WBNX-TV
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Akron/Cleveland, Ohio United States |
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| City | Akron, Ohio |
| Branding | WBNX-TV: The CW |
| Slogan | TV Now |
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Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 55 () |
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| Owner | Winston Broadcasting Network, Inc. |
| Founded | January 30, 1984 |
| First air date | December 1, 1985 |
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Winston Broadcasting Network (owner) |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 331.2 m |
| Facility ID | 72958 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°23′3.4″N 81°41′43.6″W / 41.384278°N 81.695444°WCoordinates: 41°23′3.4″N 81°41′43.6″W / 41.384278°N 81.695444°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | wbnx |
WBNX-TV, virtual channel 55 (UHF digital channel 30), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Cleveland, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Akron. The station is owned by the Winston Broadcasting Network, a subsidiary of Ernest Angley Ministries. WBNX maintains studio facilities located in suburban Cuyahoga Falls, and its transmitter is located in the Cleveland suburb of Parma.
UHF analog channel 55 in northeast Ohio was originally allocated to Akron as WCOT-TV. The license was awarded to Rex Humbard in the late 1970s. The plan was for the station to sign on by 1981, with Christian programming being broadcast for two thirds of the day and some family-oriented entertainment programming a third of the day. Construction on the station began in 1978, but ran out of funding and was on hold by 1980. The secular programming that was to air on the station was sold to a new station, WCLQ (channel 61, now WQHS-DT), and the plan to build WCOT was abandoned in 1981. In 1982, Humbard sold the construction permit to Winston Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Ernest Angley Ministries. Construction of the station resumed in 1983.
WBNX-TV first signed on the air on December 1, 1985, as a secular for-profit independent station. The WBNX call letters were previously used by a radio station in New York City on 1380 AM (now WKDM) until 1984. Before WBNX signed on, its owner Ernest Angley bought Humbard's television production facilities in Cuyahoga Falls to start the new station, and later bought Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow complex (the current Grace Cathedral). The unfinished concrete tower which still stands behind Grace Cathedral was originally intended to hold WCOT's transmission tower. That tower was never purchased or used by WBNX, but is owned by Krieger Communications and used for cellular phone transmissions.
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