KVTN-DT

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Victory Television Network (VTN)
KVTN-DT: Pine Bluff, Arkansas KVTH-DT: Hot Springs, Arkansas KVTJ-DT: Jonesboro, Arkansas United States

City	Little Rock, Arkansas
Branding	VTN
Slogan	Your Arkansas Christian Connection
Channels	Digital: KVTN-DT: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 25 (PSIP) KVTH-DT: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 26 (PSIP) KVTJ-DT: 48 (UHF) Virtual: 48 (PSIP)
Subchannels	xx.1 Main programming
Affiliations	Religious independent
Owner	Victory Television Network, Inc.
First air date	December 1, 1988
Call letters' meaning	All stations: Victory Television Fourth letter: see table below
Transmitter power	see table below
Height	see table below
Facility ID	see table below
Transmitter coordinates	see table below
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Television Network (VTN) Profile Television Network (VTN) CDBS
Website	www.vtntv.com

KVTN-DT, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 25), is a religious independent television station serving Little Rock, Arkansas, United States that is licensed to Pine Bluff. The station maintains studio facilities located on Napa Valley Drive in western Little Rock, and its transmitter facilities are located in rural southeastern Pulaski County, west-southwest of England.

KVTN operates two full-power satellite stations: KVTH-DT (virtual and UHF digital channel 26) in Hot Springs and KVTJ-DT (virtual and UHF digital channel 48) in Jonesboro. KVTH maintains transmitter facilities located in rural northern Hot Spring County, southeast of Lake Hamilton; KVTJ maintains transmitter facilities located in rural northeastern Poinsett County, due south of Trumann. KVTN-DT and its repeaters are collectively branded as the "Victory Television Network".

Background

The Victory Television Network was founded in 1988, by husband-and-wife Happy and Jeanne Caldwell. KVTN in Little Rock was the first station in the service to sign on the air, launching on December 1, 1988. VTN's programming is available on more than 225 cable systems across Arkansas, and KVTN is also carried on satellite within the Little Rock market through DirecTV and Dish Network.

VTN is the only Christian-oriented television network headquartered in Arkansas – the over-the-air signals and cable and satellite distribution of KVTN, KVTJ and KVTH reach 1.2 million homes across the state of Arkansas, western Tennessee (including the Memphis area), the bootheel of Missouri and portions of northern Mississippi. It is also one of the few religious independent stations that is located outside of a major U.S. television market.

VTN carries a combination of the most popular nationally syndicated Christian programs, as well as locally produced religious shows. The network also produces original program features such as Community Connection, More Than Champions and Southern Gospel Notes.

Stations

The VTN network comprises three stations:

Station	City of license	Channel	VC¹	First air date	4th letter’s meaning	ERP	HAAT	Facility ID	Transmitter Coordinates
KVTN-DT	Pine Bluff	24 (UHF)	25	December 1, 1988	Network (flagship station)	725 kW	355.5 m	607	34°31′55.7″N 92°2′41.6″W / 34.532139°N 92.044889°W / 34.532139; -92.044889
KVTH-DT	Hot Springs	26 (UHF)	26	April 2, 1995	Hot Springs	66.4 kW	258 m	608	34°22′20.2″N 93°2′48.9″W / 34.372278°N 93.046917°W / 34.372278; -93.046917 (KVTH-DT)
KVTJ-DT	Jonesboro	48 (UHF)	48	June 1998²	Jonesboro	780 kW	297 m	2784	35°36′13.1″N 90°31′18.5″W / 35.603639°N 90.521806°W / 35.603639; -90.521806 (KVTJ-DT)

Notes:

1. Virtual channel (PSIP).
2. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KVTJ signed on June 6, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on June 26.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[1]^[2]^[3]
xx.1	480i	4:3	VTN	Main VTN programming

Analog-to-digital conversion

KVTN, KVTH and KVTJ shut down their analog signals at 10 a.m. on February 9, 2009, eight days before the original target date for full-power television stations in the United States to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12). The post-transition channel allocations for the Victory Television Network stations are as follows:^[4]

KVTN's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 25 to former UHF analog channel 24.
KVTH's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26; through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as UHF channel 26, instead of its former analog-era UHF channel 14.
KVTJ's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48; through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as UHF channel 48, instead of its former analog-era UHF channel 49.

References

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

External links

Broadcast television in Central Arkansas, including Little Rock, Hot Springs and Pine Bluff

Local stations	KETS 2 / KEMV 6 / KETG 9 (x.1 PBS/AETN, x.2 Create, x.3 AETN Plus) KARK-TV (4.1 NBC) KATV (7.1 ABC, 7.2 Comet, 7.3 Grit) KTHV (11.1 CBS, 11.2 ANT, 11.3 Justice) KQPS-LD (14.1 TMD, 14.2 DrTV) KLRT-TV (16.1 Fox) KLRA-CD (20.1 UNI, 20.2 MeTV) KVTN-DT / KVTH (25.1/26.1 Religious Ind./VTN/TLN) KKYK-CD (30.1 Soul of the South TV, 30.2 Cozi TV, 30.3 QVC, 47.1 MundoMax, 49.1 MeTV / KMYA-DT) KKAP (36.1 DS) KASN (38.1 The CW) KARZ-TV (42.1 MNTV, 42.2 Bounce TV)

Defunct stations	KZJG-LP 9 (AMGTV, analog) K15FW (15.1 Ind.) KRTV 17 (CBS/NBC) KLEP 17 (Edu. Ind.) KJLR-LP 28 (AMGTV, analog)

See also Jonesboro TV Memphis TV Fort Smith TV Springfield TV El Dorado / Monroe TV Greenwood TV Texarkana TV

Television stations in Northeastern Arkansas, including Jonesboro and Paragould

Local stations	KAIT (8.1 ABC, 8.2 NBC) KTEJ (AETN) (19.1 PBS) KPMF-LD (26.4 TCN) K30MF-D (30.1 Silent/Future MyNetworkTV) KJNB-LD 39/ KJNE-LD 42 (.1 Fox, .2 CBS) KVTJ (VTN) (48.1 ind./rel.)

Local cable channels	ASU-TV (Arkansas State University) "KJOS" (CW+)

Defunct stations	K27FC 27 (TBN) K45AY 45 (Ind.)

Adjacent locals	Cape Girardeau, MO KFVS-TV (12.2 CBS, 12.2 The CW/Me-TV, 12.3 Grit) Memphis, TN WREG (3.1 CBS, 3.2 NC3A, 3.3 Antenna TV) WMC-TV (5.1 NBC, 5.2 Bounce TV, 5.3 Grit WHBQ-TV (13.1 Fox, 13.2 Movies!, 13.3 Decades) WLMT (30.1 The CW, 30.2 Me-TV/MyNetworkTV) Little Rock, AR KTHV (11.1 CBS, 11.2 WXNation, 11.3 Justice)

See also Little Rock TV Paducah TV Memphis TV

Other television stations in the state of Arkansas

Fort Smith/Fayetteville market	KFDF-CD 10 / 44.1 (This TV/Me-TV/WN, Fort Smith) KWNL-CD 31 / KXUN-LD 43 (UNI, Winslow) KFSM 5.2/KXNW 34.1 (MNTV/ANT, Eureka Springs) KWOG 57 (Daystar, Springdale)

Jonesboro market	KVTJ 48 (Religious Ind./VTN/TLN, Jonesboro)

Little Rock market	KVTN 25 / KVTH 26 (Religious Ind./VTN/TLN, Pine Bluff / Hot Springs) KKAP 36 (Daystar, Little Rock) KMYA-DT 49 / KLRA-CD 20 (Me-TV, Camden / Little Rock) KKYK-CD 58 (Univision, Little Rock)

Springfield, MO market	KTKO-LP 8 (Ion, Harrison) K26GS 26 (RTV/ANT/This/Me, Harrison) K54FH 54 (CTN/FN, Green Forest)

Defunct	KJLR-LP 28 (AMGTV, Little Rock)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Arkansas

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