WTSF

WTSF (channel 61) is a religious television station licensed to Ashland, Kentucky, United States, serving the Huntington–Charleston, West Virginia market as an owned-and-operated station of the Daystar Television Network. The station's studios are located on Bath Avenue in Ashland, and its transmitter is located on a very short tower in Huntington's Rotary Park.

WTSF

Ashland, Kentucky Huntington–Charleston, West Virginia United States
City	Ashland, Kentucky
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 61
Programming
Affiliations	61.1: Daystar for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Daystar Television Network (Word of God Fellowship, Inc.)
History
First air date	April 30, 1983 (42 years ago) (1983-04-30)
Former channel numbers	Analog: 61 (UHF, 1983–2009) Digital: 44 (UHF, until 2020) Virtual: 44 (2009–2019)
Former affiliations	Commercial Ind. (1982–1983) Religious Ind. (1983–2003)
Call sign meaning	Tri-State Family Broadcasting
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	67798
ERP	8 kW
HAAT	174.1 m (571 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°25′11″N 82°24′6″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.daystar.com

History

WTSF signed on as a commercial independent television station in September 1982. However, it was not successful and was soon donated to a local religious group. It continued as such until 2003 when the station was sold to the Daystar national charismatic Christian network and, with a few exceptions, ended local programming.

While it was locally produced, the bulk of the channel's programming consisted of fundraising to continue broadcasting.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WTSF^[2]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
61.1	1080i	16:9	WTSF-HD	Daystar
61.2	720p		WTSF-ES	Daystar Español
61.3	480i		WTSF-SD	Daystar Reflections

Analog-to-digital conversion

WTSF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, 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 44, using virtual channel 61.^[3][4]