WDLI-TV
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WDLI-TV is a religious television station in Canton, Ohio, serving the Cleveland market on channel 17. WDLI-TV is an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
History
WDLI signed on in 1967 as WJAN-TV, a local independent owned by Janson Industries, offering a typical slate of local and syndicated programming. In its early years, they broadcasted in black and white only, as they couldn't afford color equipment.In August 1977, Janson sold WJAN to televangelist Jim Bakker, notorious founder of the PTL Club. Under Bakker, WJAN became a religious station, with its mostly-Christian schedule.
Bakker sold WJAN to the David Livingstone Missionary Foundation in December 1982; shortly afterward, its calls were changed to its current call letters, WDLI-TV.
Four years later, in March 1986, Livingstone sold WDLI to its presnt owners, the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Digital services
This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks: the local TBN channel (simulcasting the analog station) on 17.1, The Church Channel on 17.2, JCTV on 17.3, Enlace USA on 17.4, and Smile of a Child on 17.5.TBN has also notified the ATSC that it intends to use 75 as the major channel number on all of its full-power O&O stations in the future, in order to be consistent nationwide.[link] This is possible because of virtual channels, which allow any digital station to use any channel number from 1 to 99, regardless of which one they actually transmit on. Channels 70 to 83 are no longer used for TV broadcasting, and 84 to 99 never were, freeing those numbers to be used in this manner.
External links
| Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the Cleveland / Akron / Canton market [(Nielsen DMA #16)] | ||
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| WKYC 3 (NBC) - WEWS 5 (ABC) - WJW 8 (Fox) - WAKN 11 (Jewelry TV) - WDLI 17 (TBN) - WOIO 19 (CBS) - WVPX 23 (i) - WVIZ 25 (PBS) - WAOH 29 / W35AX 35 (A1) - WIVN-LP 29 / WIVM-LP 52 (A1) - WRAP-CA 32 (infomercials) - WOCB-CA 39 (TBN) - WUAB 43 (UPN/My Network TV) (The Tube on DT2) - WEAO 49 (PBS) - WGGN 52 (TBN) - WCDN 53 (Daystar) - WBNX 55 (The WB/The CW) - WQHS 61 (UNI) - WXOX 65 (HSN/America's Store) - WOAC 67 (S@H/JTV) - WMFD 68 (Ind) | ||
| See also: Broadcast television stations in the , , , , , and Markets | ||
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Independent Stations:
WGCT 8 () -
W21BF 21 () -
WDFM 26 () -
W57BH 57 () -
WMFD 68 () Home Shopping Stations: WRAP-CA 32 (infomercials, ) - WBTL 34 (AS, ) - WXOX 65 (HSN/America's Store, ) - WOAC 67 (S@H/JTV, ) i Network Affiliates: WVPX 23 () - WTLW 44 () - WSFJ 51 () America One Affiliates: WBKA-CA 22 () - WFND 22 (, also Daystar) - WOTH 25 () - WAOH 29 / W35AX 35 () - WIVN-LP 29 / WIVM-LP 52 () Religious Stations: WDLI 17 (TBN, ) - WFND 22 (, also America One) - WLMB 40 (FamilyNet, ) - WGGN 52 (TBN, ) Other Stations: WSSS-LP 25 (MTV2, ) - W38DH 38 (MTV2, ) - WQHS 61 (Univision, ) | |
| '''See also: , , , , , and stations in Ohio | |
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