KSCE

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KSCE
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City El Paso, Texas
Channels
BrandingLIFE! Christian Broadcasting Network
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerChannel 38 Christian Television
History
First air date
April 15, 1989(34 years ago) (1989-04-15)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 38 (UHF, 1989–2009)
  • Digital: 39 (UHF, 2009–2019)
Call sign meaning
St. Clement's Episcopal Parish School (original owners)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 10202
ERP 150 kW
HAAT 557 m (1,827 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 31°48′18.9″N106°29′0.7″W / 31.805250°N 106.483528°W / 31.805250; -106.483528
Links
Public license information
Website lifechristian.tv

KSCE (channel 38) is a religious independent television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, owned by Channel 38 Christian Television. The station's studios are located on Wyoming Avenue (northwest of I-10) in central El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.

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History

The station first signed on the air on April 15, 1989, operating on a non-commercial license. The call letters initially stood for "Saint Clements Episcopal", as the station was originally intended to be an outreach by Saint Clements Episcopal School in downtown El Paso. However, the school lost interest in television broadcasting and the station's controlling board of directors appointed Grace Rendall, a former director at KCIK-TV (channel 14, now KFOX-TV) as the station's manager before KSCE went on the air.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KSCE [2]
Channel Res, Aspect Short nameProgramming
38.1 720p 16:9 KSCEMain KSCE programming
38.2 1080i Vida Spanish Religious
38.3 480i 4:3 KSCEKids and Youth Channel
38.4BibleKSCE Bible

Analog-to-digital conversion

KSCE shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 38, at 6 p.m. 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 39, [3] using virtual channel 38.

On April 20, 2010, KSCE filed a request for a special temporary authorization with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to resume operating an analog signal on UHF channel 38, to broadcast information regarding the dangers to those traveling across the U.S.–Mexico border as a result of the ongoing drug wars in Mexico, on justification that most people in need of the information are unable to afford digital televisions or digital converter boxes. [4] On June 9, 2010, the FCC denied the station's request to restore its analog signal.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for KSCE". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for KSCE
  3. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  4. "CDBS Print".