KTVC
{{Short description|Television station in Roseburg, Oregon}}
{{for|the airport in Traverse City, Michigan, assigned the ICAO code KTVC|Cherry Capital Airport}}
{{distinguish|WTVC|KCTV|WCTV}}
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{{Infobox television station dual
| name1 = KTVC
| city1 = Roseburg, Oregon
| logo = BetterLifeTV.png
| logo_size = 200px
| branding = Better Life TV
| digital1 = 18 (UHF)
| virtual1 = 36
| affiliations = {{ubl|36.1: 3ABN|for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}}}
| country = United States
| founded1 = March 13, 1992
| airdate1 = {{start date and age|1994|7|18}}
| former_callsigns1 = KROZ (1994–1998)
| former_channel_numbers1 = Analog: 36 (UHF, 1994–2009)
| owner = Better Life Television, Inc.
| sister_stations = KBLN-TV
| former_affiliations1 = {{ubl|Independent (1994–1995, January−April 2009)|The WB (1995–1998)|Pax TV (1998–2002)|UPN (2002–2006)|RTN (2006–January 2009)}}
| erp1 = {{ubl|50 kW|42 kW (CP)}}
| haat1 = {{ubl|{{convert|212.8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}|{{convert|159.3|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} (CP)}}
| facility_id1 = 31437
| coordinates1 = {{ubl|{{coord|43|14|8.4|N|123|19|20.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KTVC}}|{{coord|43|14|7.4|N|123|22|58.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} (CP)}}
| licensing_authority = FCC
| website = {{URL|https://www.betterlifetv.tv/}}
| name2 = KAMK-LD
| city2 = Eugene, Oregon
| digital2 = 5 (VHF)
| virtual2 = 36
| airdate2 = {{start date and age|1993}}
| callsign_meaning2 = Gerald D. Kamp (former owner)
| former_affiliations2 = {{ubl|The Box/MTV2 (1993–1996)|The WB (1996–1998)|Pax TV (1998–2002)|UPN (2002–2006)|RTN (2006–January 2009)|Independent (January−April 2009)}}
| former_callsigns2 = {{ubl|K53EA (1993–1998)|KAMK-LP (1998–2012)}}
| former_channel_numbers2 = {{ubl|Analog: 53 (UHF, 1993–2012)|Digital: 49 (UHF, 2012–2018)}}
| erp2 = 0.5 kW
| haat2 = {{convert|297.7|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class2 = LD
| facility_id2 = 24009
| coordinates2 = {{coord|44|0|9.5|N|123|6|48.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KAMK-LD}}
}}
KTVC (channel 36) is a religious television station in Roseburg, Oregon, United States, affiliated with the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). The station is owned by Better Life Television, and maintains studios on Golden Valley Boulevard in Roseburg and a transmitter on Mount Rose northeast of the city.
KAMK-LD (channel 5) in Eugene operates as a translator of KTVC; this station's transmitter is located on Blanton Road.
History
The station began broadcasting on UHF channel 36 on July 18, 1994, under the call sign KROZ. It became a charter affiliate of The WB on January 11, 1995. It changed its calls to the current KTVC on September 4, 1998. 17 days later, the WB affiliation moved to cable-only KZWB, and KTVC affiliated with the then-new Pax TV.
In 2002, the station affiliated with UPN after the network moved from KEVU-LP. Under ownership of Equity Broadcasting, KTVC became an affiliate of Equity's Retro Television Network on September 16, 2006, when UPN ceased broadcasting. A newly created digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KMTR carries The CW, a network created by the merger of UPN and The WB, while KEVU-LP is affiliated with MyNetworkTV, a network from News Corporation, then-parent company of Fox.
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.[http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/local/article/whats_wrong_with_mytv/7919/ What’s Wrong with MyTV?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113030808/http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/local/article/whats_wrong_with_mytv/7919/ |date=January 13, 2009 }} As a result, Luken Communications restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customized feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KTVC lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vowed to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area.[http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/01/05/daily.5/ TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009.]
KTVC was sold at auction to Better Life TV on April 16, 2009.{{cite news|url=http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/14101.html |title=Takers found for 60 Equity stations |date=April 18, 2009 |work=Television Business Report |access-date=April 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424220318/http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/14101.html |archive-date=April 24, 2009 }} Upon the completion of the sale, the station began to air religious programming from new sister station KBLN, including 3ABN programming.{{cite web|url=http://betterlifetv.tv/updates.php|title=God is working out this miracle!|publisher=KBLN Better Life TV|access-date=April 20, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
The KTVC calls were previously used on what is now KBSD-TV in Dodge City, Kansas, from 1957 to 1989.
= KAMK-LP history =
KAMK-LP began as translator station K53EA in 1993, broadcasting The Box and later, MTV2. In 1996, K53EA began rebroadcasting KROZ which would change to KTVC. On January 1, 1998, K53EA became low power KAMK-LP. Calls reflected owner Gerald D. Kamp's last name.
On January 30, 2012, KAMK-LP switched to digital as KAMK-LD (channel 49), using virtual channel 36.1, to match KTVC's virtual channel. (It is not related to KXOR-LP, a defunct Azteca América station in Eugene that broadcast on UHF channel 36, though that channel carried 3ABN programming in the past.)
Technical information
=Subchannels=
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KTVC{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KTVC#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KTVC|website=RabbitEars|accessdate=April 23, 2025}} and KAMK-LD{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KAMK#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KAMK|website=RabbitEars|accessdate=April 23, 2025}} ! scope = "col" | Channel ! scope = "col" | Res. ! scope = "col" | Aspect ! scope = "col" | Short name ! scope = "col" | Programming |
| scope = "row" | 36.1 |
|---|
| scope = "row" | 36.2
| BLBN-2 || Better Health TV |
| scope = "row" | 36.3
| BLBN-3 || Nature Channel |
| scope = "row" | 36.4
| BLBN-4 || Vida Mejor TV |
=Analog-to-digital conversion=
KTVC shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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 18, using virtual channel 36.{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012 }}
See also
References
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{{Eugene TV}}
{{Other Oregon Stations}}
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Category:1994 establishments in Oregon
Category:Seventh-day Adventist media
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1994