TV channels & antenna towers in Waite Park, Minnesota

Waite Park is a town of about 7,520 people in Minnesota. There are 66 licensed TV transmitters within 70 miles: 13 full-power, 1 Class A, 32 low-power and 20 translators. Based on each transmitter's power, antenna height and distance, 14 are likely to arrive at fair strength or better, and 9 at good or strong strength.

4 of them are within 25 miles of Waite Park, 2 sit 25 to 45 miles away and 60 are more than 45 miles out. Seven of the 10 network stations in range are licensed to Minneapolis, so most of the network channels you will find here come from Minneapolis's stations.

For the networks, the best local options are ABC on channel 5 (KSTP-TV), CBS on channel 4 (WCCO-TV), NBC on channel 11 (KARE), Fox on channel 9 (KMSP-TV), CW on channel 23 (WUCW), ION on channel 41 (KPXM-TV), Telemundo on channel 25 (KJNK-LD), Univision on channel 21 (WUMN-LD) and MeTV on channel 5.3 (KSTC-TV). Spanish-language viewers can pick up Telemundo (very weak signal) and Univision (very weak signal). 5 full-power stations in range have no network listed in our data; these are typically public television, religious, shopping or independent stations.

Point your antenna ESE, at about 123°. The main network towers for Waite Park sit in that direction, so a single directional antenna can pick them all up.

Six network stations, WCCO-TV, KARE, KSTC-TV, KSTP-TV and WUCW and others, transmit from the same tower site about 63 miles southeast of Waite Park (123° ESE). That one direction covers every station on the site.

Of the 7 full-power and Class A network signals that reach Waite Park at fair strength or better, 71% arrive from the southeast; the rest are spread across two other directions.

KSTP-TV (ABC), WCCO-TV (CBS), KARE (NBC) and KMSP-TV (Fox) lie beyond the radio horizon of their transmitter as seen from Waite Park. Past that point signals fade quickly, so antenna height matters more than amplification.

The farthest main network tower for Waite Park is KMSP-TV (Fox), 64 miles away with a weak estimated signal. That is why we suggest an outdoor directional antenna here. Skip that station and you may get away with a smaller antenna.

WCMN-LD is only 2.1 miles away with a strong signal. Signals that strong can overload an amplifier, so start without one and add it only if distant channels are missing. Read when an amplifier helps.

With 14 stations at fair strength or better, Waite Park ranks 156th of 371 places in Minnesota: more than the typical Minnesota town (13). Its nearest major network tower is 43 miles away, against a state median of 24 miles.

33% of Minnesota's cities and towns get the same recommendation: an outdoor directional antenna. The nearest larger city is Saint Cloud, 3.0 miles away.