KWHS-LD (channel 51) is a
low-power religious
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television station
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in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States,
owned and operated
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by the
Christian Television Network
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(CTN). The station's transmitter is located atop
Cheyenne Mountain
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.
History
The station, which signed on the air in 1992 and maintains a studio in Colorado Springs, was previously a
semi-satellite of KWHD in
Denver
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, owned by LeSEA Broadcasting (now
Family Broadcasting Corporation
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). Both outlets shared the same programming with some exceptions. (KWHD is now
KETD
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, carrying
Estrella TV
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; the station does still operate a subchannel carrying a schedule of religious programming that remained identical to that of KWHS until 2018.)
In June 2014, it was announced LeSEA had inked an affiliation deal with
Cozi TV
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The network origina ...
, KWHS-LD was one of the stations that began carrying the channel. On July 1, 2017,
Light TV Light TV may refer to:
*Light TV, a former name of the American television network TheGrio
*Light TV, a subchannel of Philippine TV station DZOZ-DTV
**Light TV, a related network of ZOE Broadcasting Network
ZOE Broadcasting Network, Inc. (Z ...
replaced Cozi TV on KWHS-LD's subchannel.
[ Wikipedia list of Light TV affiliates]
On February 5, 2018, it was announced that LeSEA would sell KWHS-LD, along with
Class A station
KEEN-CD
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in
Las Vegas
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and full-power station
WHNO
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in