W23DN

W23DN, W24AL-D

Atlanta metro area
City of license	Atlanta, Georgia
Channels	Analog: 23+ Digital: 24 (CP)
Affiliations	Home Shopping Network
Owner	Home Shopping Network (Ventana Television)
Founded	1987
Former callsigns	W24AL
Former channel number(s)	24 (1987-2007)
Transmitter power	18.1 kW analog, 10 kW digital
Height	132 m (433 ft), 169 m (554 ft)
Class	LPTV
Transmitter coordinates	33°48′26″N 84°20′22″W
Website	www.hsn.com

W23DN is a low-power television station (LPTV) licensed to the city of Atlanta, Georgia, broadcasting on TV channel 23⁺ as an affiliate of Home Shopping Network.

Founded in 1987, the station is owned by Ventana Television, the subsidiary of HSN which is the holding company for its broadcast licenses. In March 2007, the station changed channels and therefore callsigns from W24AL to W23DN. The station owner applied to the FCC to move to channel 6 for its migration to DTV broadcasting. This digital companion channel, which was given a construction permit in January 2007, had callsign W06CM-D.

After being extended by six months in January 2010, the permit expired in mid July, however the FCC approved a "flash cut" to digital on channel 24, which was applied-for in January. By moving back to its former channel, it will reclaim its old callsign (but with the digital suffix) as W24AL-D. The move was made possible by WGXA TV 24 in Macon (the middle Georgia TV market) using channel 16 after the analog shutdown, eliminating the co-channel interference the two stations previously had at times. In late October 2010, it applied for channel 45 (vacated by WYGA-CA) at the same location and height, with somewhat higher power and slightly different antenna rotation.

The analog station and recent digital permit and application are on the same broadcast tower, located near the North Druid Hills section of Atlanta, as several other FM and TV stations. The expired digital permit for W06CM was for the WUPA TV 69 tower near Reynoldstown in Atlanta, east-southeast of downtown along Interstate 20. (33°44′40.5″N 84°21′35.9″W, see list of Atlanta broadcast stations by location#Reynoldstown).

External links

• HSN official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W23DN
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W06CM
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W24AL