WLLC-LD, virtual channel 42 (UHF digital channel 19), is a low-power dual Univision/UniMás-affiliated television station licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by JKB Associates, Inc. WLLC-LD's transmitter are located atop the Life & Casualty Tower in Nashville's Capitol District.
History[]
The station signed on the air with the call sign W59AW on channel 59 in 1996. It carried programming from America One 24 hours a day. The next year, the station moved to channel 52 and changed its call sign to W52CT.
In 2004, it moved to channel 42 and changed its call sign to W42CR. The station also dropped the America One affiliation and became an affiliate of the new Spanish network TeleFutura. The station changed its call sign again that same year to WLLC-LP.
Bounce TV Nashville Logo from its launch on September 26, 2011, and was used until the affiliate's discontinuation on December 2, 2019.
WLLC-LP launched a third digital subchannel on 42.3 affiliated with Bounce TV, the first 24/7 digital multi-cast broadcast network created exclusively for African Americans. TeleFutura was rebranded as UniMás. From 2005 to 2013, the station was branded as TeleFutura 42, and after TeleFutura was rebranded to UniMás, then identified itself as UniMás Nashville.
WLLC-LP affiliated with Univision (which is a sister network to UniMás) on its main channel of 42.1, therefore programming from UniMás moved to WLLC's second subchannel of 42.2, and programming from Bounce TV moved to a new subchannel of 42.3.
On July 5, 2016, WLLC-LP added Biz Television to a new subchannel of 42.4, Biz Television would be relocated to 42.5 at a later date, as Heartland was added to channel 42.4 on November 1, 2016, therefore making WLLC-LP the new Flagship Station for Heartland. WSMV-TV previously served as the Flagship Station for Heartland from 2012 (when it made its return as a reincarnation of The Nashville Network) until November 1, 2016, when WSMV replaced Heartland with Escape on its 4.2 subchannel. At some point in 2017, the 42.5 subchannel for Biz Television was discontinued, However, the 42.5 subchannel would be reactivated on December 24, 2018, carrying another Spanish General Entertainment Network Nuestravision.
On December 2, 2019, WLLC-LP discontinued Bounce TV on 42.3 and Heartland on 42.4, Bounce TV was replaced with the general entertainment network, AMGTV on 42.3, while Heartland was temporarily replaced with a test pattern on 42.4, while WLLC-LP finds a new affiliation for that subchannel.
The station was licensed for digital operation on July 14, 2021, changing its call sign to WLLC-LD.