KDTL-LD

KDTL-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate KMOV (channel 4). The two stations share studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and transmitting facilities in Lemay, Missouri.

KDTL-LD

St. Louis, Missouri United States
Channels	Digital: 17 (UHF) Virtual: 4.5, 32.2, 32.3
Programming
Affiliations	4.5: 365BLK 32.2: Corner Store TV 32.3: Outlaw
Ownership
Owner	Gray Media (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	KMOV
History
Founded	April 2, 1990
First air date	September 28, 1992; 33 years ago (1992-09-28)
Former call signs	K64DT (1990–2004) KDTL-LP (2004–2012)
Former channel numbers	Analog: 64 (UHF, 1992–2008), 16 (UHF, 2008–2012) Digital: 16 (UHF, 2012–2022) Virtual: 17 (until 2023)
Former affiliations	ValueVision/ShopNBC (1992–2004) Daystar (2004–2022) Circle (2022–2023)
Call sign meaning	Daystar Television/St. Louis, for former owner
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	69791
Class	LD
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	250.5 m (822 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W
Links
Public license information	LMS

History

The station began operations as K64DT on September 28, 1992. The station increased its power, changing its callsign to KDTL-LP in 2004 after being sold to Word of God Fellowship, the commercial license arm 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;^[2] the sale was completed on July 1.^[3]

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:

Subchannels of KDTL-LD^[4]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
4.5	480i	16:9	KMOV365	365BLK
32.2			Corner	Corner Store TV (infomercials)
32.3			Outlaw	Outlaw

There is no channel 32.1 on the KDTL-LD multiplex, as it is broadcast by KMOV.