WMWC-TV
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Moline-Rock Island, Illinois/ Davenport-Bettendorf, Iowa United States |
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| City | Galesburg, Illinois |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 53 () |
| Subchannels | 53.1 - TBN 53.2 - Hillsong Channel 53.3 - JUCE TV/Smile 53.4 - Enlace 53.5 - TBN Salsa |
| Affiliations | TBN |
| Owner |
Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, Inc.) |
| First air date | August 20, 2012 |
| Former callsigns | WMWC (2012–2013) |
| Transmitter power | 23 kW |
| Height | 330 m |
| Facility ID | 81946 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°18′44″N 90°22′46″W / 41.31222°N 90.37944°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wmwc.tv |
WMWC-TV is a religious television station serving as an owned and operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network for the Quad Cities area of west-central Illinois and eastern Iowa. Licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 (virtual channel 53.1 via ) from a transmitter in Orion, Illinois that is also occupied by KWQC-TV, KLJB and WQAD-TV.
This station's digital signal, like most other full-service TBN owned-and-operated stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, WMWC would have been required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). WMWC's original analog allocation was UHF channel 67, though the application was subsequently amended to specify digital operation on channel 53; however, both channels were removed from the TV bandplan at the end of the digital television transition in the United States. Since WQAD-TV elected to stay on its pre-transition digital UHF channel 38 allocation after the digital transition, Northwest Television, the original owners of WMWC, elected WQAD's former analog channel allocation, VHF channel 8, as the channel on which to broadcast WMWC's post-transition digital signal. As WQAD remaps to virtual channel 8 because of its former analog allocation, WMWC legally cannot keep the virtual channel mapping at 8; instead. Through the use of , digital television receivers will display the station's virtual channel as 53.
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