KNMT

KNMT (channel 24) is a religious television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of the city, near the West Hills of Portland.

KNMT

Portland–Salem, Oregon Vancouver, Washington United States
City	Portland, Oregon
Channels	Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 24
Programming
Affiliations	24.1: TBN for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.)
History
First air date	November 1989; 35 years ago (1989-11)[a]
Former call signs	KTDZ-TV (1989–1990)
Former channel numbers	Analog: 24 (UHF, 1989–2009) Digital: 45 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Call sign meaning	National Minority Television (former owner)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	47707
ERP	777 kW
HAAT	455 m (1,493 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°30′57.8″N 122°44′3.1″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.tbn.org

KNMT's studios, once located on Northeast 74th Avenue in Portland, were sold to a developer to become low income housing.^[2]

History

KNMT was founded on June 7, 1985, and began broadcasting operations on November 16, 1989; it was Portland's first full-power, full-service religious broadcast station. The station primarily carries programming from the TBN satellite feed, but also produces and broadcasts locally produced programs such as the religious program Northwest Praise the Lord (a local version of TBN's flagship program Praise the Lord) and the public affairs show Northwest Focus. KNMT began 24-hour operations in February 1990.^[3]

The station was formerly owned by National Minority Television (hence its call letters), a de facto subsidiary of TBN that was used by the network to circumvent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s television station ownership restrictions. While TBN founder Paul Crouch was NMTV's president, one of its directors was African American and the other was Latino, which met the FCC's definition of a "minority-controlled" firm.^[4] In mid-2008, the station and its NMTV sisters came directly under TBN ownership.

As of 2019, only KNMT-DT1 and the satellite feed of Enlace are carried by Comcast locally.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KNMT

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
24.1	720p	16:9	TBN HD	TBN
24.2			Merit	Merit TV
24.3	480i		Inspire	TBN Inspire
24.4		4:3	ONTV4U	OnTV4U (infomercials)
24.5		16:9	POSITIV	Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[5] KNMT's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45 (although it was originally slated to move its digital signal to UHF channel 24), using virtual channel 24.^[6]

Notes

1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says November 17, while the Television and Cable Factbook says November 16.