City Bloomington, Indiana | Affiliations TBN | |
Branding Trinity Broadcasting Network Channels Digital: 42 (UHF)
Virtual: 42 (PSIP) Subchannels 42.1 - TBN
42.2 - Hillsong Channel
42.3 - JUCE TV/Smile
42.4 - Enlace
42.5 - TBN Salsa Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc.
(Trinity Broadcasting of Indiana, Inc.) | ||
WCLJ-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 42, is a TBN owned-and-operated television station located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States that is licensed to Bloomington. The station is owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. WCLJ-TV maintains studio facilities on U.S. 31 South in Greenwood, and its transmitter is located on County Road 50 in rural southwestern Johnson County (due southeast of Trafalgar). On cable, WCLJ is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 2, Charter Spectrum channel 15 and AT&T U-verse channel 42.
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History
The station first signed on the air on August 27, 1987 and was built and signed on by the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Digital television
This station's digital signal, like most other full-service TBN owned-and-operated stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
On June 1, 2015, JUCE and Smile of a Child were consolidated into a single network on the third subchannel to accommodate the addition of a new network, TBN Salsa, on the fifth subchannel where Smile of a Child used to reside. As a result of the change, children's programming that previously aired on Smile of a Child airs on 42.3 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Analog-to-digital conversion
WCLJ-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 42, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 56, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era frequency, UHF channel 42.