WFME-TV
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| West Milford - Newark, New Jersey | |
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| Branding | WFME-TV 66 |
| Channels | Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 66 (PSIP) |
| Translators | WYBE 35.66, Philadelphia PA |
| Affiliations | religious independent |
| Owner | Family Radio (Family Stations of New Jersey, Inc.) |
| Founded | June 10, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | Where Faith Means Everything |
| Sister station(s) | WFME |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 66 (UHF, 1988-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 167 m |
| Facility ID | 20818 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°47′17.5″N 74°15′18.2″W / 40.788194°N 74.255056°WCoordinates: 40°47′17.5″N 74°15′18.2″W / 40.788194°N 74.255056°W |
| Website | http://www.wfme.net/ |
WFME-TV is a religious television station in West Milford, New Jersey, broadcasting ethnic and religious programming locally on digital channel 29 (virtual channel 66). The station is owned by Family Radio, a Christian broadcast ministry based in Oakland, California. WFME-TV's combined studio and transmitting facility is co-located with sister radio station WFME (94.7 FM) on Mount Pleasant Avenue in West Orange, New Jersey west of Interstate 280.
As WFME-TV carries the programming of noncommercial independent station WYBE from Philadelphia on their 66.4 subchannel, since May 2011 WYBE has reciprocated by carrying WFME's main programming over subchannel 35.66 in Philadelphia, further expanding the station's coverage area.
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[edit] Overview
WFME-TV's weekday schedule consists of a repeating three-hour program block: Open Forum with Harold Camping (a video broadcast of Family Radio's flagship program), The Joy of Music, and Alameda Bible Fellowship. In the evening they have a national newscast from ANC News at 6:00 p.m. At 6:30 the station carries a public affairs show aimed at Chinese Americans. Weekend programming is more varied, with Bible studies, educational children's programs, and public affairs, in addition to Open Forum and Joy of Music.
Initially, in 1996, WFME-TV carried the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod-produced drama series This is the Life, local Baptist and Christian Reformed church services and a few national televangelists. In 2002, after Family Radio founder Harold Camping declared that "the church age is over", these outside ministries disappeared. This is the Life was dropped in 2007.
[edit] Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Subchannel | Programming |
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| 66.1 | main WFME-TV programming |
| 66.2 | audio simulcast of WFME-FM |
| 66.3 | audio simulcast of KEAR |
| 66.4 | simulcast of WYBE Philadelphia (independent public broadcasting) |
| 66.5 | audio simulcast of Family Radio foreign language programming |
| 66.6 | audio simulcast of Radio Taiwan International |
| 66.7 | audio simulcast of NOAA weather radio from KWO35 |
WFME-TV had been one of the few stations that identified itself with its digital channel number (29.1, etc.) rather than its analog channel number (66.1, etc.). During the spring of 2009, the station returned to identifying as channel 66 via PSIP.
[edit] Analog-to-digital conversion
WFME-TV shut down its analog signal on February 17, 2009. [1] The station remained on its pre-transition channel 29, using PSIP to display its virtual channel as 66.[2]
[edit] See also
- WFME (FM)
- KFTL-CA (sister station in San Francisco, California)
- Family Radio
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