WWRS-TV

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Coordinates: 43°26′11.4″N 88°31′33.9″W / 43.436500°N 88.526083°W / 43.436500; -88.526083
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WWRS-TV
  • kW
HAAT186 m (610 ft)
Transmitter coordinates43°26′11.4″N 88°31′33.9″W / 43.436500°N 88.526083°W / 43.436500; -88.526083
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Websitewww.tbn.org

WWRS-TV (channel 52) is a religious television station licensed to Mayville, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Milwaukee and Madison areas as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in Hubbard. WWRS-TV's signal covers much of southeastern and south-central Wisconsin, along with extended cable coverage throughout the area.

History

The station was formerly owned by National Minority Television, a de facto subsidiary of TBN that was used by the network to circumvent the

African American and the other was Latino, which met the FCC's definition of a "minority-controlled" firm.[2]
In mid-2008, the station and its NMTV sisters came directly under TBN ownership.

Like most TBN stations, WWRS simulcasts the TBN national feed for most of the day. TBN typically buys full-power stations mainly to get

Iron Ridge
. The station also airs church services from throughout the area, usually on Friday morning.

Spectrum, added TBN and all of its digital subchannels to its systems in the area beginning late August 2007, within the provider's digital family tier of channels. However, beyond must-carry situations where WWRS-DT1 must be carried on limited basic cable tiers in appropriate markets, the signal comes direct from TBN to the Spectrum headend, not through WWRS.[citation needed
]

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WWRS-TV
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
52.1 720p
16:9
 TBN HD Main TBN programming
52.2 Merit
Merit Street Media
52.3 480i
4:3
 Inspire TBN Inspire
52.4 16:9 SMILE Smile
52.5 POSITIV Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[5] The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 43,[6] using virtual channel 52.

Must-carry

On April 1, 2002, a dispute arose between

WHA-TV (channel 21) to the digital cable tier in order to air WWRS on the basic cable tier.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWRS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Pinsky, Mark. Liberal Reading of FCC Minority Rule Has Helped TBN's Growth, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1989.
  3. ^ Christian TV network investing in new Brookfield production studio, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 5, 2009.
  4. ^ CITY OF BROOKFIELD REGULAR PLAN REVIEW BOARD
  5. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WWRS
  6. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  7. ^ "TV Station Information WWRS-TV". fcc.gov. Retrieved September 11, 2023.

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