KDTL-LD
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| Channels | |
| Branding | 4.7: First Alert 4 Weather NOW |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KMOV | |
| History | |
| Founded | April 2, 1990 |
First air date | September 28, 1992 |
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Call sign meaning | Daystar Television/St. Louis, for former owner |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 69791 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 250.5 m (822 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W / 38.52972°N 90.29944°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
KDTL-LD (channel 4.6) is a low-power television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Television 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[edit]
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, Daystar's commercial license arm, 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;[2] the sale was completed on July 1.[3]
As Daystar's programming has been carried by full-power station WPXS (channel 13) since it purchased the station in 2010, and the programming is duplicated in the inner core of St. Louis on in-market repeater KUMO-LD (channel 51), no arrangement to keep the network on the station was needed or made, and it currently broadcasts 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) currently carries Corner Store TV, an all-paid programming network, in a transition period while Gray acquires programming to place on it with its former affiliated network Circle winding down at the end of 2023.
Subchannels[edit]
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 4.6 | 480i | 16:9 | Corner | Corner Store TV (infomercials) |
| 4.7 | 720p | WXNow | First Alert 4 Weather Now |
References[edit]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KDTL-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
- ^ "Notification of Consummation". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. July 5, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KDTL". RabbitEars. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
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