WKTB-CD

WKTB-CD is a digital low-power class A TV station on channel 47 in metro Atlanta. Owned by Korean American TV Broadcasting, it broadcasts Spanish-language network, Telemundo on digital subchannel 47.1. It also produces its own TV programming including news in Korean, airing it as Korean Television Network (KTN) along with South Korean network KBS World on 47.2. Since November 2009, it carries Korean network Arirang on 47.3 and later infomercials (previously also Arirang) on 47.4; SKDTV/MBN was originally on 47.3 (now moved to WSKC-CA 22.1). Around early April 2011, channel 47.4 changed to Midwest Christian Television (MC-TV), a Korean-language Christian television network. All are in SDTV (480i).

History

The station was originally on Sweat Mountain, licensed to Roswell, Georgia on channel 67, and assigned W67CI from 1990 until changing in 2000. The change came as the FCC forced all LPTV stations to move out of channels 52 to 69, as all broadcasters are being forced to digital TV, and the upper channels over 51 sold off for other purposes. Programming prior to the change was mostly in Korean. It then became W38CU on channel 38 and switched to Telemundo, and had Atlanta as its new city of license.

As recently as 2008, it shared channel 38 with a modified construction permit for another class A LPTV station, WYGA-CA. That station was licensed to channel 55 (which became MediaFLO mobile TV, and now AT&T LTE cellular), and applied to change its CP from channel 38 to 45, along with an application for a major upgrade in power (once analog WGCL-TV 46 was shut-down in late June 2009). W38CU was listed with only 4.62 kW of ERP, apparently due to the proximity of WYGA-CA. W38CU used a somewhat directional antenna with a cardioid (heart-shaped) pattern, positioned just south of Norcross, Georgia, and with the slight null to the northeast. It does not appear to have reached as far southwest as Atlanta, its analog city of license. A CP issued for the station would have reduced analog coverage to the north and east even further. The current area covered around Doraville is home to large populations of Hispanics and especially Asians, which are the demographics to which it channels cater.

Digital television

This station obtained a permit to construct W47DN-D as its digital companion channel on 47. This went on the air in early July 2008, giving the station an omnidirectional antenna pattern that reaches much of the metro area. Its city of license is suburban Norcross, and its transmitter location remains just south of there on the northwest side of Interstate 85, along with the analog station. It became WKTB-LD by request in April 2009, and received a permit to increase power to 15 kW. W38CU became WKTB-CA at that time, but does not appear to be on-air since its change to digital. In January 2011, the digital station was granted its broadcast license and its class-A status, making it WKTB-CD.

Newscasts

WKTB does not offer full local newscasts. The station does offer three news briefs on weekday evenings; some content on these updates is provided via a news partnership with WSB-TV.^[1][2]

References

External links

• Official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WKTB
• Telemundo promo for new channel 47 digital
• Midwest Christian Television