KTBN-TV
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KTBN (Channel 40) is the Santa Ana, California-licensed flagship television station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a religious broadcaster. The station is based out of the TBN network headquarters in near-by Tustin.
Channel 40 first signed-on the air on January 5, 1967 as KLXA-TV, one of the Los Angeles area's first Spanish-language stations. Paul Crouch, founder of TBN, took over operations of the station in 1973 and purchased the station outright in 1974. Trinity Broadcasting continued to use the KLXA call letters until November 1977, when the station officially became KTBN-TV.
Today, it serves the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area with a full powered signal, with low-powered satellite stations carrying the signal to other areas in Southern California (such as Palm Springs, Bakersfield, and Santa Barbara). With the station being available on cable systems throughout Southern California, KTBN is not carried on either Dish Network nor DirecTV's Locals package at TBN's request; instead the national feed is carried, as both the network and KTBN carry the same identical programming schedule.
Digital services
This station's digital signal, like most other TBN-owned stations, carries five different TBN-run networks: the local TBN channel (simulcasting the analog station) on 40.1, The Church Channel on 40.2, JCTV on 40.3, Enlace USA on 40.4, and Smile of a Child on 40.5.TBN has also notified the ATSC that it intends to use 75 as the major channel number on all of its full-power O&O stations in the future, in order to be consistent nationwide.[link] This is possible because of virtual channels, which allow any digital station to use any channel number from 1 to 99, regardless of which one they actually transmit on. Channels 70 to 83 are no longer used for TV broadcasting, and 84 to 99 never were, freeing those numbers to be used in this manner.
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| Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market [(Nielsen DMA #2)] | ||
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| KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC) - KTLA 5 (The WB/The CW) (The Tube on DT5) - KSFV 6 (Almavision) - KABC 7 (ABC) - KCAL 9 (Ind) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (UPN/MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET 25 (Almavision) - KNLA 27 (Ind) - KCET 28 (PBS) - KPXN 30 (i) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU 45 (Almavision) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (Ind) - KHIZ 64 (Ind) - KHTV 67 (HSN) - KTAV 69 (Almavision) | ||
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Local cable television channels
FSN West - FSN Prime Ticket | ||
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Past broadcast stations
KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial) | ||
| Broadcast television in the Santa Barbara / Santa Maria / San Luis Obispo market [(Nielsen DMA #122)] | ||
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| Santa Barbara: KEYT 3 (ABC) - K15DB 15 (TBN) - KSBB-LP 17 (FOX) - KWHY-LP 22 (IND) - K26FT 26 (PBS) - KTSB-LP 29 (Telefutura) - KSBT-LP 32 (Azteca America) - KPMR 38 (UNI) - KVMM-CA 41 (MMA) - K46GC 46 (CTN) - K49EK 49 (Religious) - KBAB-LP 51 (IND) | ||
| Santa Maria: K07TA 7 (TEL) - KCOY 12 (CBS) - KQMM-CA 14 (MMA) - KKFX-CA 24 (FOX) - KLFA-LP 25 (IND) - K27EI 27 (TEL) - K30FD 30 (i/HSN) - K35ER 35 (Telefutura) - KVSM-LP 40 (S@H) - K65CJ 51 (TBN) | ||
| San Luis Obispo: KSBY 6 (NBC) - KAGP-LP 8 (S@H) - K15BD 16 (PBS) - KMMA-CA 18 (MMA) - K27EX 21 (Telefutura) - K28FK 28(i/HSN) - KTAS 33/K09UF 9 (TEL) - KJCN-CA 36 (TBN) - KPXA-CA 42 (Telefutura) - KFUL-LP 44 (IND) - K47GD 47 (TEL) - KCCE-LP 50 (UATV) - K57BC 57 (ABC) - KSSY-LP 66 (UATV/A1/Bloomberg/CAS) | ||
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Lompoc: K10OG (Telefutura) - K17EF 17 (i/HSN) - K23CL 23 (TBN)
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| Broadcast television in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs / Indio / Twentynine Palms) market [(Nielsen DMA #153)] | ||
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KVER-CA 4 (UNI) -
KEVC-CA 5 (TeleFutura) -
K06MB 6 (Galavision) -
KVPS-LP 8 (MMA) -
K09XW 9 (PBS) -
KYAV-LP 12 (TV Azteca) -
KUNA-LP 15 (TEL) -
KODG-LP 17 (IND) -
K19DH 19 (FamilyNet) -
K21DO 21 (3ABN) -
KVMD 23 (IND) -
KVES-LP 28 (UNI) -
KDFX-CA 33 (Fox) -
KMIR 36 (NBC) -
KPSP-LP 38 (CBS) -
K40ID 40 (TBN) -
KESQ 42 (ABC) -
KDPX-LP 45 (i) -
KPSE-LP 50 (UPN/My Network TV) -
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| Local cable television channels | ||
| KCWB 5 (The WB/The CW) |