WMWC-TV (channel 53) is a religious television station licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).[1] The station's studios are located on 44th Avenue in Moline, and its transmitter is located in Orion, Illinois.[2]
History
WMWC originally planned to go on the air on September 1, 2001, as the UPN affiliate for the Quad Cities market. Although Northwest Television owned the station, operations were to have been handled by Second Generation of Iowa, owner of Fox affiliate KFXA in Cedar Rapids.[3] However, Grant Broadcasting System II, then-owner of KLJB-TV and KGWB-TV, filed a petition to deny the application,