WDWO-CD (channel 18) is a low-power, Class A television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Visión Latina. The station is owned by Innovate Corp., and maintains a transmitter on West 11 Mile Road in Southfield, Michigan. WDWO-CD is the only Spanish-language television station to serve Detroit; as a result, Detroit is one of the largest television markets to be completely void of major Spanish-language networks Estrella TV, Univision, Telemundo and/or UniMás. History The station was founded on April 13, 1989, but did not sign on until sometime in 1993 as W44AR (channel 44), owned by a local religious organization, Detroit World Outreach. The station went silent in July 1999, due to CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV (channel 62) starting up its digital signal on that channel, but returned to the air on Channel 18 on February 25, 2000, under TCT ownership. The station was sold, apparently because DWO couldn't afford to keep the station, or endure any expenses to move the channel. The station also had a rebroadcaster on channel 27 in Ann Arbor. That channel was originally W59CA (channel 59), a repeater of Saginaw's WAQP, serving Jackson, which was relocated to Ann Arbor in November 2000 and renamed W27CJ. In November 2007, the repeater was sold to SMG Media Group and the call sign changed to WHDA-LP, and later to WFHD-LP, which soon went silent. Plans were for the station to broadcast all local programming from Ann Arbor in 100% high definition digital format. In March 2013, TCT filed to sell WDWO-CD to LocusPoint Networks. The deal would have put the station under common ownership with another Detroit religious station, WUDT-LD; the sale of WDWO-CD closed on May 31, 2013, while LocusPoint's acquisition of WUDT-LD remains pending . Upon purchase by LocusPoint, the station moved its antenna from Dearborn to WKBD-TV's tower in Southfield. TCT agreed to reacquire WDWO-CD from LocusPoint in February 2017. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On July 30, 2010, the station converted to digital on channel 18 with an effective radiated power of 15 kW (slightly lower than its analog ERP of 20 kW), but retained its -CA suffix (and branding itself as "WDWO-DT" via PSIP). At one point afterward, WDWO-CD broadcast three video feeds: DT1 broadcasts in SD, and carried some local programs in addition to the network feed. DT2 broadcast in HD, and carried the