WWRS-TV is a religious television station in Mayville, Wisconsin, serving the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Madison,Wisconsin markets as an affiliate of TBN on channel 52. The station's signal covers much of south eastern and south central Wisconsin, along with extended cable coverage through the area. The network is also broadcast on W38CT in Madison; however that station repeats TBN's national satellite feed and not WWRS, and predates Channel 52 by two years.
The station is owned by National Minority Television, a division of TBN used for ownership purposes. The station primarily carries the TBN satellite feed, and also required local public affairs programming (On Wisconsin and Public Report) from their main studio facilities in nearby Iron Ridge. The station also airs church services from throughout the area, usually on Sunday morning.
Charter Communications, the dominant cable provider in the Madison area, and several communities in the Milwaukee area, have added TBN and all of its digital subchannels (except Enlace USA) to its systems in the area beginning in late August 2007, within the provider's digital family tier of channels [1]. However, the signal comes directly via satellite to Charter's headend, not through WWRS.
Digital services
This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks:
Must-Carry
In 2002, a dispute arose between Time Warner Cable and WWRS regarding must-carry regulations. Must-carry regulations require cable TV systems within the Grade B contour of a full-power, full service TV station to carry that station on the basic cable tier. When the dispute was settled, the FCC judged that the station was not required to be carried on the cable systems in the more distant counties of Kenosha, Racine, and Walworth. However, WWRS was able to exercise must-carry to the Time Warner Cable lineup in southeastern Wisconsin. This, combined with the lack of available channel space, caused the forced move of Madison's PBS/Wisconsin Public Television flagship station WHA-TV (Channel 21) to the digital cable tier in order to air WWRS on the basic cable tier. [2]
No action has been taken in Madison Where TBN is already on Charter Digital Cable.
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Broadcast television in the Milwaukee market (Nielsen DMA #34) |
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WTMJ 4 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WITI 6 (FOX) - WMKE-CA 7 (A1) - WMVS 10 (PBS/MPTV, World on DT1, V-me on DT2, Kids on DT3, Create on DT4, NOAA WX info/WisDOT traffic on DT5-8) - WISN 12 (ABC) - WVTV 18 (The CW) - WCGV 24 (MNTV) - W29DJ 29 (UNK) - WVCY 30 (FN) - WMVT 36 (PBS/MPTV, WMVS-HD on DT1) - WBWT-LP 38 (AZA) - WMLW-CA 41 (IND) - WBME 49 (MeTV) - WWRS 52 (TBN, Church on DT2, JCTV on DT3, Enlace on DT4, SoaC on DT5) - WPXE 55 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - WDJT 58 (CBS, WMLW on DT2, WBME on DT3) - WYTU-LP 63 (TMD)
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Wisconsin broadcast television markets: Eau Claire • Green Bay • Madison • Marquette, MI • Milwaukee • Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN • Superior/Duluth, MN • Wausau
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