Latter-day Saints Channel

{{short description|Radio station of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints}}

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = Latter-day Saints Channel

| logo = Mormon Channel icon.svg

| logo_size = 100px

| city = Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

| area = Salt Lake City and Worldwide

| branding = Latter-day Saints Channel

| airdate = {{dts|May 18, 2009}}

| frequency = FM: 102.7 KSL-FM HD2 and HD3

| format = Religious broadcasting

| former_callsigns = Mormon Channel (2009⁠—2019)

| erp = 25,000 watts

| haat = 1140 meters

| class = C

| facility_id = 54156

| callsign_meaning = K Salt Lake City

| owner = Deseret Management Corporation

| webcast = [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/latter-day-saints-channel/radio/music-247?lang=eng Streaming portal]

| website = [https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/latter-day-saints-channel/?cid=rdb_v_latter-day-saints-channel_SaintsChannel&lang=eng saintschannel.churchofjesuschrist.org]

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The Latter-day Saints Channel (formerly the Mormon Channel) is an over the air and Internet radio station owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.{{cite news|url=http://www.rwonline.com/article/81370|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20131021182901/http://www.rwonline.com/article/bonneville-gets-behind-new-39mormon-channel39/1325|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 21, 2013|title= Bonneville Gets Behind New 'Mormon Channel'|date=May 20, 2009|work=Radio World|access-date=4 February 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1298181BF0390FF0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Cricket & Seagull on MormonTimes.com: Mormon Channel – LDS radio|date=July 17, 2009 |work=The Deseret News|access-date=4 February 2010|location=Salt Lake City, UT}}{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1284A7BBDD6617B0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=LDS Church launches new radio network|date=May 19, 2009 |work=The Deseret News|access-date=4 February 2010|location=Salt Lake City, UT}}{{cite news|url=http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/steven_kapp_perry/?id=9662|title=Mormon Channel -- LDS radio |last=Perry |first=Steven Kapp |date=July 17, 2009|work=Mormon Times|access-date=4 February 2010}}

Broadcasting 24/7 from facilities at the LDS Church's headquarters, Latter-day Saints Channel broadcasts over the Internet via the station website and over the HD2 and HD3 channels of seven FM stations: KIRO-FM in Seattle, KSL-FM in Salt Lake City, KTAR-FM in Phoenix, WARH in St. Louis, WSHE-FM in Chicago, KOSI-FM in Denver, and WYGY in Cincinnati. KIRO, KSL, KOSI and KTAR are owned by Bonneville International, itself owned by the LDS Church; WARH, WSHE-FM, and WYGY are owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, but were owned by Bonneville as well until 2011. KSWD in Los Angeles formerly aired the network on HD4 until the station's sale to Entercom.

History

On September 17, 2019, as part of an organization-wide effort to focus on the church's full name, the channel was changed to "The Latter-day Saints Channel."{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/latter-day-saints-channel/mormon-channel-is-now-latter-day-saints-channel?lang=eng|title=Mormon Channel Is Now Latter-day Saints Channel|access-date=18 September 2019}}

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