| KTBN-TV | |
|---|---|
| Greater Los Angeles | |
| City of license | Santa Ana, California |
| Channels | Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 40 (PSIP) |
| Translators | K15DB Santa Barbara K21FP Bakersfield K26GN Lancaster K40ID Palm Springs K45DU Ventura |
| Affiliations | TBN |
| Owner | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
| First air date | January 5, 1967 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
| Former callsigns | KLXA-TV (1967-1977) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 40 (1967-2009) Digital: 23 |
| Former affiliations | Spanish independent (1967-1974) |
| Transmitter Power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 875 m |
| Facility ID | 67884 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 34°13′27″N 118°3′44″W / 34.22417°N 118.06222°W |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
KTBN-TV, channel 40, is the Santa Ana, California-licensed flagship television station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian religious broadcaster. The station is based in the TBN network headquarters in nearby Tustin, California.
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History
Channel 40 first aired on January 5, 1967 as KLXA-TV, licensed to Fontana, and the Los Angeles area's second Spanish-language stations. It was a Spanish independent station on the air a few hours a day. Paul Crouch, founder of TBN, began renting time on a crosstown station in 1973. After that station was sold, he began buying two hours a day on KLXA in early 1974. That station was put up for sale shortly after. Paul Crouch then put in a bid to buy it for a million dollars and raised 100,000 dollars for a down payment. After many struggles, The Crouches managed to raise the down payment and took over the station outright. Initially, the station ran Christian programs about six hours a day. They continued to expand to 12 hours a day by 1975 and began selling time to outside Christian organizations to supplement their local programming. Trinity Broadcasting continued to use the KLXA call sign until November 1977, when the station officially became KTBN-TV. The station went to a 24-hour operation by 1978. Its city of license changed to Santa Ana in 1983. Today, as is the case with TBN's other owned and operated stations, KTBN airs almost no local programming except for Southern California-specific public affairs programs.
Today, it serves the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area with a full powered signal, with low-powered satellite stations carrying the signal to other areas in Southern California (such as Palm Springs (K40ID), Bakersfield (K21FP), Ventura (K45DU), and Santa Barbara (K15DB)). With the station being available on cable systems throughout Southern California, KTBN is not carried on either Dish Network nor DirecTV's local Southern California package at TBN's request; instead the national feed is carried.
Digital broadcasts
This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks.
| Channel | Label | Format | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40.1 | TBN | 480i | TBN |
| 40.2 | Church | 480i | The Church Channel |
| 40.3 | JCTV | 480i | JCTV - Christian music videos |
| 40.4 | Enlace | 480i | Enlace USA - Spanish-language |
| 40.5 | Smile | 480i | Smile of a Child - E/I children's programming |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009. The digital signal, which went on the air in 2004, is broadcast on channel 23. KTBN's request to change their digital channel to (UHF) channel 33 was approved by the FCC on February 5, 2009. This in effect changes the digital allotment for Santa Ana to channel 33.[1] This decision will ultimately displace KJLA's low-power analog translator KSMV-LP.
Queries to the FCC database on KTBN indicate that the station has a construction permit for digital UHF channel 33, which the station will use as its final post-transition digital allotment.
References
External links
- Official site for TBN
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTBN
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTBN-TV
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