KNMT (channel 24) is a

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Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the list of cities in Oregon, largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, Portland is ...

, United States,

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by the

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(TBN). The station's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of the city, near the West Hills of Portland. KNMT's studios, once located on Northeast 74th Avenue in Portland, were sold to a developer to become low income housing.

History

KNMT was founded on June 7, 1985, and began broadcasting operations on November 16, 1989; it was Portland's first full-power, full-service

broadcast station. The station primarily carries programming from the TBN satellite feed, but also produces and broadcasts locally produced programs such as the religious program ''Northwest Praise the Lord'' (a local version of TBN's flagship program '' Praise the Lord'') and the public affairs show ''Northwest Focus''. The station was formerly owned by National Minority Television (hence its call letters), a ''de facto'' subsidiary of TBN that was used by the network to circumvent the

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(FCC)'s television station ownership restrictions. While TBN founder

Paul Crouch Paul Franklin Crouch /kraʊtʃ/ (March 30, 1934 – November 30, 2013) was an American television evangelist. Crouch and his wife, Jan, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1973; the company has been described as "the world’s l ...

was NMTV's president, one of its directors was

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and the other was

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, which met the FCC's definition of a "minority-controlled" firm. In mid-2008, the station and its NMTV sisters came directly under TBN ownership. As of 2019, only KNMT-DT1 and the satellite feed of Enlace are carried by Comcast locally.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45 (although it was originally slated to move its digital signal to UHF channel 24), using

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to display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 24.

References

External links

* Trinity Broadcasting Network affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1989 NMT 1989 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-tv-station-stub