WPGD-TV

WPGD-TV
Hendersonville/Nashville, Tennessee
United States
City Hendersonville, Tennessee
Channels Digital: 33 (UHF)
Virtual: 50 (PSIP)
Subchannels 50.1 TBN
50.2 Hillsong Channel
50.3 JUCE TV/Smile of a Child
50.4 TBN Enlace USA
50.5 TBN Salsa
Affiliations TBN (O&O)
Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc.
(TCCSA, INC. d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network)
Founded September 17, 1987
First air date September 24, 1992 (1992-09-24) [1]
Call letters' meaning W Praise God Daily
Sister station(s) WBUY-TV
Former callsigns WPGD (1992-2003)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
50 (UHF, 1992-2009)
Digital:
51 (UHF, 2003-2009)
Transmitter power 1,000 kW
Height 1,351 feet (412 m)
Facility ID 60820
Transmitter coordinates 36°16′3″N 86°47′44″W / 36.26750°N 86.79556°W / 36.26750; -86.79556
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website TBN.org

WPGD-TV is a religious television station licensed to Hendersonville, Tennessee and serving the entirety of the Nashville market, along with Bowling Green, Kentucky to the north. It is one of the flagship owned-and-operated stations for the Trinity Broadcasting Network. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 33 (shown as the station's former analog Channel 50 via PSIP). The station's transmitter is located in Whites Creek just off Interstate 24 and Old Hickory Boulevard. Studios and local broadcasting facilities are based out of Trinity Music City on Music City Boulevard in Hendersonville, which also acts as a host studio for several TBN programs and is marketed as a religious tourist attraction, in addition to its former role as the estate of the late Conway Twitty.

History

Although granted a construction permit in September 1987, the station did not sign on the air until September 1992 as Nashville’s over-the-air outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which it has exclusively broadcast since sign-on.[2] Its original analog TV transmitter was located along Tennessee State Route 109 in Sumner County between Portland and Gallatin.

At one point during the 1990s, WPGD also operated a low-power translator, W36AK serving central Nashville due to the analog translator's location, until it was discontinued at an unknown date.[3][4]

Digital television

This station's digital signal, like most other full-service TBN owned-and-operated stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
50.1 480i 4:3 TBN Main TBN programming
50.2 TCC Hillsong Channel
50.3 COMBO JUCE TV/Smile of a Child TV
50.4 Enlace Enlace
50.5 SALSA TBN Salsa

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[5]

WPGD-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50 on that date. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 51 to channel 33.[6] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 50.

References

  1. ↑ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says September 23, while the Television and Cable Factbook says September 24.
  2. ↑ Digital TV Market Listing for WPGD-TV RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  3. ↑ http://oldtvguides.com/all_thumbs/50-wpgd%20%20%20hendersonville,%20tn%20%20%20361%20mi.html
  4. ↑ Jeff Kadet. K1MOD’s TV DX Photos: All Analog Photos by Channel-Callsign
  5. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WPGD-TV
  6. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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