WDTI

This article is about a television station in Indiana. For the college in South Dakota, see Western Dakota Technical Institute.

WDTI

Indianapolis, Indiana United States
Branding	Daystar
Slogan	Experience It
Channels	Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 69 (PSIP)
Subchannels	69.1 Daystar
Affiliations	Daystar (O&O)
Owner	Indianapolis Community Television, Inc. (a subsidiary of Word of God Fellowship, Inc.)
First air date	June 8, 1988 (1988-06-08)
Call letters' meaning	Daystar Television Indianapolis
Former callsigns	WBUU (1988–1991) WTBU (1991–2004)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 69 (UHF, 1988–2009)
Former affiliations	Educational independent (1988–1992) PBS (1992–2004)
Transmitter power	28 kW
Height	293 m
Facility ID	7908
Transmitter coordinates
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.daystar.com

WDTI, virtual channel 69 (UHF digital channel 44), is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by the Indianapolis Community Television subsidiary of Word of God Fellowship, itself a subsidiary of the Daystar Television Network. WDTI maintains offices located on Crawfordsville Road in northwestern Indianapolis (near Speedway), and its transmitter is located on Walnut Drive, also on the city's northwest side (near Meridian Hills). On cable, WDTI is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 21, Bright House Networks channel 253 and AT&T U-verse channel 563.

History

The station first signed on the air on June 6, 1988 as WBUU; originally operating as an educational independent station, the station was founded by Butler University. The station changed its call letters to WTBU in 1991.

In 1992, channel 69 became the fourth PBS member station in the Indianapolis market – after WFYI (channel 20), Bloomington-based WTIU (channel 30) and Muncie-licensed WIPB (channel 49); through PBS's Program Differentiation Plan, a fraction of the network's programming was distributed between all four stations, with WFYI carrying most of PBS's programs as the primary PBS outlet for the market. In 2004, Butler University sold WTBU to Indianapolis Community Television, Inc., an arm of the Daystar Television Network, and began carrying programming from the religious broadcast network.

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
69.1	480i	4:3	WDTI-DT	Main WDTI programming / Daystar

Analog-to-digital conversion

WDTI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 69, on November 10, 2008. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 69, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

External links

• www.daystar.com - Daystar official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WDTI
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WDTI-TV