WCKD-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WCKD-LP
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 30 (UHF)
digital =
affiliations = TBN
founded = 1991
location = Bangor, Maine
callsign_meaning = Wicked Good TV
owner = James McLeod
former_affiliations = PBS (1990s-2001)
UPN (2001-05)
Fox Sports (2000s)
Jewelry Television (2005-06)
homepage =

WCKD-LP is a low power television station in Bangor, Maine. Its signal originates from a transmitter in East Eddington, Maine, and is seen on UHF channel 30. The station is not carried on any local cable systems.

History

The station was launched in the mid-1990s under the call sign W30BF as part of MPBN Plus, Maine's secondary public television network. When MPBN Plus folded, W30BF was sold to ABC affiliate WVII-TV, who changed changed channel 30's call sign to WCKD-LP in April 2001 and affiliated the station with UPN. After Portland's WPXT dropped its Fox affiliation for The WB in 2001, WVII negotiated with Fox to convert WCKD to Fox. However, UPN threatened legal action for breach of its affiliation agreement, and WVII abandoned its plans to convert WCKD to Fox. However, WCKD did air Fox Sports programming, including Super Bowl XXXVI.

WVII then launched WFVX-LP/Channel 22 in 2003, which became the Fox affiliate. WCKD was then sold to James McLeod, owner of i affiliate WBGR-LP. WCKD remained a UPN affiliate until early 2005, when it began to air programming from Jewelry Television, In 2006, the station became a TBN affiliate, even though TBN already owned a repeater (W36CK) in the market.

External links

*TVQ|WCKD-LP