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WTSF
Ashland, Kentucky; Huntington–Charleston, West Virginia; ; United States;
City	Ashland, Kentucky
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF); Virtual: 61;
Programming
Affiliations	61.1: Daystar; 61.2: Daystar Español;
Ownership
Owner	Word of God Fellowship, Inc.; (Tri State Family Broadcasting, Inc.);
History
First air date	April 30, 1983 (40 years ago)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 61 (UHF, 1983–2009); Digital: 44 (UHF, until 2020); Virtual: 44 (2009–2019);
Former affiliations	Commercial Ind. (1982–1983); Religious Ind. (1983–2003);
Call sign meaning	Tri-State Family Broadcasting
Technical information
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
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.daystar.com

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:

Subchannels of WTSF^[2]
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
61.1	720p	16:9	WTSF-HD	Daystar
61.2	480i	16:9	WTSF-ES	Daystar Español

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,^[3]^[4] using virtual channel 61.

References edit

^ "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF
^ "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

External links edit

Daystar website

[1] "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF

[3] "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.

[FCCForm387-4] CDBS Print

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