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WELF-TV
CityDalton, Georgia
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedOctober 2, 1989
First air date
May 10, 1994 (1994-05-10)
Former call signs
WELF (1994–2003)
Former channel numbers
  • Analog: 23 (UHF, 1994–2009)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, until 2020)
Call sign meaning
"With Everlasting Faith"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
60825
ERP475 kW
HAAT413 m (1,355 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
34°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 religious television station licensed to Dalton, Georgia, United States, serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area. The station is owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). WELF-TV'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

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The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WELF-TV
Channel Res.Tooltip Display resolution Short name Programming
23.1 720p TBN HD TBN
23.2 TVDEALS Infomercials
23.3 480i Inspire TBN Inspire
23.4 ONTV4U OnTV4U (infomercials)
23.5 POSITIV Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009. [4]

References

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  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
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