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KFVT-LD
CityWichita, Kansas
Channels
Programming
Affiliations34.1: Sonlife Broadcasting Network
34.2: getTV
34.3: Jewelry TV
34.4: Oxygen
34.5: LX
34.6: NTD
34.7: Ion Television
Ownership
OwnerDTV America Corporation
OperatorINNOVATE Corp.
(via LMA)
KCMN-LD, KAJF-LD, KPJO-LD
History
FoundedJanuary 26, 1994
Former call signs
K61GC (1994-2003)
KFVT-LP (2003-2016)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
61 (UHF, 1994-2003)
40 (UHF, 2003-2016)
Digital:
40 (UHF, 2016-2021)
Independent (until 2012) then MyNetworkTV (via KSBI, latter affiliation until 2014)
SSN (2014-201?)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID38217
ERP3 kW
HAAT597 feet (182 m)
Transmitter coordinates37°41′13″N 97°20′23″W / 37.68694°N 97.33972°W / 37.68694; -97.33972
Links
Public license information
LMS

KFVT-LD, virtual channel 34 (UHF digital channel 27) is a low-powered television station that is licensed to and serving Wichita, Kansas. The station is owned by Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America, and operated by INNOVATE Corp. (via the HC2 Broadcasting brand) through a Local marketing agreement.

History

The station signed on the air on January 26, 1994, as K61GC under ownership of Great Plains Television. The station's call letters were changed to KFVT-LP on February 28, 2003, and then to KFVT-LD on August 17, 2016. DTV America Corporation became KFVT's owner in 2015, with HC2 Broadcasting taking operations.

For most of its history, the station was a translator of then independent station KSBI of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (later became a MyNetworkTV affiliate in 2012). This ended with the station began running Soul of the South programming in 2014, possibly due to the area already having a MyNetworkTV affiliate, which was KMTW, Soul of the South soon Was replaced with Movies!. The station's second and third subchannels became available in December 2015. The second subchannel is a test pattern, and the third one provides programming from The Country Network. In 2016, a fourth subchannel was launched to carry the Sonlife Broadcasting Network.[2]

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KFVT-LD[3]
Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming
34.1 480i 4:3 KFVT-LD Sonlife
34.2 get
34.3 16:9 Jewelry TV
34.4 Oxygen
34.5 LX
34.6 NTD
34.7 Ion Television

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KFVT-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "SonLife Broadcasting Network | SBN | Jimmy Swaggart Ministries".
  3. ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KFVT". Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2014.

External links


Broadcast television in Central and Western Kansas, including Wichita, Salina, and Hutchinson
DTV America
Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the state of Kansas
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