WFME-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WFME-TV
station_
station_branding = WFME 29
"(digital RF channel)"
analog = 66 (UHF)
digital = 29 (UHF)
affiliations = religious independent
founded = 1996
location = West Milford - Newark, New Jersey
callsign_meaning = Where Faith Means Everything
owner = Family Radio
licensee = Family Stations of New Jersey, Inc.
sister_stations = WFME
effective_radiated_power = 24 kW (analog)
200 kW (digital)
HAAT = 217 m (analog)
167 m (digital)
facility_id = 20818
coordinates = coord|41|7|17.5|N|74|12|0.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|40|47|17.5|N|74|15|18.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.wfme-tv.com/ www.wfme-tv.com]

WFME-TV is a religious television station in West Milford, New Jersey, broadcasting ethnic and religious programming locally on analog channel 66 and digital channel 29. The station is owned by Family Radio, a Christian broadcast ministry based in Oakland, California. WFME-TV's executive offices are co-located with sister radio station WFME (94.7 MHz.) in West Orange, New Jersey.

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 was over", these outside ministries disappeared. "This is the Life" was dropped in 2007.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

WFME-DT is one of the few stations that IDs with its digital channel number (29.1, etc) rather than its analog channel number (66.1, etc).

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , WFME-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 29. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101234623&formid=387&fac_num=20818 CDBS Print ] ]

See also

* WFME (FM)
* Family Radio

References

External links

* [http://www.familyradio.com/ Family Radio]
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