WTSF (channel 61) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, serving the Huntington–

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as an

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of the

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. The station's studios are located on Bath Avenue in Ashland, and its transmitter is located on a very short tower in Huntington's Rotary Park.

History

WTSF signed on as a

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television station in September 1982. However, it was not successful and was soon donated to a local religious group. It continued as such until 2003 when the station was sold to the Daystar national

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network and, with a few exceptions, ended local programming. While it was locally produced, the bulk of the channel's programming consisted of fundraising to continue broadcasting.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WTSF shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 61, 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 44.CDBS Print
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, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 61, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

References

External links

Daystar website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wtsf Television channels and stations established in 1983 TSF Daystar (TV network) affiliates 1983 establishments in Kentucky Ashland, Kentucky