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Full-power digital · channel 29 · CHARLESTON, WV
| Facility ID | 71280 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | WCHS LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | CHARLESTON, WV
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 | 38.40778, -81.90333 |
| Effective radiated power | 533 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 752.1 m above average terrain · non-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.
| Website | http://wchstv.com |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 9
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
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.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WLPX-TV | 18 | DTV | ION TELEVISION LICENSE, LLC |
| W23FX-D | 23 | LPD | |
| WVAH-TV | 24 | DTV | WVAH LICENSEE, LLC |
| W25GL-D | 25 | LPD | |
| W27EF-D | 27 | LPD | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| W28FP-D | 28 | LPD | |
| WOCW-LD | 33 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| W34GF-D | 34 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WCHS-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WCHS-TV | 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.