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LPTV station in St. Louis, Missouri
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KDTL-LD
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
Sister stationsKMOV
History
FoundedApril 2, 1990
First air dateSeptember 28, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-09-28)
Former call signs
  • K64DT (1990–2004)
  • KDTL-LP (2004–2012)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 64 (UHF, 1992–2008), 16 (UHF, 2008–2012)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, 2012–2022)
  • Virtual: 17 (until 2023)
Former affiliations
Call sign meaningDaystar Television/St. Louis, for former owner
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID69791
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT250.5 m (822 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W / 38.52972°N 90.29944°W / 38.52972; -90.29944
Links
Public license information LMS

KDTL-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate KMOV (channel 4). The two stations share studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and transmitting facilities in Lemay, Missouri.

History

The station began operations as K64DT on September 28, 1992. The station increased its power, changing its callsign to KDTL-LP in 2004 after being sold to Word of God Fellowship, the commercial license arm of the Daystar Television Network, to broadcast Daystar's programming. The station converted to digital operations at the end of 2011, and changed its callsign to KDTL-LD on January 5, 2012.

On May 9, 2022, it was announced that Daystar parent company Word of God Fellowship would sell KDTL-LD to Atlanta-based Gray Television, which had acquired KMOV the year previous after purchasing Meredith's broadcast division and its stations, for $1 million; the sale was completed on July 1.

Following the consummation of the sale to Gray, the station dropped affiliation with Daystar, as its programming is carried by full-power station WPXS (channel 13) since it purchased the station in 2010, and also duplicated in the inner core of St. Louis on in-market repeater KUMO-LD (channel 51). The station initially aired an automated feed of current weather conditions, forecasts and observations from KMOV's weather computers in high definition on its second subchannel (mapped to channel 4.7, using KMOV's channel position), while its main channel (mapped to 4.6) carried Corner Store TV, an all-paid programming network, in a transition period while Gray acquired programming to place on it with its former affiliated network Circle winding down at the end of 2023.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KDTL-LD
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
4.5 480i 16:9 KMOV365 The365
32.2 Corner Corner Store TV (infomercials)
32.3 Outlaw Outlaw

There is no channel 32.1 on the KDTL-LD multiplex, as it is broadcast by KMOV.

References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for KDTL-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  3. "Notification of Consummation". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. July 5, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  4. "RabbitEars TV Query for KDTL". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
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