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
Affiliations
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 (until 2011)
TBN (primary 1983–1991, secondary 1991–2007)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID67787
ERP
  • 16.5 kW
  • 22 kW (application)
HAAT
  • 141 m (463 ft)
  • 177.6 m (582.7 ft) (application)
Transmitter coordinates
  • 41°27′15″N 84°48′10″W
  • 41°6′13″N 85°11′28″W (application)
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.tct.tv
Translator
WEIJ-LD
  • Fort Wayne, Indiana
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
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 (primary 1988–1991, secondary 1991–2007)
Technical information[2]
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.[3] 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:

Subchannels of WINM[4] and WEIJ-LD[5]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
WINMWEIJ-LD
12.138.1 1080i16:9WINM-HDTCT
12.238.2 480iSBNSBN
12.438.4 Cozi TVCozi TV
12.538.5 Defy TVDefy TV
12.738.7 NewsyScripps News
12.838.8 QuestQuest

Analog-to-digital conversion

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,[6] using virtual channel 63, but was remapped to virtual channel 12 in 2011.

References
  1. "Facility Technical Data for WINM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "Facility Technical Data for WEIJ-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. "WNYB-TV ends local productions, station site is for sale". The Buffalo News. July 2, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  4. RabbitEars TV Query for WINM
  5. RabbitEars TV Query for WEIJ
  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.
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