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| Channels | |
| Branding | True North TV-25 |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Defunct |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
| Founded | January 12, 1995 |
First air date | May 14, 1997 |
Last air date | August 1, 2006 (9 years, 79 days) (license canceled on January 3, 2014) |
Former call signs | W25CA (1995–2000) |
| America One (1997–2005) UPN (2005–2006) | |
Call sign meaning | Wisconsin Ashland Television |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 8612 |
| ERP | 52 kW |
WAST-LP (analog channel 25) was a low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin, United States. The station was a semi-satellite of the UPN-affiliated second digital subchannel of KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, then-called Northland UPN and Northland 9, but was owned by a separate entity, Martinsen Investments, which also owns a large percentage of the property in Ashland. WAST-LP sold local advertising specifically for the Ashland area, preempting KBJR-DT2's advertising breaks.
WAST-LP once carried its own local newscasts, concentrating on Ashland and northern Wisconsin events, but they were canceled after the LMA to simulcast KBJR-DT2 went into effect, accompanied by the staff reduced to a skeleton crew to keep the station in operation with the KBJR-DT2 rebroadcast.
On August 1, 2006, the station ended operations and went off the air, a month short of KBJR-DT2's conversion to MyNetworkTV. Despite being off the air for eight years, long after most stations licenses are canceled for not broadcasting, WAST-LP's license remained active until January 3, 2014, when its previous license to broadcast was fully exhausted.[1]