WMCF-TV

Not to be confused with WNCF.

WMCF-TV (channel 45) is a religious television station in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located near Sevenmile Creek, on the east side of Montgomery.

WMCF-TV

Montgomery, Alabama United States
Channels	Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 45
Programming
Affiliations	45.1: TBN for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
Sister stations	WTJP-TV, WMPV-TV, WHSG-TV
History
First air date	1985 (40 years ago) (1985)[a]
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 45 (UHF, 1985–2009) Digital: 46 (UHF, 2006–2020)
Former affiliations	Independent (1985–1990)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	60829
ERP	725 kW
HAAT	130 m (427 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	32°24′13″N 86°11′49″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.tbn.org

The station formerly operated from a studio located on Mendel Parkway West in Montgomery. That facility was one of several closed by TBN in 2019 following the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s repeal of the "Main Studio Rule", which required full-service television stations like WMCF-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.^[2]

History

WMCF-TV was signed-on in 1985 by Word of God Fellowship, Inc., the future parent organization of the Daystar Television Network. It has broadcast Christian television programs for the entirety of its existence, and this continued following subsequent sales of the station: in 1990 to Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, which owned WMPV-TV in Mobile;^[3] and in 1997 to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), a minority-owned firm with close ties to TBN, who already owned WTJP-TV in Gadsden.^[4] WMCF had been airing many TBN programs, and the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network.

WMCF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.^[5]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WMCF-TV

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
45.1	720p	16:9	TBN HD	TBN
45.2			Merit	Merit TV
45.3	480i		Inspire	TBN Inspire
45.4		4:3	ONTV4U	OnTV4U (infomercials)
45.5		16:9	POSITIV	Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[6] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46,^[7] using virtual channel 45.

Notes

1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says October 12, while the Television and Cable Factbook says November 25.