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WDLI-TV
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| WDLI-TV | |
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| Canton / Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Channels | 17 (UHF) analog, 39 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | TBN |
| Owner | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
| Founded | January 1, 1967 |
| Call letters meaning | W David Livingstone International(?) (previous owner, 1982-1986) |
| Former callsigns | WJAN-TV (1967-1983) |
| Transmitter Power | 437 kW(analog) 200 kW(digital) |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
WDLI-TV is a religious television station in Canton, Ohio, serving the Cleveland market on channel 17. WDLI-TV is an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
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WDLI signed on in 1967 as WJAN-TV, a local independent owned by Janson Industries, offering a typical slate of local and syndicated programming. In its early years, they broadcasted in black and white only, as they couldn't afford color equipment.
In August 1977, Janson sold WJAN to televangelist Jim Bakker, notorious founder of the PTL Club. Under Bakker, WJAN became a religious station, with its mostly-Christian schedule.
Bakker sold WJAN to the David Livingstone Missionary Foundation in December 1982; shortly afterward, its calls were changed to its current call letters, WDLI-TV.
Four years later, in March 1986, Livingstone sold WDLI to its present owners, the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks:
| Channel | Programming |
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| 17.1 | The local TBN channel (simulcasting the analog station) |
| 17.2 | The Church Channel |
| 17.3 | JCTV |
| 17.4 | Enlace USA |
| 17.5 | Smile of a Child |
The WDLI-DT digital signal is actually located in the western part of the Akron area, in order to better serve the entire Cleveland TV market. WDLI has applied to move its analog signal to the same location, though the application may not see approval due to the upcoming digital TV transition in 2009. At the transition, WDLI will retain its digital channel position of 39.
WDLI's analog signal is retransmitted on W52DS in Youngstown, as well as W51BI serving Geauga, Lake, and eastern Cuyahoga counties from a site in Kirtland.
- TBN website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WDLI
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W52DS
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W51BI
| Local television stations
WKYC 3 (NBC) - WEWS 5 (ABC) - WJW 8 (Fox) - WDLI 17 (TBN) - WOIO 19 (CBS) - WVPX 23 (ION) - WVIZ 25 (PBS) - WAOH 29 / W35AX 35 (A1) - WIVN 29 / WIVM 52 (A1) - W32AR 32 (TBN) - WRAP 32 (Corner) - |
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| See also: Broadcast television stations in the Detroit/Windsor, Toledo, Columbus, Ohio, Youngstown, Wheeling/Steubenville, Erie and London markets | |||
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