WIAV-LP or WIAV TV 58 is a low-power

Low-power broadcasting

Low-power broadcasting is electronic broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area.The terms "low-power broadcasting" and "micropower broadcasting" should not be used interchangeably, because the markets are not the same...

 independent

Independent station

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 television station licensed to Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, broadcasting on channel 58 on the UHF

Ultra high frequency

Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...

 band. The station is wholly owned and operated by AsiaVision, Inc.

Asia Vision (TV network)

The Asia Vision Television Network is a small multicultural/ethnic television network with affiliate TV stations in three Mid-Atlantic states. The stations are WIAV-LP channel 58, in Washington, DC ; WRAV-LP, channel 8 in Ocean City, Maryland; and WQAV-LP, channel 34 in Atlantic City, New Jersey....

, which owns a small network of low-power stations in the Mid-Atlantic

Mid-Atlantic States

The Mid-Atlantic states, also called middle Atlantic states or simply the mid Atlantic, form a region of the United States generally located between New England and the South...

 Region, including WRAV-LP, channel 8 in Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City, sometimes known as OC, or OCMD, is an Atlantic Ocean resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Ocean City is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is a frequent destination for vacationers in that area...

, and WQAV-LP, channel 34 in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, New Jersey

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. TV 58 is based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and is the anchor station of the Asia Vision TV Network. Various local, national and international broadcastors provide most of the programming.

In the mid-1990s, the station, which originally had the call letters W58BR, became a Network One

Network One

Network One was a small "independent" network, consisting of mostly low-powered television stations, scattered across the Continental United States, similar to Urban America Television, America One, or the better-known Ion...

 N1 affiliate, offering entertainment that included music video

Music video

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s, out-of-town public-access television

Public-access television

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 cable TV programming, and late night B-Movies

B-movie

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Currently, the station airs Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

n programming during the evening, including a documentary series on Tahitian Noni Juice (R) Products, musical programs, documentaries, Real Estate programs, religious programming, and other paid programming. In the future it will air cartoon

Cartoon

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s and children's programs.

The station broadcasts from a transmitter located in Prince George's County , Maryland on an effective radiated power

Effective radiated power

In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

 of 35 kilowatts. Licensed to Washington, D.C., covers only the northeastern portion of the city, the northern Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland, immediately north, east, and south of Washington, DC. As of 2010, it has a population of 863,420 and is the wealthiest African-American majority county in the nation....

, portions of Montgomery County, Maryland, and portions of Fairfax County, Virginia.