WTBY-TV

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WTBY-TV is the TBN owned and operated station in Poughkeepsie, New York, serving both the New York City and Albany television markets. It broadcasts on UHF channel 54, with a digital signal on channel 27. In addition, the station operates broadcast translator W52DF on channel 52 to reach Albany.

The station signed on May 30, 1980 as WFTI-TV, a local religious station in Poughkeepsie, and was headquartered in the Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall on Route 9. The station moved from Poughkeepsie to Fishkill, New York and adopted its current programming and callsign after TBN purchased the station in 1982.

This station elected to keep RF channel 27 permanently for digital operation during the first round of digital channel elections in February 2005.

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 54.1, The Church Channel on 54.2, JCTV on 54.3, Enlace USA on 54.4, and Smile of a Child on 54.5.

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 website]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WTBY]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for W52DF]

Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the New York City market  [(Nielsen DMA #1)]
WCBS 2 (CBS)  -  WNBC 4 (NBC)  -  WNYW 5 (Fox)  -  WABC 7 (ABC)  -  WWOR 9 (UPN-to be MNTV in 09/06)  -  WPIX 11 (The WB-to be The CW in 09/06) (The Tube on DT2)  -  WNET 13 (PBS)  -  WEBR-CA 17 (GCN)  -  WLIW 21 (PBS)  -  WMBQ-CA 22 (MTV2)  -  WNYE 25 (NYC)  -  WPXN 31 (i)  -  W36AZ 36 (Ind)  -  WDVB-CA 39 (ImaginAsian)  -  WNYN-LP 39 (Azteca América)  -  WXTV 41 (UNI)  -  WSAH 43 (S@H/JTV)  -  WNJU 47 (TMD)  -  WEDW 49 (PBS/CPTV)  -  WNJN 50 / WNJB 58 (PBS/NJN)  -  WVVH-LP 50 (A1) - WKOB-LP 53 (Ind)  -  WTBY 54 (TBN)  -  WRNN-LP 57 (Ind)  -  W60AI 60 (HSN)  -  WMBC 63 (Ind)  -  WFME 66 (Religious)  -  WFTY 67 (TFR)  -  WFUT 68 (TFR)
Local digital-only channels
WRNN 48 (Ind) - WLNY 57 (Ind) (Both stations also have low-powered repeaters in analog.)
Local cable television channels
MSG Network  -  News 12  -  NY1  -  NYCTV  -  SportsNet New York  -  YES Network

Broadcast television in the Albany / Schenectady / Troy market [(Nielsen DMA #55)]
WRGB 6 (CBS) - WNCE-CA 8 (A1) - WTEN 10/WCDC 19 (ABC) - WNYT 13 (NBC) - WNYA-CA 15/WNYA 51 (UPN/MNTV) - WMHT 17 (PBS) - WXXA 23 (FOX) - WVBG-LP 25 (RSN) - WNGN-LP 35/WNGX-LP 42 (FamilyNet) - WCWN 45 (WB/CW) - W52DF 52/WTBY 54 (TBN) - WYPX 55 (i) - W58CX 58 (3ABN)
Local cable television channels
TW3 - EdgeTV/UPN4 (defunct) - TWTV7 - Capital News 9

 

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