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{{Short description|Television station in Gadsden, Alabama}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WTJP-TV
| city                   = Gadsden, Alabama
| image                  =
| caption                = 
| branding               = 
| digital                = 26 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 60
| affiliations           = {{TBN DTV/text|60}}
| network                = 
| owner                  = [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]]
| licensee               = Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.
| location               = [[Gadsden, Alabama|Gadsden]]–[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
| country                = United States
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1986|7|22|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = 
| sister_stations        = 
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 60 (UHF, 1986–2009)
| former_affiliations    = 
| erp                    = 1,000 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|329|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 1002
| coordinates            = {{coord|33|48|53|N|86|26|55|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.tbn.org/}} 
}}

'''WTJP-TV''' (channel 60) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Gadsden, Alabama]], United States, serving the [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] area as an [[owned-and-operated station]] of the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]] (TBN). The station's transmitter is located on Blount Mountain near [[Springville, Alabama]].

The station formerly operated from a studio located on Rosedale Avenue in Gadsden. 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 WTJP-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==
The station first signed on the air on July 22, 1986, and was built and signed on by 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 the Trinity Broadcasting Network; all of All American's stations were TBN affiliates. TBN acquired the All American group outright, including WTJP, in 2000.<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==
===Subchannels===
{{TBN-DTV|60}}<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WTJP#station RabbitEars TV Query for WTJP]</ref>

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WTJP-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 60, on April 16, 2009, ahead of the official June 12 date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition 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,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |format=PDF |accessdate=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]] 60.

===Former translators===
WTJP-TV's signal was formerly relayed on [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] [[Broadcast relay station#Translator stations|translator stations]] W51BY (channel 51) in [[Jasper, Alabama|Jasper]] and [[WSWH-LD|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.<ref name="fcc-w46budark">{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1369218&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=1008|title=Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA|date=May 14, 2010|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=May 17, 2010}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{URL|https://www.tbn.org/|TBN website}}

{{Birmingham TV}}
{{Other Alabama Stations}}
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