WNDT-CD

WNDT-CD (channel 14) is a Class A television station in New York City, affiliated with First Nations Experience (FNX).

Despite WNDT-CD and WMBQ-CD legally holding low-power class A licenses, they transmit using WNET's full-power spectrum.

In addition to FNX programming, WNDT-CD airs some news and public affairs shows from WNET and NJ PBS.

It was one of multiple television broadcast translators in New York City that operated at the upper end of the UHF television band to provide reliable coverage to sections of New York City where reception was compromised by the construction of the World Trade Center.

Originally, most of the New York City television stations operated their main transmitters from the Empire State Building.

However, reliable reception was compromised for some viewers once the majority of the World Trade Center was constructed, thus necessitating the use of the UHF translators.

In response, nearly all of the TV stations, including WPIX, relocated to the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1975.

More than a year after WPIX became a Tribune Broadcasting station outright in 1991 and expanded coverage in New York City, New Jersey and Long Island over the air and through cable, it was unnecessary to keep channel 17 as a backup translator.

On September 11, 2001, the affiliate temporarily switched to CNN, which aired news coverage as a backup after the planes hit the main transmitter on the north tower.

The religious format stayed mostly the same except the station ID was classified as "WEBR 17 New York", while WEBR-CD 17 was only used on 17.2, re-branding as KTV.

It also operates with a stringent mask filter, which reduces emissions so the channel 17 signal will not exceed -123 DBM within the NYMAC assigned spectrum.

On March 20, 2012, K Licensee Inc., agreed to sell WEBR-CD to OTA Broadcasting, a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital, for $6.6 million.

[3] Prior to the transfer of ownership of OTA Broadcasting, the GCN format stayed the same for a couple of months before being taken off the air in 2013.

In the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction, WEBR-CD sold its spectrum for $72,817,599 and indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement.

[6] The donation was completed on December 22, 2017;[7] the next day, WEBR-CD was taken off the air while WNET prepared to move the shared transmitter to the World Trade Center.

Originally All Arts was supposed to air on WNDT-CD in late January, but it was picked up by WLIW as a fourth subchannel.