KRMT
Television station in Denver
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KRMT (channel 41) is a religious television station in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network through its Community Television Educators subsidiary, and maintains offices on West 64th Avenue in Arvada, and its transmitter is located on Mount Lindo in rural southwestern Jefferson County.
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| Channels | |
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| Branding | Daystar |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Daystar |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Word of God Fellowship, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | August 21, 1988 |
Former call signs | KWBI-TV (1988–1994) |
Former channel numbers |
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| Religious Independent (1988–1997) | |
Call sign meaning | Rocky Mountain Television |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 20476 |
| ERP | 84 kW |
| HAAT | 344 m (1,129 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°35′58.9″N 105°12′36.9″W |
| Translator(s) | KDNF-LD (UHF 20, Arvada) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | www |
History
The station first signed on the air on August 21, 1988, as KWBI-TV. Founded by Colorado Christian College (renamed Colorado Christian University the next year[2]), it originally operated as a religious independent station using programming from FamilyNet and the Christian Television Network, with some family-friendly secular programs.[3] In 1993, Colorado Christian University sold the station to Faith Bible Chapel International, a church based in Arvada;[4] the station changed its call sign to KRMT on January 10, 1994. Faith Bible Chapel sold KRMT to Daystar in 1997.
Technical information
Subchannel
Analog-to-digital conversion
KRMT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40, using virtual channel 41.[6]
