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WALV-CD

Class A digital · channel 17 · INDIANAPOLIS, IN

What the FCC says

Facility ID70161
Licence statusLicensed and on air (code LIC)
LicenseeVIDEOHIO, INC.
Community of licenceINDIANAPOLIS, IN
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.
Transmitter39.92861, -86.18194
Effective radiated power8.18 kW
Antenna height (HAAT)521.8 m above average terrain · non-directional

Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.

Can you receive it?

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.

Can an assistant read this station's website?

Websitehttp://www.wthr.com/
AI crawlers blocked by namenone
Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/aino
Structured data on the homepagenone found

This website serves 2 stations. It is a network or group property, so the settings above reflect the owner's policy across all of them rather than a decision made for WALV-CD.

Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.

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For an assistant

This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.

/api/station-readiness/WALV-CDthis section, as JSON
/api/outlets?q=WALV-CDthe facility record
POST /mcpMCP, 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.