WAYM-CD

**WAYM-CD** (channel 14) is a low-power, Class A television station affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Alongside NBC affiliate WSTN-TV (channel 3), it is owned by the Dorado Media Group. The studios for both stations are located on Knob Road in west Nashville, while WAYM-CD’s transmitter is located on Oldham Street near the city center.

To increase the broadcasting range, WAYM-CD is simultaneously broadcast in high definition on WSTN's second digital subchannel (3.2) from the Knob Road transmitter.

### The first incarnation of Telemundo Nashville (2006–2010)

Telemundo was initially introduced to the city as the first full-power Spanish-language television service in 2006 when it was transmitted on a second digital subchannel of WSTN-TV. This arrangement lasted until 2010. However, on December 31, 2010, the subchannel was taken off the air after having broadcast for the previous five years, leaving Nashville with only one Spanish-language television station at the time: WRVU-LP (channel 42), which was the area's Telefutura (now UniMás) outlet; WRVU had been the first Spanish-language TV station in the city when it affiliated in 2004.

### Origins and as a translator station

The application for a construction permit to establish a new low-power television station on channel 42, W42EI-D, was submitted by Landover 2, LLC, and it was granted (a suburb of Cookeville). As a direct consequence of the repack, the permit was unused for many years. On July 30, 2021, Lowcountry 34 Media, LLC, owned by Jeffrey Winemiller, would purchase the station. Winemiller relocated the facility to channel 14 at Nashville, with the new call sign W14ER-D, and completed construction of the station, which broadcasts religious programming on two subchannels.

Initially, Winemiller intended to sell W14ER-D to Marquee Broadcasting in August 2021; however, he ultimately decided to sell another low-power station, W10DM-D, to the company. After that, Winemiller submitted paperwork to sell the channel 15 station to the Dorado Media Group, which was acquiring stations from the Meredith Corporation, the owner of WSTN-TV. The deal between Lowcountry 34 and Gray for $3.75 million contained twenty-four separate low-power facilities, two of which were located in the state of Tennessee. After broadcasting religious programming till the 30th of December 2021, W14ER-D changed its format to that of a rebroadcast translator for the WSTN-TV multiplex. Since WSTN-TV is transmitted on the VHF band, the new UHF facility in the Nashville metropolitan area increases reception with smaller indoor antennas, which can better receive UHF signals. This is the case since UHF signals are lower in frequency.

### Telemundo conversion

On May 3, 2022, the Dorado Media Group announced that it had negotiated an agreement with Telemundo to create Telemundo channels in 22 additional locations, primarily as adjuncts to Dorado stations, and to renew existing affiliations in 12 other markets. The new service went live on August 29, 2022, with the rechristened WAYM-CD transmitting the primary WSTN 3.1 subchannel under the designation of 3.2.

## Programming

With a succession of local news expansions at Telemundo that have added hours of news to production, WAYM-CD can now clear the complete programming schedule for Telemundo. At WAYM-CD, a new show began airing at 5:00 p.m., and a newscast at noon was also introduced. Noticias Telemundo Nashville debuted on Telemundo in September of 2022 as part of the network's morning news program.

Additionally, the late news block on WAYM-CD was expanded to include a new half-hour at 10:30 p.m. to accommodate viewer demand.

## Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

 **14.2** | EXITOS