WJYL-CA
Encyclopedia
WJYL-CA is a Class A station that serves the Louisville, Kentucky
market with Christian programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network
. It formerly broadcast on channel 5 as WVHF-CA. The station is licensed to Clarksville, Indiana
and is owned by Dominion Media, an arm of Celebration Harvest Church in Clarksville. Dominion Media also owns WWJS-CA (which had also been known as WJYL-CA in its past), an independent station which targets the Indiana side of the Louisville market.
The station was founded in 1986 as W05BA, and began airing a digital broadcast on channel 16 in February, 2009.
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
market with Christian programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network
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...
. It formerly broadcast on channel 5 as WVHF-CA. The station is licensed to Clarksville, Indiana
Clarksville, Indiana
Clarksville is a town in Clark County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River as a part of the Louisville Metropolitan area. The population was 21,724 at the 2010 census. The town, once a home site to George Rogers Clark, was founded in 1783 and is the oldest American town in the Northwest...
and is owned by Dominion Media, an arm of Celebration Harvest Church in Clarksville. Dominion Media also owns WWJS-CA (which had also been known as WJYL-CA in its past), an independent station which targets the Indiana side of the Louisville market.
The station was founded in 1986 as W05BA, and began airing a digital broadcast on channel 16 in February, 2009.
Callsign History
WJYL-CA has undergone several call-sign changes throughout its history, since its inception in 1985 (and first broadcasts, in 1986) as stated on the FCC information for WJYL-CD:- W05BA (May 28, 1985 - May 29, 1987)
- W05BE (May 29, 1987 - January 4, 2002)
- WVHF-LP (January 4, 2002 - July 6, 2004)
- WVHF-CA (July 6, 2004-July 10, 2008)
- WNDA-CA (July 10, 2008-January 22, 2009)
- WJYL-CA (January 22, 2009-Present)
- WJYL-CD (July 15, 2009-Present)