WLFG

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WLFG (channel 68) is a religious independent station licensed to Grundy, Virginia, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area of southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. The station is owned by Abingdon, Virginia–based Living Faith Television. WLFG broadcasts from a two-site distributed transmission system, with transmitters near Hansonville, Virginia, and Harlan, Kentucky.

The station's programming is relayed on two satellite stations: WAGV (channel 68) in Harlan (which shares transmitter facilities with WLFG) and WLFB (channel 40) in Bluefield, West Virginia (with transmitter atop East River Mountain, south of Bluefield, Virginia). WAGV was the first to broadcast exclusively in digital following a malfunction at its analog transmitter.[1]

History

Living Faith Television was founded by The Reverend Buford Smith who stated that God had given him a vision to build a TV station in Virginia.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The station grew from the original station in Grundy to include the other two transmitters.

Rev. Smith was pastor of Tookland Pentecostal Church in Grundy until his death in May 2003. His son, Michael Smith, was president of the station until Buford Smith's death, when he became president and CEO of Living Faith Television.

Tookland Pentecostal Church was a major financier when the station was founded; it broke most of its ties with the station after it declared its independence in 2006.

Living Faith Television is now under the control of its board of directors, with Mike Smith as president and CEO and wife Lisa Smith as CFO. Other personalities are Mary Smith (wife of the late Buford Smith), Laverne Tripp and Fred Schmidt, among others.

Programming

The station's programming consists mostly of content by other ministries that purchase air time, along with some infomercials. Original programming is spread throughout the broadcast day by the flagship program Living Faith Now! (formerly From These Hills), along with Sing Time, Fred Schmidt, and Life Begins at Calvary, a program produced by Calvary Church of the Tri-Cities, and other programs.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WLFG[2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
68.1 480i 4:3 WLFG-DT Main WLFG programming
68.2 16:9 Defy Defy TV
68.3 4:3 ION Ion Television
68.4 TruReal [Blank]
68.5 16:9 GEB GEB Network
68.6 4:3 Buzzr Buzzr
68.7 16:9 QVC QVC
68.8 Quest Quest
68.9 4:3 Twist Twist
68.10 16:9 Decades Catchy Comedy
68.11 4:3 GetTv getTV
68.12 Scripps News
68.13 16:9 TheGrio TheGrio

Analog-to-digital conversion

WLFG shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 68, in May 2007.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49,[4] using virtual channel 68.

Satellite stations

Station City of license Channels
(RF / VC) 		First air date ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates Public license information
WAGV Harlan, Kentucky 14 (UHF)
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68 		August 1999; Template:Years or months ago (1999-Error: Invalid time.)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
(on analog channel 44)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		DTS1: 479 kW
DTS2: 0.1 kW 		DTS1: Script error: No such module "convert".
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WLFB Bluefield, West Virginia 25 (UHF)
40 		November 2, 2000; Template:Time ago (2000-Error: Invalid time.-02)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 300 kW (STA)
734 kW (CP) 		Script error: No such module "convert". (STA)
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References

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External links

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