The original construction permit for Channel 45 was granted to Central Florida Educational Television, Inc. (a now-defunct subsidiary of the Central Florida Educational Foundation, 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, CFET 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. The station 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. Good Life owned and operated both its original station and WLCB until September 2006, when the original WTGL was sold to
TBN and its call sign was subsequently changed to
WHLV-TV. Good Life continues to host WHLV's master control operations to the present day even though WHLV has since moved to its own studio facility. The two stations shared a studio on the corner of
I-4 and Michigan Avenue in Orlando until June 2007, when Channel 45 and the master controls for Channel 52 were moved to the former studios of
WKCF in Lake Mary. With the WTGL callsign made available since the original WTGL became WHLV-TV, WLCB officially changed its call sign to WTGL (without the "-TV" suffix) on September 12, 2007. Even though the "-TV" suffix is missing from Channel 45's legal call sign, the station continues to use the "-TV" suffix on-air and on its website. ==Technical information==