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TBN TV station in Mobile, Alabama
WMPV-TV
(channel 21) is a
religious television station
licensed to
Mobile, Alabama
, United States, serving southwest Alabama and northwest Florida as an
owned-and-operated station
of the
Trinity Broadcasting Network
(TBN). The station's transmitter is located near
Robertsdale, Alabama
.
The station formerly operated from a studio located along the
Interstate 65
Service Road in Mobile. 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 WMPV-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.
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History
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The station was founded in December 1985 by professional poker player
Doyle Brunson
and operated as a general-entertainment
independent station
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until it switched to a
Christian television
format following a 1989 sale to Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, a new broadcast ministry based in Mobile and co-founded by television producer
Paul Crouch Jr.
and attorney and broadcaster
Jay Sekulow
. WMPV was Sonlight's
flagship station
, and over the next several years Sonlight would acquire other stations including
WMCF-TV
in
Montgomery
. All of Sonlight's stations were affiliated with TBN, which was co-founded by Paul Crouch Jr.'s parents
Paul Sr.
and
Jan
. As a TBN affiliate, WMPV carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming.
In 1997, WMPV was sold, along with the rest of Sonlight's stations, 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 the Trinity Broadcasting Network who already owned
WTJP-TV
in
Gadsden
;
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the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network. WMPV became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.
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Subchannels
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
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Notes
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- ^
The
Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook
says December 19, while the
Television and Cable Factbook
says December 15.
References
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External links
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Full power
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(3.1
ABC
, 3.2
TBD
, 3.3
Charge!
)
- WKRG-TV
(5.1
CBS
, 5.2
Ion
, 5.3
MeTV
, 5.4
Court
)
- WALA-TV
(10.1
Fox
, 10.2
Cozi
, 10.3
Laff
, 10.4
Mystery
, 10.5
The365
, 10.6
Oxygen
)
- WPMI-TV
(15.1
NBC
, 15.2
Quest
, 15.3
Nest
)
- WDPM-DT
(18.1
Daystar
, 18.2
DS
en Espanol
)
- WMPV-TV
(21.1
TBN
, 21.2
Merit
, 21.3
Inspire
, 21.4
Smile
, 21.5
Positiv
)
- WSRE
(23.1
PBS
, 23.2
World
, 23.3
Create
/
FL Ch.
, 23.4
PBS Kids
)
- WHBR
(33.1
CTN
, 33.2 CTNi, 33.3 Lifestyle, 33.4 CTN)
- WFGX
(35.1
MNT
, 35.2
Story
, 35.3
Comet
)
- WEIQ
(42.1
PBS
/
APT
, 42.2
PBS Kids
, 42.3
Create
, 42.4
World
)
- WJTC
(44.1
Ind.
, 44.2
REW
, 44.3
Dabl
)
- WFBD
(48.1
TCT
, 48.2
SBN
, 48.3
H&I
, 48.4
Start
, 48.5 [blank], 48.6
Movies!
, 48.7 [blank])
- WPAN
(53.1
Blab
,
53.2
TCT
, 53.3 Blank, 54.4
Grio
)
- WFNA
(55.1
CW
, 55.2
Bounce
, 55.3
Crime
, 55.4
Grit
)
- WAWD
(58.1 Beach TV)
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