WKOI-TV (channel 43) is a
television station
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licensed to
Richmond, Indiana
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, United States, broadcasting the
Ion Television
Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented enter ...
network to the
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Day ...
area.
Owned and operated
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by the
Ion Media
Ion Media (formerly known as Paxson Communications Corporation and Ion Media Networks) was an American broadcasting company that owned and operated over 71 television stations in most major American markets (through its television stations group ...
subsidiary of the
E. W. Scripps Company
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, the station maintains studios on South 9th Street in Richmond. Transmission facilities are provided by unrelated
NBC
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affiliate
WDTN
WDTN (channel 2) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Springfield, Ohio–licensed WBDT (channel 26), a ''de facto'' owned-and-opera ...
(channel 2), which shares its digital channel with WKOI-TV through a
channel sharing agreement, along with WDTN's sister station,
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County, Ohio, Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River (Ohio), Mad River, Buck Creek, and Beaver Creek, approxim ...
–licensed
CW affiliate
WBDT (channel 26); the transmitter is located on Frytown Road in southwest Dayton.
History
WKOI-TV signed on May 11, 1982 as an
independent station
An independent station is an independent radio or terrestrial television station which is independent in some way from broadcast networks. The definition of "independence" varies from country to country, reflecting governmental regulations, market ...
airing religious programming. In 1986, it was purchased by the
Trinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is an international Christian-based broadcast television network and the world's largest religious television network. TBN was headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, until March 3, 2017, when it sold its ...
(TBN). As a TBN O&O, the station cleared almost all of the network's programming, only breaking away from the network once a week for local community
public affairs programming.
Until June 7, 2018,
WKOI-TV's transmitter was located on
SR 73 in
Milford Township,
Butler County, Ohio
Butler County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 390,357. Its county seat is Hamilton. It is named for General Richard Butler, who died in 1791 during St. Clair' ...
, near
Collinsville, approximately halfway between Richmond and
Cincinnati
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, which provided coverage to
Northern Kentucky,
Greater Cincinnati
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and the
Miami Valley
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in Ohio, and
East Central Indiana, hence its callsign WKOI-TV. Even though its transmitter was based within the Cincinnati
television market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also incl ...
, the station was officially assigned by
Nielsen to the Dayton market.
TBN entered into an option agreement with Ion Media on November 14, 2017, which gave Ion the option to acquire the licenses of WKOI-TV and three other TBN stations that had sold their spectrum in the
FCC
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's incentive auction; Ion exercised the option on May 24, 2018.
The sale was completed on September 25, 2018.
Technical information
Subchannel
Analog-to-digital conversion
WKOI-TV (along with all other TBN-owned full-power stations) shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...
channel 43, on April 16, 2009.
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39. Through the use of
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 A ...
, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel
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as its former UHF analog channel 43. The station's digital signal was
multiplexed
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, carrying TBN on 43.1, The Church Channel on 43.2, JCTV on 43.3,
Enlace
Enlace is a Latin American Christian-based broadcast television network. The network primarily broadcasts faith-based programming targeted to the Hispanic community. Enlace's primary headquarters are in San José, Costa Rica, with studios, off ...
on 43.4 and
Smile of a Child
Smile (shortened from its former name of Smile of a Child) is an American Christian free-to-air television network owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network is aimed at children between the ages 2 to 12, and offers ...
on 43.5. Later, The Church Channel became
Hillsong Channel
TBN Inspire is an American Christian broadcast television network owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is carried on the digital subchannels of TBN's stations.
The network originally launched as The Church Channel, which focu ...
, JCTV became
JUCE TV
JUCE TV is a defunct youth-oriented Christian television network and is a current YouTube channel owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The channel is aimed at teenagers and young adults between the ages of 13 and 30 years, a ...
and was combined on 43.3 with Smile, and
TBN Salsa
TBN Salsa is an American Christian-based digital broadcast television network owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network offers a mix of religious and family-oriented programming aimed at English-speaking Hispanic Americans (serving a ...
was added on 43.5.
Spectrum sale and channel sharing agreement
On April 14, 2017, it was reported that WKOI-TV's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's
spectrum reallocation
The 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, officially known as Auction 1001, allocated approximately 100 MHz of the United States Ultra High Frequency (UHF) spectrum formerly allocated to UHF television in the 600 MHz band. The spe ...
auction, fetching just over $20 million, with the station expected to go off the air. On March 22, 2018, it was announced that WKOI-TV would share spectrum with unrelated NBC affiliate WDTN.
On June 7, 2018, WKOI-TV began sharing WDTN's digital channel, with all TBN channels dropped, and
Ion Television
Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented enter ...
programming appearing on virtual channel 43.1.
WDTN also continued to carry Ion Television on virtual channel 2.3, as it had since February 1, 2018; on June 29, 2018, when WDTN's sister station WBDT also began sharing WDTN's digital signal, virtual channel 2.3 was dropped.
Former translators
WKOI-TV's programming was previously
relayed on W20CL (channel 20) in
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County, Ohio, Clark County. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Mad River (Ohio), Mad River, Buck Creek, and Beaver Creek, approxim ...
and W36DG (channel 36) in Cincinnati. A deal was reached to sell W20CL (now
WLWD-LD in Dayton) to Word of God Fellowship, owner of the
Daystar Television Network
The Daystar Television Network (commonly referred to as Daystar Television, often shortened to Daystar) is an American evangelical Christian-based religious television network owned by the Word of God Fellowship, founded by Marcus Lamb in 1993. ...
, on March 19, 2010;
W36DG was also sold to Daystar, and is now
WDYC-LD.
See also
*
Channel 31 digital TV stations in the United States The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 31 in the United States:
* K18DN-D in Kanab, Utah, on virtual channel 11, which rebroadcasts KBYU-TV
* K31AD-D in Victorville, etc., California, on virtual channel 31
* K31AE-D in Su ...
*
Channel 43 virtual TV stations in the United States The following television stations operate on virtual channel 43 in the United States:
* K07DI-D in Hinsdale, Montana
* K11IA-D in Glasgow, Montana
* K14NY-D in Sayre, Oklahoma
* K16LQ-D in Seiling, Oklahoma
* K19LA-D in Rocky Ford, Colorado
* ...
*
List of television stations in Ohio
*
List of television stations in Ohio (by channel number)
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Defunct full-power stations
*Chan ...
*
List of television stations in the United States by call sign (initial letter W)
References
External links
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Television channels and stations established in 1982
1982 establishments in Indiana
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