WPGD-TV
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Hendersonville/Nashville, Tennessee United States |
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| City | Hendersonville, Tennessee |
| Channels |
Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 50 () |
| Subchannels | 50.1 TBN 50.2 Hillsong Channel 50.3 JUCE TV/Smile of a Child 50.4 TBN Enlace USA 50.5 TBN Salsa |
| Affiliations | TBN (O&O) |
| Owner |
Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc. (TCCSA, INC. d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network) |
| Founded | September 17, 1987 |
| First air date | September 24, 1992 |
| Call letters' meaning | W Praise God Daily |
| Sister station(s) | WBUY-TV |
| Former callsigns | WPGD (1992-2003) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 50 (UHF, 1992-2009) Digital: 51 (UHF, 2003-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 1,351 feet (412 m) |
| Facility ID | 60820 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°16′3″N 86°47′44″W / 36.26750°N 86.79556°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | TBN.org |
WPGD-TV is a religious television station licensed to Hendersonville, Tennessee and serving the entirety of the Nashville market, along with Bowling Green, Kentucky to the north. It is one of the flagship owned-and-operated stations for the Trinity Broadcasting Network. It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 33 (shown as the station's former analog Channel 50 via ). The station's transmitter is located in Whites Creek just off Interstate 24 and Old Hickory Boulevard. Studios and local broadcasting facilities are based out of Trinity Music City on Music City Boulevard in Hendersonville, which also acts as a host studio for several TBN programs and is marketed as a religious tourist attraction, in addition to its former role as the estate of the late Conway Twitty.
Although granted a construction permit in September 1987, the station did not sign on the air until September 1992 as Nashville’s over-the-air outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which it has exclusively broadcast since sign-on. Its original analog TV transmitter was located along Tennessee State Route 109 in Sumner County between Portland and Gallatin.
At one point during the 1990s, WPGD also operated a low-power translator, W36AK serving central Nashville due to the analog translator's location, until it was discontinued at an unknown date.
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