WWRS-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WWRS-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 52 (UHF)
digital = 43 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = TBN
network =
founded =
airdate = 1997
location = Mayville/Milwaukee/Madison, Wisconsin
callsign_meaning = Wayne R. Stenz
(part of original ownership group)
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = National Minority Television, Inc.
"(a subsidiary of Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc.)"
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 5000 kW (analog)
300 kW (digital)
HAAT = 202 m (analog)
186 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 68547
coordinates = coord|43|26|11.3|N|88|31|33.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.tbn.org/ www.tbn.org]

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 channel 52. 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 is owned by National Minority Television, a division of TBN used for ownership purposes. The station primarily carries the TBN satellite feed, and also required local public affairs programming ("On Wisconsin" and "Public Report") from their main studio facilities in nearby Iron Ridge. The station also airs church services from throughout the area, usually on Sunday 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 [http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/biz/index.php?ntid=202840&ntpid=1] . However, the signal comes directly via satellite to Charter's headend, not through WWRS.

Must-Carry

In 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 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. [http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:eOypflXyNvQJ:hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-02-1244A1.pdf+WWRS-tv]

ee also

*KNMT, also owned by NMTV

External links

* [http://www.nmtv.org/ NMTV Site (redirects to tbn.org)]
* [http://www.tbn.org/ TBN Official site]
* [http://www.milwaukee-horror-hosts.com/MilwTV.html History of Milwaukee television]
*TVQ|WWRS-TV
*BIA|WWRS|TV|TV