WTNB-CD

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WTNB-CD
City Cleveland, Tennessee
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedDecember 8, 1994
First air date
October 1997(27 years ago) (1997-10)
Former call signs
  • W27BQ (1994–1998)
  • WTNB-LP (1998–2003)
  • WTNB-CA (2003–2015)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 27 (UHF, 1997–2015)
  • Digital: 27 (UHF, 2015–2019)
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 49240
Class CD
ERP 1.67 kW
HAAT 245.4 m (805 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°12′26″N85°16′52″W / 35.20722°N 85.28111°W / 35.20722; -85.28111
Links
Public license information
Website ctnonline.com/affiliate/wtnb/

WTNB-CD (channel 27) is a low-power, Class A religious television station licensed to Cleveland, Tennessee, United States, serving the Chattanooga area as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located on Sawyer Cemetery Road in unincorporated Mile Straight.

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History

A construction permit for a low-power television station on UHF channel 27 in Cleveland was issued on December 8, 1994 [3] under the call sign W27BQ [4] to North Georgia Television. [5] On October 27, 1997, the station filed for a license to cover, which was granted on November 17. [6] The call letters were changed to WTNB-LP on July 1, 1998; on June 12, 2003, the call sign was modified to WTNB-CA, [4] after having been granted class A status on September 10, 2001. [7] Under North Georgia Television, WTNB was a sister station to WDNN-CA and WDGA-CA in Dalton, Georgia; by 2005, WTNB and WDNN programmed similar lineups featuring FamilyNet and local programming, though WTNB's local programming was separate from that on WDNN. [8]

North Georgia Television sold WTNB-CA to PTP Holdings for $350,000 in 2009. [9] After a period off the air, WTNB resumed broadcasting under the new ownership in January 2010 as a My Family TV affiliate. [10] On April 13, 2015, the call sign was modified to WTNB-CD, [4] after converting to digital television in October 2014. [11] In the FCC's incentive auction, WTNB-CD sold its spectrum for $370,099 and elected to move to a low VHF channel; [12] the station was assigned channel 5. [13]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WTNB-CD [14]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
27.1 1080i 16:9 WTNB-HD CTN
27.2 480i LifeCTN Lifestyle
27.3CTNiCTN International
27.4N2 Newsmax2
27.5BIZ-TVBiz TV

References

  1. ↑ "WTNB-CD Asset Purchase Agreement".
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WTNB-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "Application Search Details (1)". CDBS Public Access. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 "Call Sign History (WTNB-CD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Television & Cable Factbook 1997 Edition (PDF). 1997. p. B-266. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Application Search Details (2)". CDBS Public Access. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Application Search Details (3)". CDBS Public Access. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  8. ↑ Smith, Doug (February 2005). "TV News" (PDF). VHF-UHF Digest. p. 9. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  9. ↑ BIA Financial Networks (June 13, 2009). "Deals". Broadcasting & Cable . Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  10. ↑ Higgins, Randall (January 31, 2010). "Local TV returns to Cleveland". Chattanooga Times Free Press . Chattanooga, Tennessee. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Application Search Details (4)". CDBS Public Access. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  12. ↑ "FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Auction 1001 Winning Bids" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 4, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Incentive Auction Task Force and Media Bureau Announce Regional Coordinators to Facilitate Post-Auction Transition for Broadcast Stations" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Digital TV Market Listing for WTNB". RabbitEars . Retrieved May 14, 2025.
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