WRBJ-TV

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WRBJ-TV
City Magee, Mississippi
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedJanuary 2006
First air date
  • January 5, 2006;18 years ago (2006-01-05) (on Time Warner Cable)
  • February 8, 2006;18 years ago (2006-02-08) (over the air)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 34 (UHF, 2006–2009)
  • UPN (January–September 2006)
  • The CW (2006–2013)
Call sign meaning
 Roberts Broadcasting of Jackson (reference to former owner)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 136749
ERP 968 kW
HAAT 374.6 m (1,229 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 32°7′19″N89°32′52″W / 32.12194°N 89.54778°W / 32.12194; -89.54778 (WRBJ)
Links
Public license information
Website www.tbn.org

WRBJ-TV (channel 34) is a religious television station licensed to Magee, Mississippi, United States, serving the Jackson, Hattiesburg and Meridian television markets as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located near Raleigh, Mississippi, in the Bienville National Forest.

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History

WRBJ began broadcasting as a UPN affiliate via Time Warner Cable on January 5, 2006, and over-the-air broadcasting began on February 8. On March 21, 2006, it was announced that WRBJ would join the new CW Television Network, and on September 18, WRBJ became a CW affiliate. The station was founded by St. Louis–based Roberts Broadcasting.

Ironically, the call letters WRBJ were assigned briefly to WDBT radio (now WFOR) in Hattiesburg, the first radio station in Mississippi. Only since September 2006 when Roberts Broadcasting bought out Urban radio station WRJH did those call letters return to the market.

On March 31, 2011, WRBJ's license was initially canceled by the FCC for failure to file for either a license to cover or an extension of its digital construction permit (the license for sister station WZRB in Columbia, South Carolina, was initially cancelled for the same reasons two days earlier). However, Roberts Broadcasting filed an appeal, stating that the licenses to cover were improperly filed upon the digital transition. The FCC agreed, and reinstated the licenses of the two stations on April 19. Roberts had to file for new licenses to cover.

On October 22, 2012, Roberts announced that it had sold WRBJ to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. [2] The Christian broadcaster was previously available in the Jackson area on low-powered WJKO-LP, which was later sold to the Daystar Television Network. The sale was approved by a bankruptcy court on January 17, 2013; the FCC approved the sale six days later, and TBN officially took over operational control of WRBJ five months later, on May 24, 2013. [3] [4] CW network programming would not be seen in the Jackson area until WJTV-DT2 picked up The CW in October 2013.

Despite having stopped broadcasting CW programming on May 24, 2013, WRBJ's website remained operational for a year afterward.

On July 17, 2013, the station's call sign was modified with the addition of a "-TV" suffix.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WRBJ-TV
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
34.1 720p 16:9 TBN HD TBN
34.2Merit Merit Street
34.3 480i 4:3 Inspire TBN Inspire
34.416:9SMILE Smile
34.5POSITIV Positiv

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

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WRBJ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Ayres, Jeff (October 22, 2012). "Roberts brothers' TV station in new hands". The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi). Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Brown, Lisa (January 18, 2013). "Roberts Cos.' Mississippi TV station sale approved". St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  4. ↑ "NEW TBN FULL-POWER STATION SIGN-ON". TBN. May 24, 2013. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013.
  5. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WRBJ
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