KNXT

For the TV station in Los Angeles, California which previously used the KNXT callsign, see KCBS-TV.
KNXT
Visalia/Fresno, California
United States
City Visalia, California
Branding Channel 49
Channels Digital: 50 (UHF)
Virtual: 49 (PSIP)
Subchannels KNXT-LP 38 Bakersfield
Affiliations Religious independent
Owner Diocese of Fresno Education Corporation
First air date November 2, 1986
Former channel number(s) Analog:
49 (UHF, 1986–2009)
Transmitter power 185 kW
Height 834 m
Facility ID 16950
Transmitter coordinates 36°17′14″N 118°50′20″W / 36.28722°N 118.83889°W / 36.28722; -118.83889
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.knxt.tv

KNXT, virtual 49 and UHF digital channel 50, is a religious independent television station located in Fresno, California, United States. The station is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno. KNXT maintains studio facilities located on North Fresno Street (just north of downtown Fresno), and its transmitter is located on Blue Ridge in rural northwestern Tulare County.

Background

Chancery
Master Control
Studio Cameras

The station first signed on the air on November 2, 1986; prior to the station's sign-on, the KNXT call letters were previously used downstate on the CBS owned-and-operated station on VHF channel 2 in Los Angeles from 1951 to 1984, when it adopted its current KCBS-TV calls.

Programming seen on KNXT is mainly of a Roman Catholic religious orient, with some shows being sourced from the Eternal Word Television Network; however, KNXT is somewhat less conservative doctrinally (but firmly in line with Catholic Church teachings). The station's programming consists of a mix of local daily and Sunday Mass, talk shows, music and variety programs, the Rosary, children's programs, and Catholic-targeted movies.

KNXT also carries a handful of Protestant produced programs that do not get into doctrinal issues (including children's shows), as well as some limited secular programming. The station's programming is simulcast on translator station KNXT-LP (channel 38) in Bakersfield. KNXT-LP was acquired by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno from Cocola Broadcasting on November 2, 2007, to serve as a repeater of KNXT.

KNXT is the only full-power, 24-hour Catholic-owned broadcast station in the United States that is not a member station of PBS, although many other Roman Catholic dioceses around the nation provide such programming to cable or closed-circuit television systems (although other television stations, including WWL-TV in New Orleans, KDTU (now KTTU) in Tucson, Arizona, WETG (now WFXP) in Erie, Pennsylvania, WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana, WTXX (now WCCT-TV) in Hartford, Connecticut, and WIHS-TV (now WSBK-TV) in Boston, have been owned by Catholic interests, all seven stations were commercial, primarily secular stations with limited Catholic programming).

KNXT Satellite Dishes
KNXT Satellite Dishes
Production studio

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
49.1 480i 4:3 Main KNXT programming

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNXT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 49, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 50.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 49.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNXT
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

External links

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