WPGD-TV
Television station in Hendersonville, Tennessee
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WPGD-TV (channel 50) is a religious television station licensed to Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States, serving the Nashville area. The station is owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
- 50.1: TBN
- for others, see § Subchannels
- Trinity Broadcasting Network
- (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
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| City | Hendersonville, Tennessee |
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| Founded | September 17, 1987 |
First air date | September 24, 1992 |
Former call signs | WPGD (1992–2003) |
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Call sign meaning | "We Praise God Daily" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 412 m (1,352 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°16′3″N 86°47′44″W |
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| Website | www |
WPGD-TV's studios are located at Trinity Music City on Music Village Boulevard in Hendersonville, the former estate of the late country artist Conway Twitty; its studios and auditorium have also served as a recording location for TBN programs. The station's transmitter is located in Whites Creek, Tennessee, just off I-24 and Old Hickory Boulevard.
History
Although it was granted a construction permit on September 17, 1987, the station did not sign on the air until September 24, 1992, with its original analog transmitter located along State Highway 109 in unincorporated Sumner County between Portland and Gallatin. 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. At the time of the station's inception, 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, WPGD carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming, some of which was produced locally.
In 1997, WPGD 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. WPGD became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.[3]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Short name | Programming |
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| 50.1 | 720p | TBN HD | TBN |
| 50.2 | TVDEALS | Infomercials | |
| 50.3 | 480i | Inspire | TBN Inspire |
| 50.4 | ONTV4U | OnTV4U (infomercials) (4:3) | |
| 50.5 | POSITIV | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009. [4]
Former translator
At one point during the 1990s, WPGD also operated a low-power translator, W36AK, serving Nashville proper due to the main transmitter's location, until it was discontinued at an unknown date.[5]
