WBIH


WBIH, virtual and UHF digital channel 29, is a Walk TV-affiliated television station serving Montgomery, Alabama, United States that is licensed to Selma. The station is owned by Flinn Broadcasting Corporation. WBIH's studios are located on Memorial Drive in Prattville, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated western Autauga County.

History

The station was founded in 2001.
On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell WBIH, along with sister stations KCWV in Duluth, Minnesota, WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, and WFBD in Destin, Florida, to Marion, Illinois-based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price pending Federal Communications Commission approval; once the sale closes, the station would become an owned-and-operated station of the TCT network and the second religious television station in the Montgomery area.

Digital television

Digital channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBIH shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on May 22, 2006. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 29. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997. The station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.

Programming

WBIH broadcasts primarily religious and family-oriented programming.