WTGL

WTGL is a religious television station serving Orlando, Florida, licensed to nearby Leesburg, with studios in Lake Mary. Broadcasting as Good Life 45, the station is owned locally by Good Life Broadcasting, and broadcasts on UHF channel 46, virtual channel 45. It is seen on cable in the Orlando market on Bright House channel 19, Comcast channel 6, 17 or 19, and Cox Ocala channel 19.

WTGL is affiliated with Total Living Network, FamilyNet, World Harvest Television and The Worship Network. Prior to mid-2010, it was affiliated with Faith TV until that network became My Family TV. That network has since moved to low-power station WSCF-LP (channel 31).

WTGL's digital signal has been operating with a full 1 megawatt of power since late March 2009.

Digital channels

History

The original construction permit for Channel 45 was granted to the Central Florida Educational Television, Inc. (a now-defunct division of the Central Florida Educational Foundation, the owner of FM radio station WPOZ) in 1987. It was assigned the call letters WLCB-TV, which stood for Leesburg Community Broadcasting, after the station's city of license. However, Central Florida Educational Television was never able to get the station on the air, so it sold the construction permit and partially completed transmitting facility to Good Life Broadcasting (then owner of then-WTGL-TV Channel 52) in May 2000, after the FCC began to permit duopolies. Once Good Life secured the permit, it completed the construction of its transmitting facility, and the station signed on for the first time on December 12, 2000. WLCB took a mix of general entertainment and religious programming. They ran a mix of westerns, old sitcoms, public domain movies, some lifestyle shows, and initially cartoons, which by 2003 were gone. Their original station, then called WTGL continued on with an all Christian/religious format.