WPGD-TV (channel 50) is areligious television station licensed toHendersonville, Tennessee, United States, serving theNashville area as anowned-and-operated station of theTrinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).

WPGD-TV's studios are located atTrinity Music City on Music Village Boulevard in Hendersonville, the former estate of the latecountry artistConway Twitty; its studios and auditorium have also served as a recording location for TBN programs. The station's transmitter is located inWhites Creek, Tennessee, just offI-24 and Old Hickory Boulevard.

Although it was granted aconstruction permit on September 17, 1987, the station did not sign on the air until September 24, 1992, with its original analog transmitter located alongState Highway 109 in unincorporatedSumner County betweenPortland andGallatin. 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. At the time of the station's inception, 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, WPGD carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming, some of which was produced locally.

In 1997, WPGD 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. WPGD became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.^[3]

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[4]

At one point during the 1990s, WPGD also operated alow-powertranslator, W36AK, serving Nashville proper due to the main transmitter's location, until it was discontinued at an unknown date.^[5]

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