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WLFG, virtual channel 68 (UHF digital channel 49), is a religious independent station licensed to Grundy, Virginia, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area of northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. The station is owned by Abingdon, Virginia-based Living Faith Ministries. WLFG's transmitter is located near Hansonville, Virginia.

WLFG's programming is relayed on two satellite stations: WAGV (virtual channel 44) in Harlan, Kentucky (which shares transmitter facilities with WLFG) and WLFB (virtual and UHF digital channel 40) in Bluefield, West Virginia (with transmitter atop East River Mountain, south of Bluefield, Virginia). WAGV was the first to broadcast exclusively in digital following a malfunction at its analog transmitter.

Programming

The programming is mostly other ministries that purchase air time, along with some infomercials. Original programming is spread throughout the broadcast day with the flagship program Living Faith Now! (formerly From These Hills) along with Sing Time, Fred Schmidt, Life Begins at Calvary a program produced by Calvary Church of the Tri-Cities and other programs.

History

Living Faith Television was founded by Rev. Buford Smith who claimed that God had given him a vision to build a TV station in Virginia. The station grew from the original station in Grundy to include the other three transmitters.

Rev. Smith was Pastor of Tookland Pentecostal Church in Grundy until his death in May 2003. His son, Michael Smith, was President of the station until Buford Smith's death, when he became President and CEO of Living Faith Television.

Tookland Pentecostal Church was a major financier to the founding of the station and broke most ties with the station after the station declared its independence in 2006.

Living Faith Television is now under the control the board of Living Faith Television, with Mike Smith as President and CEO and wife Lisa Smith as CFO. Other personalities are Mary Smith (wife of the late Buford Smith), Laverne Tripp and Fred Schmidt, among others.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WLFG shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 68, in May 2007. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 68, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

Satellite stations

Out-of-market cable carriage

In recent years, WLFG has been carried on cable in multiple areas outside of the Tri-Cities media market. That includes cable systems within the Charleston, WV market in Kentucky and the Charlotte and Greensboro markets in North Carolina. According to Zap2it, WLFG has been carried on cable in College Grove, Tennessee, which is within the Nashville market.

Much of the southeastern portion of the Lexington, Kentucky media market can pick up WAGV's signal. WLFG/WAGV is also available on TVS cable in the Hazard, Kentucky area, and much of Knott and Perry Counties, along with the Floyd County community of Wayland. Time Warner Cable customers in the Hazard area can also view WLFG/WAGV on TWC cable 5.

References

1. "FCC Form 387, Exhibit 3: Updated DTV Status Report". FCC Database. 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
2. RabbitEars TV Query for WLFG
3. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-2236A1.pdf
4. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
5. Suddenlink Cable Channel lineup for Pikeville, Kentucky. Suddenlink Communications. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
6. Inter-Mountain Cable: Channel Lineup for Floyd and Pike Counties, Kentucky
7. http://svtvstations.webs.com/svtvstations.htm
8. http://www.skybesttv.com/clp_digital_basic.php
9. http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=37046&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=TN68058:-
10. TVS Cable - Channel Lineup
11. TVS Cable - Coverage Area

External links

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