TV Technical Profile: WMCF
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- Channel:
- 28
- Programming:
- 45.1 - TBN
- 45.2 - TBN
Inspire
- 45.3 - Smile of a
Child
- 45.4 - Enlace
- 45.5 - Positiv
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[street
view] [bird's
eye] Just east of the Sunshine Village subdivision
northeast of Montgomery. Just south of Sandy Ridge Curve north
of CR-64. Co-located with WXFX, WLWI, WHHY, WMXS and WLBF, as well
as WFRZ-LD.
- Power (ERP):
- 725 kW
- Height Above
Average Terrain (HAAT):
- 427 feet
- Antenna:
- Omnidirectional
- Other
Information:
- 41 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC. (FCCdata
Link)
STA
information from FCCdata.org
- [FCC]
[FCCdata]
[RabbitEars]
- [Wikipedia]
[Facebook]
TBN's Facebook page
[Studio]
Street View of the station's small studio on Mendel Parkway.
- History:
- This station
dates back to an original construction permit issued to Christian
Life Broadcasting, Inc. (Marcus and Joni Lamb) in 1980. Their
goal was to launch the first independent Christian television
station in Montgomery. The station struggled to get on the air
and didn't file a license to cover until the summer of 1986.
By then, the Lambs had sold the station to Trinity Broadcasting
Network (TBN), who still own it today. Of interest is that the
Lambs would later purchase a station from Kenneth Copeland in
Dallas, and then purchase another station in Denver, launching their
own Christian television network which is today known as
Daystar.
This station elected to discontinue analog broadcasts sometime
before the new June 12th deadline. Boosted power
from 500 to 851 kW in April 2011. In 2014 the JCTV music
videos channel was discontinued, and a Christian youth oriented
network called JUCE took its place. In 2015, Smile of a Child
moved to the —.3 part time and this subchannel is now labeled
"COMBO". TBN Salsa launched on the —.5 subchannel in its
place.
- As part of the FCC
spectrum repacking processing, this station received a permit in
mid-July to relocate from RF channel 46 to 28, with no other real
technical changes aside from a drop in power. It has been
operating under a Special Temporary Authority since June 2018 due to
an equipment failure, necessitating lower power output at the
transmitter. It is expected to remain at lower power until the
repacking process starts in April 2019. In July, the station
received a second Special Temporary Authority to reduce power further
to 175 kW at just 262 feet.
In 2019, JUCE was discontinued, and replaced
with TBN Salsa on the —.5 subchannel. In the winter of
2020, TBN Salsa moved to online-only distribution, and a
Christian films channel called Positiv replaced it on the over
the air multiplex.
The station returned to full power in March 2020.
On 1 January 2022,
TBN re-branded the Hillsong Channel as TBN Inspire.