KSCE

KSCE
El Paso, Texas United States

Branding	KSCE TV 38 Christian Television
Channels	Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 38 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Religious independent
Owner	Channel 38 Christian Television
First air date	April 15, 1989
Call letters' meaning	St. Clement's Episcopal Parish School (original owners)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Transmitter power	50 kW
Height	557 m
Facility ID	10202
Transmitter coordinates	31°48′18.9″N 106°29′0.8″W / 31.805250°N 106.483556°W / 31.805250; -106.483556
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.kscetv.com

KSCE, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 39), is a religious independent television station located in El Paso, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Channel 38 Christian Television. KSCE maintains studio facilities located on Wyoming Avenue (northwest of I-10) in northwest El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.

History

The station first signed the station on the air on April 15, 1989, operating on a non-commercial license. The call letters initially stood for "Saint Clements Episcopal," as the station was originally intended to be an outreach by Saint Clements Episcopal School in downtown El Paso. However, the school lost interest in television broadcasting and the station's controlling board of directors appointed Grace Rendall, a former director at KCIK-TV (channel 14, now KFOX-TV) as the station's manager before KSCE went on the air.

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[1]
39.1	720p	16:9	KSCE-DT	Main KSCE programming

Analog-to-digital conversion

KSCE shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 38, at 6:00 p.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 39.^[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 38.

On April 20, 2010, KSCE filed a request for a special temporary authorization with the Federal Communications Commission to resume operating an analog signal on UHF channel 38, to broadcast information regarding the dangers to those travelling across the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the ongoing drug wars in Mexico, on justification that most people in need of the information are unable to afford digital televisions or digital converter boxes.^[3] On June 9, 2010, the FCC denied their request to restore their analog signal.

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Television stations in the El Paso/Las Cruces/Juárez area

Local stations	KDBC (4.1 CBS, 4.2 MNTV/This TV) KVIA (7.1 ABC, 7.2 CW, 7.3 StormTRACK 24/7, 7.4 K42DJ/AZA) KTSM (9.1 NBC, 9.2 Estrella TV) KCOS (13.1 PBS, 13.2 EPCC-TV, 13.3 Create) KFOX (14.1 Fox, 14.2 RTV) KINT (26.1 UNI, 26.2 UniMás, 26.3 MundoFox) KSCE (38.1 Religious Ind, 38.2 Spanish releigious Ind, 38.3 Unknown, 38.4 Scriptures) K26KJ (40.1 Multimedios Televisión) KTFN (65.1 UniMás, 65.2 MundoFox, 65.3 LATV)

Las Cruces	KCWF-CA (4.1 CBS, 4.2 MNTV) K41KY-D (7.1 ABC, 7.2 CW, 7.3 StormTRACK 24/7, 7.4 K42DJ/AZA) K54GR (9.1 NBC, 9.2 Estrella TV) KRWG (22.1 PBS, 22.2 World, 22.3 V-me) KLCP (30.1 GLC) K42DJ (42.1 AZA) KTDO (48.1 TMD, 48.2 Inmi)

Ciudad Juárez	XEPM (2.1 Televisa Regional HD) XEJ (5.1 Gala TV, 5.2 Spanish Independent HD) XHCJE (11.1 Azteca 13 HD, 11.2 Proyecto 40 HD) XHCJH (20.1 Azteca 7 HD) XHJCI (32.1 Canal de las Estrellas HD, 32.2 Canal de las Estrellas HD) XHIJ (44.1 Cadenatres, 44.2 Cadenatres/IND, 44.3 Educational, 44.4 Milenio Television) XHJUB (56.1 Canal 5 HD)

Texas Broadcast television areas by city Abilene/Sweetwater Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) Austin (Hill Country) Beaumont/Port Arthur Corpus Christi Dallas–Fort Worth (North Texas) Ciudad Acuña – Del Rio Eagle Pass El Paso (West Texas) Houston Laredo Lubbock (South Plains) Midland–Odessa (Permian Basin) Presidio Rio Grande Valley San Angelo San Antonio Sherman/Ada, OK Texarkana/Shreveport, LA Tyler/Longview (East Texas) Victoria Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK New Mexico Broadcast television areas by city Albuquerque/Santa Fe Amarillo, TX El Paso, TX Odessa/Midland, TX Chihuahua Broadcast television areas by city Camargo Cuauhtemoc Chihuahua City Ciudad Juárez Delicias Ojinaga

Religious television stations in Texas

Trinity Broadcasting Network KETH 14 (Houston) KHCE 23 (San Antonio) K25GI 25 (Amarillo) KITU 34 (Beaumont) KLNM-LD 42 (Lufkin) K43DV 43 (Victoria) KLUJ 44 (Harlingen) K44HH 44 (Lubbock) KDTX 58 (Dallas) Daystar KDTN 2 (Denton) KDAX-LP 13 (Amarillo) KLTJ 22 (Galveston) KQVE-LP 46 (San Antonio) God's Learning Channel KPTB-DT 16 (Lubbock) KPTF-DT 18 (Farwell) KMLM-DT 42 / KPCB 17 (Odessa / Snyder) Other stations K17HI-D (3ABN, Amarillo) KBOP 20 (Hope Channel / 3ABN, DeSoto / DFW) KHPK-LD 28 (Sonlife, DeSoto / DFW) KWDA 30 (Religious Independent, DeSoto / DFW) K31GL 31 (Sonlife, DeSoto / DFW) KJJM-LD 34 (UAN, DFW) KSCE 38 (Religious Independent, El Paso) KTXD 47 (UAN, Greenville / DFW) KHFD 51 (Religious Independent, Dallas) KZFW 53 (Religious Independent, Royse City / DFW) former stations KXTX-TV 39 (CBN, DFW, now a Telemundo O&O station.) KKCP-LP 50 (God's Learning Channel), (San Angelo, now defunct)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox ION MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Texas See also Telemundo UniMás Univision Azteca América MundoFox Religious Other Spanish language stations in Texas