KCWV
Channels
BrandingTCT
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedDecember 6, 2006
First air date
November 30, 2009 (14 years ago) (2009-11-30)
  • My Family TV (2009–2010)
  • The Walk TV (2010–2013)
  • AMGTV (2013–2020)
Call sign meaning
Station launched with unrealized attempt at a CW affiliation[citation needed]
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID166511
ERP
HAAT
  • 207 m (679 ft)
  • 218.1 m (716 ft) (CP)[2]
Transmitter coordinates46°47′7″N 92°7′16″W / 46.78528°N 92.12111°W / 46.78528; -92.12111
Translator(s)
  • K17OV-D (17, Duluth)
  • K30QX-D (30, Duluth)
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.tct.tv

KCWV (channel 27) is a religious television station in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, owned and operated by Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter is located on the former KDLH tower on Duluth's Observation Hill.

History

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted George S. Flinn, III a construction permit for the digital-only station on channel 27 on December 6, 2006. The station signed on November 30, 2009.

Flinn is a Memphis businessman who, until 2007, owned Ion Television affiliates WPXX-TV in Memphis and WPXL-TV in New Orleans.

At its start, KCWV was affiliated with My Family TV. Within a year after the station debuted, it re-affiliated with Legacy TV, a small Christian broadcasting network. Towards the end of 2012, the religious network changed its name from Legacy TV to The Walk TV. During late October 2013, KCWV re-affiliated again with AMGTV, a family-oriented television network.

On September 17, 2014, it was announced that KCWV would be off the air for a couple of months, as its tower was undergoing replacement. It returned to the air on September 21, 2015, from a new, shorter tower. Since that point it has continued to broadcast intermittently, having been off the air from a period of the spring of 2018 until coming back in May 2019, continuing to carry AMGTV. The station has never sold local commercial advertising.

On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell KCWV, along with sister stations WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, WBIH in Selma, Alabama, and WFBD in Destin, Florida, to Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price.[3] The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became owned-and-operated stations of the TCT network two days later.[4]

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KCWV[5]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
27.1 720p 16:9 KCWV HD Main KCWV programming / TCT
27.2 480i SBN SBN
27.3 Grit ShopLC
27.4 Bounce Bounce TV
27.5 Twist Start TV
27.7 GetTV Get

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KCWV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ a b "Amendment to a Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 9, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  3. ^ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  4. ^ Ellis, Jon (September 18, 2020). "Duluth TV Station Changes Network Following Sale". Northpine.com. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
  5. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KCWV

External links

Broadcast television in Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin, including Duluth and Superior
Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the state of Minnesota
Other television stations and subchannel networks in the state of Wisconsin
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