WMCN-TV
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| Atlantic City, New Jersey | |
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| Branding | Get It On TV Philadelphia |
| Slogan | Your Independent Infomercial Marketing Station |
| Channels | Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 53 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 53.1 Independent 53.2 Bounce TV |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Owner | Lenfest Broadcasting, LLC |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Call letters' meaning | Market Connect Network |
| Former callsigns | WWAC-TV (1981-2003) |
| Former channel number(s) | 53 (analog, 1981-2000s) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 212 m |
| Facility ID | 9739 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′43.6″N 74°50′39.6″W / 39.728778°N 74.844333°W |
| Website | getitontvphilly.com |
WMCN-TV is an independent television station licensed in Atlantic City, New Jersey serving the Philadelphia DMA, broadcasting regionally on digital channel 44. It is also carried throughout the market by DirecTV, Dish Network, Verizon FiOS, and most Comcast cable systems. WMCN claims to reach about 2.6 million homes.
The station has been recently rebranded as "Get It On TV Philadelphia" to reflect its target audience as the entire market, not just Atlantic City. Most of the station's programming consists of infomercials. Many of the infomercials are for local companies and are produced by WMCN. The remainder of WMCN's schedule is filled with several hours per week of regional faith-based telecasts as well as children's and community interest programming.
[edit] History
Founded May 29, 1981, the station is owned by Lenfest Broadcasting, LLC. As WWAC-TV, the station formerly broadcast on analog channel 53.[1] WMCN was the first television station in the nation to get permission to drop their analog signal. The move to digital channel 44 was intended to provide better signal coverage of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area from a new transmitter location which would qualify for must-carry status on cable television in that community.
WMCN is also carried on basic analog cable in Ocean County, NJ (part of the New York City TV market) on channel 27.[2]
In 2011, WMCN became the official home of the Philadelphia Soul, broadcasting a majority of their regular season games on the station.[3] It was announced on August 22 that WMCN would carry Bounce-TV on one of its channels starting September 26, 2011.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ FCC grants Atlantic City station WWAC-TV request to turn off NTSC, Broadcast Engineering, October 11, 2002
- ^ FCC Allows Early Analog Shutoff, TV Technology NewsBytes, October 10, 2002
- ^ WMCN Channel 44 to carry Philadelphia Soul games, Philadelphia Business Journal, March 31, 2011
- ^ http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/bounce-tv-adds-2-cities-ahead-of-launch/
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WMCN-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WMCN-TV
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