| Callsign: | WINM | ||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Angola, Indiana | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Digital: | 12 (VHF) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Virtual: | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner: | Tri-State Christian Television, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location: | Angola–Fort Wayne, Indiana | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Country: | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Former Affiliations: | TBN (primary 1983–1991, secondary 1991–2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Erp: | 16.5 kW | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Haat: | 177.60NaN0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Facility Id: | 67787 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 41.1036°N -85.1911°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensing Authority: | FCC | ||||||||||||||||||||
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WINM (channel 12) is a religious television station licensed to Angola, Indiana, United States, serving the Fort Wayne area as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter is located in unincorporated Williams County, Ohio (in the Toledo market), near the Indiana state line, midway between Butler, Indiana, and Edgerton, Ohio. Though most of the city proper is adequately covered by the main signal, WINM's signal is relayed in Fort Wayne on digital translator WEIJ-LD (channel 38).
WINM maintained studios on Butler Road in Fort Wayne (in the former studio facility of PBS member station WFWA, channel 39) until TCT ended local operations in June 2018.[1] Despite Angola being WINM's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
The station first signed on the air as WXJC-TV on April 22, 1983, originally affiliated with the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1984, the station's call sign was changed to WBKZ; it was changed again to WINM in 1986, when the station was purchased by Manna for Modern Man Ministries. Quad M Productions, as it was called, was fully owned by Calvary Temple Worship Center and solely run by the family of Paul Paino. The studio facilities were located in the old Calvary Temple location on Clinton Street in Fort Wayne. After encountering financial problems, the station filed for bankruptcy and shut down. The license was purchased in 1991 by TCT, who began producing their own part-time network feed of religious programming, and began airing it on their owned-and-operated stations. TCT fully disassociated with TBN in April 2007.
On February 27, 2004, the call letters of WINM's Fort Wayne translator, previously W66BD, were changed to W43CF and correspondingly, was moved to UHF channel 43. The repeater later moved to digital channel 38 and had its callsign changed to W38EA-D (now WEIJ-LD).
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.1 | 38.1 | WINM-HD | TCT | ||
| 12.2 | 38.2 | SBN | SBN | ||
| 12.4 | 38.4 | Cozi TV | Cozi TV | ||
| 12.5 | 38.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 12.6 | 38.6 | INFO CH | Infomercials | ||
| 12.8 | 38.8 | Quest | Quest |
WINM shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 63, 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 VHF channel 12,[2] using virtual channel 63, but was remapped to virtual channel 12 in 2011.