K20JX-D (channel 27) is a low-power, Class A

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, United States, airing programming from

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-based Good News TV. Founded on August 21, 1990, the station was owned by Abundant Life Broadcasting, Inc., which had sold it to current owner and locally based

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, LLC, of

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, where it airs its namesake television channel on the fourth subchannel (27.4) through Good News TV's alternate channel (GNTV2). Amazing Facts transferred operations of the station to

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(now Innovate Corp.) in 2018. K20JX-D's transmitter is located off of Athens Avenue near

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. Good News TV and its accompanying subchannels airs select programming from various faith-based networks, such as

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, and the aforementioned Amazing Facts.

History

The station's

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was initially issued on August 21, 1990 under the calls of K56EN. From 1993 until 2010, it used K27EU as its callsign. The current K20JX-D was assigned on November 8, 2010.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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