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Full-power digital · channel 8 · DULUTH, MN
| Facility ID | 17726 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION CORPORATION |
| Community of licence | DULUTH, MN
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 | 46.79158, -92.12261 |
| Effective radiated power | 34 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 608.7 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://www.wdse.org/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WDIO-DT | 10 | DTV | WDIO-TV, LLC |
| K14TS-D | 14 | LPD | |
| K17OV-D | 17 | LPD | LOWCOUNTRY 34 MEDIA, LLC |
| KQDS-TV | 18 | DTV | CTMN LICENSE LLC |
| K21PW-D | 21 | LPT | |
| K23MQ-D | 23 | LPD | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| KCWV | 27 | DTV | RADIANT LIFE MINISTRIES, INC. |
| K30QX-D | 30 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| KMYN-LD | 32 | LPD | SAGAMOREHILL OF MINNEAPOLIS, LLC |
| KDLH | 33 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| K35JN-D | 35 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WDSE | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WDSE | 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.