WTGL-TV

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WTGL-TV
TBN/WTGL
Cocoa/Orlando, Florida
Channels 52 (UHF) analog,
53 (UHF) digital
Affiliations TBN
Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network
Founded August 16, 1982
Call letters meaning W
The
Good
Life (reference to former owners)
Former affiliations CTN (1980s-1990s)
TLN (until 2006)
Faith TV (until 2006)
Website www.tbn.org

WTGL-TV is a Christian television station serving Orlando, Florida, licensed to nearby Cocoa. The station is an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and broadcasts on UHF channel 52, with a digital signal on channel 53.

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[edit] Digital services

This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks: the local TBN channel (simulcasting the analog station) on 52.1, The Church Channel on 52.2, JCTV on 52.3, Enlace USA on 52.4, and Smile of a Child on 52.5.

[edit] History

The station was originally founded August 16, 1982 by Good Life Broadcasting (WTGL stands for The Good Life). The station was initially a blend of mostly Christian shows with some general entertainment programming but evolved to an all Christian format by 1985. By then they affiliated with the Christian Television Network, which owned and still owns Tampa Bay's WCLF-TV Channel 22. WTGL was the second station to be part of the Christian Television Network. The station would end affiliations with CTN in the late 1990s, but it continued to operate as a predominantly religious station, changing its affiliations to the Total Living Network and Faith TV.

On September 28, 2006, it was announced that WTGL-TV had been sold to the Trinity Broadcasting Network.[1]

From 2000 until its sale to TBN in 2006, WTGL was in duopoly with another religious television station, WLCB-TV. The two stations still share a studio at the corner of Michigan Street and I-4 in Orlando, but in 2007 channel 52 will move to the former studios of WKCF in Lake Mary.

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