WINM

WINM (channel 12) is a religious television station licensed to Angola, Indiana, United States, serving the Fort Wayne area as 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
CityAngola, Indiana
Channels
Programming
Affiliations12.1: TCT
12.2: SBN
12.3: TheGrio
12.4: Cozi TV
12.5: Defy TV
12.6: TrueReal
12.7: Newsy
12.9: Digi-TV
Ownership
OwnerTri-State Christian Television, Inc.
History
First air date
April 22, 1983 (1983-04-22)
Former call signs
WXJC-TV (1983–1984)
WBKZ (1984–1986)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
63 (UHF, 1983–2009)
Digital:
63 (PSIP, until 2011)
TBN (1983–2007; secondary from 1991)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID67787
ERP16.5 kW
22 kW (application)
HAAT141 m (463 ft)
177.6 m (582.7 ft) (application)
Transmitter coordinates41°27′15″N 84°48′10″W
41°6′13″N 85°11′28″W (application)
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.tct.tv
WEIJ-LD
Translator of WINM
  • Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • United States
Channels
Programming
Affiliations38.1: TCT
38.2: SBN
38.3: TheGrio
38.4: Cozi TV
38.5: Defy TV
38.6: TrueReal
38.7: Newsy
38.9: Digi-TV
Ownership
OwnerTri-State Christian Television, Inc.
History
First air date
November 30, 1988 (1988-11-30)
Former call signs
W66BD (1988–2004)
W43CF (2004–2009)
W38EA-D (2009–2016)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
66 (UHF, 1988–2004)
43 (UHF, 2004–2009)
Digital:
38 (UHF, 2009–2020)
TBN (1988–2007; secondary from 1991)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID67788
ERP15 kW
HAAT177.3 m (581.7 ft)
Transmitter coordinates41°6′13″N 85°11′28″W
Links
Public license information
LMS

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.

History

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).

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[2][3]
12.138.11080i16:9WINM-HDMain WINM programming / TCT
12.238.2480iSBNSBN
12.338.3TheGrioTheGrio
12.438.4Cozi TVCozi TV
12.538.5Defy TVDefy TV
12.638.6TrueRealTrueReal
12.738.7NewsyNewsy
12.938.9Digi TVDigi-TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

WINM shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 63, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers originally displayed the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 63, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, but remapped it to virtual channel 12 in 2011.

References
  1. "WNYB-TV ends local productions, station site is for sale". The Buffalo News. July 2, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for WINM
  3. RabbitEars TV Query for WEIJ
  4. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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