City | Wichita, Kansas |
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Channels | |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 34.1: Sonlife Broadcasting Network 34.2: getTV 34.3: Jewelry TV 34.4: Oxygen 34.5: LX 34.6: NTD 34.7: Ion Television |
Ownership | |
Owner | DTV America Corporation |
Operator | INNOVATE Corp. (via LMA) |
KCMN-LD, KAJF-LD, KPJO-LD | |
History | |
Founded | January 26, 1994 |
Former call signs | K61GC (1994-2003) KFVT-LP (2003-2016) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 61 (UHF, 1994-2003) 40 (UHF, 2003-2016) Digital: 40 (UHF, 2016-2021) |
Independent (until 2012) then MyNetworkTV (via KSBI, latter affiliation until 2014) SSN (2014-201?) | |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 38217 |
ERP | 3 kW |
HAAT | 597 feet (182 m) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°41′13″N 97°20′23″W / 37.68694°N 97.33972°W |
Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
KFVT-LD, virtual channel 34 (UHF digital channel 27) is a low-powered television station that is licensed to and serving Wichita, Kansas. The station is owned by Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America, and operated by INNOVATE Corp. (via the HC2 Broadcasting brand) through a Local marketing agreement.
History
The station signed on the air on January 26, 1994, as K61GC under ownership of Great Plains Television. The station's call letters were changed to KFVT-LP on February 28, 2003, and then to KFVT-LD on August 17, 2016. DTV America Corporation became KFVT's owner in 2015, with HC2 Broadcasting taking operations.
For most of its history, the station was a translator of then independent station KSBI of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (later became a MyNetworkTV affiliate in 2012). This ended with the station began running Soul of the South programming in 2014, possibly due to the area already having a MyNetworkTV affiliate, which was KMTW, Soul of the South soon Was replaced with Movies!. The station's second and third subchannels became available in December 2015. The second subchannel is a test pattern, and the third one provides programming from The Country Network. In 2016, a fourth subchannel was launched to carry the Sonlife Broadcasting Network.[2]
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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34.1 | 480i | 4:3 | KFVT-LD | Sonlife |
34.2 | get | |||
34.3 | 16:9 | Jewelry TV | ||
34.4 | Oxygen | |||
34.5 | LX | |||
34.6 | NTD | |||
34.7 | Ion Television |
References
- ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KFVT-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ↑ "SonLife Broadcasting Network | SBN | Jimmy Swaggart Ministries".
- ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for KFVT". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
External links
- Facility details for Facility ID 38217 (KFVT-LD) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- DTV America
- HC2 Broadcasting