KTAJ-TV
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| City | St. Joseph, Missouri |
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| Branding | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
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| History | |
First air date | October 15, 1986[a] |
Former call signs | KTAJ (1986–2003) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 16 (UHF, 1986–2009) |
Call sign meaning | "Keep Teaching About Jesus" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 999 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 315.8 m (1,036 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°1′19.9″N 94°30′49.7″W / 39.022194°N 94.513806°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KTAJ-TV (channel 16) is a religious television station licensed to St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, serving the St. Joseph and Kansas City markets as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located at the intersection of East 23rd Street and Topping Avenue in Kansas City's Blue Valley section.
KTAJ-TV formerly operated from studios on Northwest Seymour Avenue in the Tiffany Springs area of Kansas City. That facility was one of several closed by TBN in 2019 following the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s repeal of the "Main Studio Rule", which required full-service television stations like KTAJ-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.[2]
Although KTAJ-TV mainly serves the Kansas City area, it is officially assigned by Nielsen to the St. Joseph market due to the location of its city of license.[3] The station has been available on cable television providers in both the St. Joseph and Kansas City markets since its sign-on, although Charter Spectrum (in the immediate Kansas City area),[4] Comcast Xfinity,[5] Consolidated Communications,[6] AT&T U-verse[5] and Google Fiber[7] do not carry KTAJ but do carry TBN's national feed.
Overview
[edit]The station first signed on the air on October 15, 1986, and was built and signed on by All American Television, as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 2000, KTAJ was purchased by TBN, along with the other All American Television stations. KTAJ is the only full-power TBN station in the state of Missouri, and was one of only two stations licensed to St. Joseph—alongside ABC affiliate KQTV (channel 2)—until the June 2012 sign-on of Fox affiliate KNPN-LD (channel 26)[8]—although KQTV remains the only local full-power commercial television station licensed to the city (two other low-power stations owned by KNPN parent News-Press & Gazette Company have signed on since that point—KBJO-LD (now KNPG-LD; channel 21) and KNPG-LD (now KCJO-LD; channel 30)).
As KTAJ-TV's virtual digital channel is mapped as "16" (its former analog channel assignment), NBC affiliate KNPG-LD instead maps its virtual channel as 21[9] to avoid co-channel mapping issues with KTAJ.
Local programming
[edit]Locally produced programs that are taped in the station's Kansas City studios include local versions of TBN's flagship program Praise the Lord and Joy in Our Town, a public affairs program format that is produced by TBN partner stations on a local basis.
Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 16.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | TBN |
| 16.2 | Merit | Merit Street | ||
| 16.3 | 480i | 4:3 | Inspire | TBN Inspire |
| 16.4 | 16:9 | ONTV4U | OnTV4U (infomercials) | |
| 16.5 | POSITIV | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says October 6, while the Television and Cable Factbook says October 7.
References
[edit]- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTAJ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Strang, Steve (July 15, 2019). "How Trump's New Regulation Cuts Will Save TBN $20 Million a Year for Gospel Purposes". Charisma. Archived from the original on August 12, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "TV Query Results -- Video Division (FCC) USA". Federal Communications Commission. September 14, 2006. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ "Spectrum TV Packages: Kansas City". Charter Communications. July 2019. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ a b "TV Listings- Find Local TV Listings and Watch Full Episodes - Zap2it.com". Zap2It. September 1, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
- ^ "Channel Lineup - Kansas" (PDF). Consolidated Communications. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ "Channel Listings for Kansas City" (PDF). Google LLC. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
- ^ News-Press & Gazette to Launch Fox Affiliate in St. Joseph This Spring, TVSpy, March 20, 2012.
- ^ KNPN to upgrade transmission to all HD, St. Joseph News-Press, March 5, 2013.