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{{Short description|Television station in Dalton, Georgia}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WELF-TV
| city                   = Dalton, Georgia
| logo                   =
| branding               = 
| analog                 = 
| digital                = 28 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 23
| subchannels            = 
| translators            = 
| affiliations           = {{TBN DTV/text|23}}
| network                = 
| country                = United States
| founded                = October 2, 1989
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1994|5|10|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| location               = {{ubl|[[Dalton, Georgia]]|[[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]}}
| callsign_meaning       = "With Everlasting Faith"
| former_callsigns       = WELF (1994–2003)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 23 (UHF, 1994–2009)|'''Digital:''' 16 (UHF, until 2020)}}
| owner                  = [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]]
| licensee               = Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.
| sister_stations        = 
| former_affiliations    = 
| erp                    = 475 kW
| haat                   = {{convert|413|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = 
| facility_id            = 60825
| coordinates            = {{nowrap|{{coord|34|49|23|N|85|25|6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.tbn.org/}} 
}}
'''WELF-TV''' (channel 23) is a [[religious television station]] licensed to [[Dalton, Georgia]], United States, serving the [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], area as an [[owned-and-operated station]] of the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]] (TBN). The station's transmitter is located on [[Georgia State Route 157|SR 157]] in [[unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated]] west-central [[Walker County, Georgia|Walker County]].

==History==
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The station began operations on May 10, 1994. It was built and signed on by Sonlight Broadcasting Systems, a broadcast ministry based in [[Mobile, Alabama]], and co-founded by television producer [[Paul Crouch Jr.]] and attorney and broadcaster [[Jay Sekulow]]. All of Sonlight's stations were affiliated with TBN, which was co-founded by Paul Crouch Jr.'s parents [[Paul Crouch|Paul Sr.]] and [[Jan Crouch|Jan]]. As a TBN affiliate, WELF carried most of the network's schedule while opting out at times to air alternate programming.

In 1997, WELF was sold, along with the rest of Sonlight's stations, to All American TV (not to be confused with [[All American Television|an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name]]), a minority-owned firm with close ties to TBN;<ref>{{cite news|title=Changing Hands|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/97-OCR/BC-1997-04-14-OCR-Page-0049.pdf|access-date=April 29, 2023|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|date=April 14, 1997|page=47}}</ref> the sale to All American made the station a full-fledged affiliate of the network. WELF became a TBN owned-and-operated station in 2000, when TBN purchased all of All American's stations.<ref>{{cite news|title=Changing Hands|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/00-OCR/BC-2000-03-27-OCR-Page-0106.pdf|access-date=April 29, 2023|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|date=March 27, 2000|page=74}}</ref>

==Technical information==
{{TBN DTV|23}}<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WELF#station RabbitEars TV Query for WELF]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.tbn.org/ Official website]

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{{Chattanooga TV}}
{{Other Tennessee Stations}}
{{Other Georgia Stations}}

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[[Category:1994 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Dalton, Georgia]]
[[Category:Merit TV affiliates]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1994]]
[[Category:Television stations in Chattanooga, Tennessee|ELF-TV]]
[[Category:Trinity Broadcasting Network stations]]

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