KTVC (channel 36) is a

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, United States. The station is owned by Better Life Television, based in

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. KTVC's transmitter is located on Mount Rose northeast of Roseburg. KAMK-LD (channel 5) in

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operates as a

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of KTVC; this station's transmitter is located on Blanton Road.

History

The station began broadcasting on UHF channel 36 on July 18, 1994, under the

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KROZ. It became a charter affiliate of

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on January 11, 1995. It changed its calls to the current KTVC on September 4, 1998. 17 days later, the WB affiliation moved to cable-only KZWB, and KTVC affiliated with the then-new

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. In 2002, the station affiliated with

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after the network moved from

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. Under ownership of

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, KTVC became an affiliate of Equity's

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on September 16, 2006, when UPN ceased broadcasting. A newly created digital subchannel of

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affiliate

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carries

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, a network created by the merger of UPN and The WB, while KEVU-LP is affiliated with

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, a network from

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, then-parent company of

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. On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result,

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restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in

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, with individual customized feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KTVC lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vowed to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area. KTVC was sold at auction to Better Life Television on April 16, 2009. Upon the completion of the sale, the station began to air religious programming from new sister station KBLN, including

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programming. The KTVC calls were previously used on what is now

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, from 1957 to 1989.

KAMK-LP history

KAMK-LP began as translator station K53EA in 1993, broadcasting The Box and later,

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. In 1996, K53EA began rebroadcasting KROZ which would change to KTVC. On January 1, 1998, K53EA became low power KAMK-LP. Calls reflected owner Gerald D. Kamp's last name. On January 30, 2012, KAMK-LP switched to digital as KAMK-LD (channel 49), using

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36.1, to match KTVC's virtual channel. (It is not related to KXOR-LP, a defunct

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station in Eugene that broadcast on UHF channel 36, though that channel carried 3ABN programming in the past.)

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KTVC shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 36, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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 18, using virtual channel 36.

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