TV Technical Profile: WMJN-LD
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- Channel:
- 29
- Programming:
- 29.1 - Heartland
- 29.2 - Retro TV
29.3 - Action Channel
29.4 - Rev'n
- Transmitter
Location:
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[bird's
eye] About a half-mile north of AL-67 in Brooksville, just to
the east of Henderson Road.
- Power (ERP):
- 7.75 kW
- Height Above
Average Terrain (HAAT):
- 568 feet
- Antenna:
- Directional
- Other
Information:
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- Owned By:
- Gray Television
- History:
- Charlie Ezell received an
initial construction permit for a low power television station in
1992, for channel 43, from a site southwest of Decatur in the Chapel
Hill Estates area. The station signed on in 1994 with an unknown
format. The calls became WMJN-LP in the fall of 1995.
Ownership was assigned to Alabama Cable Network, Inc. in 1997, and
they held on to the license until it was assigned to First Cullman
Broadcasting in the spring of 2000. Around this time, the station was
carrying programming from the American Independent Network.
The station fell silent in 2001 and remained mostly silent for a
little over a year. To keep the license active, the station had
to seek a new transmitter site, and it put the station on from a site
southwest of Trinity (on Jack Johnson Road) in 2002. Two years
later the station changed from channel 43 to 29 and was licensed to
Priceville. At this time, it was moved to the station's current
transmitter location.
The station received permission to flash cut to digital in 2007, but
did not complete the change until 2012. First Cullman
Broadcasting passed the station along to Global Outreach Ministries
Network, Inc in 2008, however it appears the deal was never
consummated and the station fell back to First Cullman and went silent
for a period.
James and Carol Henderson took control of the station in 2010.
During their ownership, the station flash cut to digital on channel
29, but shortly thereafter the license lapsed and the FCC deleted the
license. It was reinstated officially in 2013 and the station
got a big boost in power in 2015 after re-licensing to
Somerville. The transmitter did not move. James Henderson
was the station's manager according to their website around this time.
The station was sold to Emmanuel Broadcasting Corporation in
2014. Under their ownership, the station carried mostly
religious programming on the subchannels, including JUCE, The Walk TV
and a channel dedicated local religious programming. In
addition, it retained Heartland and Retro TV that had added under the
previous ownership.
In January 2022, the station was sold to Gray Television for
$330,000. It appears that Gray began programming some of the
subchannels prior to the sell, as the religious programming had been
dropped for secular programming by this point, including Rev'n and the
Action Channel.