New Jersey to Southern Connecticut, and on satellite television. In 1997, WLNY was assigned UHF channel 57 for its digital television operations, making it one of 18 full-service television stations in the country to have neither analog nor digital assignments within the new core television station spectrum, channels 2 through 51. The station began broadcasting in digital in 2002, with a low-power signal under special temporary authority (STA). During the spring of 2002, WLNY dropped its "NY 55" branding in favor of the old "TV-55". It then made news in 2005 when it struck a deal with Qualcomm to surrender its analog license and build full digital television transmission facilities on channel 57, allowing Qualcomm to use the channel 55 frequency for its MediaFLO service. At the time, approximately 92% of Long Island's population received television service by cable or satellite, and the station had several repeaters that would remain in analog, so the FCC approved the request, and on December 31, 2005, WLNY shut down its analog signal and became a digital-only station. The FCC later changed the station's callsign to WLNY-DT. The FCC later announced it would remove the -DT suffix from call signs after the analog shutoff unless a station applied to keep it; the station elected to change its callsign to WLNY-TV, adding the -TV suffix the station did not use prior to 2006, and the change took effect on June 19, 2009. On October 22, 2007, WLNY once again changed its branding, this time from "TV-55" to "TV 10/55" to reflect its most common cable and satellite assignments (for several years prior to the rebranding, it had been using an onscreen graphic identifying the station as "WLNY 55/10"). The station also debuted a new set and graphics for their 11 p.m. newscast, replacing the set that dated back to the early 1990s. WLNY-DT requested channel 47 as its final in-core broadcast channel after the end of the 2009 DTV conversion, but the FCC initially ruled the election in conflict with another station—WNJU (channel 47), a Spanish-language station licensed to Linden, New Jersey which broadcast its analog signal on channel 47. Eventually the issues were resolved and WLNY gained FCC approval for its move to digital channel 47, which it began broadcasting from on June 13, 2009. On April 9, 2012, WLNY started broadcasting local programming in high definition for the first time. CBS-owned station On