KNMT

Last updated
KNMT
City Portland, Oregon
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
November 1989(34 years ago) (1989-11) [1]
Former call signs
KTDZ-TV (1989–1990)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
24 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Digital:
45 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Call sign meaning
National Minority Television
(former owner)
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 47707
ERP 777 kW
HAAT 455 m (1,493 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 45°30′57.8″N122°44′3.1″W / 45.516056°N 122.734194°W / 45.516056; -122.734194
Links
Public license information
Website www.tbn.org

KNMT (channel 24) is a religious television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of the city, near the West Hills of Portland.

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KNMT's studios, once located on Northeast 74th Avenue in Portland, were sold to a developer to become low income housing. [3]

History

KNMT was founded on June 7, 1985, and began broadcasting operations on November 16, 1989; it was Portland's first full-power, full-service religious broadcast station. The station primarily carries programming from the TBN satellite feed, but also produces and broadcasts locally produced programs such as the religious program Northwest Praise the Lord (a local version of TBN's flagship program Praise the Lord ) and the public affairs show Northwest Focus.

The station was formerly owned by National Minority Television (hence its call letters), a de facto subsidiary of TBN that was used by the network to circumvent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s television station ownership restrictions. While TBN founder Paul Crouch was NMTV's president, one of its directors was African American and the other was Latino, which met the FCC's definition of a "minority-controlled" firm. [4] In mid-2008, the station and its NMTV sisters came directly under TBN ownership.

As of 2019, only KNMT-DT1 and the satellite feed of Enlace are carried by Comcast locally.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KNMT
Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgramming
24.1 720p 16:9 TBN HDMain TBN programming
24.2inspire TBN Inspire
24.3 480i 4:3 SMILE Smile
24.4Enlace Enlace
24.516:9PosiTiV Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009. [5] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45 (although it was originally slated to move its digital signal to UHF channel 24), [6] using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 24.

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References

  1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says November 17, while the Television and Cable Factbook says November 16.
  2. "Facility Technical Data for KNMT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. "Glisan Affordable Housing Breaks Ground in 2022". Montavilla News. July 27, 2020.
  4. Pinsky, Mark. Liberal Reading of FCC Minority Rule Has Helped TBN's Growth, Los Angeles Times , 1989-01-28.
  5. RabbitEars TV Query for KNMT
  6. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.