Callsign: | K11UU-D |
Branding: | Hope Channel American Samoa |
Digital: | 11 (VHF) |
Virtual: | 11 |
Callsign Meaning: | Sequentially assigned by the FCC |
Former Callsigns: | K11UU (2002–2011) |
Former Channel Numbers: | Analog: 11 (VHF, 2002–2011) |
Location: | Pago Pago, American Samoa |
Owner: | American Samoa Adventist Media Ministry, Inc. |
Erp: | 3 kW |
Haat: | -0.70NaN0 |
Class: | LD |
Facility Id: | 130292 |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
K11UU-D (channel 11) is a low-power independent television station in Pago Pago, American Samoa, owned by American Samoa Adventist Media Ministry, Inc.
Pacific Channel Samoa (PCS TV), a company owned by Bill Hyman, received a construction permit to build a new channel 11 low-power television station at Pago Pago on January 18, 2002; the station filed for a license to cover on October 14, 2003. Pacific Channel Samoa transferred the license to co-owned Samoa Systems, Inc. in 2010. PCS-TV converted to digital that same year; at that time, it broadcast Australia Network most of the day, live sports from New Zealand and Fiji, and religious programs on the Baháʼí Faith.[1]
Hyman's finances suffered after he lost money making a movie in the early 2010s, prompting him to consider selling the television station.[2] In August 2016, Hyman sold K11UU-D to a Seventh-Day Adventist media group,[3] which he had selected to purchase the station, since it would continue to air religious fare. PCS programming moved to the 11.2 subchannel, and channel 11.1 relaunched as a local outlet under the Hope Channel banner.[4]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | |
---|---|---|---|---|
11.1 | Hope Channel | |||
11.2 | PCS TV | |||
11.3 | (Blank) | |||
11.4 | (Blank) |