KCWV explained

Callsign:KCWV
Branding:TCT
Digital:27 (UHF)
Virtual:27
Founded:December 6, 2006
Location:Duluth, Minnesota
Country:United States
Callsign Meaning:Station launched with unrealized attempt at a CW affiliation
Owner:Tri-State Christian Television
Licensee:Radiant Life Ministries, Inc.
Facility Id:166511
Coordinates:46.7853°N -92.1211°W
Licensing Authority:FCC

KCWV (channel 27) is a religious television station in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, owned and operated by Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's transmitter is located on the former KDLH tower on Duluth's Observation Hill.

History

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted George S. Flinn III a construction permit for the digital-only station on channel 27 on December 6, 2006. The station signed on November 30, 2009.

Flinn is a Memphis businessman who, until 2007, owned Ion Television affiliates WPXX-TV in Memphis and WPXL-TV in New Orleans.

At its start, KCWV was affiliated with My Family TV. Within a year after the station debuted, it affiliated with Legacy TV, a small Christian broadcasting network. Towards the end of 2012, the religious network rebranded from Legacy TV to The Walk TV. During late October 2013, KCWV changed affiliations again to AMGTV, a family-oriented television network.

On September 17, 2014, it was announced that KCWV would be off the air for a couple of months, as its tower was undergoing replacement. It returned to the air on September 21, 2015, from a new, shorter tower. Since that point it has continued to broadcast intermittently, having been off the air from a period of the spring of 2018 until coming back in May 2019, continuing to carry AMGTV. The station has never sold local commercial advertising.

On May 28, 2020, Flinn Broadcasting Corporation announced that it would sell KCWV, along with sister stations WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi, WBIH in Selma, Alabama, and WFBD in Destin, Florida, to Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television for an undisclosed price.[1] The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became owned-and-operated stations of the TCT network two days later.[2]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Channel! scope = "col"
Res.AspectShort nameProgramming
27.01 KCWV HD TCT
27.02 SBN SonLife
27.03ShopLC Shop LC
27.04 Bounce Bounce TV
27.05 Start Start TV
27.06 Buzzr Buzzr
27.07 GetTV Get
27.08GodTV God TV
27.09INFO CH Infomercials
27.10ONTV4U Infomercials

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License. CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 28, 2020. May 30, 2020.
  2. Web site: Duluth TV Station Changes Network Following Sale. Jon. Ellis. Northpine.com. September 18, 2020. September 19, 2020.