KTBN (shortwave)

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KTBN-SW
Broadcast area North America
BrandingSuperPower KTBN
Programming
Format Defunct (was religious radio)
Ownership
Owner Trinity Broadcasting Network
History
First air date
December 26, 1987 (1987-12-26)
Last air date
March 30, 2008(16 years ago) (2008-03-30)
Call sign meaning
Trinity Broadcasting Network (the station's owner)
Technical information
Power 100,000 watts
Links
Website http://www.tbn.org

KTBN (formerly known as KUSW) was the shortwave radio outlet of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a large religious international broadcaster. The station's programming was a simulcast of the audio portion of the TBN television service.

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History

KUSW, which was also branded "The Superpower", officially launched on December 26, 1987 during the peak years of the American commercial shortwave broadcasting boom triggered by the founding of WRNO Worldwide. Owned by Carlson Communications International, which owned a network of AM and FM stations in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, [1] KUSW broadcast a combination of news and rock music. The station also carried selected Utah Jazz games. The station also offered a mail-order catalog of products made in the Rocky Mountains. [2] The station's "theme song", used as an interval signal for sign-ons, sign-offs, and to signal frequency changes, was "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits.

Carlson sold the station to the TBN ministry in 1990 for approximately $2 million. [1] [3] The station signed off under its old format on December 16 of that year, to be relaunched under the KTBN callsign two days later. [1] To celebrate the format/ownership change, TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch staged a televised demolition, whereas a false representation of KUSW's former library of rock albums was exploded in a Disco Demolition Night-esque manner.

As early as June 2004, KTBN broadcast warnings that it would leave the air due to "lack of [listener] response". [4] Although the station continued for several years after these announcements, pages dedicated to the KTBN shortwave service were deleted from the TBN website in 2005. [5] The station ceased operations on March 30, 2008.

After its final sign-off, the station equipment, including the transmitter and antenna array, was dismantled and shipped to Anguilla in the Caribbean to be incorporated into the Caribbean Beacon radio station. [1]

Frequencies

At the time of its last broadcasts, KTBN could be heard on the following frequencies:

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