KTAJ-TV
KTAJ-TV is a religious television station licensed to St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, serving the St. Joseph and Kansas City markets as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The station's transmitter is located at the intersection of East 23rd Street and Topping Avenue in Kansas City's Kansas City, Missouri#East Side|Blue Valley] section.
KTAJ-TV formerly operated from studios on Northwest Seymour Avenue in the Tiffany Springs area of Kansas City. That facility was one of several closed by TBN in 2019 following the Federal Communications Commission 's repeal of the "Main Studio Rule", which required full-service television stations like KTAJ-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.
Although KTAJ-TV mainly serves the Kansas City area, it is officially assigned by Nielsen to the St. Joseph market due to the location of its city of license. The station has been available on cable television providers in both the St. Joseph and Kansas City markets since its sign-on, although Charter Spectrum, Comcast Xfinity, Consolidated Communications, AT&T U-verse and Google Fiber do not carry KTAJ but do carry TBN's national feed.
Overview
The station first signed on the air on October 15, 1986, and was built and signed on by All American Television, as an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 2000, KTAJ was purchased by TBN, along with the other All American Television stations. KTAJ is the only full-power TBN station in the state of Missouri, and was one of only two stations licensed to St. Joseph—alongside ABC affiliate KQTV —until the June 2012 sign-on of Fox affiliate KNPN-LD —although KQTV remains the only local full-power commercial television station licensed to the city and KNPG-LD ).As KTAJ-TV's virtual digital channel is mapped as "16", NBC affiliate KNPG-LD instead maps its virtual channel as 21 to avoid co-channel mapping issues with KTAJ.