WMWC-TV

WMWC-TV
Moline-Rock Island, Illinois/
Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa
United States
City Galesburg, Illinois
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 53 (PSIP)
Subchannels 53.1 - TBN
53.2 - Hillsong Channel
53.3 - JUCE TV/Smile of a Child TV
53.4 - Enlace
53.5 - TBN Salsa
Affiliations TBN
Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network
(Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, Inc.)
First air date August 20, 2012 (2012-08-20)
Former callsigns WMWC (2012–2013)
Transmitter power 23 kW
Height 330 m
Facility ID 81946
Transmitter coordinates 41°18′44″N 90°22′46″W / 41.31222°N 90.37944°W / 41.31222; -90.37944
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website wmwc.tv

WMWC-TV is a religious television station serving as an owned and operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network[1] for the Quad Cities area of west-central Illinois and eastern Iowa. Licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 (virtual channel 53.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Orion, Illinois that is also occupied by KWQC-TV, KLJB and WQAD-TV.

Digital television

WMWC-TV broadcasts on digital channel 8. The station's signal, like most other TBN-owned full-power stations, is currently multiplexed:

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
53.1 480i 4:3 TBN Main TBN programming
53.2 TCC Hillsong Channel
53.3 COMBO JUCE TV/Smile of a Child TV
53.4 Enlace Enlace
53.5 SALSA TBN Salsa

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[2]

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[3] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, WMWC would have been required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). WMWC's original analog allocation was UHF channel 67, though the application was subsequently amended to specify digital operation on channel 53;[4] however, both channels were removed from the TV bandplan at the end of the digital television transition in the United States. Since WQAD-TV elected to stay on its pre-transition digital UHF channel 38 allocation after the digital transition, Northwest Television, the original owners of WMWC, elected WQAD's former analog channel allocation, VHF channel 8, as the channel on which to broadcast WMWC's post-transition digital signal. As WQAD remaps to virtual channel 8 because of its former analog allocation, WMWC legally cannot keep the virtual channel mapping at 8; instead, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display the station's virtual channel as 53.

The station originally planned to go on the air on September 1, 2001 as the UPN affiliate for the Quad Cities market. Although Northwest Television owned the station, operations were to have been handled by Second Generation of Iowa, owner of KFXA in Cedar Rapids.[5] However, Grant Broadcasting System II, then-owner of KLJB-TV and KGWB-TV, filed an petition to deny the application,[5] and the construction permit was not granted until July 20, 2007—nearly a year after UPN (which affiliated with WBQD-LP in 2002) closed down.[4]

WMWC never signed on an analog signal prior to June 12, 2009. As a result, when it took to the air on August 20, 2012, it became the first television station in the Quad Cities to have signed on as a digital-only station, more than three years after full-power stations ended analog broadcasts. WMWC is available in analog on Mediacom cable channel 17 and in digital on channel 79.3 with digital television sets with built-in QAM tuners and channel 17 with digital or HD set-top boxes and digital adapters. On June 5, 2012, the station was assigned the call letters WMWC.[6] A TBN affiliate from its sign-on, WMWC was acquired from Northwest Television by the network in December 2012.[7] On June 13, 2013, TBN added the "-TV" suffix to the station's callsign.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Tower work could take local TV stations off air next week, The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus August 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WMWC
  3. ↑ http://www.transmitter.com/FCC97115/ILatwch.html
  4. 1 2 Kreisman, Barbara A. (February 17, 2010). "Order on Reconsideration" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Station delayed by petition". The Gazette (Cedar Rapids). Associated Press. August 17, 2001.
  6. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  7. ↑ Seyler, Dave (October 23, 2012). "Trinity picks up television stations in two markets". Television Business Report. Retrieved June 16, 2013.

See also

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