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City | Ashland, Kentucky |
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First air date | April 30, 1983 (41 years ago) (1983-04-30) |
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Call sign meaning | Tri-State Family Broadcasting |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 67798 |
ERP | 8 kW |
HAAT | 174.1 m (571 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°25′11″N 82°24′6″W / 38.41972°N 82.40167°W / 38.41972; -82.40167 |
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Website | www |
WTSF (channel 61) is a religious television station licensed to Ashland, Kentucky, United States, serving the Huntington–Charleston, 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.
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.
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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61.1 | 720p | 16:9 | WTSF-HD | Daystar |
61.2 | 480i | WTSF-ES | Daystar Español |
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.
Other television stations in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
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Louisville/Kentuckiana market stations |
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Bowling Green market stations |
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