KNMT
KNMT is a religious television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, owned and operated by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The station's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of the city, near the West Hills of Portland.
KNMT's studios, once located on Northeast 74th Avenue in Portland, were sold to a developer to become low income housing.
History
KNMT was founded on June 7, 1985, and began broadcasting operations on November 16, 1989; it was Portland's first full-power, full-service religious broadcast station. The station primarily carries programming from the TBN satellite feed, but also produces and broadcasts locally produced programs such as the religious program Northwest Praise the Lord and the public affairs show Northwest Focus. KNMT began 24-hour operations in February 1990.The station was formerly owned by National Minority Television, a de facto subsidiary of TBN that was used by the network to circumvent the Federal Communications Commission 's television station ownership restrictions. While TBN founder Paul Crouch was NMTV's president, one of its directors was African American and the other was Latino, which met the FCC's definition of a "minority-controlled" firm. In mid-2008, the station and its NMTV sisters came directly under TBN ownership.
As of 2019, only KNMT-DT1 and the satellite feed of Enlace are carried by Comcast locally.