KPAZ-TV
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KPAZ-TV is a Trinity Broadcasting Network
-owned and operated television station in Phoenix, Arizona
. It broadcasts in digital
on UHF channel 20 from South Mountain in Phoenix. KPAZ-TV can also be seen on several translator stations throughout the state.
, and tape-delayed sporting events. Its main draw at the time was Mexican bullfighting
telecasts. It also broadcast jai alai
games. In 1970, the original owners went bankrupt and sold it to a Phoenix area church, which eventually added local and national religious programming to the schedule while keeping some secular English- and Spanish-language programs.
KPAZ-TV continued to lose money and by 1977, was over US$2 million in debt and was forced to go silent. The church that owned the station had issued bonds to pay for its operations, but could no longer even pay the interest on the bonds to its nearly 200 mostly elderly partners. http://www.tbn.org/about/newsletter/index.php/1.html. The church agreed to transfer the license to the fledgling TBN in exchange for assumption of the station’s debt. TBN returned the station to the air later that year as their second TV station. KPAZ-TV has been a TBN station since.
The station received UHF channel 20 as its digital television allocation in April 1997 and was granted a permit to begin constructing digital facilities in August 2001. Special Temporary Authority granted in October 2002 allowed the DTV service to go on air at a lower power level. KPAZ elected channel 20 for its post-transition facilities, allowing the station to build its final facilities right away, but construction was delayed due to a steep rise in local construction that left the Phoenix area with a shortage of workers to install the DTV antenna http://broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6446762.html. In March 2007, the station began program testing and in February 2008, certified that it was operating its full-power post-transition facilities.http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101234246&formid=387&fac_num=67868 However, as of March 2008, the FCC has not licensed the digital station.
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...
-owned and operated television station in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
. It broadcasts in digital
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
on UHF channel 20 from South Mountain in Phoenix. KPAZ-TV can also be seen on several translator stations throughout the state.
History
KPAZ-TV began life as Arizona’s first full-power UHF station, commencing operations on September 16, 1967, from studios and offices in the now-defunct Tower Plaza Mall. Its original programming lineup was several years ahead of its time, featuring a news ticker during the day, Spanish-language movies and TV series from MexicoMexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, and tape-delayed sporting events. Its main draw at the time was Mexican bullfighting
Bullfighting
Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...
telecasts. It also broadcast jai alai
Jai alai
Jai alai is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space. It is a variety of Basque Pelota. The term, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton where the sport is played...
games. In 1970, the original owners went bankrupt and sold it to a Phoenix area church, which eventually added local and national religious programming to the schedule while keeping some secular English- and Spanish-language programs.
KPAZ-TV continued to lose money and by 1977, was over US$2 million in debt and was forced to go silent. The church that owned the station had issued bonds to pay for its operations, but could no longer even pay the interest on the bonds to its nearly 200 mostly elderly partners. http://www.tbn.org/about/newsletter/index.php/1.html. The church agreed to transfer the license to the fledgling TBN in exchange for assumption of the station’s debt. TBN returned the station to the air later that year as their second TV station. KPAZ-TV has been a TBN station since.
The station received UHF channel 20 as its digital television allocation in April 1997 and was granted a permit to begin constructing digital facilities in August 2001. Special Temporary Authority granted in October 2002 allowed the DTV service to go on air at a lower power level. KPAZ elected channel 20 for its post-transition facilities, allowing the station to build its final facilities right away, but construction was delayed due to a steep rise in local construction that left the Phoenix area with a shortage of workers to install the DTV antenna http://broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6446762.html. In March 2007, the station began program testing and in February 2008, certified that it was operating its full-power post-transition facilities.http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101234246&formid=387&fac_num=67868 However, as of March 2008, the FCC has not licensed the digital station.
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