WHFT-TV

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WHFT-TV is a Christian television station serving the greater Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area. They are owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The station broadcasts on channel 45.

History

WHFT-TV signed on March 29, 1975 as WFCB as a religious station owned by Florida Baptist Television. They were unable to keep the station solvent, so they put the station up for sale in early 1976, with a request to sell it to a Christian ministry.

World Harvest Television, a.k.a. LeSEA Broadcasting purchased the station and took over in June 1976. The call letters were changed to the current WHFT-TV (standing for World Harvest Florida Television). LeSEA added their own religious programming, along with televangelist programming like The 700 Club. In addition, the station aired a general entertainment format for families during the 7-9 a.m. and 2-7 p.m. timeslots on weekdays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Sundays were reserved for religion).

In 1980, Trinity Broadcasting gave LeSEA a high offer for that time, so the station was sold. In the summer of 1980, all the secular shows were dropped (some eventually moved to WDZL or WBFS, while others never reappeared on Miami television stations) and the station switched to TBN programming. The WHFT-TV callsign, however, remained on the station.

Some of the religious shows that had aired on WHFT-TV during the LeSEA era remained on the station because TBN was also airing these programs, but shows like The 700 Club were removed (however, TBN would begin running The 700 Club a few years later).

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 45.1, The Church Channel on 45.2, JCTV on 45.3, Enlace USA on 45.4, and Smile of a Child on 45.5.

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

• [TBN]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WHFT]

Broadcast television in the South Florida (Miami / Fort Lauderdale) market  [(Nielsen DMA #17)]'''
WPBT 2 (PBS) - WFOR 4 (CBS) - WTVJ 6 (NBC) - WSVN 7 (Fox) - WGEN 8 / WSBS 22 (Ind) - WPLG 10 (ABC) - WLMF-LP 13 (Ind/Edu.) - WLRN 17 (PBS) - WLTV 23 (UNI) - WIMP-CA 25 (HSN) - WBFS 33 (UPN/MNTV) - WPXM 35 (i) - WPMF-LP 38 (Ind) - WBZL 39 (The WB/The CW) - WJAN-CA 41 (Ind) - WHFT 45 (TBN) - WFUN-LP 48 (HSN) - WSCV 51 (TEL) - WEYS-LP 56 (ALMA) - WPPB 63 (EDU) - WAMI 69 (TFU)
Local digital television channels
WHDT-LP 44 (Ind)

 

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