WFBD


WFBD is a religious television station licensed to Destin, Florida, United States, serving northwest Florida and southwest Alabama as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television. The station's primary transmitter is located near Wing, Alabama, north of the Alabama–Florida state line.
Due to its transmitter location, WFBD's signal covers the eastern half of the Pensacola–Mobile area and not Mobile proper. Therefore, in order to serve the western part of the market, the station is simulcast in high definition on the second digital subchannel of Fort Walton Beach–licensed WPAN from its transmitter near Molino, Florida.

History

The channel 48 frequency was previously used by former TV station WKAB-TV.
WFBD was formerly an affiliate of the America One television network, and a subscriber to the Independent News Network. It later switched to a format of local programming and infomercials.
On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell WFBD, along with sister stations KCWV in Duluth, Minnesota, WBIH in Selma, Alabama, and WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, to Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price. The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became owned-and-operated stations of the TCT network two days later, with WFBD becoming the fourth full-power religious station in the Pensacola–Mobile area.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgrammingNotes
48.1720p16:9WFBD HDTCTSimulcasts on WPAN 53.2
48.2480i16:9SBNSonlife
48.3480i16:9HEROESHeroes & Icons
48.4480i4:3STARTStart TV
48.5480i16:9BuzzrTVBuzzr
48.6480i16:9MOVIESMovies!
48.7480i16:9INFO CHInfomercials
48.8480i4:3.8 SOONComing Soon
48.9480i4:3ONTV4UOnTV4U
48.10480i16:9.10SOONComing Soon
48.11480i16:9GodTVGodTV