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

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

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WTSF[2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
61.1 1080i 16:9 WTSF-HD Daystar
61.2 720p WTSF-ES Daystar Español
61.3 480i WTSF-SD Daystar Reflections

Analog-to-digital conversion

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, using virtual channel 61.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ CDBS Print
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