KITU-TV
KITU-TV, virtual channel 34 (UHF digital channel 29), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station licensed to Beaumont, Texas, United States and serving southeast Texas' Golden Triangle region. The station is owned by the Community Educational Television subsidiary of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which manages TBN-owned stations in Texas and Florida on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. KITU-TV's studios are located on Interstate 10 in Orange, and its transmitter is located in Mauriceville.
Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange, Texas United States | |
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City | Beaumont, Texas |
Channels | Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 34 (PSIP) |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 34.1: TBN (O&O) 34.2: Hillsong Channel 34.3: Smile 34.4: Enlace 34.5: Positiv |
Ownership | |
Owner | Trinity Broadcasting Network (Community Educational Television, Inc.) |
History | |
Founded | November 21, 1984 |
First air date | June 1986[1] |
Former call signs | KITU (1986–2005) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 34 (UHF, 1986–2009) Digital: 33 (UHF, until 2018) |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 12896 |
ERP | 920 kW |
HAAT | 312 m (1,024 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°10′42″N 93°54′27″W |
Links | |
Public license information | Profile LMS |
Website | KITU's page on TBN's website |
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
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34.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | Main TBN programming |
34.2 | Hillsng | Hillsong Channel | ||
34.3 | 480i | 4:3 | SMILE | Smile |
34.4 | Enlace | Enlace | ||
34.5 | 16:9 | Positiv | Positiv |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.[2]
KITU shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on that date. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 33.[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 34.
References
- The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says June 21, while the Television and Cable Factbook says June 20.
- RabbitEars TV Query for KITU
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
External links
- TBN official website
- KITU in the FCC's TV station database
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KITU-TV