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| History | |
| Founded | 1992 |
First air date | December 1994 (1994-12)[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 2424 |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 96 metres (315 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°33′59.01″N121°28′47.05″W / 38.5663917°N 121.4797361°W /38.5663917; -121.4797361 |
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KBTV-CD (channel 8) is alow-power,Class Atelevision station inSacramento, California, United States, affiliated with thedigital television networkBuzzr. It is also a multiculturalindependent station, branded on-air asCrossings TV, on its second digital subchannel. KBTV-CD is owned byInnovate Corp. and its second subchannel is also available throughout theCentral Valley onComcast Xfinity channel 398.[3] The station's transmitter is located in downtown Sacramento. KBTV-CD on its second subchannel broadcasts programs in various ethnic languages as well as programming fromShop LC during the late-night hours.
KBTV-CD began broadcasting as K25EL in December 1994.[1] By 1997, it was airing programming from theAmerican Independent Network andAmerica One as well as local programming.[4] By 2004, it had changed formats to home shopping.[5]
In 2005, KBTV-LP was sold to a group of investors led by Frank Washington. The new owners converted it into a multicultural station airing imported and independently produced local programming in languages including Russian, Chinese, Tagalog, and Hmong; they also secured coverage on regionalComcast cable systems.[6] Washington had some experience with multicultural television, having installed such a format onKBCB in theSeattle market.[5] This service grew into Crossings TV by January 2013.[7]
Crossings itself, through Tower of Babel LLC, owned KBTV until 2010, when it was sold to Mako Communications, who conducted the station's conversion to digital television in December of that year. Mako attempted in 2013 to sell KBTV-CD to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations;[8] the sale fell through in June 2016.[9] Mako Communications sold its stations, including KBTV-CD, to HC2 Holdings (now Innovate Corp.) in 2017.[10]
Crossings TV moved from subchannel 8.1 to 8.2 on October 3, 2022, exchanging positions with the newly launchedVisión Latina, the United States television venture of theUniversal Church of the Kingdom of God, which had been added the month before.
On May 18, 2024, Visión Latina was dropped and the station affiliated withBuzzr.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 8.1 | 480i | 16:9 | KBTV-CD | Buzzr |
| 8.2 | 4:3 | Crossings TV /Shop LC (12am–6am)[3] | ||
| 8.3 | SonLife Broadcasting Network | |||
| 8.4 | 16:9 | 365BLK | ||
| 8.5 | Defy | |||
| 8.6 | Fubo Sports Network | |||
| 8.7 | Outlaw |
