WPGD-TV (channel 50) is a

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licensed to

Hendersonville, Tennessee Hendersonville is the largest city in Sumner County, Tennessee, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 61,753 at the 2020 census. Hendersonville is the fourth-largest city in the Nashville metropolitan area after Nashville, Murfreesboro, ...

, United States, serving the Nashville area as an owned-and-operated station of the

Trinity Broadcasting Network The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is an international Christian-based broadcast television network and the world's largest religious television network. TBN was headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, until March 3, 2017, when it sold its ...

(TBN). The station's transmitter is located in

Whites Creek, Tennessee Whites Creek is an unincorporated community located near Nashville in the northern part of Davidson County, Tennessee. The community and nearby creek which travels north to south along US 431 were named after an early settler named White who was ...

, just off I-24 and Old Hickory Boulevard. Its studios are located at

Trinity Music City Trinity Music City, now called Huckabee Theater and formerly Twitty City, is an entertainment complex in Hendersonville, Tennessee. It was famous for its lavish Christmas decorations, and includes the Conway Twitty Mansion and Memorial Gardens. Si ...

on Music Village Boulevard in Hendersonville, which also acts as a host studio for several TBN programs and serves as a religious tourist attraction, in addition to its former role as the estate of the late

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artist Conway Twitty.

History

Although it was granted a construction permit on September 17, 1987, the station did not sign on the air until September 24, 1992 as Nashville's over-the-air outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which it has exclusively broadcast since sign-on. Its original analog transmitter was located along TN 109 in

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Sumner County between Portland and Gallatin. At one point during the 1990s, WPGD also operated a low-power

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, W36AK, serving Nashville proper due to the main transmitter's location, until it was discontinued at an unknown date.

Subchannels

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* {{Other Tennessee Stations Sumner County, Tennessee Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates PGD-TV 1992 establishments in Tennessee Television channels and stations established in 1992