KPCE-LP

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KPCE-LP

Green Valley, Arizona
Channels	29 (UHF) analog, no digital
Affiliations	Daystar
Owner	Word of God Fellowship
Founded	October 2, 1997
Call letters meaning	K PeaCE
Former callsigns	K29CO (1997-2000) (CP only)
Transmitter Power	23.1 kW
Height	499 m

KPCE-LP is a low-power television station in Green Valley, Arizona (Tucson), owned and operated by Word of God Fellowship, the business entity for the Daystar Television Network. It operates on analog channel 29 with its transmitter on Mount Hopkins in the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Green Valley.

[edit] History

An original construction permit for low-power television station K29CO, channel 29, was granted to Hispanic Broadcasters of Arizona, Inc. on October 2, 1997. It was to be a Spanish-language station, rebroadcasting Tucson-area station K14HR (now KUDF-LP). In November 2000, before the station signed on, Hispanic Broadcasters sold the permit to Good News Radio Broadcasting, Inc. of Green Valley (later Good Music, Inc.), owners of six radio stations in Tucson and Douglas. Good News Radio Broadcasting immediately changed the station's callsign to KPCE-LP and licensed the station three months later, on February 16, 2001, as a Daystar Television Network affiliate. After a few years of operation, the station went silent and in September 2005, Word of God Fellowship, Inc. acquired the license from Good Music, returning the station to air in May 2006. In June 2005, the FCC granted KPCE-LP a permit to construct new facilities at the antenna farm in the Tucson Mountains, west of downtown Tucson, and to change their city of license to Tucson. The permit, to expire in June 2008, would give KPCE-LP much greater coverage in the Tucson metropolitan area.

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Broadcast television in Tucson, Arizona (Nielsen DMA #70)
KFTU 3 / 34 (TFU) - KVOA 4 (NBC) - KUAT 6 / KUAS 27 (PBS) - KGUN 9 (ABC) - KMSB 11 (Fox) - KOLD 13 (CBS) - KUDF 14 (AZA) - KTTU 18 (MNTV) - K21CX 21 (HSN) - KPCE 29 (DS) - KWTA 31 (JTV) - K33CG 33 (TBN) - KHRR 40 (TEL) - KUVE 46 / 38 (UNI) - K54FW 54 (TBN) - KWBA 58 (The CW)