KRMT

KRMT
Denver, Colorado
United States
Branding Daystar
Slogan Experience It
Channels Digital: 40 (UHF)
Virtual: 41 (PSIP)
Affiliations
Owner Word of God Fellowship
First air date August 20, 1988 (1988-08-20)
Call letters' meaning Rocky
Mountain
Television
Former callsigns KWBI-TV (1988–1994)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 41 (UHF, 1988–2009)
Former affiliations Religious Independent (1988–1997)
Transmitter power 74.8 kW
Height 344 m
Facility ID 20476
Transmitter coordinates 39°35′59″N 105°12′35″W / 39.59972°N 105.20972°W / 39.59972; -105.20972Coordinates: 39°35′59″N 105°12′35″W / 39.59972°N 105.20972°W / 39.59972; -105.20972
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.daystar.com

KRMT, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 40), is an Daystar owned-and-operated television station located in Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by the Community Television Educators, Inc. subsidiary of Word of God Fellowship, Inc., the owners of the Daystar Television Network. KRMT maintains offices located on West 64th Avenue in Arvada, and its transmitter is located on Mount Lindo in rural southwestern Jefferson County.

History

The station first signed on the air on August 20, 1988 as KWBI-TV. Founded by Colorado Christian University, it originally operated as a religious independent station. In 1993, Colorado Christian University sold the station to Faith Bible Chapel International; the station changed its callsign to KRMT on January 10, 1994. Faith Bible Chapel sold KRMT to Daystar in 1997.

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
41.1 480i 4:3 KRMT-DT Main KRMT programming / Daystar

Analog-to-digital conversion

KRMT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, 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 40.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 41.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KRMT
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

External links

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