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WASA-LD is a low-power television station officially licensed in Port Jervis, New York, but is technically serving the New York City market, formerly assigned to UHF RF channel 25 (virtual channel 24). WASA is owned by Liberman Broadcasting, and broadcasts its digital signal from its transmitter on the Conde Nast Building in Manhattan. WASA briefly used virtual channel 64 to match its former analog channel number, then later changed its virtual channel to 24. WNYE-TV, the former long-time analog occupant of channel 25 which selected RF channel 24 for its post-transition operations, already uses virtual channel 25. WASA, therefore, could not use virtual channel 25. In April 2009 it was announced that Venture would sell this station to Liberman Broadcasting for $6 Million, making NYC the 6th market to be served by Liberman if the sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The deal closed on March 1, 2010. ==History: As W64AA== This station was signed on over UHF channel 64 in the 1970s by its original owner MetroMedia as W64AA. It was one of multiple television broadcast translators in New York City which operated at the upper end of the UHF television band in order to provide reliable coverage to certain New York boroughs whose reception was ultimately compromised by construction of the World Trade Center. This translator station relayed WNEW-TV (now WNYW), which at the time operated over VHF channel 5. Originally, most of the New York City television stations operated their main transmitters from the Empire State Building. However, reliable reception was ultimately compromised for some viewers once the majority of the World Trade Center was constructed, thus necessitating the use of the UHF translators. In response, nearly all of the TV stations, including WNEW-TV, relocated to the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1975. In 1982, UHF channels 70 through 83 were decommissioned for use as television stations, and the frequencies were reassigned for the Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS), an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs which was officially introduced in the Americas in 1983. TV stations operating on these channels were either displaced to in-core broadcast channels, sold, or deleted, depending on the owners desired intentions. While some of the stations, such as WPIX and WCBS-TV, continued broadcasting relay translators by moving to lower channels, WNEW-TV ultimately decide to shut down channel 64. The allocation remained inactive for eighteen years, until WPIX temporarily used channel 64 as a translator station following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Within a few weeks, WPIX service over channel 11 was fully restored. The channel 64 allocation was once again deleted by the end of 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WASA-LD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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