KPAZ-TV

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KPAZ-TV
Phoenix, Arizona
Channels	21 (UHF) analog, 20 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	TBN
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network
Founded	September 16, 1967
Call letters meaning	Phoenix, AriZona; also PAZ, Spanish for peace
Former affiliations	Bilingual independent
Transmitter Power	1290 kW
Height	489 m
Website	tbn.org

KPAZ-TV is a Trinity Broadcasting Network-owned and operated television station in Phoenix, Arizona. It broadcasts on analog channel 21 and on digital channel 20 from South Mountain in Phoenix. KPAZ-TV can also be seen on several translator stations throughout the state.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 Translators 4 External links

[edit] History

KPAZ-TV began life as Arizona's first full-powered 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 Mexico, and tape-delayed sporting events. Its main draw at the time were 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 $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. [1]. 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.

[edit] Programming

KPAZ-TV carries TBN network programming during most of the day, and local programming late at night. As with most of TBN's full-service digital stations, KPAZ-DT airs a simulcast of the analog signal on channel 21.1, The Church Channel on channel 21.2, JCTV on channel 21.3, Enlace USA on channel 21.4, and Smile of a Child on channel 21.5

[edit] Translators

• K51HV Cottonwood
• K35FH Flagstaff
• K41ER Globe/Miami
• K54FW Tucson
• K57BD Tucson

[edit] External links

• Trinity Broadcasting Network
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KPAZ-TV