WHLV-TV
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Cocoa/Orlando, Florida United States |
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| Channels |
Digital: 51 (UHF) Virtual: 52 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 52.1 - TBN 52.2 - Hillsong Channel 52.3 - JUCE TV/Smile 52.4 - Enlace 52.5 - TBN Salsa |
| Affiliations | TBN |
| Owner |
Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc. (Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, Inc.) |
| First air date | August 6, 1982 |
| Former callsigns | WTGL-TV (1982–2007) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 52 (UHF, 1982–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
CTN (1980s–1990s) TLN (until 2006) Faith TV (until 2006) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 494 m |
| Facility ID | 24582 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°35′12″N 81°4′58″W / 28.58667°N 81.08278°WCoordinates: 28°35′12″N 81°4′58″W / 28.58667°N 81.08278°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
WHLV-TV is a Christian television station serving Orlando, Florida, licensed to nearby Cocoa. The station is an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, and broadcasts digitally on UHF channel 51 using to display virtual channel 52.x on digital television receivers and digital-to-analog converter boxes. The station is adjacent to the Holy Land Experience, a Christian theme park also owned by TBN.
The station was founded August 16, 1982 as WTGL-TV by Good Life Broadcasting (WTGL stands for The Good Life). The station was initially a blend of family type general entertainment programming such as classic cartoons, westerns, classic sitcoms, old movies, as well as Christian programming.
WTGL was at a severe disadvantage, since it was licensed in Brevard County. As a result, even though its transmitter was located as close to Orlando as possible while staying within 15 miles of Cocoa (as required by Federal Communications Commission regulations of the time), Orlando only got a grade B signal. The market's second-largest city, Daytona Beach, barely got any signal at all. As a result, WTGL began dropping most of its secular programming by 1984, and by 1985 became an affiliate of the Clearwater-based Christian Television Network, becoming the network's second station alongside flagship WCLF in Clearwater. The station would end affiliations with CTN in the late 1990s, but it continued to operate as a predominantly religious station, changing its affiliations to the Total Living Network and Faith TV. In the mid 90's, a small amount of entertainment programming was added.
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