WFGC explained

Callsign:WFGC
City:Palm Beach, Florida
Digital:7 (VHF)
Virtual:61
Owner:Christian Television Network
Licensee:Christian Television of Palm Beach County, Inc.
Location:Palm BeachWest Palm Beach, Florida
Country:United States
Erp:17.9 kW
Haat:1230NaN0
Facility Id:11123
Coordinates:26.7633°N -80.205°W
Licensing Authority:FCC

WFGC (channel 61) is a religious television station licensed to Palm Beach, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's studios are located on West Blue Heron Boulevard in Riviera Beach (in the former studio of Fox affiliate WFLX, channel 29), and its transmitter is located near Royal Palm Beach, Florida.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WFGC[1] ! Channel! Res.! Aspect! Short name! Programming
61.1 WFGC-DT CTN
61.2 CTNi
61.3 Standard-definition simulcast of 61.1
61.4 CTN Lifestyle

Analog-to-digital conversion

WFGC discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49,[2] using virtual channel 61.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WFGC#station RabbitEars TV Query for WFGC
  2. Web site: DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds . PDF . March 24, 2012.