WTGL-TV

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WTGL-TV

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.

1 Digital services
2 History
3 Previous Logos
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Digital services

This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks:

Channel	Programming
52.1	The local TBN channel (simulcasting the analog station)
52.2	The Church Channel
52.3	JCTV
52.4	Enlace USA
52.5	Smile of a Child

[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, WLCB will move to the former studios of WKCF in Lake Mary.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Previous Logos

WTGL-TV52's logo, which was discontinued after the sale to TBN.

[edit] References

^ "TBN Reaching Over Four Million Viewers with Full-Power Station in Orlando, Florida", WDC Media News, 2006-09-28. Retrieved on October 8, 2006. (in English)

[edit] External links

Broadcast television in the Orlando / Daytona Beach / Melbourne market (Nielsen DMA #19)

WESH 2 (NBC) - WKMG 6 (CBS) - WFTV 9 (ABC) - WTMO 15 (TEL) - WCEU 15 (PBS) - WKCF 18 (The CW) - W21AU 21 (AZA) - WMFE 24 (PBS) - WVEN 26 (UNI) - WRDQ 27 (Ind) - WRCF 29 (A1) - WOFL 35 (Fox) - WZXZ 36 (MTV2) - WOTF 43 (TFU) - WLCB 45 (TLN / Faith TV) - WTGL 52 (TBN) - WOPX 56 (ION) - WRBW 65 (MNTV) - WBCC 68 (PBS)
Local digital television channels
WACX 40 (Ind/Rel)
Stations serving Ocala, part of the Orlando market
Ocala: W07BP 7 (Edu.) - WOGX 51 (Fox) Gainesville: WUFT 5 (PBS) - WCJB 20 (ABC) (The CW on DT2)
Local cable television channels
BPS-TV (PBS, Brevard Co.) - Central Florida News 13

Religious Television Stations in the state of Florida

Miami - Fort Lauderdale: WHFT 45 (TBN, Miami) - WEYS-LP 56 (ALMA (Spanish), Miami)
West Palm Beach: WTCE 21 (TBN, Fort Pierce) - WFGC 61 (CTN, Palm Beach)
Fort Myers - Naples: W17CK 17 (TBN, Port Charlotte) - W38CO 38 (TBN, Fort Myers) - WRXY 49 (CTN, Tice) - W56DW 56 (TBN, Naples)
Tampa - St. Petersburg: WLWA-LP 14 (Independent, Lakeland) - WSVT-CA 18 (Daystar, Tampa) - WCLF 22 (CTN, Clearwater) - W36CO 36 (TBN, St. Petersburg) - W48CN 48 (TBN, Sarasota) - W56EB 56 (TBN, Tampa) - W60CE 60 (TBN, Sebring) - WYKE-LP 47 (FamilyNet, Inglis-Yankeetown)
Orlando - Daytona Beach - Melbourne: WACX 40 (Independent, Leesburg) - WLCB 45 (TLN / Faith TV, Leesburg) - WTGL 52 (TBN, Cocoa)
Ocala - Gainesville: W69AY 69 (Independent, Alachua)
Jacksonville: WWRJ 27 (Ind. Rel., Jacksonville) - W50CO 50 (3ABN, Jacksonville) - WJEB 59 (TBN, Jacksonville) - WUBF 69 (COR, Jacksonville)
Tallahassee - Thomasville: W03AO 3 (Independent, Madison) - WACX-LP 9 (Independent, Tallahassee) - WVUP-CA 45 (CTN, Tallahassee)
Panama City: WWEO-CA 24 (FamilyNet, DeFuniak Springs) - W34DH 34 (TBN, Panama City)
Pensacola - Mobile: WHBR 33 (CTN, Pensacola) - W39BP 39 (FamilyNet, Pensacola)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida