WTVK (TV)

WTVK
CityOswego, Illinois
Channels
BrandingWTVK 59
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Venture Technologies Group
  • (Four Seasons Peoria, LLC)
WRME-LD
History
FoundedSeptember 8, 1995
First air date
July 5, 1999 (1999-07-05) (in Peoria, Illinois; license moved to Oswego in 2021)
Former call signs
WAOE (1995–2023)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 59 (UHF, 1999–2008)
  • Digital: 39 (UHF, 2001–2020)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID52280
ERP
  • DTS1: 30 kW
  • DTS2: 7.4 kW
HAAT
  • DTS1: 411 m (1,348 ft)
  • DTS2: 388 m (1,273 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
Translator(s)
Links
Public license information

WTVK (channel 59) is a television station licensed to Oswego, Illinois, United States, serving the Chicago television market and primarily airing paid programming from Corner Store TV. Owned by Venture Technologies Group, it is a sister station to WRME-LD (channel 33). WTVK's official primary transmitter is located in Deer Park Township near Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County, with its officially secondary, but de facto, main transmitter atop the John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago.

WTVK also operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 18, licensed to Pekin (with its transmitter on High Point Lane near East Peoria).