WDLI-TV
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Canton-Akron-Cleveland, Ohio United States |
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| City | Canton, Ohio |
| Branding | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
| Channels |
Digital: 49 (UHF) Virtual: 17 () |
| Subchannels | 17.1 - TBN 17.2 - Hillsong Channel 17.3 - JUCE TV/Smile 17.4 - Enlace 17.5 - TBN Salsa |
| Affiliations | TBN (O&O; 1986-present) |
| Owner | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
| First air date | January 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning |
David LIvingstone (previous owner, 1982–1986) |
| Former callsigns | WJAN (1967–1983) WDLI (1983–2003) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 17 (UHF, 1967–2009) Digital: 39 (UHF, 2009–2011) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1967–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 292 m |
| Facility ID | 67893 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°3′20″N 81°35′38″W / 41.05556°N 81.59389°WCoordinates: 41°3′20″N 81°35′38″W / 41.05556°N 81.59389°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
WDLI-TV, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 49), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station serving Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Canton. The station is owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. WDLI maintains offices and transmitter facilities located on the west side of Akron, just north of Rolling Acres Mall.
The station first signed on the air in January 1967 as WJAN, an independent station owned by Janson Industries; it offered a typical slate of locally produced and syndicated programming. In its early years, live studio broadcasts were in black-and-white only, as the station could not afford color studio cameras. Feature films and videotaped programming from outside sources were always reproduced on color-capable equipment. However, many of the movies broadcast in the early years were classics from a time when color films were the exception.
Sometime before 1970, the station obtained two IVC color studio cameras, which were replaced in 1971 with state of the art Norelco PC-70s. Almost from the start, WJAN broadcast religious programming. For example, live Sunday morning services from a Baptist church in Canton and other nationally syndicated material supplied on tape and film. A typical program schedule during the week would consist of a sign-on at 1:00 PM with syndicated programming, followed by children's cartoons, a children's live entertainment program, local live news, local live variety programs, then repeats of major network programs. Finally, a 10:00 PM live newscast followed by a classic film would finish the broadcast day.
Although serving Canton, WJAN was categorized as a Cleveland market station. This made it difficult to obtain desirable programming at a reasonable cost. The right to broadcast a program is usually made exclusive within a market, so WJAN was competing with more established Cleveland stations for the right to broadcast repeats of popular network programming.
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