PROVIDENCE, RI
| Facility ID | 796228 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| Community of licence | PROVIDENCE, RI
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 | 41.68517, -71.51058 |
| Effective radiated power | 15 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 85 m above average terrain · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WRIW-CD | 2 | DCA | NBC TELEMUNDO LICENSE LLC |
| WSBE-TV | 2 | DTV | OCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP |
| WPRI-TV | 7 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| facility 794188 | 11 | LPD | |
| facility 795146 | 11 | LPD | |
| WNAC-TV | 12 | DTV | MISSION BROADCASTING, INC. |
| facility 793814 | 23 | LPD | |
| WJAR | 25 | DTV | WJAR LICENSEE, LLC |
| WYCN-LD | 31 | LPD | STATION VENTURE OPERATIONS, LP |
| facility 796420 | 36 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/W26FS-D | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=W26FS-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.