KBLN-TV
3ABN affiliate in Grants Pass, Oregon
KBLN-TV (channel 30) is a religious independent television station licensed to Grants Pass, Oregon, United States, serving the Medford area. Owned by Better Life Television, the station maintains studios on Northeast 9th Street in Grants Pass and a transmitter on Mount Bluey.
KBLN-TV is seen in five counties in Southern Oregon, plus Siskiyou County in northern California. It is a viewer-supported non-profit outreach organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with a 501(c)(3) status.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of digital TV conversion, KBLN-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 30.
Translators
K16NK-D Cave Junction
K17EZ-D Rogue River
K23EX-D Medford
K25IM-D Medford
K25NO-D Gasquet, CA
K31NH-D Klamath Falls
K33GJ-D Merlin
K33HH-D Redding, CA
K36NY-D Yreka, CA
KEVE-LD 36 Vancouver, WA
Expansion
In 2007, KBLN announced plans to purchase a full power station in Roseburg and a low-powered repeater station in Eugene, to expand coverage to more than 500,000 viewers in the Eugene market. In 2009, the stations, KTVC and Eugene translator KAMK-LP, were sold to KBLN during a bankruptcy auction for Equity Media Holdings. Plans for this expansion were announced by Better Life before Equity's economic woes came to light.
In 2009, according to its website, Better Life "negotiated and signed an agreement to purchase a low power digital station in the Portland area".
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