Christian Broadcasting Network - Former Broadcast Stations

Former Broadcast Stations

At one time, CBN owned a number of radio and television stations, including the following:

• WYAH-TV (channel 27) in Portsmouth, Virginia was CBN's first station and the group's flagship outlet, purchased by Robertson in 1960. WYAH began operations under CBN ownership in October 1961 and was owned by CBN until 1989. It is currently WGNT, affiliated with the CW Television Network and owned by Local TV, who also owns CBS affiliate WTKR in the same market.

• WHAE-TV (channel 46) in Atlanta, Georgia was CBN's second television station, launched by the ministry in June 1971. CBN changed the station's call letters to WANX-TV in 1977, and sold the outlet in 1984 to the Tribune Company, who renamed the station WGNX. Today it operates as WGCL-TV, a CBS affiliate owned by the Meredith Corporation.

• In January 1973 CBN purchased KBFI-TV (channel 33) in Dallas, Texas and changed its calls to KXTX-TV. Four months later, a station license trade resulted in CBN moving KXTX-TV to channel 39. KXTX was CBN's last station property when it was sold to LIN Broadcasting in 2000. Currently KXTX is owned by NBCUniversal with duopoly partner KXAS-TV and is an owned-and-operated station of Spanish-language network Telemundo.

• WXNE-TV (channel 25) in Boston was CBN's fourth station, commencing operations in October 1977. CBN sold WXNE to the News Corporation in January 1987 and it was converted into WFXT, an owned-and-operated station of the Fox Broadcasting Company.

• CBN planned to build a station on channel 63 in Richmond, Virginia, with the call sign WRNX. The station never made it to air under CBN ownership, as its construction permit was sold in 1983 to a Christian broadcaster and signed on that year as WTLL. That station was eventually sold and in 1986 became WVRN with a secular schedule. The station itself operated for only five years.

• CBN operated WXRI (now WMOV-FM), a Christian-formatted FM radio station in Norfolk, Virginia, from 1962 until 1989.

• From 1969 to 1982 CBN also owned a simulcast network of five FM radio stations in upstate New York originally set up in 1948 by a farming cooperative as the Rural Radio Network, known as CBN Northeast. These stations included WBIV in Wethersfield, New York, WEIV in Ithaca, New York, WJIV in Cherry Valley, New York, WMIV in South Bristol, New York, and WOIV in DeRuyter, New York. This station group was split up following CBN's sale of the licenses to separate owners.