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| City | Dalton, Georgia |
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| History | |
| Founded | October 2, 1989 |
First air date | May 10, 1994 (30 years ago) (1994-05-10) |
Former call signs | WELF (1994–2003) |
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Call sign meaning | "With Everlasting Faith" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60825 |
| ERP | 475 kW |
| HAAT | 413 m (1,355 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°49′23″N85°25′6″W / 34.82306°N 85.41833°W /34.82306; -85.41833 |
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| Website | www |
WELF-TV (channel 23) is atelevision station licensed toDalton, Georgia, United States, serving theChattanooga, Tennessee, area as anowned-and-operated station of theTrinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located onSR 157 inunincorporated west-centralWalker County.
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The station began operations on May 10, 1994. It was built and signed on by Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, a broadcast ministry based inMobile, Alabama, and co-founded by television producerPaul Crouch Jr. and attorney and broadcasterJay Sekulow. All of Sonlight's stations were affiliated with TBN, which was co-founded by Paul Crouch Jr.'s parentsPaul Sr. andJan. As a TBN affiliate, WELF carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming.
In 1997, WELF was sold, along with the rest of Sonlight's stations, to All American TV (not to be confused withan 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. WELF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.[3]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 23.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | TBN |
| 23.2 | Merit | Merit Street | ||
| 23.3 | 480i | 4:3 | Inspire | TBN Inspire |
| 23.4 | 16:9 | ONTV4U | OnTV4U (infomercials) | |
| 23.5 | POSITIV | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[4]
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