WGTW-TV
Burlington, New Jersey - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Channels	Analog: 48 (UHF) Digital: 27 (UHF)
Translators	W60CX Atlantic City N.J.
Affiliations	TBN
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (TCCSA, Inc. See also Burlington Township New Jersey Burlington is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and The Trinity Broadcasting Network ( TBN) is a Christian television network headquartered in Costa Mesa California with studios in Irving Texas Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property The Trinity Broadcasting Network ( TBN) is a Christian television network headquartered in Costa Mesa California with studios in Irving Texas , d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network)
Founded	August 13, 1992
Call letters’ meaning	We're Great Television to Watch
Former affiliations	Independent (1992-2004)
Transmitter Power	2340 kW (analog) 160 kW (digital)
Height	335 m (analog) 354 m (digital)
Facility ID	7623
Transmitter Coordinates	40°2′34.4″N, 75°14′31.6″W (analog) 40°2′30.1″N, 75°14′10″W (digital)
Website	www.tbn.org

WGTW-TV, channel 48, is a Trinity Broadcasting Network-owned and operated television station licensed to Burlington, New Jersey, and serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Events 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation the start of the Maya calendar. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The Trinity Broadcasting Network ( TBN) is a Christian television network headquartered in Costa Mesa California with studios in Irving Texas See also Burlington Township New Jersey Burlington is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə With studios in the Manayunk neighborhood of North Philadelphia, and transmitter in the nearby Roxborough section, its signal covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Manayunk is a neighborhood in the northwestern section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Roxborough is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Delaware ( is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

History

Channel 48 was once the home of WKBS-TV, which operated from 1965 until 1983, when owner Field Communications voluntarily took the station off-the-air and returned its license to the Federal Communications Commission. WKBS-TV was an independent television station licensed to Burlington New Jersey, which served the Philadelphia Pennsylvania area from 1965 to 1983 Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News Several years later, the FCC put channel 48's license back up for auction. Among those bidding on the license were Dorothy Brunson, an African-American woman who previously worked in radio; and Cornerstone Television, a Christian television network based in Pittsburgh. Dorothy E Brunson (1939 -) was the first African-American female to own a radio station in 1979 WEBB in Baltimore Maryland. For the American Infomercial channel see Corner Store TV. Cornerstone TeleVision Network is a small religious After a two-year process, the auction ended with Brunson winning the license. Cornerstone had, during the interim, purchased channel 48's transmitter, moved it to Altoona, and used it to sign on a new station in 1985 on channel 47, ironically enough under the WKBS-TV call letters. Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The call sign WKBS-TV was formerly used for an independent station in Philadelphia Pennsylvania; for that station please see WKBS-TV (Philadelphia

A WGTW-TV logo, circa 2003 (taken from the station's now-defunct website).

Channel 48 signed back on the air on August 15, 1992, under the call letters WGTW-TV, an independent station. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not Initially the station ran public domain movies, infomercials (including religious programs), and home-shopping programs. By 1994, WGTW had a larger variety of programming, including off-network series, first-run syndicated shows, and children's programs. The station also aired NBC daytime programs that were pre-empted by then-affiliate KYW-TV. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's KYW-TV, channel 3 is a television station in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, owned by the CBS Corporation and affiliated with the CBS Television Network. However, by 2001, many of WGTW's classic shows were no longer available, and the financial restraints of ownership made the station unable to acquire better syndicated programming. As a result WGTW moved to more paid programming but still retained some general entertainment programs.

In 2004, Brunson sold the station to the Trinity Broadcasting Network and on October 1 of that year, the station switched to TBN programming. The Trinity Broadcasting Network ( TBN) is a Christian television network headquartered in Costa Mesa California with studios in Irving Texas Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. TBN is known for purchasing television stations so that the network could get must-carry status on area cable systems, despite offering almost no local programming. In Cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally-licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system However, WGTW (like all TBN stations) does broadcast two hours of original local programming weekly: a public-affairs show called Joy in Our Town and a local version of Praise the Lord, TBN's flagship program.

WKBS/WGTW License facts conflict

WGTW operates under the same allocation, but not the same license, as WKBS-TV. It has been argued about the link between the license for WKBS-TV and WGTW. Articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News from over the years stated that Brunson did indeed purchase the same license that WKBS-TV vacated from the FCC. The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily Newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United The Philadelphia Daily News is a Tabloid newspaper that began publishing on March 31, 1925, under founding editor Lee Ellmaker (The archives of these articles can be found at http://www.philly.com , however, there is a subscription fee). However, the current channel 48 license is a new construction permit, dating from July 14, 1988. Events 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II of France.

As far back as when Field announced that WKBS was going dark, it was mentioned in several Inquirer articles that six months after the station went dark the license would be put up for auction, though with a preference to minority groups, so it was a foregone conclusion that channel 48 would return to the air in some form in the future.

News operation

In 2002, WGTW launched an hour-long news and public affairs show, known as 48 Update, which aired weeknights at 7:00 p. m. . The final edition of 48 Update aired on October 1, 2004, one hour before the station switched to TBN programming.

Digital services

This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks:

External links

• TBN Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WGTW-TV