KLTJ

KLTJ
Galveston/Houston, Texas; United States
City	Galveston, Texas
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF); Virtual: 22 (PSIP)
Programming
Affiliations	22.1: Daystar (O&O); 22.2: Daystar Español
Ownership
Owner	Word of God Fellowship ; (Community Television Educators of Texas, Inc.)
Sister stations	KDHU-LD
History
First air date	July 20, 1989 (32 years ago)
Former call signs	KUYA (1987–1989)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:; 22 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Former affiliations	Religious independent
Call sign meaning	Keep; Looking; To; Jesus
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	24436
ERP	350 kW
HAAT	579 m (1,900 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	29°34′15″N 95°30′37″W / 29.57083°N 95.51028°WCoordinates: 29°34′15″N 95°30′37″W / 29.57083°N 95.51028°W
Links
Public license information	Profile; LMS
Website	www.daystar.com

KLTJ, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 23), is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station serving Houston, Texas, United States that is licensed to Galveston. The station is owned by Word of God Fellowship, a subsidiary of the Daystar Television Network. KLTJ's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County. It is operated separately from low-power sister station KDHU-LD (channel 50) in Houston.

History[]

The station was originally licensed to Galveston Educational TV, Inc. under the call sign KUYA; it is unknown whether the station ever went on the air under those call letters.

On July 20, 1989, Eldred Thomas moved the KLTJ religious programming inventory and call sign from channel 57 (frequency now occupied by KUBE-TV) to channel 22 to take advantage of an improved coverage area.^[1]

Before moving the call letters to Houston, Thomas owned KLTJ (channel 49, now KSTR-DT) in Dallas from 1983 to 1987; it was a sister station to radio outlet KVTT-FM (now KKXT), which Thomas also owned.^[2]

Digital television[]

Digital channels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[3]
22.1	1080i	16:9	KLTJ-DT	Main KLTJ programming / Daystar
22.2	480i	16:9		Daystar Español

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

KLTJ discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 23,^[4] using PSIP to display KLTJ's virtual channel as 22 on digital television receivers.