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{{Short description|Television station in Montgomery, Alabama}}
{{distinguish|WNCF}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WMCF-TV
| city                   =
| logo                   = 
| analog                 = 
| digital                = 28 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 45
| subchannels            = 
| translators            = 
| affiliations           = {{TBN DTV/text|45}}
| network                = 
| country                = United States
| founded                = 
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1985|p=y}}{{efn|The ''Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook'' says October 12, while the ''Television and Cable Factbook'' says November 25.}}
| last_airdate           = 
| location               = [[Montgomery, Alabama]]
| callsign_meaning       = 
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 45 (UHF, 1985–2009)|'''Digital:''' 46 (UHF, 2006–2020)}}
| owner                  = [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]]
| licensee               = Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.
| sister_stations        = [[WTJP-TV]], [[WMPV-TV]], [[WHSG-TV]]
| former_affiliations    = [[Independent station|Independent]] (1985–1990)
| erp                    = 725 kW
| haat                   = {{convert|130|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = 
| facility_id            = 60829
| coordinates            = {{coord|32|24|13|N|86|11|49|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.tbn.org/}} 
}}

'''WMCF-TV''' (channel 45) is a [[religious television station]] in [[Montgomery, Alabama]], United States, [[owned and operated]] by the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]] (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 [[Federal Communications Commission]] (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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://charismamag.com/blogs/the-strang-report/how-trump-s-new-regulation-cuts-will-save-tbn-20-million-a-year-for-gospel-purposes/|work=[[Charisma (magazine)|Charisma]]|first=Steve|last=Strang|date=July 15, 2019|title=How Trump's New Regulation Cuts Will Save TBN $20 Million a Year for Gospel Purposes|access-date=March 8, 2023|archive-date=August 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812185214/https://charismamag.com/blogs/the-strang-report/how-trump-s-new-regulation-cuts-will-save-tbn-20-million-a-year-for-gospel-purposes/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==History==
WMCF-TV was signed-on in 1985 by Word of God Fellowship, Inc., the future parent organization of the [[Daystar Television Network]]. 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, Alabama|Mobile]];<ref>{{cite news|title=For the record–Ownership changes|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/90-OCR/BC-1990-08-27-OCR-Page-0061.pdf|access-date=April 29, 2023|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|date=August 27, 1990|page=69}}</ref> and in 1997 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, who already owned [[WTJP-TV]] in [[Gadsden, Alabama|Gadsden]].<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> 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.<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>

==Subchannels==
{{TBN DTV|45}}<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WMCF#station RabbitEars TV Query for WMCF]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 45.

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

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{{Montgomery TV}}
{{Other Alabama Stations}}

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[[Category:Merit TV affiliates]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1985]]
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[[Category:Trinity Broadcasting Network stations]]

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