WDTI
History
Channel 69 first signed on the air on June 6, 1988, as WBUU, an educational independent station founded by Butler University. It changed its call letters to WTBU in 1991.
In 1992, WTBU joined PBS as its fourth member station in the Indianapolis market—after WFYI (channel 20), Bloomington-based WTIU (channel 30) and Muncie-licensed WIPB (channel 49); through PBS' Program Differentiation Plan, a fraction of the network's programming was distributed between all four stations, with WFYI carrying most of PBS' programs as the primary PBS outlet for the market. In 2004, Butler University sold WTBU to Indianapolis Community Television, Inc., an arm of the Daystar Television Network. The new owners began carrying programming from the religious broadcast network.
Technical information
Subchannels
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
69.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WDTI-DT | Main WDTI programming / Daystar |
69.2 | 720p | WDTI-ES | Daystar Español | |
69.3 | 480i | WDTI-SD | Daystar Reflections (worship music) |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WDTI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 69, on November 10, 2008. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 69.