WFGC

WFGC
Palm Beach/West Palm Beach, Florida
United States
City Palm Beach, Florida
Channels Digital: 49 (UHF)
(to move to 7 (VHF))
Virtual: 61 (PSIP)
Subchannels 61.1/.3 CTN
61.2 CTNi
61.4 CTN Lifestyle
Affiliations CTN (O&O)
Owner Christian Television Network
(Christian Television of Palm Beach County, Inc.)
First air date May 21, 1993 (1993-05-21)
Call letters' meaning West Palm Beach
Florida
God
Christ
Former channel number(s) 61 (UHF analog, 1993–2009)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
12.1 kW (CP)
Height 123 m (404 ft)
Class DT
Facility ID 11123
Transmitter coordinates 26°45′47″N 80°12′19″W / 26.76306°N 80.20528°W / 26.76306; -80.20528
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wfgc.com

WFGC is a CTN owned-and-operated television station licensed to Palm Beach, Florida, United States, serving the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 (or virtual channel 61 via PSIP) from a transmitter near Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Owned by the Christian Television Network, WFGC maintains studio facilities on Blue Heron Boulevard in Riviera Beach. On cable, the station can be seen on Comcast Xfinity channel 13 (in Martin, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, and southern St. Lucie counties) and channel 17 (in Indian River and northern St. Lucie counties), and in high definition on digital channel 436.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
61.11080i16:9WFGC-DTMain WFGC programming / CTN
61.2480i4:3CTNi
61.3Standard-definition simulcast of 61.1
61.4CTN Lifestyle

Analog-to-digital conversion

WFGC discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, 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 UHF channel 49.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 61, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WFGC
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.


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