WTSF

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 (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 / 38.41972°N 82.40167°W / 38.41972; -82.40167
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.daystar.com

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 in the former Coles Junior High School building on Bath Avenue in Ashland, and its transmitter is located on a very short tower in Huntington's Rotary Park.

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, later broadcasting out of the former Coles Junior High School building, which has housed the station ever since.^[2] 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^[3]

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.^[4][5]

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for WTSF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. Preson, Tim (December 15, 2008). "Broadcasting the message". The Independent Online. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
3. "RabbitEars TV Query for WTSF". RabbitEars. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
4. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
5. CDBS Print

External links

• Daystar website