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Low-power digital · channel 3 · DETROIT, MI
| Facility ID | 168737 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | BRIDGE NEWS LLC |
| Community of licence | DETROIT, MI
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 | 42.44792, -83.17308 |
| Effective radiated power | 3 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 346.8 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.
| Website | http://www.whnetv.com |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 794331 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 794540 | 2 | LPT | |
| facility 794210 | 5 | LPD | |
| WJBK | 7 | DTV | NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS OF DETROIT, INC |
| WUDT-LD | 8 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| facility 796217 | 12 | LPD | |
| WHPS-CD | 15 | DCA | HME EQUITY FUND II, LLC |
| WTVS | 20 | DTV | DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA |
| WWJ-TV | 21 | DTV | CBS BROADCASTING INC. |
| WDWO-CD | 22 | DCA | HC2 STATION GROUP INC. |
| facility 795216 | 23 | LPD | |
| WXYZ-TV | 25 | DTV | SCRIPPS BROADCASTING HOLDINGS LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WHNE-LD | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WHNE-LD | 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.