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KDTL-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KMOV (channel 4). The two stations share studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and transmitting facilities in Lemay, Missouri.
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| History | |
| Founded | April 2, 1990 |
First air date | September 28, 1992 |
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Call sign meaning | Daystar Television/St. Louis, for former owner |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 69791 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 250.5 m (822 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W / 38.52972°N 90.29944°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
History
editThe station began operations as K64DT on September 28, 1992. The station increased its power, changing its callsign to KDTL-LP in 2004 after being sold to Word of God Fellowship, the commercial license arm of the Daystar Television Network, to broadcast Daystar's programming. The station converted to digital operations at the end of 2011, and changed its callsign to KDTL-LD on January 5, 2012.
On May 9, 2022, it was announced that Daystar parent company Word of God Fellowship would sell KDTL-LD to Atlanta-based Gray Television, which had acquired KMOV the year previous after purchasing Meredith's broadcast division and its stations, for $1 million;[2] the sale was completed on July 1.[3]
Following the consummation of the sale to Gray, the station dropped affiliation with Daystar, as its programming is carried by full-power station WPXS (channel 13) since it purchased the station in 2010, and also duplicated in the inner core of St. Louis on in-market repeater KUMO-LD (channel 51). The station initially aired an automated feed of current weather conditions, forecasts and observations from KMOV's weather computers in high definition on its second subchannel (mapped to channel 4.7, using KMOV's channel position), while its main channel (mapped to 4.6) carried Corner Store TV, an all-paid programming network, in a transition period while Gray acquired programming to place on it with its former affiliated network Circle winding down at the end of 2023.
Subchannels
editThe station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 4.5 | 480i | 16:9 | KMOV365 | The365 |
| 32.2 | Corner | Corner Store TV (infomercials) | ||
| 32.3 | Outlaw | Outlaw |
There is no channel 32.1 on the KDTL-LD multiplex, as it is broadcast by KMOV.
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KDTL-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
- ^ "Notification of Consummation". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. July 5, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KDTL". RabbitEars. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
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