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Subchannels 60.1 - TBN60.2 - Hillsong Channel60.3 - JUCE TV/Smile60.4 - Enlace60.5 - TBN Salsa Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network(TCCSA, Inc., d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network) | ||
WTJP-TV, virtual channel 60 (UHF digital channel 26), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station serving Birmingham, Alabama, United States that is licensed to Gadsden. The station is owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. WTJP maintains studio facilities and offices located on Rosedale Street in Gadsden, and its transmitter is located near Springville. The station is also available on Charter Spectrum channel 10 (Alabama Public Television outlet WBIQ-TV, which broadcasts on VHF channel 10 over-the-air, is instead carried on cable channel 11) (in outlying areas, its carried on channel 13; WVTM, which broadcasts over-the-air, is carried on channel 5) and is also carried on most other cable providers in the Birmingham market.
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The station's signal was formerly relayed on low-power translator stations W51BY (channel 51) in Jasper and W46BU (channel 46) in Tuscaloosa; the latter station went silent on April 13, 2010 due to declining support, which was attributed to the digital transition.
History
The station first signed on the air on July 22, 1986, 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.
Analog-to-digital conversion
WTJP-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 60, 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 remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 60, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.