KTNC-TV
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| HAAT | 511.7 m (1,679 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°45′19″N 122°27′10″W / 37.75528°N 122.45278°W |
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KTNC-TV (channel 42) is a religious television station licensed to Concord, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as an owned-and-operated station of Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter, shared with KMTP-TV, KCNS, and KEMO-TV, is located atop Sutro Tower in San Francisco.
History
As an independent station
The station first signed on the air on June 19, 1983, as KFCB, which was originally owned by First Century Broadcasting (later known as Family Christian Broadcasting)—from which the station's original call letters were taken. At that time, its president was Reverend Ronn Haus. A majority of the station's broadcast day was devoted to Christian programming, including its own in-house productions. The station's flagship program was called California Tonight (later retitled Coast to Coast), a Christian talk show with sermons, conversations with religious topics and musical guests. The program utilized an applause cart (audio tape cartridge) to give the viewers the impression that a studio audience was present during the tapings. Other programs seen on the station included The 700 Club, Dr. Robert Schuller's Hour of Power and various other local and national religious programs, usually of an evangelical nature.
In its earliest years, KFCB supplemented the religious programs with
KFCB's studios were originally located at 5101 Port Chicago Highway, in the industrial section of north Concord, just north of the interchange with State Route 4. Later, space was leased in a neighboring office building for additional offices and a larger studio. Only the cameras (three RCA TK-761's) were moved to the new studio, with the control room remaining in the original building. The new studio boasted an unusual feature—a restroom in the middle of the studio floor, the result of the studio being located in a roughed-in, but unfinished, office structure. The restroom was placed off-limits during tapings as a result of not being soundproof. The RCA transmitter was located on the north peak of Mount Diablo, in a very difficult to access building which was barely large enough to house the transmitter itself—the result of challenges from environmentalists against the station's original application for a construction permit. An engineer working on the front panel of the transmitter was actually standing outside the building itself (the North Peak transmitter site was decommissioned in June 2009, while the digital transmitter was located on Mt. Diablo's main peak).
KFCB maintained a full-time production staff and generated much of its own programming, primarily short ministry programs with local ministers. A Sunday afternoon public-affairs program, Open Forum, covered secular community issues and was the result of an agreement between First Century Broadcasting and a competing applicant for the channel 42 license. The program was later replaced by a similar show, The Informed Viewer.
Around 1988, a translator station, K34AV, was built in
In 1990, the license renewal application of KFCB came under fire from minority groups for alleged failures to comply with the equal employment opportunity regulations of the
In 1997, Pappas acquired KFWU-TV in Fort Bragg in 1997 from Sainte Limited,[2] at which point KFWU became a satellite of KTNC (though at first, KFWU was considered the main station and KTNC the satellite).[3] That station became KUNO-TV in 2003.
KUNO was sold to Jeff Chang in July 2010.
As a Spanish-language station
KTNC was among the earliest affiliates of
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including KTNC and KUNO, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval.[10]
KTNC affiliated with Estrella TV upon its launch in 2009.[11] On January 18, 2013, NRJ TV announced that it would acquire KTNC-TV from Titan TV Broadcast Group for $13.5 million, as part of a two-station deal that also included Houston sister station KUBE-TV; Titan TV Broadcast Group would continue to operate the stations upon the sale's consummation. The acquisition of KTNC created a legal duopoly with MundoMax affiliate KCNS (channel 38, which was bought by NRJ for $15 million in 2011); Titan Broadcast Management maintains a one-third equity stake in NRJ TV.[12] The sale was consummated on July 1.[13]
KTNC was the
Return to English-language programming
On
On February 5, 2018, the station dropped NTDTV programming and became affiliated with the SF Primetime TV network, also referred to as LA Primetime TV, or just Primetime TV. The network emanated from Los Angeles–area station KSCI. Primetime TV aired weekdays from 11 a.m. to 12 noon and 7 to 9 p.m. KTNC also aired programming from GoodTV USA weekdays from 10 to 10:30 a.m.
On December 9, 2019, it was announced that WRNN-TV Associates, owner of
On October 6, 2020, it was announced that Radiant Life Ministries (a sister company to Tri-State Christian Television) would purchase KTNC-TV for $7.75 million;[17] the sale was completed on November 30.[18]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
TCT | TCT |
| 42.2 | 480i | ESNE | ESNE TV (Spanish) |
Analog-to-digital conversion
On June 3, 2009, the FCC announced that KTNC would be one of 35 stations to go dark at the end of the
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTNC-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Application Search Details (3)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- ^ "Memorandum Opinion and Order". Federal Communications Commission. July 23, 1997. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- ^ "San Francisco television station going to LPTV group owner". Television Business Report. July 12, 2010. Archived from the original on July 1, 2011. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ^ "San Francisco's Ch. 8 To Go RetroTV". TVNewsCheck. August 19, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
- ^ McClellan, Steve (September 22, 2002). "Network in the making". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- ^ "KAZH-TV to lose Azteca America affiliation". Houston Business Journal. April 3, 2009.
- ^ "Pappas Telecasting Announces New Spanish-Language Programming Initiative" (Press release). Pappas Telecasting. June 12, 2007. Archived from the original on August 19, 2007.
- ^ Malone, Michael (June 29, 2007). "Azteca Branches Out". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- ^ "New World Gets Pappas TVs for $260M". TVnewsday. January 16, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ Malone, Michael (July 9, 2009). "Angulo Named KTNC GM". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved November 27, 2009.
- ^ NRJ Adds 2 Stations To Portfolio For $32.5M, TVNewsCheck, January 18, 2013.
- ^ "CDBS Print".
- ^ "RNN Reaches Agreement to Increase Permanent Distribution Platform to 28 Percent of the US with NRJ Purchase" (Press release). December 9, 2019.
- ^ "Application Search Details".
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- ^ "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. October 6, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. November 30, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KTNC
- ^ "Updated: FCC: 35 Stations To Go Dark June 12". MultichannelNews. June 3, 2009. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
- ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine