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KDTL-LD
Channels
BrandingMatrix Midwest
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KMOV
History
FoundedApril 2, 1990
First air date
September 28, 1992 (1992-09-28)
Former call signs
  • K64DT (1990–2004)
  • KDTL-LP (2004–2012)
Former channel numbers
  • Analog: 64 (UHF, 1992–2008), 16 (UHF, 2008–2012)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, 2012–2022)
  • Virtual: 17 (until 2023)
Call sign meaning
Daystar Television/St. Louis, for former owner
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
69791
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT250.5 m (822 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
38°31′47″N 90°17′58″W / 38.52972°N 90.29944°W / 38.52972; -90.29944
Links
Public license information
LMS

KDTL-LD (channel 32), branded as Matrix Midwest, is a low-power independent television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS and ABC affiliate KMOV (channel 4). Both stations broadcast from studios on Progress Parkway in suburban Maryland Heights and share transmitter facilities in Lemay, Missouri.

History

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The station began operations as K64DT on September 28, 1992. By 1993, it was broadcasting ValueVision home shopping.[2] The station increased its power, changing its callsign to KDTL-LP in 2004 after being sold to Word of God Fellowship, the parent entity of the Daystar Television Network, to broadcast Daystar's programming. The station converted to digital operations at the end of 2011, and changed its call sign to KDTL-LD on January 5, 2012.

On May 9, 2022, it was announced that Word of God Fellowship would sell KDTL-LD to Atlanta-based Gray Television, which had acquired KMOV the year previous after purchasing Meredith's broadcast division and its stations, for $1 million;[3] the sale was completed on July 1.[4]

Following the consummation of the sale to Gray, the station dropped its affiliation with Daystar, as the network's programming was carried by full-power station WPXS (channel 13) since it purchased the station in 2010, and also duplicated in the inner core of St. Louis on in-market repeater KUMO-LD (channel 51). The station initially aired an automated feed of current weather conditions, forecasts, and observations from KMOV's weather computers in high definition on its second subchannel (mapped to channel 4.7, using KMOV's channel position), while its main channel (mapped to 4.6) carried Corner Store TV, an all-paid programming network, in a transition period while Gray acquired programming to place on it with its former affiliated network Circle winding down at the end of 2023.

Subchannels

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The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KDTL-LD[5]
Subchannel Res.Tooltip Display resolution Short name Programming
4.5 720p1stAlrtFirst Alert Weather Now
32.3 MATRIXMatrix Midwest
32.4 480iOutlawOutlaw
32.10 720pABCABC (KMOV)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Channels 32.1 and 32.2 (ABC and Matrix Midwest in 480i, respectively) are transmitted off of the KMOV multiplex.[6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KDTL-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Schlinkmann, Mark (December 26, 1993). "Low-Power TV Here Has Low Level Of Local Input". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1E, 2E. Retrieved September 1, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Notification of Consummation". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. July 5, 2022. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  5. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for KDTL". RabbitEars. Retrieved October 9, 2023.
  6. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for KMOV". RabbitEars. Retrieved July 26, 2026.
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