On February 11, 2013, the FCC cancelled WYTU's analog license.
Although WNAC's current incarnation dates to September 5, 1981, its analog license was one of the oldest active UHF licenses in New England.
Once the station officially drops its analog license, the callsign will become WANN-CD, indicating a digital class-A station.
Simultaneously, the analog license was cancelled by the FCC and the KTUD-CA call sign was deleted from the FCC's database.
Four others near Alabama had their analog licenses and digital applications or construction permits canceled, apparently at GPB's request:
The station's analog license was cancelled and the KJTV-CA call sign deleted by the Federal Communications Commission on December 13, 2011.
On September 6, 2007, WYPX was granted permission by the FCC to shut down its analog broadcast, surrender its analog license, and operate as a digital-only station on channel 50.
On July 23, 2010 the analog signal on channel 11 came back on the air-just nine days before the station's analog license was to be cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Today's plan eventually would give broadcasters much of what they have sought: free digital airwaves, and no firm deadline or explicit requirement to return analog licenses.
On October 4, 2011, the station's analog license was cancelled and the KQMM-CA call sign was deleted by the Federal Communications Commission.