WXOB-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WXOB-LP
"(a Class-A station)"
station_| station_slogan = Your Neighborhood Station, Featuring Your Neighborhood Churches
station_branding = WXOB-LP TV17
analog = 17 (UHF)
digital =
affiliations = Religious Independent
founded = August 30, 1990
location = Richmond, Virginia
callsign_meaning = reversal of The BOX (former name of MTV2)
owner = KM Broadcasting
former_callsigns = W14BN (1990-1998)
homepage =
former_callsigns =
former_affiliations = Independent (1990-1998)
The Box (1998-2000)
MTV2 (2000-2002)
TBN (January 2004- ?)
effective_radiated_power = 131 kW

WXOB-LP is a low-power, religious independent television station in Richmond, Virginia, broadcasting locally on channel 17. The station is owned by KM Broadcasting of Annandale, Virginia, which should not be confused with KM Communications Inc..

The station is a Class-A operation, even though the calls still list it as a "-LP".

History

Founded on August 30, 1990, the station was launched as W14BN, presumably an independent television station. In 1998, the call signs were changed to WBOX, the station serving as a repeater affiliate for The Box music channel, which was later replaced by MTV2 in 2000. Originally broadcast on local channel 14, the channel was changed to channel 17 in 2002, during a process which also resulted in the station's accquisition by KM Broadcasting and the loss of MTV2's affiliation. Once KM's takeover was complete, the call signs were reversed from WBOX to WXOB. The station began to offer religious shows from around the Richmond area, as well as several surrounding cities. In 2004, the station carried the Trinity Broadcasting Network for a short time.

Programming

WXOB broadcasts religious shows originating from Richmond, as well as cities in the nearby Tidewater Region such as Virginia Beach and Newport News. The television evangelists featured are exclusively Protestant, some them preaching the controversial Word of Faith theology, and the vast majority of ministers seen on the channel are African-American. The station also offers three national religious programs. "Enjoying Everyday Life" with white female evangelist Joyce Meyer, "Amazing Facts" with Seventh-day Adventist Church evangelist Doug Batchelor and the "Shepherd's Chapel" with controversial pastor Arnold Murray, whose show is seen each weekday morning and weeknight, despite criticisms regarding Murray's theology and controversy over his alleged views on race. In the early weekday mornings, the station airs a children's show called "ImagineLand". The station's minuscule secular programming blocks includes programming from PBS affiliate WHRO-TV in Hampton Roads.

Logos

External links

* [http://richmond.vartv.com/ VARTV Richmond Homepage]
*TVQ|WXOB