KTBW-TV

KTBW-TV (channel 20) is a religious television station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, United States, serving the Seattle area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located on South 341st Place in Federal Way, and its transmitter is located on Gold Mountain near Bremerton.

KTBW-TV

Tacoma–Seattle, Washington United States
City	Tacoma, Washington
Channels	Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 20
Programming
Affiliations	20.1: TBN for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of Washington)
History
First air date	March 30, 1984 (41 years ago) (1984-03-30)
Former call signs	KQFB (1984)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 20 (UHF, 1984–2009) Digital: 14 (UHF, until 2019)
Former affiliations	Independent (1984–1986)
Call sign meaning	Trinity Broadcasting of Washington
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	67950
ERP	107 kW
HAAT	473 m (1,552 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	47°32′49″N 122°47′44″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.tbn.org

History

KTBW originally signed on the air with the call sign KQFB on March 30, 1984. As KQFB, the station was originally locally owned by Family Broadcasting based in University Place, Washington. Family Broadcasting originally was going to broadcast Christian programming from several sources. Before the station went on the air, a minority interest in KQFB was acquired by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. When TBN acquired Family Broadcasting in full, the call letters were changed to KTBW on December 18, 1984.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KTBW-TV

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
20.1	720p	16:9	TBN HD	TBN
20.2			Merit	Merit TV
20.3	480i		Inspire	TBN Inspire
20.4		4:3	ONTV4U	OnTV4U (infomercials)
20.5		16:9	POSITIV	Positiv

TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.^[2]