WBIH (channel 29) is a religious television station licensed to

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, United States, serving the Montgomery area as an

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of Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter is located in unincorporated western

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History

The station was founded in 2001. On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell WBIH, along with

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s KCWV in Duluth, Minnesota, WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, and WFBD in Destin, Florida, to Marion, Illinois-based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price. The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became

s of the TCT network two days later, with WBIH becoming the second religious television station in the Montgomery area. (Religious programming has been first offered by WMCF-TV when that station switched to the Trinity Broadcasting Network in 1986.)

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBIH shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 29, on May 22, 2006. The station "

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" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 29. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997. The station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.

References

External links

* Tri-State Christian Television affiliates Selma, Alabama Television channels and stations established in 2001 BIH 2001 establishments in Alabama {{Alabama-tv-station-stub