WELF-TV
CityDalton, Georgia
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedOctober 2, 1989
First air date
May 10, 1994 (29 years ago) (1994-05-10)
Former call signs
WELF (1994–2003)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 23 (UHF, 1994–2009)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, until 2020)
Call sign meaning
"With Everlasting Faith"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID60825
ERP475 kW
HAAT413 m (1,355 ft)
Transmitter coordinates34°49′23″N 85°25′6″W / 34.82306°N 85.41833°W / 34.82306; -85.41833
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.tbn.org

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:

Subchannels of WELF-TV
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
23.1 720p 16:9 TBN HD Main TBN programming
23.2 Merit Merit Street Media (eff. 4/2/2024)
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

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WELF-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. April 14, 1997. p. 47. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  3. ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. March 27, 2000. p. 74. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  4. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WELF

External links

Trinity Broadcasting Network
Broadcast television in SE Tennessee and NW Georgia, including Chattanooga, Cleveland and Dalton
Other television stations licensed to and serving the state of Tennessee
Other television stations licensed to and serving the state of Georgia
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