WFBD

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WFBD
City Destin, Florida
Channels
BrandingTCT
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedApril 5, 1996
First air date
November 7, 2005 (2005-11-07)
Former channel numbers
Digital: 48 (UHF, 2005–2020)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 81669
ERP
  • DTS1: 704 kW
  • DTS2: 80 kW
HAAT
  • DTS1: 312 m (1,024 ft)
  • DTS2: 191.6 m (629 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
Translator(s) WPAN 53.2 Fort Walton Beach
Links
Public license information
Website www.tct.tv

WFBD (channel 48) is a religious television station licensed to Destin, Florida, United States, serving northwest Florida and southwest Alabama as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's primary transmitter is located near Wing, Alabama, north of the Alabama–Florida state line.

Contents

Due to its transmitter location, WFBD's signal covers the eastern half of the Pensacola–Mobile area and not Mobile proper. Therefore, in order to serve the western part of the market, the station is simulcast in high definition on the second digital subchannel of Fort Walton Beach–licensed WPAN (channel 53.2) from its transmitter near Molino, Florida. [2]

History

The channel 48 frequency was previously used by former TV station WKAB-TV (1952–1954).

WFBD was formerly an affiliate of the America One television network, and a subscriber to the Independent News Network. It later switched to a format of local programming and infomercials.

On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell WFBD, along with sister stations KCWV in Duluth, Minnesota, WBIH in Selma, Alabama, and WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, to Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price. [3] The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became owned-and-operated stations of the TCT network two days later, with WFBD becoming the fourth full-power religious station in the Pensacola–Mobile area.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WFBD [4]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgrammingNotes
48.1 720p 16:9 WFBD HD TCT Simulcasts on WPAN 53.2
48.2 480i SBN Sonlife
48.3HEROES Heroes & Icons
48.4 4:3 START Start TV
48.516:9BuzzrTV Buzzr
48.6MOVIES Movies!
48.7INFO CH Infomercials
48.84:3.8 SOONComing Soon
48.9ONTV4U OnTV4U
48.1016:9.10SOONComing Soon
48.11GodTVGodTV

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WFBD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ RabbitEars Contour Map for WFBD
  3. ↑ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for WFBD". RabbitEars.info . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
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