WTSF
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| City | Ashland, Kentucky |
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First air date | April 30, 1983 |
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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 |
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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.
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:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 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
[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, using virtual channel 61.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
- ^ "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