KQSL (channel 8) is a

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, United States, which is a broadcast partner of the

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. The station is owned by One Ministries, Inc., a

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based in

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. KQSL's transmitter is located west of

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History

KQSL debuted in 1990 as KFWU, originally licensed to

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and owned by California Oregon Broadcasting. As a

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affiliate

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, the station was sold to Lamco Communications (along with KAEF) in 1995. It was then sold to Sainte Limited in 1996, and to

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in 1997, at which point KFWU became a satellite of

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(however, at first, KFWU was considered the main station and KTNC the satellite). It became KUNO-TV in 2003.Digital TV Market Listing for KBQR
Retrieved November 15, 2010 On November 7, 2008, KUNO was taken silent due to financial troubles. In May 2008, Pappas filed for

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protection. On November 5, 2008, KUNO returned to on-air operation just under one year of having been silent with its analog facilities on channel 8 and pre-transition DTV facility on channel 15. On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including KTNC and KUNO, would be sold to New World TV Group after the sale received

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approval. On June 12, 2009, KUNO signed off of its analog signal and completed its move to digital. Both KUNO and KDSL-CA (licensed to

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) were transferred to

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on October 15, 2009. KUNO was taken silent again on October 31, 2009 and was subsequently sold to Jeff Chang in July 2010 for $100,000. The sale to Jeff Chang was completed on October 6, 2010, and he got the station back on the air just under one year of it being silent. If not for Jeff Chang relaunching KQSL's on-air operation, its license would have been revoked. Upon taking over, Chang dropped the KTNC simulcast in favor of

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programming, under new

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. In October 2010, he call signed the station as KBQR; in June 2011, the station was given new a new call sign again, this time to KQSL. The KQSL call sign had previously belonged to an LPFM construction permit in

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, belonging to One Ministries, Inc., and coincidentally One Ministries, Inc. would become the future owner of KQSL in 2018. KQSL joined

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in September 2011; the network regarded the station as its

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affiliate. In 2012, KQSL dropped TheCoolTV and picked up

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programming. The station dropped FilmOn in early 2013, but carried a schedule of classic television shows and entertainment news magazines and specials until 2016. After this, it began broadcasting

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. Jeff Chang was successful in getting KQSL onto

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and

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throughout the

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after getting the station back on the air. Video fiber circuits were installed to provide Dish, U-Verse and DirecTV feeds of KQSL. On August 1, 2017, KQSL reverted to independent programming. The Sonlife affiliation had transferred to KCNS. On January 15, 2018, KQSL began carrying

(TLN) programming as a simulcast of TLN programming carried on

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cable channel 138 in

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. TLN also was carried on a West Coast feed until April 16, 2019 on KTLN, licensed to

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. KQSL began carrying TLN's West Coast feed, TLN West, on April 6, 2019. On July 11, 2018, One Ministries, Inc. completed its purchase of KQSL from Jeff Chang for $2 million. K11WP-D was also sold to Jeff Chang for $1 as part of the KQSL transaction. The broadcast partnership with TLN was retained. One Ministries, Inc. had closed a deal to sell three LPTV stations to

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for $2.15 million one day prior to having consummating the deal to purchase KQSL. One Ministries also owns and operates 5 translators of KQSL in Northern California and

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, as well as low-power TV station KKRM-CD in Chico which has a series of translators throughout Northern California, most of which air KQSL on their .8

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. A One Ministries-owned station, KQTA-LD in San Francisco, airs KQSL on its .2 subchannel. In addition to airing programming from TLN West, KQSL also airs locally originated programming daily from midnight to 6 a.m. and Saturdays from midnight to 5 p.m. KQSL began airing local news for Northern California and

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in December 2018. The local news program, from

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-licensed

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and KDOV-LD, is called ''Mornings on the Dove'' which aired 6 to 8 a.m. weekdays initially and was subsequently moved to noon to 1 p.m. weekdays in April 2019. This program airs live on

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and its translators on their primary channel which airs TheDove, the religious channel where it originates. KQSL upgraded to

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HD picture quality in March 2019 on Dish Network and April 2019 on DirecTV. According to FCC database, as of January 12, 2021, KQSL changed its city of license to

(in

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Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Translators

KQSL is rebroadcast on the following low-power

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in Northern California and Nevada. * K02QP-D RF Channel 2, Virtual 45

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* K15FJ-D RF Channel 15, Virtual 15 Lakeport * K06QL-D RF Channel 6, Virtual 15

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* K02QW-D RF Channel 2, Virtual 13

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* KEVO-LD RF Channel 16, Virtual 40

KQSL is rebroadcast on a

of the following low-power translators in Northern California and Nevada.RabbitEars.Info
/ref> * KKRM-LD RF Channel 11, Virtual 11.8 Chico * K21OY-D RF Channel 21, Virtual 21.8 Chico * K14TG-D RF Channel 14, Virtual 17.1

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* KFMY-LD RF Channel 6, Virtual 15.2

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* K16IW-D RF Channel 16, Virtual 16.8 Redding * KRDT-CD RF Channel 23, Virtual 23.8 Redding * K51LK-D RF Channel 51, Virtual 51.8 Redding * KZHD-LD RF Channel 22, Virtual 15.2

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* K04RS-D RF Channel 4, Virtual 3.1 Salinas * KURK-LD RF Channel 3, Virtual 3.4

* KQTA-LD RF Channel 14, Virtual 15.2

* KQSL-LD RF Channel 4, Virtual 17.4 San Rafael * KUKR-LD RF Channel 26, Virtual 27.4

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* KKPM-CD RF Channel 28, Virtual 28.8

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* KYUB-LD RF Channel 15, Virtual 15.8

Cable and satellite availability

References

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