Daystar Television Network
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The Daystar Television Network is an American evangelical Christian television religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting refers to broadcasting by religious organizations, usually with a religious message. Many religious organizations have long recorded content such as sermons and lectures, and have moved into distributing content on their Internet websites.While this article emphasises...

 network headquartered near Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington. Residents of the area...

 in Bedford, Texas
Bedford, Texas
Bedford is a suburban city located in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, in the "Mid-Cities" area between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 46,979 at the 2010 census...

. Its founders are Marcus Lamb
Marcus Lamb
Marcus Lamb is an American televangelist, minister and Christian broadcaster. He is most well known as the co-founder, president, and CEO of the Daystar Television Network, the second-largest Christian television network in the world. The network has 90 TV stations and satellite and cable coverage...

 and his wife, Joni Lamb
Joni Lamb
Joni Lamb is a Christian broadcaster and the co-founder, vice-president, and executive producer of the Daystar Television Network. Joni and her husband Marcus Lamb have been involved with Christian television since the mid 1980’s and are most well known for their work with Daystar Television. Joni...

.

History

Daystar's roots can be traced back to 1993, when Marcus Lamb and his Word of God Fellowship ministry purchased a formerly defunct UHF station in Dallas called KMPX
KMPX
KMPX, virtual channel 29, is a television station in Decatur, Texas, serving the Dallas/Fort Worth market as an Estrella TV affiliate broadcasting on UHF digital channel 30. KMPX is owned by José and Lenard Liberman's broadcasting firm, Liberman Broadcasting....

, broadcasting Christian programming. Marcus is a Georgia native who first began preaching at age 15 and finished Magna Cum Laude from Lee College at age nineteen. In 1982, he married Joni Trammel, and together they began to travel the US, preaching in churches, conventions, and crusades.

In 1984, they moved to Montgomery, Alabama to begin a television station. In less than a year, WMCF-TV 45 became the first full power Christian television station in the state. Marcus and Joni built the station for the next five years. In 1990, Marcus and Joni sold TV 45 to Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), and moved to Dallas, Texas, where, in 1993, the Lamb’s launched their first station in the Dallas market. Channel 29 ran for three years. Then, in 1996, with a large contribution from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, they were able to purchase a station in Colorado, officially turning them into a network. In August of 1997, the small staff moved into a 32000 square feet (2,972.9 m²) facility that included production studios. On New Year’s Eve, later that year, Daystar was officially launched. The first broadcast featured Bishop T.D. Jakes from the Potter’s House in Dallas.

Since 1993, Daystar facilities have tripled in size, and their broadcast signal reaches 200 countries and 670 million households globally. In 2010, Daystar became the first full time Christian network to build a TV station in Israel.

Even with monumental growth, Daystar has not escaped the difficulties of the recession. On March 21, 2011, Daystar announced that it planned to downsize its production studios in Ashland, Kentucky
Ashland, Kentucky
Ashland, formerly known as Poage Settlement, is a city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 21,981 at the 2000 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the 2000 census, the...

; Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

; and Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, effective the following month; the facilities would continue to be used as transmitters, but not broadcasting centers. The downsizing, with studios run by a limited technical staff, led to layoffs of an unknown number of Daystar employees.

Programming

Daystar’s programming features influential ministers and speakers from around the world. The majority of Daystar's broadcasts are from groups and individuals aligned with various charismatic
Charismatic movement
The term charismatic movement is used in varying senses to describe 20th century developments in various Christian denominations. It describes an ongoing international, cross-denominational/non-denominational Christian movement in which individual, historically mainstream congregations adopt...

 and Pentecostal
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism is a diverse and complex movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, has an eschatological focus, and is an experiential religion. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, the Greek...

 movements. It airs paid programs from ministries such as John Hagee
John Hagee
John Charles Hagee is an American founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational charismatic megachurch with more than 19,000 active members...

, Benny Hinn
Benny Hinn
Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn הין; born December 3, 1952) is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades" – revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held in large stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your...

, Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Copeland is an American author, public speaker, and televangelist. He is the founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, which preaches a “prosperity gospel”: "Prosperity gospel assures followers that the more they give including in the form of tithes to the church, the more they will receive...

, David Reagan
David Reagan
David R. Reagan is a Christian Bible scholar who heads Lamb and Lion Ministries. David Reagan is also host of a weekly show on DayStar ....

, Zola Levitt, Kerry Shook
Kerry Shook
Kerry Shook is a best-selling author and Senior Pastor of Fellowship of The Woodlands in The Woodlands, Texas. His followers are known as the FOTWA. Now known as Woodlandschurch with four campuses located in the Woodlands, Tomball, Kingwood, and Katy, Texas...

, Sid Roth, Jack Graham
Jack Graham (pastor)
Jack Graham is the Pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church and the voice of PowerPoint Ministries, the broadcast ministry of Prestonwood. Prestonwood is one of the United States’s largest congregations, with a membership exceeding 28,000....

, Hal Lindsey
Hal Lindsey
Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey is an American evangelist and Christian writer. He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author. He currently resides in Texas.-Biography:...

, Jonathan Falwell
Jonathan Falwell
Jonathan Pate Falwell is the senior pastor at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is the son and successor of the late Reverend Jerry Falwell, and the brother of Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr...

, and the Pensacola Christian College
Pensacola Christian College
Pensacola Christian College is an unaccredited fundamentalist, Independent Baptist college in Pensacola, Florida, USA, founded in 1974 by Arlin Horton. The college is actively pursuing accreditation, and as of 7 November 2011 had been awarded candidate status with Transnational Association of...

 program Rejoice in the Lord
Rejoice in the Lord
Rejoice in the Lord is a weekly nationwide television broadcast of the campus church, a ministry of Pensacola Christian College.The show, whose first broadcast was in March 1982, is broadcast on the charismatic-oriented Daystar Television Network on Sunday from 8 PM to 9 PM ET.Rejoice in the Lord...

. In addition to the paid programmers that air on Daystar, Daystar produces several programs and broadcasts them from their Texas headquarters. These shows feature Marcus and Joni , and their children, as hosts.

Celebration

Celebration is the flagship program of the Daystar network. It began with the first channel that Marcus and Joni began in Alabama in the late 1980’s and continues as a daily one hour show. Celebration uses a talk show format and is hosted by Marcus and Joni Lamb. Celebration is a forum for sharing news about the network, biblical issues, performances by Joni and The Daystar Singers, and interviews with their guests, which have included many influential Christian leaders from both traditional and Charismatic ministries. Among those, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Brian Houston
Brian Houston (pastor)
Brian Houston is a pastor in the Australian Christian Churches. He is currently the Senior Pastor at Hillsong Church which has locations in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, London, Cape Town, Kiev, Germany, Paris, Moscow, Stockholm and New York City. He was also the National President of Australian...

, actor Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Andrew Baldwin is an American actor, director, producer and author. One of the Baldwin brothers, he is known for his roles as William F. Cody in the western show The Young Riders and as Stuart in the movie Threesome...

, director Michael Landon Jr.
Michael Landon Jr.
Michael Landon, Jr. is an American actor, director, writer and producer.- Biography :Born as Michael Graham Landon, Landon is the son of the late actor Michael Landon and his second wife, Marjorie Lynn Noe. Michael is the brother of Christopher B...

, Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers
Francine Sandra Rivers is an American author of fiction with Christian themes, including inspirational romance novels. Prior to becoming a born-again Christian in 1986, Rivers wrote historical romance novels...

, former heavy-weight Champion George Foreman
George Foreman
George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...

, and Joyce Meyer
Joyce Meyer
Joyce Meyer is a Charismatic Christian author and speaker. Meyer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside St. Louis, Missouri. Her ministry is headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.-Early life:Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in south St. Louis in...

.

Joni

Joni Lamb’s daily show, The Joni Show: Table Talk, features Joni and co-hosts who are her personal friends. They come from various backgrounds including professional counselors, ministers, and members of the Daystar Singers. This panel interviews guests from diverse backgrounds. The subjects covered include topics such as Christian spirituality, secular culture, music, health and fitness, marriage enrichment, recovery from various addictions, alternative lifestyles, parenthood, and psychological disorders.

Check the Sound

Check the Sound is a half hour program featuring interviews and music for young adults. Airing on Friday and Saturday night, Marcus and Joni’s three children, Jonathon, Rachel, and Rebecca, host the program in front of a live audience. Often, the program is devoted to introducing the audience to new Christian music videos. At other times, musicians and bands are brought into the studio for live concerts and interviews, covering topics about music, Christianity, and issues that impact the culture.

Gospel Music Showcase

Gospel music star Tammy Underwood hosts the Gospel Music Showcase every Saturday on Daystar. Showcase has been on the air for seven years. Guests are primarily from traditional Southern Gospel genres.

Special Programming

Occasionally, Daystar airs special shows featuring the Lambs at church speaking engagements or broadcasts events such as Christians United for Israel
Christians United For Israel
Christians United for Israel is an American pro-Israel Christian organization that defines itself as "a national grassroots movement focused on the support of Israel." It is the "largest" pro-Israel organization in the United States....

 summits. For purposes of fundraising
Fundraising
Fundraising or fund raising is the process of soliciting and gathering voluntary contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies...

, Daystar airs a week-long, semi-annual telethon called "Share-a-thons".
Day Star Is the sponsor of The #81 Blake Koch

FCC investigation

In 2003, Daystar underwent investigation by the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 (FCC), centering on allegations that Daystar has sold air time on its non-commercial educational
Non-commercial educational
The term non-commercial educational applies to a radio station or TV station that does not accept on air advertisements , as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission . NCE stations do not pay broadcast license fees for their non-profit uses of the radio spectrum...

 (NCE) stations to for-profit groups. The investigation had complicated Daystar's $21.5M bid for KOCE-TV
KOCE-TV
KOCE-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service member Public televisionstation, and is the primary PBS member for Los Angeles and Southern California. KOCE also features programming focused on the communities of Orange County, California. It airs Orange County's only nightly newscast, Real Orange, with...

, a Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 (PBS) member public television station in Huntington Beach, California
Huntington Beach, California
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 189,992; making it the largest beach city in Orange County in terms of population...

, which at the time mainly served the suburban area of Orange County
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

, and other license renewals.

After a lengthy process Daystar and KOCE-TV eventually came to an agreement where Daystar would lease a digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...

 of KOCE, and thus broadcast over KOCE-DT3 to bring the network critical coverage in Orange County and further into the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 market. This agreement continues to the present day, with KOCE since becoming the flagship Los Angeles area member station of PBS in January 2011, replacing KCET
KCET
KCET, channel 28, is an independent, non-commercial public television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KCET's studio is located on West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is atop Mount Wilson. Al Jerome is the current CEO and President, serving since 1996.KCET was...

.

On December 22, 2008, for the purposes of settling the investigation, the FCC and Daystar entered into an agreement in which the two organizations would work closely together to solidify and maintain a compliance plan. According to the plan, Daystar will continue to utilize a multi-level review process for all content aired and Daystar will make additional good faith
Good faith
In philosophy, the concept of Good faith—Latin bona fides “good faith”, bona fide “in good faith”—denotes sincere, honest intention or belief, regardless of the outcome of an action; the opposed concepts are bad faith, mala fides and perfidy...

 efforts to review all content received from content providers prior to the content’s broadcast on Daystar’s NCE stations. In the agreement Daystar will make a *voluntary* contribution of $17,500 to the United States Department of Treasury.

Israel

Daystar faced controversy in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 when it became the first foreign Christian network to be given a broadcasting license by its government in 2006. The announcement drew criticism from Jewish leaders in both Israel and the United States, who believed the network aimed at converting Jews in Israel through its numerous Messianic Jewish programs. In 2007, the Israeli cable provider HOT
Hot (Israel)
HOT Telecommunication Systems Ltd. is a company that provides cable television, last-mile Internet access, broadband and telecommunication services in Israel. It also provides various data transmission services and network services at different rates, services to the business sector and other...

 announced it would drop Daystar from its lineup. HOT claimed that the decision was made after the company received complaints about Daystar's content. Daystar filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court to hear the case, accusing HOT of religious discrimination
Religious discrimination
Religious discrimination is valuing or treating a person or group differently because of what they do or do not believe.A concept like that of 'religious discrimination' is necessary to take into account ambiguities of the term religious persecution. The infamous cases in which people have been...

.

Lawsuits

On December 1, 2010, Marcus Lamb appeared on Celebration and admitted to having an affair several years prior, telling viewers that unidentified individuals attempted to extort
Extortion
Extortion is a criminal offence which occurs when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime...

 him over the affair. He also claimed that he had since reconciled with Joni over the matter; the Lambs subsequently appeared on Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...

and Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil (TV series)
Dr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...

to discuss their experiences with marriage counseling. However, on December 6, former Daystar executive Jeanette Hawkins filed a lawsuit against the network, claiming that her knowledge of the affair caused "great emotional pain". Daystar filed a counter-suit against Hawkins and two other individuals, claiming the they were part of the extortion scheme.

Lamb's confession and Hawkins' lawsuit sparked a series of legal actions against Daystar. In February 2011, Jennifer Falcon, a former Daystar employee, filed a lawsuit claiming to have suffered sexual harassment
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment is illegal. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and...

 by Bill Trammell, Joni Lamb's father and Daystar's administrator of special projects. Falcon further claimed to have been demoted and defamed by the Lambs. The following month, Karen Thompson, a former producer for Joni, sued Daystar for wrongful termination, claiming to have been harassed and fired for dating a male co-worker. Thompson, who was married at the time, was asked to stop dating a co-worker, but would not comply. Daystar denied the allegations of both lawsuits.

Local police in Bedford, Texas
Bedford, Texas
Bedford is a suburban city located in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, in the "Mid-Cities" area between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 46,979 at the 2010 census...

 began a criminal investigation into the Lambs' extortion claims, but ended the investigation several days later due to lack of evidence. Jim Fisher, a lawyer representing Hawkins, claimed that the Lambs made the extortion claims after he moved for an out-of-court settlement with the network.

Availability

Daystar is available on terrestrial
Terrestrial television
Terrestrial television is a mode of television broadcasting which does not involve satellite transmission or cables — typically using radio waves through transmitting and receiving antennas or television antenna aerials...

 and cable
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and worldwide on DBS systems such as DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

 and DISH Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...

, and as an unencrypted Free to Air satellite channel. The network is composed of 2 VHF and 36 UHF
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...

 television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

s, which each broadcast all or part of Daystar's program lineup.
Daystar owns a number of television stations nationwide, either directly or through a subsidiary, Word of God Fellowship, Inc. Daystar affiliates include:
Daystar Television Network affiliates
Call letters analog channel digital channel RF
Radio frequency
Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...

PSIP virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

City of license
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....

Media market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...

Call letters' meaning Notes
KDTN
KDTN
KDTN is a Daystar-owned television station, under the license of Community Television Educators of DFW Inc. Broadcasting its digital signal on channel 43, the station is licensed to Denton, Texas.- History :...

43 2.1 Denton, Texas
Denton, Texas
The city of Denton is the county seat of Denton County, Texas in the United States. Its population was 119,454 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex...

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex K Daystar Television Network or K DenToN Acquired from North Texas Public Broadcasting in 2004. Flagship station of the Daystar Television Network
KLTJ
KLTJ
KLTJ is a full-power television station serving the Houston, Texas area and licensed in Galveston, transmitting over digital channel 23. The station is a Daystar affiliate.-History:The station was originally licensed to Galveston Educational TV, Inc...

23 22.1 Galveston, Texas
Galveston, Texas
Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...

Greater Houston Keep Looking To Jesus Originally a TBN affiliate in Dallas, later Houston in the 1980s. Call letters assigned to Galveston in the 1990s.
KQVE-LP
KQVE-LP
KQVE-LP is a low-powered television station affiliated with the Daystar Television Network, It broadcasts on channel 46 and licensed to San Antonio, Texas by Word Of God Fellowship. It is not yet available on Time Warner Cable....

46 San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

San Antonio, Texas Translator-style call letters randomly assigned by Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 (FCC), could possibly mean K-DOVE (Dove of Peace), since "Q" looks like O"
KOCM
KOCM
KOCM is a religious television station in Norman, Oklahoma, serving the Oklahoma City market locally on channel 46 as an affiliate of Daystar. The station is owned by the Word of God Fellowship, the parent company of the Daystar Television Network....

46 46.1 Norman, Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
Norman is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is located south of downtown Oklahoma City. It is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, Norman was to have 110,925 full-time residents, making it the third-largest city in Oklahoma and the...

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...

WDTA-LP
WDTA-LP
WDTA-LD is a low-power television station in Atlanta, owned by Word of God Fellowship. It is an affiliate of Daystar. Broadcasting from the SunTrust Plaza in downtown Atlanta, its city of license is Atlanta. The office is located with WPXA-TV next to Six Flags White Water on Cobb Parkway WDTA-LD...

35 53.1 Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

Atlanta metro area Daystar Atlanta
WYDN
WYDN
WYDN is a television station in the Boston market. The station, which is licenced to the nearby city of Worcester, is an owned-and-operated station of Daystar.- History :...

47 48.1 Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....

Boston, Massachusetts We're Your Daystar Network station
KOCE-DT3
KOCE-TV
KOCE-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service member Public televisionstation, and is the primary PBS member for Los Angeles and Southern California. KOCE also features programming focused on the communities of Orange County, California. It airs Orange County's only nightly newscast, Real Orange, with...

50.3 48.3 Huntington Beach, California
Huntington Beach, California
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 189,992; making it the largest beach city in Orange County in terms of population...

Los Angeles metro area K Orange County
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

 Education
Subchannel of PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 member station KOCE, allowed under FCC settlement between Daystar and KOCE, see article for details
WDTI-DT 69 44 Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

Indianapolis, Indiana W Daystar Television Indianapolis
WELL-LP 8 Willow Grove
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
Willow Grove is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. A community in Philadelphia's northern suburbs, the population was 15,726 at the 2010 census. It is located in Abington Township and Upper Moreland Township...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Unknown, possibly randomly-assigned by FCC Formerly a Class-A station
WKOB-LP
WKOB-LP
WKOB-LD is a low-powered DayStar affiliate for the New York City area, licensed, owned and operated by Nave Communications.- History as W53AA :This station was signed on over UHF channel 53 in the 1970s by its original owner CBS Inc. as W53AA...

8 2 42.1 New York, New York New York, NY Unknown, possibly randomly-assigned by FCC
WRID-LP
WRID-LP
WRID-LP is a low-power religious television station in Richmond, Virginia, broadcasting on analog channel 48 as a Daystar Television Network owned and operated affiliate.-History:...

48 see note see note Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

Richmond, VA W RIchmond Daystar Has permit to convert to digital on 51
KSXC-LP
KSXC-LP
KSXC-LP is a television station serving the Sioux City area. It currently airs religious programming from Daystar. The station is owned and operated by Venture Technologies Group and currently holds a construction permit to operate its digital signal on channel 12....

5 see note see note South Sioux City, Nebraska
South Sioux City, Nebraska
-2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,925 people, 4,304 households, and 2,961 families residing in the city. Of the 11,925 people, 48.6% are male and 51.4% are female. The population density was 2,431.6 people per square mile . There were 4,557 housing units at an average density of...

Sioux City, NE K SiouX City Has permit to convert to digital on 12
WDPM-DT
WDPM-DT
WDPM-DT is a religious television station in Mobile, Alabama, which broadcast locally on UHF channel 23 as an affiliate of the Daystar Television Network...

23 4.1 Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

Pensacola, Florida & Mobile, Alabama We're Daystar Pensacola and Mobile see article for why station uses PSIP 4.1
WCDN-LP
WCDN-LP
WCDN-LP is a religious television station in Cleveland, Ohio, broadcasting locally on channel 7 as an affiliate of Daystar. Founded November 30, 1989, the station is owned by Daystar Television Network. Before Daystar, WCDN carried ShopNBC.WCDN was previously on analog channel 53. In October of...

53 7 53.1 Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

Cleveland/Akron/Canton, Ohio We're Cleveland's Daystar Network
WDMI-LD 31 62.1 Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN We're Daystar MIinneapolis or MInnesota
KWBM
KWBM
KWBM is an affiliate of the Daystar Television Network in Springfield, Missouri. Its main transmitter, on channel 31, is licensed in Harrison, Arkansas and located northeast of Branson, Missouri...

31 31.1 Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. According to the 2010 census data, the population was 159,498, an increase of 5.2% since the 2000 census. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 436,712, includes the counties of...

Springfield, MO K WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...

Missouri (former affiliation), or K We're Branson
Branson, Missouri
Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s....

, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 (local city within broadcast area
Formerly with repeaters KWBM-CA 56 and KNJE-LP 58, which were not sold with KWBM-TV to Daystar
KUTF
KUTF
KUTF is a Daystar Television Network owned-and-operated station in Logan, Utah that serves the Salt Lake City media market which broadcasts in digital on channel 12. Prior to June 2009, it was a Spanish-language television station owned by Equity Media Holdings and affiliated with TeleFutura...

12 12.1 Logan, Utah
Logan, Utah
-Layout of the City:Logan's city grid originates from its Main and Center Street block, with Main Street running north and south, and Center east and west. Each block north, east, south, or west of the origin accumulates in additions of 100 , though some streets have non-numeric names...

Utah K Utah TeleFutura
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...

 (former affiliation)
WBIF
WBIF
WBIF is a television station licensed to Marianna, Florida, serving the Panama City, Florida market on channel 51. The station is owned by the Daystar Television Network.-History:Founded in 2001, the station was originally owned by Equity Media Holdings...

51 51.1 Marianna, Florida
Marianna, Florida
Marianna is a city in Jackson County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,230 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 6,200 . It is the county seat of Jackson County and is home to Chipola College...

Panama City, Florida Unknown, possibly randomly-assigned by FCC
KCBU
KCBU
KCBU was a television station in Price, Utah, broadcast locally in analog on channel 3 under the ownership of Equity Media Holdings. Until January 4, 2009 KCBU was an affiliate of the Retro Television Network ....

3 3.1 Price, Utah
Price, Utah
Price is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States. The city is home to the USU-College of Eastern Utah, as well as the large USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum affiliated with the college. Price is located within short distances from both Nine Mile Canyon and the Manti-La Sal National Forest...

Utah K Cocola Broadcasting
Cocola Broadcasting
Cocola Broadcasting is a broadcasting company based in Fresno, California. Founded in the early-1980s by Valley broadcasting veteran Gary Cocola, Cocola owns full-power digital television stations KGMC in Fresno and KKJB in Boise, Idaho, and several low-power television stations in Central...

 Utah
Has construction permit to move to 11
WUDT-LD 8 23.1 Detroit, Michigan
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

Metro Detroit We're Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 DetroiT or We're Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 Detroit Television (former affiliation under former owner, Equity Media)
WNYI
WNYI
WNYI is a television station in Ithaca, New York, serving the Elmira and Syracuse television markets. The station, now owned by Daystar Television Network, had formerly broadcast on analogue UHF channel 52 before going silent in 2009 as a result of the US digital TV transition.- History :The...

20 52.1 Ithaca, New York
Ithaca, New York
The city of Ithaca, is a city in upstate New York and the county seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area...

Ithaca/Syracuse, NY and Elmira, NY We're New York Independent or > We're New York Ithaca
Ithaca, New York
The city of Ithaca, is a city in upstate New York and the county seat of Tompkins County, as well as the largest community in the Ithaca-Tompkins County metropolitan area...

KWDK
KWDK
KWDK is a Christian television station owned by the Daystar Television Network, broadcasting out of Tacoma, Washington, formerly broadcasting on channel 56...

42 56.1 Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

Seattle, WA K Washington State Daystar K (calls assigned before Daystar came to existence)
KQUP
KQUP
KQUP is an Daystar Television Network affiliate licensed to Pullman, Washington, serving the Spokane, Washington area. KQUP is owned by the Daystar Television Network.-Station history:...

24 24.1 Pullman, Washington
Pullman, Washington
Pullman is the largest city in Whitman County, Washington, United States. The population was 24,675 at the 2000 census and 29,799 according to the 2010 census...

Spokane, Washington K Q UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 (former affiliation)
Has analog low-power repeater, KQUP-LP 47 serving Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d'Alene is the largest city and county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coeur d'Alene has the second largest metropolitan area in the state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census the population of Coeur...

KWBN
KWBN
KWBN is a Daystar-owned and operated religious station serving Honolulu, Hawaii. The station is owned and operated by the Word Of God Fellowship and broadcasts on ATSC channel 43...

43 44.1 Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...

Hawaii TV Station failed to obtain WB Network affiliation
WBLU-LP
WBLU-LP
WBLU-LP was a low-power television station broadcasting on channel 62 in Lexington, Kentucky. The station was owned by Equity Media Holdings of Little Rock, Arkansas...

62 Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...

Lexington metro area W BLUegrass Acquired from Equity Media Holdings after station went silent; license since revoked due to non-activity. Lexington receives nominal Daystar service from WBNA
WBNA
WBNA is an affiliate of the Ion Television network, located in Louisville, Kentucky and broadcasting over digital channel 8. WBNA is owned by Evangel World Prayer Center, an Assemblies of God megachurch in Louisville...

 Louisville
KKJB
KKJB
KKJB is a Daystar television station based in Boise, Idaho. It is owned by Cocola Broadcasting.-Digital television:Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital...

39 39.1 Boise, Idaho
Boise, Idaho
Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, as well as the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River, it anchors the Boise City-Nampa metropolitan area and is the largest city between Salt Lake City, Utah and Portland, Oregon.As of the 2010 Census Bureau,...

Boise, Idaho Unknown, possibly assigned randomly by FCC
WRTN-LP 6 7 6.1 Alexandria, Tennessee
Alexandria, Tennessee
Alexandria is a town in DeKalb County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 814 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...

Nashville, Tennessee Former affiliate of the Retro Television Network
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...

KOHA-LP
KOHA-LP
KOHA-LP is a low-power television station in Omaha, Nebraska. The station was formerly owned by Cornhusker Television, LLC and rebroadcast the Home Shopping Network on channel 65 before going dark in 2006. In 2007, the station returned to the air for a short period of time on channel 48, with an...

48 47 47.1 Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

Silent since 2009 but license has not been deleted.
WDSF-LD 17 17 Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Sioux Falls is the county seat of Minnehaha County, and also extends into Lincoln County to the south...

Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Sioux Falls is the county seat of Minnehaha County, and also extends into Lincoln County to the south...

Has a permit to convert to digital on 17
WDCI-LD
WDCI-LD
WDCI-LD is a low power television station that is licensed in Chicago, Illinois. This station operates on channel 30 and its owned by Word of God Fellowship.-History:...

30 57.1 Elgin, Illinois
Elgin, Illinois
Elgin is a city in northern Illinois located roughly northwest of Chicago on the Fox River. Most of Elgin lies within Kane County, Illinois, with a portion in Cook County, Illinois...

Chicago, Illinois Daystar of Chicago, Illinois Acquired from TBN
Trinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...

, was a translator of WWTO
WWTO-TV
WWTO-TV is a television station licensed to LaSalle, Illinois, owned-and-operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, broadcasting a digital signal on VHF channel 10. Before 2009, the station broadcasted on analog channel 35...

.
KKAP
KKAP
KKAP is a religious television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, broadcasting locally on channel 36 as an affiliate of Daystar. Founded in 2001, the station is owned by Daystar Television Network.-Digital television:...

36 36 36.1 Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

Little Rock, Arkansas
WGBD-LP 49 See Note See Note Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay Daystar Has a permit to convert to digital on 49
WPDN-LD 24 65.1 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Daystar Network
WTSF
WTSF
WTSF is a charismatic Christian television station in the Huntington-Charleston, West Virginia market, which covers parts of that state, eastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio. It operates on digital channel 44...

44 61.1 Ashland, Kentucky
Ashland, Kentucky
Ashland, formerly known as Poage Settlement, is a city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 21,981 at the 2000 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the 2000 census, the...

Huntington/Charleston, West Virginia Started as an independent, commercial station in 1982. Donated to a local religious group in 1983 and remained a religious independent station until it's purchase by Daystar in 2003.

    • On April 4, 2011, it was revealed that Daystar had agreed to purchase PBS outlet WMFE-TV (channel 24) in Orlando, Florida
      Orlando, Florida
      Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

       for a reported price of $
      United States dollar
      The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....

      5 million. The transaction is subject to final approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

International

Country Platform Channel Notes
New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

Sky Network Television
SKY Network Television
Sky Network Television Limited , , is a New Zealand pay television service. On 30 June 2011, Sky had 829,421 subscribers, which comprises:*808,617 digital subscribers*20,840 other subscribers...

112
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

Freesat
Freesat
Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc, serving the United Kingdom. The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2008...

691
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

Sky 584

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