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| City | Dalton, Georgia |
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| Founded | October 2, 1989 |
First air date | May 10, 1994 |
Former call signs | WELF (1994–2003) |
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Call sign meaning | "With Everlasting Faith" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60825 |
| ERP | 475 kW |
| HAAT | 413 m (1,355 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°49′23″N 85°25′6″W / 34.82306°N 85.41833°W |
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WELF-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Dalton, Georgia, United States, serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located on SR 157 in unincorporated west-central Walker County.
History
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The station began operations on May 10, 1994. It was built and signed on by Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, a broadcast ministry based in Mobile, Alabama, and co-founded by television producer Paul Crouch Jr. and attorney and broadcaster Jay Sekulow. All of Sonlight's stations were affiliated with TBN, which was co-founded by Paul Crouch Jr.'s parents Paul Sr. and Jan. As a TBN affiliate, WELF carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming.
In 1997, WELF was sold, along with the rest of Sonlight's stations, to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), a minority-owned firm with close ties to TBN; [2] the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network. WELF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations. [3]
Technical information
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 23.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | Main TBN programming |
| 23.2 | Merit | Merit Street Media | ||
| 23.3 | 480i | 4:3 | Inspire | TBN Inspire |
| 23.4 | 16:9 | SMILE | Smile | |
| 23.5 | POSITIV | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009. [4]
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WELF-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. April 14, 1997. p. 47. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. March 27, 2000. p. 74. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WELF
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