WTSF

WTSF
Ashland, Kentucky/
Huntington–Charleston, West Virginia
United States
City Ashland, Kentucky
Channels Digital: 44 (UHF)
(to move to 13 (VHF))
Virtual: 44 (PSIP)
Affiliations Daystar (O&O; 2003–present)
Owner Word of God Fellowship, Inc.
(Tri State Family Broadcasting, Inc.)
First air date April 30, 1983 (1983-04-30)
Call letters' meaning Tri-State Family Broadcasting
Former channel number(s) 61 (UHF analog, 1983–2009)
61 (PSIP digital, –2009)
Former affiliations Commercial Ind. (1982–1983)
Religious Ind. (1983–2003)
Transmitter power 50 kW
8 kW (CP)
Height 174.1 m (571 ft)
Facility ID 67798
Transmitter coordinates 38°25′11″N 82°24′6″W / 38.41972°N 82.40167°W / 38.41972; -82.40167
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.daystar.com

WTSF, virtual and UHF digital channel 44, is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station licensed to Ashland, Kentucky, United States and serving the Huntington–Charleston, West Virginia television market. Owned by Word of God Fellowship, the station maintains studios on Bath Avenue in Ashland, and its transmitter is located on a very short tower in Huntington's Rotary Park.

History

The station signed on as a commercial venture in September 1982, however it was not successful and was soon donated to a local religious group. It continued as such until 2003 when the station was sold to the Daystar national charismatic Christian network and, with a few exceptions, ended local programming.

While it was locally produced, the bulk of the channel's programming consisted of fundraising to continue broadcasting.

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
44.1480i4:3WTSFDaystar

Analog-to-digital conversion

WTSF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 44.[2][3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 61, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ CDBS Print
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