WLJC-TV (channel 65) is a

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licensed to Beattyville, Kentucky, United States, serving the Lexington area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Cozi TV. The station is owned by local minister Margaret Drake and her ministry, The Hour of Harvest, Inc. WLJC-TV's studios are located on Radio Station Loop north of Beattyville, and its transmitter is located on Tip Top Road.

History

The station first signed on the air on October 18, 1982 and claims to be the oldest

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station in Kentucky. The Hour of Harvest, Inc. also owns two Christian radio stations,

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outlet WLJC-FM and K-LOVE outlet WEBF. On April 2, 2018, WLJC began carrying a half-hour local newscast produced by Lexington

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affiliate

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at 9 p.m. titled ''ABC 36 News at Nine on WLJC''. In November 2018, WLJC's main channel began airing Cozi TV programming (which moved from 65.6; that subchannel now airs

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Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital channel is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WLJC-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, in July 2007. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 7. Through the use of

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, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 65, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. The station was granted a construction permit to increase its

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from 70 kW to 185 kW.

Coverage area

WLJC-TV's digital signal covers much of eastern and central Kentucky as a result of its relatively high antenna position at 322 meters

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and a power level of 185,000

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s on the VHF band. Its primary coverage area includes the Lexington metropolitan area,

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, and Hazard. Its fringe contour even reaches areas as far north as Maysville, as far east as Pikeville, as far west as Frankfort, and as far south as the

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state line around Middlesboro.Maps of Full-powered Television stations - Lexington, Kentucky
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) (2009).

External links

Official website

References

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