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KCTU-LP
KCTU-LD (channel 5) is a low-power television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Owned by River City Broadcasters, Inc., the station is affiliated with several digital multicast television network, digital multicast networks. KCTU-LD's studios are located on Water Street in Wichita's Midtown, Wichita, Kansas, Midtown neighborhood, and its broadcast transmitter, transmitter is located atop 250 Douglas Place in downtown. History The station first signed on the air in 1992. On February 1, 1998, KCTU became the first commercial television station in the world to stream its programming IPTV#History, online 24 hours a day to reach more viewers. In 2001, KCTU affiliated with Pax TV (now Ion Television). Because of the local programming and other network affiliations carried by the station (including a secondary affiliation with Urban America Television that lasted until that network's shutdown in May 2006), the station did not air as many infomercials as most Pax/i/Ion affiliat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPTV
Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Usually sold and run by a Telephone company, telecom provider, it consists of broadcast live television that is streamed over the Internet (multicast) — in contrast to delivery through traditional Terrestrial television, terrestrial, Satellite television, satellite, and Cable television, cable transmission formats — as well as video on demand services for watching or replaying content (unicast). IPTV broadcasts started gaining usage during the 2000s alongside the rising use of broadband-based internet connections. It is often provided bundled with internet access services by ISPs to subscribers and runs in a closed network. IPTV normally requires the use of a set-top box, which receives the encoded television content in the MPEG transport stream via IP multicast, and converts the Data packet, packets to be watched on a TV set or ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
