KDTL-LD
Television station in St. Louis
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KDTL-LD (channel 32), branded as Matrix Midwest, is a low-power independent television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS and ABC affiliate KMOV (channel 4). Both stations broadcast from studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and share transmitter facilities in Lemay, Missouri.
- 4.5: Weather
- 32.3: Independent
- 32.4: Outlaw
- 32.10: ABC
- Gray Media
- (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
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| Branding | Matrix Midwest |
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| Founded | April 2, 1990 |
First air date | September 28, 1992 |
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Call sign meaning | Daystar Television/St. Louis, for former owner |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 250.5 m (822 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W |
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Public license information | LMS |
History
The station began operations as K64DT on September 28, 1992. By 1993, it was broadcasting ValueVision home shopping.[2] The station increased its power, changing its callsign to KDTL-LP in 2004 after being sold to Word of God Fellowship, the parent entity of the Daystar Television Network, to broadcast Daystar's programming. The station converted to digital operations at the end of 2011, and changed its callsign to KDTL-LD on January 5, 2012.
On May 9, 2022, it was announced that Word of God Fellowship would sell KDTL-LD to Atlanta-based Gray Television, which had acquired KMOV the year previous after purchasing Meredith's broadcast division and its stations, for $1 million;[3] the sale was completed on July 1.[4]
Following the consummation of the sale to Gray, the station dropped its affiliation with Daystar, as the network's programming is carried by full-power station WPXS (channel 13) since it purchased the station in 2010, and also duplicated in the inner core of St. Louis on in-market repeater KUMO-LD (channel 51). The station initially aired an automated feed of current weather conditions, forecasts, and observations from KMOV's weather computers in high definition on its second subchannel (mapped to channel 4.7, using KMOV's channel position), while its main channel (mapped to 4.6) carried Corner Store TV, an all-paid programming network, in a transition period while Gray acquired programming to place on it with its former affiliated network Circle winding down at the end of 2023.
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Channels 32.1 and 32.2 (ABC and Matrix Midwest in 480i, respectively) are transmitted off of the KMOV multiplex.[6]