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WKUT-LD is a low-powered television station licensed to and expected to serve Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. The station is currently silent, and it is unknown when or if the station will sign on. The station is owned by Budd Broadcasting Co., Inc based in Gainesville, Florida, making it the sister station of former White House, TN-licensed TBN O&O translator WKUW-LD. This station is currently dark and silent, and it is therefore unknown when and if the station will sign back on the air. It is also unknown if this station will get affiliated with a different network or remain a TBN affiliated translator. When and if WKUT signs on the air, it will broadcast on UHF channel 32, but through the use of PSIP, it will be displayed on tuners as virtual channel 25. ==History== The station was originally licensed to Glasgow, Kentucky, located in Barren County, Kentucky, with the callsign WKUT-LP, broadcasting on analog UHF channel 64.〔(WKUT-LP, channel 64 of Glasgow, Kentucky - TV Station Listing DB by pro Content and Design )〕 The station's construction permit was granted by the FCC on January 2, 2007. The signal mainly reached most of Barren County, and pathetically small areas of eastern Warren and southeast Edmonson Counties (e.g. Hays, Rocky Hill, Pondsville), and never reached Bowling Green, the principal city of the local media market. The current WKUT-LD calls came on February 15, 2007 in an attempt to convert the station to digital. In 2010, the station went silent after being purchased by Budd Broadcasting, and the city of license was changed to Bowling Green. Before WKUT went silent, it was a very low-powered owned-and-operated translator of TBN, the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The nearest full-powered TBN station, however, has always been Hendersonville, Tennessee-licensed WPGD-TV since its inception in September 1992. TBN also operated WKUW-LP on analog channel 60, which was also licensed to Glasgow, and at one time was licensed to Smith's Grove, until 2010 when they sold it to Budd Broadcasting, who relocated that station to White House, Tennessee, located within the Nashville media market, which is the home market for WPGD. WKUW is expected to be relocated to the immediate Nashville area at an unknown date. Currently, WPGD (UHF channel 33, virtual channel 50) serves as the default over-the-air TBN station for the Bowling Green media market, even though TBN, along with its associated sister multi-cast networks (e.g. The Church Channel, JUCE TV, Smile of a Child TV), is widely available on virtually all cable television systems. The area can also receive TBN via both major satellite TV providers (e.g. Dish Network and DirecTV). Some parts of the Bowling Green market could receive WPGD's signal with an antenna, mainly in Warren, Barren, and southern Butler Counties, along with a small sliver of Edmonson County. Other than WPGD's southern Kentucky coverage, Scottsville-licensed WPBM-CD is currently Bowling Green's only local religious station as they provide syndicated and locally produced religious programming. The elected site of WKUT-LD's new transmitter is located just off Blue Level Road halfway between Bowling Green and Rockfield, in the western part of Warren County just west of the Natcher Parkway. In 2015, DTV America Corporation became the operator of both WKUT and WKUW-LD, with the license remaining with Budd Broadcasting.〔Seyler, Dave (January 22, 2015) "(DTV America, these Budds are for you )". ''Radio+Television Business Report.'' Retrieved January 27, 2015.〕 With DTV America elected as WKUT's operator, this would make WKUT the in-market sister station to Antenna TV and MyNetworkTV outlet WCZU-LD. On July 17, 2015, DTV America took full control of WKUT and now owns and operates the station outright.〔()〕 On Friday, September 11, 2015, sister station WKUW-LD, which is expected to serve the Nashvile area, began running a Test pattern, indicating that a new network affiliation will be coming soon to that station. It became an affiliate of the Doctor Television Channel (DrTV)on November 23, 2015. WCZU-LD already launched as a dual affiliate of MyNetworkTV and Antenna TV in 2014, with DrTV on that station's second subchannel. If WKUT launches soon, DTV America could use the station as a satellite station of WCZU, or affiliate WKUT with either Bounce TV, Soul of the South Network, or one of the Spanish language networks (e.g. Telemundo, MundoMax, Azteca America or Estrella TV). The Sonlife Broadcasting Network may also be an option for WKUT. If one of the aforementioned Spanish networks comes to WKUT, then the station would become the Bowling Green area's first-ever Spanish-language station, and would probably be the first one of that kind to ever be based in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, although TBN Enlace USA, TBN's Spanish-language network, is available over-the-air via WPGD-DT4. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WKUT-LD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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