WDTI

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

WDTI (channel 69) is a religious television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network through its subsidiary Indianapolis Community Television. WDTI's offices are 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). Daystar also separately operates a low-power television station in Indianapolis, WIPX-LD (channel 51).

WDTI

Indianapolis, Indiana United States
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 69
Branding	Daystar
Programming
Affiliations	69.1: Daystar 69.2: Daystar Español 69.3: Daystar Reflections
Ownership
Owner	Word of God Fellowship (Indianapolis Community Television, Inc.)
History
First air date	June 8, 1988 (36 years ago) (1988-06-08)
Former call signs	WBUU (1988–1991) WTBU (1991–2004)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 69 (UHF, 1988–2009) Digital: 44 (UHF, until 2019)
Former affiliations	Educational Independent (1988–1992) PBS (1992–2004)
Call sign meaning	"Daystar Television Indianapolis"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	7908
ERP	18.2 kW
HAAT	293 m (961 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°53′39.2″N 86°12′20.5″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.daystar.com

History

Channel 69 first signed on the air on June 6, 1988, as WBUU, an educational independent station founded by Butler University. It changed its call letters to WTBU in 1991.

In 1992, WTBU joined PBS as its fourth member station in the Indianapolis market—after WFYI (channel 20), Bloomington-based WTIU (channel 30) and Muncie-licensed WIPB (channel 49); through PBS' Program Differentiation Plan, a fraction of the network's programming was distributed between all four stations, with WFYI carrying most of PBS' 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. The new owners began carrying programming from the religious broadcast network.

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannels of WDTI^[2]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
69.1	1080i	16:9	WDTI-DT	Daystar
69.2	720p		WDTI-ES	Daystar Español
69.3	480i		WDTI-SD	Daystar Reflections

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, using virtual channel 69.^[3]