KFDR
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HAAT | 316 m (1,037 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 38°42′15″N 92°5′22″W / 38.70417°N 92.08944°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | ctnonline |
KFDR (channel 25) is a religious television station licensed to Jefferson City, Missouri, United States, serving the Columbia–Jefferson City market as an owned-and-operated station of the Christian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located near New Bloomfield, Missouri.
History
The station (originally KNLJ) first signed an agreement on Easter Sunday in 1986 at 3 p.m. to be a sister station and simulcast to KNLC in St. Louis; at that time, both stations were owned by Reverend Larry Rice's ministry, the New Life Evangelistic Center.
In September 1986, KNLJ broke away from KNLC while it was still running most of the same Christian programs (such as
In mid-2007, the station was sold to the Christian Television Network with the New Life Evangelistic Center retaining KNLC. Both secular and Christian programming was dropped in favor of simulcasting the Christian Television Network full-time. Religious groups had previously bought time on both CTN and KNLJ.
On March 13, 2023, the station changed its call sign to KFDR, in accordance with the approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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25.1 | 1080i | 16:9
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KFDR-HD | Main KFDR programming / CTN HD |
25.2 | 480i | 4:3
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Lifesty | CTN Lifestyle |
25.3 | CTNi | CTN International |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNLJ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 25, 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 20,[3] using virtual channel 25.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KFDR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KFDR
- ^ "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.