WKUT-LD
| Bowling Green, Kentucky | |
|---|---|
| City of license | Bowling Green, Kentucky |
| Channels |
Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 25 (PSIP)[1] |
| Affiliations | Silent |
| Owner |
DTV America Corporation (Budd Broadcasting Co., Inc.) |
| Founded | January 2, 2007[2] |
| First air date |
January 2007 (original launch) TBA (reincarnation) |
| Last air date | circa 2010 (original incarnation) |
| Call letters' meaning | W KentUcky’s TBN |
| Sister station(s) | WCZU-LD, WKUW-LD |
| Former callsigns | WKUT-LP (January 2-February 15, 2007) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 64 (UHF, 2007-2010) |
| Former affiliations | TBN (2007-2010) |
| Transmitter power | 13.5 kW = 13,500 watts |
| Height | 547 feet (167 m) |
| Class | Low-powered Digital (LD) |
| Facility ID | 168485 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°57′37″N 86°32′49″W / 36.96028°N 86.54694°W |
| Website | TBN.org |
WKUT-LD is a low-powered television station licensed to and expected to serve Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. The station is currently silent, and it is unknown when or if the station will sign on. The station is owned by Budd Broadcasting Co., Inc based in Gainesville, Florida, making it the sister station of former White House, TN-licensed TBN O&O translator WKUW-LD.
This station is currently dark and silent, and it is therefore unknown when and if the station will sign back on the air. It is also unknown if this station will get affiliated with a different network or remain a TBN affiliated translator. When and if WKUT signs on the air, it will broadcast on UHF channel 32, but through the use of PSIP, it will be displayed on tuners as virtual channel 25.
History
The station was originally licensed to Glasgow, Kentucky, located in Barren County, Kentucky, with the callsign WKUT-LP, broadcasting on analog UHF channel 64. [3]The station’s construction permit was granted by the FCC on January 2, 2007. The signal mainly reached most of Barren County, and pathetically small areas of eastern Warren and southeast Edmonson Counties (e.g. Hays, Rocky Hill, Pondsville), and never reached Bowling Green, the principal city of the local media market. The current WKUT-LD calls came on February 15, 2007 in an attempt to convert the station to digital. In 2010, the station went silent after being purchased by Budd Broadcasting, and the city of license was changed to Bowling Green.
Before WKUT went silent, it was a very low-powered owned-and-operated translator of TBN, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The nearest full-powered TBN station, however, has always been Hendersonville, Tennessee-licensed WPGD-TV since its inception in September 1992. TBN also operated WKUW-LP on analog channel 60, which was also licensed to Glasgow, and at one time was licensed to Smith’s Grove, until 2010 when they sold it to Budd Broadcasting, who relocated that station to White House, Tennessee, located within the Nashville media market, which is the home market for WPGD. WKUW is expected to be relocated to the immediate Nashville area at an unknown date.
Currently, WPGD (UHF channel 33, virtual channel 50) serves as the default over-the-air TBN station for the Bowling Green media market, even though TBN, along with its associated sister multi-cast networks (e.g. The Church Channel, JUCE TV, Smile of a Child TV), is widely available on virtually all cable television systems. The area can also receive TBN via both major satellite TV providers (e.g. Dish Network and DirecTV). Some parts of the Bowling Green market could receive WPGD’s signal with an antenna, mainly in Warren, Barren, and southern Butler Counties, along with a small sliver of Edmonson County. Other than WPGD’s southern Kentucky coverage, Scottsville-licensed WPBM-CD is currently Bowling Green’s only local religious station as they provide local religious programming along with programming from FamilyNet. Other than that, religious programming on a local level is only offered on Sunday mornings through WBKO and its subchannels.
The elected site of WKUT-LD’s new transmitter is located just off Blue Level Road halfway between Bowling Green and Rockfield, in the western part of Warren County just west of the Natcher Parkway.
In 2015, DTV America Corporation became the operator of both WKUT and WKUW-LD, with the license remaining with Budd Broadcasting. [4]
Perdicted Coverage Area[5]
Unlike the original WKUT-LP, the new WKUT-LD’s digital signal is expected to cover a more larger area. Its 13,500 watts of effective radiated power may help WKUT’s new digital signal penetrate almost all of the Bowling Green media market, along with some of the Nashville market’s Kentucky counties, including Todd, Logan, Simpson, and Allen counties (who are already served by WPGD), along with Muhlenberg and Ohio County (part of the Evansville DMA), as well as Grayson County (part of the Louisville DMA). It may even reach Robertson, Sumner, and Macon Counties in Middle Tennessee, in the Nashville market.
References
- ↑ Digital TV Market Listing for WKUT-LD RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
- ↑ WKUT-LD BOWLING GREEN, KY @ RabbitEars.Info
- ↑ WKUT-LP, channel 64 of Glasgow, Kentucky - TV Station Listing DB by pro Content and Design
- ↑ Seyler, Dave (January 22, 2015) "DTV America, these Budds are for you". Radio+Television Business Report. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ↑ RECNet Database Query (CDBS) - WKUT-LD
External links
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKUT
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WKUT-TV
- WKUT-LD REC Database Query
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