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16 ( UHF digital channel 31), known on-air as CTV, is a low-powered

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St. James, Minnesota St. James or Saint James is a city in and the county seat of Watonwan County, Minnesota, Watonwan County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,793 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Minnesota State Highways Minnesota State ...

, United States. The station is owned by the Cooperative Television Association of Southern Minnesota, an organization that operates several translator-style stations, including a few of them that rebroadcasts some of the signals of

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market stations that do not reach the St. James/

Mankato Mankato ( ) is a city in Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur counties in the state of Minnesota. The population was 44,488 according to the 2020 census, making it the 21st-largest city in Minnesota, and the 5th-largest outside of the Minnea ...

area. At the time of the organization's 1993 foundation,

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affiliate

KEYC-TV KEYC-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Mankato, Minnesota, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power, dual NBC/ CW+ affiliate KMNF-LD (channel 7). Both stations share stu ...

(channel 12) was the only locally based full-power station in the market. The station's transmitter is located in extreme northern Watonwan County near its boundary with Brown County, along

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near Godahl.Fedrrated Rural Electric, CTV plus “UHF digital and analog channel provider for Minnesota and Northern Iowa”
''CTV.coop'' (CTV History). Retrieved June 8, 2019.

Digital channels

The station's signal is

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References

External links

Community Television Association of Southern Minnesota
* Low-power television stations in Minnesota 31KV Independent television stations in the United States {{Minnesota-tv-station-stub