Technical Profile: W33EG-D

TV Technical Profile: W33EG-D

Channel:: 33
Programming:: 32.1 - ION
32.2 - MtrSpt1
32.2 - to be: Busted
32.3 - Salem News Channel
32.4 - Get TV
32.5 - —
32.6 - Infomercials
Transmitter Location:: [map] [street view] — On a cell phone tower near the intersection of Lumpkin Road and MS-63, north of Escatawpa.
Power (ERP):: 15 kW
Height Above Average Terrain (HAAT):: 322 feet
Antenna:: Directional
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Owned By:: DTV America Corporation
History:: This station dates back to an original construction permit in 2012. A license to cover was filed in June 2016 but it's unclear if the station was ever actually on the air. Just a few months after filing, the station filed to go silent due to loss of tower site; this excuse was strung out until all the way into March 2020, when the station appears to have actually come on the air, rebroadcasting the Spanish Azteca America network, along with a few of its subchannels. The station also added Get TV at this time.

In July 2021, it was discovered that the Twist network was added to the lineup, along with True Real on the —.1 subchannel.

Azteca America shut down all programming at the end of 2022. It was replaced on the —.2 subchannel with Novelisima, and the —.3 channel with Scripps News.

In March 2023, Scripps announced it was shutting down True Real TV and on most affiliates replacing it with Jewelry Television. In December 2023, the Twist TV network was shut down.

In November 2024, Scripps removed their news network from their over the air affiliates, leaving it as an online-only FAST (free ad-supported streaming) channel. It was replaced with the conservative Salem News Network channel. At the end of 2024 it was also observed that Novelisima was gone, replaced with the car-racing MtrSpt1 network.

In February 2025, RabbitEars reported that the new Scripps-owned crime network Busted would be replacing the awfully-named MtrSpt1 on the —.2 subchannel as of 1 March 2025.