KLTJ explained

Callsign:KLTJ
City:Galveston, Texas
Digital:23 (UHF)
Virtual:22
Owner:Word of God Fellowship
Licensee:Community Television Educators of Texas, Inc.
Location:Galveston–Houston, Texas
Country:United States
Callsign Meaning:Keep Looking to Jesus
Sister Stations:KDHU-LD
Former Callsigns:KUYA (1987–1989)
Former Channel Numbers:Analog: 22 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Former Affiliations:Religious independent
Erp:350 kW
Haat:5790NaN0
Facility Id:24436
Coordinates:29.5711°N -95.5106°W
Licensing Authority:FCC

KLTJ (channel 22) is a religious television station licensed to Galveston, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston area outlet for the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

History

The station was originally licensed to Galveston Educational TV, Inc. under the call sign KUYA; it is unknown whether the station ever went on the air under those call letters.

On July 20, 1989, Eldred Thomas moved the KLTJ religious programming inventory and call sign from channel 57 (frequency now occupied by KUBE-TV) to channel 22 to take advantage of an improved coverage area.

Before moving the call letters to Houston, Thomas owned KLTJ (channel 49, now KSTR-DT) in Dallas from 1983 to 1987; it was a sister station to radio outlet KVTT-FM (now KKXT), which Thomas also owned.[1]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Channel! scope = "col"
Res.AspectShort nameProgramming
22.1 KLTJ-DT Daystar
22.2 KLTJ-ES Daystar Español
22.3 KLTJ-SD Daystar Reflections

Analog-to-digital conversion

KLTJ discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, 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 23,[2] using virtual channel 22.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DFWRETROPLEX.COM - History of Television in Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas.
  2. Web site: DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds . PDF . March 24, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf . August 29, 2013 .