WELF-TV

WELF-TV
Chattanooga, Tennessee
City of license Dalton, Georgia
Channels Digital: 16 (UHF)
Subchannels 23.1 - TBN
23.2 - Church Channel
23.3 - JCTV
23.4 - Enlace USA
23.5 - Smile of a Child TV
Affiliations TBN
Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network
(TCCSA, Inc., d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network)
First air date May 10, 1994
Former callsigns WELF (1994-2003)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
23 (1994-2009)
Transmitter power 300 kW
Height 425 m
Facility ID 60825
Website www.tbn.org

WELF-TV is a religious television station licensed to Dalton, Georgia and serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee media market, spanning southeast Tennessee, northwest Georgia, and northeast Alabama. Its office and transmitter are in Lookout Mountain, Georgia (a suburb of Chattanooga), broadcasting digitally on channel 16, and formerly analog on 23. The station is owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and signed-on for the first time on May 10, 1994.

The station airs on cable channel 9 where the area's actual TV station WTVC is on cable channel 10.

This station's digital signal, like most other full-service TBN owned-and-operated stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.

Channel Video Name Programming
23.1 480i TBN Main network programming
23.2 480i The Church Channel Televised church services
23.3 480i JCTV Christian music videos and other programs for ages 12-34
23.4 480i Enlace USA Spanish-language religious programming
23.5 480i Smile of a Child TV E/I children's programming

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.

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