WWRS-TV
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WWRS-TV is a religious television station in Mayville, Wisconsin, serving the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Madison,Wisconsin markets as an affiliate of TBN on digital channel 43. The station's signal covers much of south eastern and south central Wisconsin, along with extended cable coverage through the area. The network is also broadcast on W38CT in Madison; however that station repeats TBN's national satellite feed and not WWRS, and predates Channel 52 by two years.
The station's ownership was formerly National Minority Television, which was a division of TBN used for ownership purposes; in mid-2008 the station became directly owned under TBN's main licensing name. The station primarily carries the TBN satellite feed, and also required local public affairs programming (Public Report) from their main studio facilities in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The station also airs church services from throughout the area, usually on Friday morning.
Charter Communications, the dominant cable provider in the Madison area, and several communities in the Milwaukee area, have added TBN and all of its digital subchannels (except Enlace USA) to its systems in the area beginning in late August 2007, within the provider's digital family tier of channels [1]. However, the signal comes directly via satellite to Charter's headend, not through WWRS.
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | Main TBN programming |
| 52.2 | Merit | Merit Street Media | ||
| 52.3 | 480i | 4:3 | Inspire | TBN Inspire |
| 52.4 | 16:9 | SMILE | Smile | |
| 52.5 | POSITIV | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
Must-carry
On April 1, 2002, a dispute arose between Time Warner Cable and WWRS regarding must-carry regulations. Must-carry regulations require cable TV systems within the Grade B contour of a full-power, full service TV station to carry that station on the basic cable tier. When the dispute was settled, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) judged that the station was not required to be carried on the cable systems in the more distant counties of Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth. However, WWRS was able to exercise must-carry to the Time Warner Cable lineup in southeastern Wisconsin. This, combined with the lack of available channel space, caused the forced move of Madison's PBS/Wisconsin Public Television flagship station WHA-TV (Channel 21) to the digital cable tier in order to air WWRS on the basic cable tier. [2]
References
External links
- TBN Official site
- TBN.org/publicfile/WWRS/ (WWRS's public file)
- History of Milwaukee television
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