WIRP-LD

WIRP-LD

Fayetteville, North Carolina United States
City of license	Fayetteville, North Carolina
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 27 (UHF)
Affiliations	Estrella TV
Owner	DTV America Corporation
Founded	May 17, 2011
First air date	2016
Sister station(s)	WNCB-LD
Former callsigns	W22ED-D (2011-2013)
Former affiliations	Silent (2011-2016)
Transmitter power	15 kW
Height	524 feet (160 m)
Facility ID	183681
Transmitter coordinates

WIRP-LD is a digital low-powered television station located in and licensed to Fayetteville, North Carolina. The station is an Estrella TV affiliate owned by DTV America Corporation. Its digital signal is broadcast on UHF channel 22, but is displayed as virtual channel 27 via PSIP on consumer digital tuners. It mainly serves the immediate Fayetteville area, which is considered to be in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina media market.

Digital channels

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
27.1	4:3	480i	WIRP-LD	estrellaTV
27.2				Buzzr
27.3				Escape
27.4				Cozi TV
27.5				QVC Over Air
27.6				QVC Plus

History

The station’s construction permit was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on May 17, 2011. The originally assigned callsign was W22ED-D. The stations current WIRP-LD calls were assigned on May 10, 2013.

The station went on the air in early 2016 as an affiliate of Estrella TV. Since in-market sister station WNCB-LD, also in Fayetteville, the station’s main channel is mainly a simulcast of WNCB. The other subchannels of WIRP are different from that station as WNCB carries Azteca America, Sonlife, and Newsmax TV networks on their subchannels. Buzzr, Escape, Cozi TV and the main and west-coast feeds of QVC are offered on the subchannels of WIRP. The main QVC feed is also offered on WNCB-LD5.

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WIRP
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WIRP-TV
• DTV America