WAST-LP

For the former WAST-TV in Albany, New York, see WNYT (TV).

WAST-LP

Ashland, Wisconsin United States
Channels	Analog: 25 (UHF)
Branding	True North TV-25
Programming
Affiliations	Defunct
Ownership
Owner	Martinsen Investments (True North TV 25, LLC)
History
Founded	January 12, 1995
First air date	May 14, 1997 (1997-05-14)
Last air date	August 1, 2006 (2006-08-01) (9 years, 79 days) (license canceled on January 3, 2014)
Former call signs	W25CA (1995–2000)
Former affiliations	America One (1997–2005) UPN (2005–2006)
Call sign meaning	Wisconsin Ashland Television
Technical information
Facility ID	8612
ERP	52 kW

WAST-LP (analog channel 25) was a low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin, United States. The station was a semi-satellite of the UPN-affiliated second digital subchannel of KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, then-called Northland UPN and Northland 9, but was owned by a separate entity, Martinsen Investments, which also owns a large percentage of the property in Ashland. WAST-LP sold local advertising specifically for the Ashland area, preempting KBJR-DT2's advertising breaks.

WAST-LP once carried its own local newscasts, concentrating on Ashland and northern Wisconsin events, but they were canceled after the LMA to simulcast KBJR-DT2 went into effect, accompanied by the staff reduced to a skeleton crew to keep the station in operation with the KBJR-DT2 rebroadcast.

On August 1, 2006, the station ended operations and went off the air, a month short of KBJR-DT2's conversion to MyNetworkTV. Despite being off the air for eight years, long after most stations licenses are canceled for not broadcasting, WAST-LP's license remained active until January 3, 2014, when its previous license to broadcast was fully exhausted.

External links

• Business North: "Mavericks plan to relaunch Ashland TV station" (from March 2005)