WMCF-TV (channel 45) is a religious television station in

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, United States,

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by the

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(TBN). The station's transmitter is located near Sevenmile Creek, on the east side of Montgomery. The station formerly operated from a studio located on Mendel Parkway West in Montgomery. That facility was one of several closed by TBN in 2019 following the

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(FCC)'s repeal of the "Main Studio Rule", which required full-service television stations like WMCF-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.

History

WMCF-TV was signed-on in 1985 by Word of God Fellowship, Inc., the future parent organization of the

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. It has broadcast Christian television programs for the entirety of its existence, and this continued following subsequent sales of the station: in 1990 to Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, which owned WMPV-TV in Mobile; and in 1997 to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), a minority-owned firm with close ties to TBN, who already owned WTJP-TV in Gadsden. WMCF had been airing many TBN programs, and the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network. WMCF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46, using

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45.

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External links

Official website
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