WVUP-CD

WVUP CD (channel 45) is a low power, Class A television station in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's studios are located on Capital Circle Northeast in Tallahassee, and its transmitter is located on Thomasville Road in northern Leon County, Florida, near the Georgia state line. WVUP CD offers 24 hour religious programming, much of which is produced either locally or at the CTN home base in Clearwater, Florida. The station went on the air in 1984 as W17AB and was one of the most successful low power TV stations anywhere in the United States in the 1980s. However, the advent of a new full power independent station led to its conversion to home shopping programs and then to local Christian programming. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the station briefly returned to a general entertainment format as a UPN affiliate. However, its owner, Southern Nights Entertainment Corporation, was insufficiently capitalized. As a result, the station was sold at public sale in 2001 to The Note Capital Corporation. CTN then purchased it and returned it to the air with its Christian programming in 2003.

Octagon Corporation, the owner of WMBB TV in Panama City, applied in 1980 to build a translator on channel 40 in Tallahassee to rebroadcast WMBB TV to Panama City. At the time, the station was an NBC affiliate, which Tallahassee lacked. When channel 40—an underlying allocation for a full service station in the city—received applications, Octagon then filed to build channel 40 outright as a full power simulcaster of WMBB TV. Those plans hit a snag, however, when an affiliation switch in Panama City turned WMBB TV into an ABC affiliate, which Tallahassee already had. At the suggestion of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Octagon reapplied to operate a low power station capable of originating its own programming. Group W Cable, which served Tallahassee, then made a lucrative suggestion of its own: if channel 17 went on the air as an independent, it would gain carriage on the cable system. W17AB began broadcasting on May 11, 1984. However, it was not immediately seen in cable homes because the company feared adding the low power station would require it to pay additional copyright fees. Octagon won a ruling in federal district court, and a copyright judge ruled that the addition of local low power TV stations did not require such payments, paving the way for W17AB to be added to the Group W lineup in February 1985. The addition of cable coverage caused viewership to jump from 7,000 to 16,000 households; Arbitron began listing its programming in ratings surveys, a practice previously only afforded to full power stations, and in its May and July 1985 ratings books, W17AB was the most watched low power station in the country. In 1986, Phipps Television, owner of Tallahassee area CBS affiliate WCTV, acquired W17AB and kept its format as a minority and local interest complement to WCTV. The A. C. Nielsen Company, the other television ratings agency at the time, also began rating W17AB, making it the first low power TV station so measured. In addition, Phipps upgraded programming and equipment. However, the launch of new TV programming options cut severely into W17AB's marketability. In the span of a year, three new full and low power TV stations went on the air in the market. On March 13, 1989, the station switched from being an independent to rebroadcasting the Home Shopping Network, consequently losing its cable carriage; five people were laid off. Months later, the station was sold to Associated Christian Television System, owner of WACX, a Christian television station in Leesburg. By 1991, when it purchased W09BI (later WWRP LP), it was airing an all religious lineup on channel 17.

In September 2002, The Note Capital Corporation sold WVUP CA to the Christian Television Network of Clearwater. CTN programming debuted on the station in 2003, and it returned to the local cable system in January 2004.