W39CO
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W39CO is the TBN
affiliate in the Richmond, Virginia
television market on channel 39. It is owned by Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, Inc.
The station has been the affiliate of TBN since it signed on in 2002.
TBN took W39CO silent April 13, 2010 due to declining support, which has been attributed to the digital transition. While the request for suspension is open with the FCC, the station has returned to the air (as of late July 2010).
(end analog transmission and immediately began digital transmission on the same channel) the low-power analog translator for the station. The FCC has given the station until May 12, 2009 to complete the flash cut. The station has not begun digital broadcasting and continued to transmit an analog signal until going silent.
Trinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...
affiliate in the Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
television market on channel 39. It is owned by Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, Inc.
The station has been the affiliate of TBN since it signed on in 2002.
TBN took W39CO silent April 13, 2010 due to declining support, which has been attributed to the digital transition. While the request for suspension is open with the FCC, the station has returned to the air (as of late July 2010).
Digital television
In May 2006, the FCC granted National Minority TV (a former TBN subsidiary that owned the station at the time)'s request for permission to digital flash-cutFlash-cut
A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...
(end analog transmission and immediately began digital transmission on the same channel) the low-power analog translator for the station. The FCC has given the station until May 12, 2009 to complete the flash cut. The station has not begun digital broadcasting and continued to transmit an analog signal until going silent.