KBLN-TV (channel 30) is a
religious
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television station
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licensed to
Grants Pass, Oregon
Grants Pass is the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on Interstate 5, northwest of Medford, along the Rogue River. The population was 39,189 at the 2020 census.
History
Early Hudson's Bay Company hunt ...
, United States, serving the
Medford area as an affiliate of the
Three Angels Broadcasting Network
The Three Angels Broadcasting Network, or 3ABN, is a Christian media television and radio network which broadcasts Seventh-day Adventist religious and health-oriented programming, based in West Frankfort, Illinois, United States. Although it is ...
(3ABN). Owned by Better Life Television, Inc., the station maintains studios on Northeast 9th Street in Grants Pass and a transmitter on Grants Pass Peak.
KBLN-TV is seen in five counties in
Southern Oregon
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, plus
Siskiyou County
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in northern
California
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. It is a viewer-supported
non-profit
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outreach organization of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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, with a
501(c)(3)
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status. The station managers are Ron and Marta Davis.
Technical information
Subchannel
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original
construction permit
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after the
FCC
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finalized the
DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital
television station
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. Instead, at the end of digital TV conversion, KBLN-TV shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
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channel 30, and "
flash-cut
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In the United States, some telephone area codes were split or overlaid immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dia ...
" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 30.
Translators
Expansion
* In 2007, KBLN announced plans to purchase a full power station in
Roseburg and a
low-powered repeater station in
Eugene, to expand coverage to more than 500,000 viewers in the Eugene market.
[ ] In 2009, the stations,
KTVC
KTVC (channel 36) is a religious television station in Roseburg, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). The station is owned by Better Life Television, and maintains studios on Golden Valley Boulevar ...
and Eugene translator KAMK-LP, were sold to KBLN during a bankruptcy auction for
Equity Media Holdings
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.
Plans for this expansion were announced by Better Life before Equity's economic woes came to light.
* In 2009, according to its website, Better Life "negotiated and signed an agreement to purchase a low power digital station in the
Portland
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area." However, the site then failed to mention which station it was intending to purchase. It was not clear if the station was in talks with a particular station, or with many stations in the region. On March 23, 2010, the FCC granted Consent to Assignment for KEVE-LP channel 36 from Fiori Media, Inc. to the Southern Oregon Conference Assn. of Seventh-Day Adventists. KEVE-LP, at the time licensed to
Longview, Washington
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, held a construction permit to move to the Portland area, while changing its city of license to
Vancouver, Washington
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. The station would sign on October 24, 2010 as
KEVE-LD.
* In 2011, Better Life acquired a low-powered station in
Redding, California
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, K33HH channel 33, from the Northern California Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists; previously, the translator carried 3ABN programming directly via satellite. Also that year, Better Life leased a subchannel on FMI Media's
KNRC-LD in
Reno, Nevada
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, where it can be seen on subchannel 14.5.
* A chain of low-power stations owned by One Ministries, Inc. (led by
KKPM-CD
KKPM-CD (channel 28) is a low-power, Class A religious television station licensed to Yuba City, California, United States. Owned by One Ministries, Inc., it is sister to Fort Bragg-licensed Total Living Network partner station KQSL (channel 8) ...
) simulcast KBLN's Better Life TV programming throughout
Northern California
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.
See also
*
KEVE-LD
*
KTVC
KTVC (channel 36) is a religious television station in Roseburg, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). The station is owned by Better Life Television, and maintains studios on Golden Valley Boulevar ...
*
Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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References
External links
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{{Other Oregon Stations
Three Angels Broadcasting Network
Television channels and stations established in 2001
BLN-TV
Grants Pass, Oregon
2001 establishments in Oregon
Seventh-day Adventist media