WMWC-TV

WMWC-TV

Galesburg–Moline–Rock Island, Illinois Davenport–Bettendorf, Iowa United States
City	Galesburg, Illinois
Channels	Digital:8 (VHF) Virtual:53
Programming
Affiliations	53.1:TBN for others, see§ Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
History
Founded	July 20, 2007
First air date	August 20, 2012(2012-08-20)
Former call signs	WMWC (2012–2013)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	81946
ERP	23kW
HAAT	330 m (1,083 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°18′44″N90°22′46″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.tbn.org

WMWC-TV(channel 53) is areligious television stationlicensed toGalesburg, Illinois,United States, serving theQuad Citiesarea as anowned-and-operated stationof theTrinity Broadcasting Network(TBN).The station's studios are located on 44th Avenue inMoline,and its transmitter is located inOrion, Illinois.

History

WMWC originally planned to go on the air on September 1, 2001, as theUPNaffiliate for the Quad Cities market. Although Northwest Television owned the station, operations were to have been handled by Second Generation of Iowa, owner ofFoxaffiliateKFXAinCedar Rapids.However,Grant Broadcasting System II,then-owner ofKLJB-TVandKGWB-TV,filed an petition to deny the application,and the construction permit was not granted until July 20, 2007—nearly a year after UPN (which affiliated withWBQD-LPin 2002) closed down.

WMWC never signed on an analog signal prior to June 12, 2009. As a result, when it took to the air on August 20, 2012, it became the first television station in the Quad Cities to have signed on as a digital-only station, more than three years after full-power stations ended analog broadcasts. On June 5, 2012, the station was assigned the call letters WMWC.A TBN affiliate from its sign-on, WMWC was acquired from Northwest Television by the network in December 2012.On June 13, 2013, TBN added the "-TV" suffix to the station's call sign.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of WMWC-TV

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
53.1	720p	16:9	TBN HD	Main TBN programming
53.2			Merit	Merit Street Media
53.3	480i	4:3	Inspire	TBN Inspire
53.4		16:9	SMILE	Smile
53.5			POSITIV	Positiv

Analog-to-digital transition

Because it was granted an originalconstruction permitafter theFCCfinalized theDTVallotment plan on April 21, 1997,the station did not receive a companion channel for a digitaltelevision station.Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, WMWC would have been required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). WMWC's original analog allocation wasUHFchannel 67, though the application was subsequently amended to specify digital operation on channel 53;however, both channels were removed from the TVbandplanat the end of thedigital television transition in the United States.SinceWQAD-TVelected to stay on its pre-transition digital UHF channel 38 allocation after the digital transition, Northwest Television, the original owners of WMWC, elected WQAD's former analog channel allocation, VHF channel 8, as the channel on which to broadcast WMWC's post-transition digital signal. As WQAD usesvirtual channel8 because of its former analog allocation, WMWC legally could not use it; the station instead uses virtual channel 53.

See also

• WBQD-LP,thelow powertelevision station which ultimately ended up with theUPNaffiliation for the Quad Cities market, and later became the area'sMyNetworkTVaffiliate; station is nowdefunct
• WQAD-DT3,the thirddigital subchannelof WQAD-TV which was previously asimulcastof WBQD-LP and is now theMyNetworkTVaffiliate for the Quad Cities television market
• WQAD-TV,theABCaffiliate for the Quad Cities television market and the parent station of WQAD-DT3; also the formeranalogoccupant of theVHFchannel 8 allocation in the Quad Cities area

External links

• Official website