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| City | Ashland, Kentucky |
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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 |
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| ERP | 8 kW |
| HAAT | 174.1 m (571 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°25′11″N 82°24′6″W / 38.41972°N 82.40167°W / 38.41972; -82.40167 |
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| Website | www |
WTSF (channel 61) is a religious television station licensed to Ashland, Kentucky, United States, serving the Huntington–Charleston, West Virginia market. The station is owned by the Daystar Television Network. WTSF'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's Rotary Park.
History
WTSF signed on as a commercial independent 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 national charismatic 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.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Short name | Programming |
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| 61.1 | 1080i | WTSF-HD | Daystar |
| 61.2 | 720p | WTSF-ES | Daystar Español |
| 61.3 | 480i | WTSF-SD | Daystar Reflections |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WTSF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, 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 44, using virtual channel 61.45
References
References
- "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- Preson, Tim (December 15, 2008). "Broadcasting the message". The Independent Online. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
- "RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF". RabbitEars. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- CDBS Print