W66BV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = W66BV
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = TBN
analog = 66 (UHF)
digital = 47 (UHF Allocation)
affiliations = TBN
founded = unknown; early-1980s
location = Detroit, Michigan
callsign_meaning = "(translator calls randomly-assigned by the FCC)"
former_callsigns = K66BV (1980s)
owner = TBN
former_affiliations = SIN / Univision (1980s-early 1990s)
effective_radiated_power = 19.7kw
homepage = [http://www.tbn.org/ www.tbn.org]

W66BV is a TBN satellite station for Detroit. All programming is delivered directly from TBN's national satellite feed.

The station broadcasts at 19.7kw with a directional antenna, from a tower located at the Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit. The signal should be seen throughout the city of Detroit and the nearby Windsor area.

The station initially signed on sometime in the early 1980s as a SIN affiliate owned by Washington, DC-based Los Cerezos Television, first with the calls "K66BV", later switched to "W66BV". The station folded in the early-1990s. Shortly after its closedown, the transmitter and license was sold to TBN, in which, shortly afterward, returned to the air as a full-time repeater of TBN's national feed.

In February 2006, the station was granted a construction permit to begin converting operations to digital television. Upon completion, the station will become a digital repeater of TBN, broadcasting all five TBN services at 10 kW. The station has also been approved for relocation to channel 47 -- this is due to channels 53 to 69 being phased out of television broadcasting.

Neither Comcast Detroit, Bright House Livonia nor Cogeco Windsor has W66BV in their line-ups; however, the national feed can be seen part-time on Comcast channel 70 from 2PM to 2AM (shared with The Inspiration Network), and full-time on digital channel 290; and on Bright House digital channel 116.

External links

*TVQ|W66BV