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| City | Ashland, Kentucky |
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| History | |
First air date | April 30, 1983 (1983-04-30) |
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Call sign meaning | Tri-State Family Broadcasting |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 67798 |
| ERP | 8 kW |
| HAAT | 174.1 m (571 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°25′11″N82°24′6″W / 38.41972°N 82.40167°W /38.41972; -82.40167 |
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| Website | www |
WTSF (channel 61) is areligioustelevision station licensed toAshland, Kentucky, United States, serving theHuntington–Charleston, West Virginiamarket as anowned-and-operated station of theDaystar Television Network. The station's studios are located in the former Coles Junior High School building on Bath Avenue in Ashland, and its transmitter is located on a very short tower in Huntington'sRotary Park.
WTSF signed on as acommercialindependent television station in September 1982. However, it was not successful and was soon donated to a local religious group, later broadcasting out of the former Coles Junior High School building, which has housed the station ever since.[2] It continued as such until 2003 when the station was sold to the Daystar nationalcharismatic 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.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 61.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WTSF-HD | Daystar |
| 61.2 | 720p | WTSF-ES | Daystar Español | |
| 61.3 | 480i | WTSF-SD | Daystar Reflections |
WTSF shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 61, 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 44, usingvirtual channel 61.[4][5]
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