WLXI-TV
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WLXI is a Christian television station licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...

 and serving the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point market. It is owned by Tri-State Christian Television
Tri-State Christian Television
Tri-State Christian Television is a network of eight religious television stations and their repeaters, mainly in the Midwest. TCT Network provides Christian programming such as teaching, preaching, family-based movies, music, documentaries, youth and children, live broadcasts and original content...

 and runs Christian-based programs for nearly the entire day.

It began operation in January 1984 as a general entertainment independent station running cartoons, movies, drama shows, westerns, music videos, and old sitcoms. Gradually it increased the amount of music videos and by the fall of 1985 it broadcast music videos the entire broadcast day.

In the beginning of 1986 it was sold to 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...

 and began running TBN programming the entire broadcast day. TBN often buys over-the-air stations so it can get must-carry status on cable systems, even though TBN airs almost no local programming. In 1991 it was sold to Tri State Christian TV. Its longtime association ended in April 2007 when TCT pulled TBN programming from its stations.

From 1993 until 2009, WLXI was seen on W18BG, a low-power translator station in Danville, Virginia
Danville, Virginia
Danville is an independent city in Virginia, United States, bounded by Pittsylvania County, Virginia and Caswell County, North Carolina. It was the last capital of the Confederate States of America. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Danville with Pittsylvania county for...

. In June of that year, this station was sold to Star News Corporation and ceased rebroadcast of WLXI.

Shortly after transitioning to digital broadcasting on June 12, 2009, WLXI ceased all references to Channel 61 in their broadcasts and changed their PSIP identifier to reflect their actual digital broadcast on Channel 43.
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