KFDR (channel 25) is a
religious television station licensed to
Jefferson City, Missouri
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, United States, serving the
Columbia
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–Jefferson City
market as an
owned-and-operated station
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of the
Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located near
New Bloomfield, Missouri
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History
In 1827, a 'Round Prairie Post Office' was o ...
.
History
The station (originally KNLJ) first signed an agreement on
Easter Sunday in 1986 at 3 p.m. to be a
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
and simulcast to
KNLC in
St. Louis; at that time, both stations were owned by Reverend Larry Rice's ministry, the New Life Evangelistic Center.
In September 1986, KNLJ broke away from KNLC while it was still running most of the same Christian programs (such as ''
The 700 Club'',
Richard Roberts,
Jerry Falwell
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, among others) as well as locally produced programs from the ministry. They ran syndicated
cartoons, some classic
sitcoms,
westerns, and outdoor sporting programs about 12 hours a day. In 1990, KNLJ affiliated with
Fox Kids
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and also ran ''
The Disney Afternoon''. When Mid-Missouri got its own
Fox
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affiliate a few years later, the Fox Kids block moved there. As the 1990s progressed, the secular shows were becoming much cheaper.
In mid-2007, the station was sold to the Christian Television Network with the New Life Evangelistic Center retaining KNLC. Both secular and Christian programming was dropped in favor of simulcasting the Christian Television Network full-time. Religious groups had previously bought time on both CTN and KNLJ.
On March 13, 2023, the station changed its call sign to KFDR.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNLJ shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
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channel 25, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 20.
Through the use of
PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 25.
References
External links
Official website
{{Other Missouri Stations
Christian Television Network affiliates
FDR
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Television channels and stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Missouri