KTVC (channel 36) is a
religious
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television station
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in
Roseburg, Oregon
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, United States, affiliated with 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). The station is owned by Better Life Television, and maintains studios on Golden Valley Boulevard in Roseburg and a transmitter on Mount Rose northeast of the city.
KAMK-LD (channel 5) in
Eugene operates as a
translator
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of KTVC; this station's transmitter is located on Blanton Road.
History
The station began broadcasting on UHF channel 36 on July 18, 1994, under the
call sign
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KROZ. It became a charter affiliate of
The WB
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on January 11, 1995. It changed its calls to the current KTVC on September 4, 1998. 17 days later, the WB affiliation moved to cable-only
KZWB, and KTVC affiliated with the then-new
Pax TV
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.
In 2002, the station affiliated with
UPN
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after the network moved from
KEVU-LP. Under ownership of
Equity Broadcasting
Equity Media Holdings Corporation was a broadcasting company based in Little Rock, Arkansas that owned and operated television stations across the United States. Prior to March 30, 2007, the company was known as Equity Broadcasting, a name later ...
, KTVC became an affiliate of Equity's
Retro Television Network
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on September 16, 2006, when UPN ceased broadcasting. A newly created digital subchannel of
NBC
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affiliate
KMTR
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carries
The CW
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, a network created by the merger of UPN and The WB, while KEVU-LP is affiliated with
MyNetworkTV
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, a network from
News Corporation
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, then-parent company of
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
.
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result,
Luken Communications
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restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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, with individual customised feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KTVC lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vows to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area.
KTVC was sold at auction to Better Life TV on April 16, 2009.
Upon the closure of the sale, the station began to air religious programming from new sister station
KBLN, including
3ABN programming.
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The KTVC calls were previously used on what is now
KBSD-TV
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in
Dodge City, Kansas
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, from 1957 to 1989.
KAMK-LP history
KAMK-LP began as translator station K53EA in 1993, broadcasting
The Box and later,
MTV2
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The channel launched initially as an all-music video service, once the original MTV had started to sh ...
. In 1996 K53EA began rebroadcasting KROZ which would change to KTVC. On January 1, 1998, K53EA became low power KAMK-LP. Calls reflected owner Gerald D. Kamp's last name.
The FCC has issued a construction permit to move its signal to channel 49, since all stations must abandon channels 52-69.
On January 30, 2012, KAMK-LP switched to digital as KAMK-LD channel 49, using a
PSIP
The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) is the MPEG (a video and audio industry group) and privately defined program-specific information originally defined by General Instrument for the DigiCipher 2 system and later extended for the AT ...
of 36.1, to match the PSIP of KTVC. (It is not related to
KXOR-LP, a defunct
Azteca America
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station in Eugene that broadcast on UHF channel 36, though that channel carried 3ABN programming in the past.)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTVC shut down its analog signal, over
UHF channel 36, 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 18.
Through the use of
PSIP
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, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel
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as its former UHF analog channel 36.
Translators
See also
*
KBLN-TV
KBLN-TV (channel 30) is a religious television station licensed to Grants Pass, Oregon, United States, serving the Medford area as an affiliate of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). Owned by Better Life Television, Inc., the station ma ...
*
KEVE-LD
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Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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References
External links
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Equity Media Holdings
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Roseburg, Oregon
Three Angels Broadcasting Network
1994 establishments in Oregon
Seventh-day Adventist media