W14NA-D

W14NA-D (channel 14) is a low-power television station licensed to Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is owned by Tegna Inc., and serves as a translator of WES-TV (channel 10), which its transmitter is about 40 miles (64 km) north of other stations in Grand Rapids.
==History==
W14NA-D started operations in 1987 as an affiliate as an independent station with it’s schedule mainly filled with infomercials and public domain shows and movies, under ownership of Mabel C. and her husband Edward C. The couple saved up their money to start a TV station, but issues with the transmitter manufacturer forced them to only broadcast with 1.4 kW of power, rather than their desired transmitting power of 13 kW, which would have reached the majority of the city and some suburbs. 
The couple, seeing enormous loss from the operation, as a result of those reasons, they sold the station to the group behind The Box television network, a music channel designed for viewers to request music to play on the channel for a fee. That sale happened in 1991. Upon the completion of the sale, the station aired The Box and its successor, MTV2, when the station came under Viacom ownership.
Viacom retained the station until 2005, when they sold W14NA to the Trinity Broadcasting Network, who then turned the station to that network. 
In 2010, TBN constructed digital facilities at the same location as the analog transmitter, but under the same technical power due to limitations on the budget to upgrade all its low power stations to digital. 
The station was again sold to DTV America in 2013. The new owners then converted the station to carry 7 sub channels, with the main channel affiliated with The Doctors Network. 
DTV America held onto the station until 2019, when it then sold it to Lake Hill. Originally, Lake Hill kept all the channels it had under DTV America. But in 2020, it dropped all affiliations the station had, in favor of Newsfix. 
Unlike other Lake Hill stations affiliated with Newsfix, including other low powered stations, W14NA-D does not carry local news updates nor local weather updates. Lake Hill does not have to carry local programming as it is not subject to public interest rules the FCC imposes on full power stations and class A low power stations. 
However, Lake Hill has filed to boost the power of the station to 15 kW, with the hopes of upgrading the station in some way to a full power station. Once the upgrade to 15 kW is done, there are plans to create a news department for the station, especially with a full power station.
The station was sold to Tegna in November 24, 2020, and has since then served as translator of WES-TV.
Category:Lake Hill Broadcasting
Category:Tegna Inc.
Category:Grand Rapids, Michigan
Category:Michigan