KLUJ-TV (channel 44) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving the

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with programming from the

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(TBN). It is

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by TBN's

Community Educational Television Community Educational Television, Inc. (CET) is a subsidiary of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) which owns six TBN-affiliated television stations in Texas and Florida, all on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting as ...

subsidiary, which manages stations in Texas and

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on channels allocated for

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broadcasting. KLUJ-TV's studios are located on Loop 499 in Harlingen, and its transmitter is located near Palm Valley, Texas.

History

The station signed on the air on June 25, 1984 as the Lower Rio Grande Valley's first general-entertainment

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before switching to TBN in 1986.

Subchannels

External links

KLUJ-TV information on TBN's website
Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1984 Harlingen, Texas Television stations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley 1984 establishments in Texas {{Texas-tv-station-stub