The station began broadcasting on UHF channel 36 on July 18, 1994, under the
call sign KROZ. It became a charter affiliate of
The WB on January 11, 1995. It changed its calls to the current KTVC on September 4, 1998. 17 days later, the WB affiliation moved to cable-only
KZWB, and KTVC affiliated with the then-new
Pax TV. In 2002, the station affiliated with
UPN after the network moved from
KEVU-LP. Under ownership of
Equity Broadcasting, KTVC switched to Equity's
Retro Television Network on September 16, 2006, when UPN ceased broadcasting. A newly created digital subchannel of
NBC affiliate
KMTR picked up
The CW, a network created by the merger of UPN and The WB, while KEVU-LP became an affiliate of
MyNetworkTV, a programming service from
News Corporation, then-parent company of
Fox. On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result,
Luken Communications restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customized feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. Consequently, KTVC lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vowed to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area. KTVC was sold at auction to Better Life Television on April 16, 2009. Upon the completion of the sale, the station began to air religious programming from new sister station
KBLN, including
3ABN programming. The KTVC calls were previously used on what is now
KBSD-TV in
Dodge City, Kansas, from 1957 to 1989.
KAMK-LP history KAMK-LP began as translator station K53EA on February 25, 1993, broadcasting
The Box. On December 16, 1995, K53EA began rebroadcasting KROZ which would change to KTVC. On January 1, 1998, K53EA became low power KAMK-LP. Calls reflected owner Gerald D. Kamp's last name. On January 30, 2012, KAMK-LP switched to digital as KAMK-LD (channel 49), using
virtual channel 36.1, to match KTVC's virtual channel. (It is not related to KXOR-LP, a defunct
Azteca América station in Eugene that broadcast on UHF channel 36, though that channel carried 3ABN programming in the past.) ==Technical information==