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City | Harlingen, Texas |
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Branding | Trinity Broadcasting Network |
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History | |
First air date | June 25, 1984 |
Former call signs | KLUJ (1984–2005) |
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Independent (1984–1986) | |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 12913 |
ERP | 33.9 kW |
HAAT | 283 m (928 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 26°13′1″N97°46′49″W / 26.21694°N 97.78028°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | KLUJ-TV information on TBN's website |
KLUJ-TV (channel 44) is a religious television station licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States, serving the Lower Rio Grande Valley with programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). It is owned and operated by TBN's Community Educational Television subsidiary, which manages stations in Texas and Florida on channels allocated for non-commercial educational broadcasting. KLUJ-TV's studios are located on Loop 499 in Harlingen, and its transmitter is located near Palm Valley, Texas.
The station signed on the air on June 25, 1984, as the Lower Rio Grande Valley's first general-entertainment independent station before switching to TBN in 1986.[ citation needed ]
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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44.1 | 720p | 16:9 | TBN HD | TBN |
44.2 | Inspire | TBN Inspire | ||
44.3 | 480i | 4:3 | Smile | Smile → [Blank] (eff. 1/13/2025) |
TBN-owned full-power stations permanently ceased analog transmissions on April 16, 2009.
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