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2.1  Subchannels  





2.2  Analog-to-digital conversion  







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WTSF
  • United States
  • CityAshland, Kentucky
    Channels
  • Virtual: 61
  • Programming
    Affiliations
  • 61.2: Daystar Español
  • Ownership
    Owner
  • (Tri State Family Broadcasting, Inc.)
  • History

    First air date

    April 30, 1983 (41 years ago) (1983-04-30)

    Former channel number(s)

    • Analog: 61 (UHF, 1983–2009)
  • Digital: 44 (UHF, until 2020)
  • Virtual: 44 (2009–2019)
  • Former affiliations

  • Religious Ind. (1983–2003)
  • Call sign meaning

    Tri-State Family Broadcasting
    Technical information[1]

    Licensing authority

    FCC
    Facility ID67798
    ERP8 kW
    HAAT174.1 m (571 ft)
    Transmitter coordinates38°25′11N 82°24′6W / 38.41972°N 82.40167°W / 38.41972; -82.40167
    Links

    Public license information

  • LMS
  • Websitewww.daystar.com

    WTSF (channel 61) is a religious television station licensed to Ashland, Kentucky, United States, serving the HuntingtonCharleston, West Virginia market as an owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network. 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[edit]

    WTSF signed on as a commercial independent 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 charismatic Christian 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[edit]

    Subchannels[edit]

    The station's signal is multiplexed:

    Subchannels of WTSF[2]
    Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
    61.1 720p 16:9 WTSF-HD Daystar
    61.2 480i WTSF-ES Daystar Español

    Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

    WTSF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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,[3][4] using virtual channel 61.

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  • ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF
  • ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  • ^ CDBS Print
  • External links[edit]


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