KCWV

KCWV

Duluth, Minnesota United States
Channels	Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 27
Branding	TCT
Programming
Affiliations	27.01: TCT for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Tri-State Christian Television (Radiant Life Ministries, Inc.)
History
Founded	December 6, 2006
First air date	November 30, 2009 (15 years ago) (2009-11-30)
Former affiliations	My Family TV (2009–2010) The Walk TV (2010–2013) AMGTV (2013–2020)
Call sign meaning	Station launched with unrealized attempt at a CW affiliation^[citation needed]
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	166511
ERP	40 kW 62.5 kW (CP)[2]
HAAT	207 m (679 ft) 218.1 m (716 ft) (CP)[2]
Transmitter coordinates	46°47′7″N 92°7′16″W
Translator(s)	K17OV-D Duluth K30QX-D Duluth
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.tct.tv

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.^[3] The sale was completed on September 15; the stations became owned-and-operated stations of the TCT network two days later.^[4]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KCWV^[5]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
27.01	720p	16:9	KCWV HD	TCT
27.02	480i		SBN	SonLife
27.03			ShopLC	Shop LC
27.04			Bounce	Bounce TV
27.05			Start	Start TV
27.06			Buzzr	Buzzr
27.07			GetTV	Get
27.08			GodTV	God TV
27.09			Toons	MeTV Toons
27.10		4:3	Positiv	Positiv
27.11			ONTV4U	OnTV4U

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for KCWV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. "Amendment to a Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 9, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
3. "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
4. Ellis, Jon (September 18, 2020). "Duluth TV Station Changes Network Following Sale". Northpine.com. Retrieved September 19, 2020.
5. RabbitEars TV Query for KCWV

External links

• Official website
• Technical exhibit submitted as part of Flinn's application for a new station