KEFB (channel 34) was a

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licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, which served the Des Moines area as an affiliate of the

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(TBN). Owned by Family Educational Broadcasting, the station maintained a transmitter southwest of Ames. In addition to TBN programming, KEFB also served the community as an independent educational station.

History

The station was originally granted a construction permit on July 12, 1996. The station would not be officially granted a full license until 2005, when it was granted the

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KEFB.

Shutdown

On September 20, 2016, Family Educational Broadcasting announced it was permanently discontinuing all operations of KEFB and returning the station's license to the

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(FCC). KEFB's license was formally canceled and its callsign deleted on October 5, 2016. TBN programming remains available in the Des Moines–Ames area via the network's national feed on

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channel 92.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal was

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KEFB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on June 12, 2009, and " flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 34. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.

References

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