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| City | Jefferson City, Missouri |
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| Branding | CTN Mid-Missouri |
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| History | |
First air date | March 30, 1986 (1986-03-30) |
Former call signs | KNLJ (1984–2023) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 25 (UHF, 1986–2009) |
| ReligiousInd. (1986–2007) | |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48521 |
| ERP | 1,000kW |
| HAAT | 316 m (1,037 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°42′15″N92°5′22″W / 38.70417°N 92.08944°W /38.70417; -92.08944 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | ctnonline |
KFDR (channel 25) is areligioustelevision station licensed toJefferson City, Missouri, United States, serving theColumbia–Jefferson Citymarket as anowned-and-operated station of theChristian Television Network (CTN). The station's transmitter is located nearNew Bloomfield, Missouri.
The station (originally KNLJ) first signed an agreement onEaster Sunday in 1986 at 3 p.m. to be asister station and simulcast toKNLC inSt. Louis; at that time, both stations were owned by Reverend Larry Rice's ministry, the New Life Evangelistic Center.
In September 1986, KNLJ broke away from KNLC while it was still running most of the same Christian programs (such asThe 700 Club,Richard Roberts,Jerry Falwell, among others) as well as locally produced programs from the ministry. They ran syndicatedcartoons, some classicsitcoms,westerns, and outdoor sporting programs about 12 hours a day. In 1990, KNLJ affiliated withFox Kids and also ranThe Disney Afternoon. When Mid-Missouri got its ownFox affiliate a few years later, the Fox Kids block moved there. As the 1990s progressed, the secular shows were becoming much cheaper.
In mid-2007, the station was sold to the Christian Television Network with the New Life Evangelistic Center retaining KNLC. Both secular and Christian programming was dropped in favor of simulcasting the Christian Television Network full-time. Religious groups had previously bought time on both CTN and KNLJ.
On March 13, 2023, the station changed its call sign to KFDR, in accordance with the approval from theFederal Communications Commission (FCC).
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 25.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KFDR-HD | CTN |
| 25.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Lifesty | CTN Lifestyle |
| 25.3 | CTNi | CTN International | ||
| 25.4 | N2 | Newsmax2 | ||
| 25.5 | 16:9 | BIZ-TV | Biz TV |
KNLJ shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 25, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 20, usingvirtual channel 25.[3]
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