Type | Broadcast television network |
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Country | United States |
Broadcast area | Nationwide via OTA digital television (covering 21% of the U.S.) [1] |
Headquarters | Chattanooga, Tennessee |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Ownership | |
Owner | ValCom Get After It Media |
History | |
Launched | December 15, 2008 (as My Family TV) December 2013 (as The Family Channel) |
Replaced | Faith TV |
Former names | My Family TV Faith TV |
Links | |
Website | www |
The Family Channel is an American general entertainment television network owned by Get After It Media (formerly Luken Communications and Reach High Media Group), and based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [2] [3]
In September 2008, ValCom announced that they would purchase the assets of Faith TV, relaunching it as a more broadly-distributed family television network. [4] On December 15, 2008, ValCom deal to purchase Faith TV closed and they relaunched Faith TV as My Family TV. [5] On October 1, 2009, ValCom completed the purchase of the network after making its final $250,000 payment. [6] The network had no connections with the similarly-named MyNetworkTV programming service, owned by Fox Television Stations.
On March 22, 2011, ValCom announced that My Family TV would become a joint venture with Luken Communications. [2] [3] Many of the programs seen on My Family TV, such as Route 66 , Lassie , Highway to Heaven and Daniel Boone also aired on sister network RTV.
In December 2013, Luken Communications rebranded MyFamilyTV as The Family Channel. [7] "The Family Channel" name was formerly used by the cable channel owned by Christian Broadcasting Network that became Freeform (now owned by Disney 15 years later) in January 2016; outside of some shared public domain programming once aired in the CBN/Family Channel era of Freeform, the two networks have no relation to each other.
City | Station | Virtual channel | Physical channel | Owner | Comments |
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Alabama | |||||
Birmingham | WSWH-LD | 22.3 | 22 | Get After It Media | |
Fayette | WSSF-LD | 51.5 | 15 | Ettie Clark | |
Berry | WSFG-LD | 51.5 | 31 | ||
Opelika, Alabama | WQMK-LP | 18.2 | 18 | Ben Jordan | |
Scottsboro | WNAL-LD | 32.1 | 31 | Get After It Media | |
Arkansas | |||||
Bentonville | K28NT-D | 48.1 | 28 | Victory Communications | |
Monroe-El Dorado | KCIB-LD | 5.1 | 5 | Immanuel Baptist Church | |
California | |||||
Fresno | KSDI-LP | 33.2 | 44 | Cocola Broadcasting | |
Redding | KDRC-LD | 26.3 | 26 | Cooper Communications | |
Colorado | |||||
Cortez | K26CI-D | 27.3 | 26 | Southwest Colorado TV Translator Association | |
Denver | KZDN-LD | 16.5 | 16 | Syncom Media Group | |
Florida | |||||
Inglis-Yankeetown | WYKE-CD | 47.1 | 47 | Citrus County Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc. | |
Orlando | WRCF-CD | 29.1 | 35.3 | LocusPoint Networks | |
WSWF-LD | 10.1 | 45 | Mundial Media Productions | ||
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale | WBEH-CD | 38.1 | 38 | Prime Time Partners, LLC | |
St. Augustine/Jacksonville | WQXT-CD | 22.6 | 28 | A1A TV, Inc. | |
Tampa/St. Petersburg | WDNP-LD | 36.1 | 34 | Get After It Media | |
Georgia | |||||
Atlanta | WANN-CD | 32.6 | 29 | Prism Broadcasting Network | |
Augusta | WBPI-CD | 49.1 | 49 | Watchmen Broadcasting | |
Dalton | WDNN-CD | 49 | 49 | North Georgia Television | |
Rome | WKSY-LD | 21.2 | 24 | Audio Graphics, Inc. | |
Indiana | |||||
Evansville | WYYW-CD | 15.2 | 15 | Evansville Low Power Partnership | |
Indianapolis | WSOT-LD | 27.1 | 27 | Sunnycrest Baptist Church | |
Kansas | |||||
Wichita | KSMI-LD | 30.5 | 30 | Great Plains Television Network | |
Garden City/Sublette | KDGL-LD | 23.4 | 23 | High Plains Broadcasting | |
Kentucky | |||||
Harlan | WAGV | 44.4 | 51 | Living Faith Ministries | |
Paducah-Cape Girardeau | WUWT-CD | 26.2 | 26 | Harpole Telecom, Inc. | |
Louisiana | |||||
Shreveport | KVPO-LD | 30.5 | 30 | Get After It Media | |
Michigan | |||||
Millington | WXON-LD | 9.5 | 29 | P & P Cable Holdings | |
Mississippi | |||||
Cleveland/Greenwood | WPYM-LD | 38.1 | 38 | Get After It Media | |
Montana | |||||
Glasgow | K20JS-D | 20.1 | 20 | Valley County TV District #1 | |
Fort Peck | K47CY-D | 47.1 | 47 | ||
Nevada | |||||
Pahrump | KPVM-LP | 46.3 | 46 | Vernon Van Winkle | |
North Carolina | |||||
Raleigh | WAUG-LD | 8.2 | 4 | St. Augustine's University | |
Pennsylvania | |||||
Charleroi | WWAT-CD | 45.1 | 45 | Local Media TV | |
Pittsburgh | WBPA-LD | 12.3 | 12 | Get After It Media | |
Philadelphia | WACP | 4.6 | 4 | Western Pacific Broadcast LLC | |
Puerto Rico | |||||
Arecibo | WMEI | 14.2 | 14 | Max Media | |
Ponce | WQQZ-CD | 33.2 | 30 | ||
South Carolina | |||||
Greenville | WGGS-TV | 16.2 | 16 | Carolina Christian Broadcasting | |
Myrtle Beach | WTNG-CD | 14.3 | 14 | Dilicast Broadcast Services | |
Tennessee | |||||
Knoxville, Tennessee | WKXT-LD | 34.1 | 34 | Get After It Media | |
Texas | |||||
Beaumont | KAOB-LD | 27.3 | 27 | C. Dowen Johnson | |
Crockett/Tyler | KIVY-LD | 16.2 | 16 | Leon Hunt | |
Houston | KUGB-CD | 28.5 | 28 | Frequency Communications, Inc. | |
Wichita Falls | K24HH-D | 24.3 | 24 | Christian Family Television Network, Inc. | |
Utah | |||||
Cedar City | KCSG | 14.2 | 14 | Southwest Media, LLC | |
Kanab | K28IT-D | 6.1 | 28 | Western Kane County Service District | |
Logan | KUTO-LD | 15.2 | 15 | Soule Video Productions | |
West Virginia | |||||
Bluefield | WLFB | 40.4 | 40 | Living Faith Ministries | |
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