KMCT-TV
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| City | West Monroe, Louisiana |
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First air date | April 7, 1986 |
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Call signmeaning | Monroe Christian Television |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 38584 |
| ERP | 25kW |
| HAAT | 92 m (302 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°30′21.2″N92°8′55.6″W/ 32.505889°N 92.148778°W |
| Translator(s) | KLMB-CD23El Dorado, AR |
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| Website | kmct |
KMCT-TV(channel 39) is areligiousindependenttelevision stationlicensed toWest Monroe, Louisiana,United States. The station is owned byCarolina Christian Broadcastingthrough subsidiary KMCT Holdings,LLC.KMCT-TV's studios and transmitter are located on Parkwood Drive in West Monroe.
History
[edit]KMCT was established by Rev. Jimmy Thompson and his company Carolina Christian Broadcasting in 1983. Two weeks after the station signed on, Rev. Charles Reed join the staff and assumed operations via his company, Lamb Broadcasting, when Thompson incurred financial troubles upon signing on a station inOregonin 1989. In 1993, Reed purchased the station outright.[2]The station moved to its current location on Parkwood Drive in 1991. It was an affiliate of Pax TV (nowIon Television) from the network's inception in 1998 until 2005. The station was bought by First Assembly of God of West Monroe in November 2009 when it became The Voice Network. In 2013, KMCT-TV became aMyNetworkTVaffiliate, with religious programming moved to DT2.[3]
In October 2014, the station's antenna collapsed during severe weather, knocking KMCT programmingoff the airand from cable. By March 2015, the station was back onComcastcable, and in September 2015, the station relaunched with a low power signal. In the interim, religious programming from KMCT aired on a subchannel of its former sister stationKWMS-LP.In late August 2016, KMCT began operating at full power, but eventually decided to drop all secular programming and become a religious independent station, withSonliferemaining on the second subchannel.[4]MyNetworkTV went unseen in the market for several months untilGray Televisionpicked it up in late 2017 for theirKNOE-DT3subchannel (which is an affiliate ofThe CW Plus), airing the service's programming from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m., overlaying default network-fed overnightpaid programmingfrom The CW Plus.[5]In 2018, KMCT added five subchannels:Ion Televisionto channel 39.2 (displacing Sonlife to 39.5),QVC Over the Airto channel 39.3,HSNto channel 39.4,Questto channel 39.6, andJustice Networkto channel 39.7. The station also has a secondary affiliation with The Walk TV, airing programming from that network overnight.
On May 1, 2018, it was announced that Carolina Christian Broadcasting would reacquire KMCT-TV for $600,000.[6]CCB would operate the station under atime brokerage agreement[7]prior to the sale's closing on June 19, 2019.[8]
Newscasts
[edit]From 2001 until 2005, KMCT aired rebroadcasts ofNBCaffiliateKTVE's newscasts at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. as part of an agreement with NBC and Pax.[citation needed]
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 39.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KMCT-HD | Main KMCT-TV programming |
| 39.2 | 480i | 4:3 | ION | Ion |
| 39.3 | COURT | Court TV | ||
| 39.4 | Defy | Defy TV | ||
| 39.5 | JEWELRY | Jewelry TV | ||
| 39.6 | Newsy | Scripps News | ||
| 39.7 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 39.8 | JUSTICE | True Crime Network | ||
| 39.9 | SBN | SonLife | ||
| 39.10 | QVC | QVC | ||
| 39.11 | LIGHT | TheGrio TV |
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]KMCT-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 39, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were totransition from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 38,[10]usingvirtual channel39.
Prior broadcast facility uses
[edit]The building and tower on Parkwood Drive in West Monroe used by KMCT-TV is the former facility of KLAA channel 14 (nowFoxaffiliateKARD-TV). KLAA signed on August 6, 1974,[11]and moved to new facilities in 1983. Prior to KLAA, the facility was used by KYAY channel 39 from KYAY's sign-on August 9, 1967, until going off the air August 16, 1971.[12]
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for KMCT-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^"Lamb Broadcasting CEO Charles Reed dies at 66," The News-Star, Monroe, LA, Pages 3A & 10A, February 18, 2004
- ^KMCT My39
- ^"The Voice Network Programming".thevoicenetwork.tv.RetrievedNovember 7,2017.
- ^TitanTV Query for KNOE
- ^"Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.May 1, 2018.RetrievedMay 7,2018.
- ^"KMCT TBA".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.April 30, 2018.RetrievedMay 7,2018.
- ^"Consummation Notice".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.June 19, 2019.RetrievedOctober 24,2019.
- ^"RabbitEars TV Query for KMCT".RabbitEars.info.RetrievedJune 5,2024.
- ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
- ^"Broadcasting Yearbook", 1979 edition, Page B-104ArchivedJuly 26, 2011, at theWayback Machine
- ^"Broadcasting Yearbook", 1974 edition, Page A-26[permanent dead link]
External links
[edit]- 1986 establishments in Louisiana
- Court TV affiliates
- Ion Plus affiliates
- Ion Television affiliates
- Mass media in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
- Religious television stations in the United States
- Scripps News affiliates
- Television channels and stations established in 1986
- Television stations in the Monroe–El Dorado market
- TheGrio affiliates
- True Crime Network affiliates
- West Monroe, Louisiana