Early years On April 2, 1990, John R. Broomall received the
construction permit for a new low-power television station licensed to
Roswell, Georgia, on channel 67. Broomall sold the permit to the Korean American TV Broadcasting Co. in April 1991. By 1996, Korean American had added Telemundo programming, which aired for most of the day, alongside Chinese- and Korean-language fare. Korean programming aired from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and again from 11 p.m. to 1 am, emphasizing local news, alongside local church service broadcasts and South Korean news and entertainment programs. The Korean programming, known as KTN, went full-time on a cable channel on
AT&T Broadband systems in 2001, which increased its output from six hours a day. Programming continued to include imported and local productions. Meanwhile, channel 67 became channel 38, a result of the clearing of channels 60 to 69 for telecommunications use, in 2000, becoming W38CU. The station's coverage area did not reach much of the city of Atlanta, but it did reach areas of
Gwinnett County and
DeKalb County with significant ethnic populations.
Digital era Korean American TV obtained a permit to construct W47DN-D as its digital companion channel on channel 47, with a superior technical facility covering much of the metropolitan area. In 2009, W38CU obtained Class A status and became WKTB-CA; this transferred to the digital transmitter in 2011 upon consolidation under one license. In 2009, the station reaffiliated with Telemundo. In August 2013, a subchannel on full-power
WPXA-TV began repeating WKTB-CD's Telemundo feed in standard definition, using virtual channel 47.11. In June 2021, this moved to
WSB-TV.
Sale to Gray Television On February 7, 2022, it was announced that
Gray Television would purchase WKTB-CD and sister company Surge Digital Media, an ad agency specializing in multicultural clients and services, for $30 million, pending approval of the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC); this would make WKTB-CD a
sister station to Gray's
duopoly of
CBS affiliate WGCL-TV (channel 46, now
WANF) and
independent station WPCH-TV (channel 17). The sale was completed on April 1, and with it, its full-power simulcast moved to WGCL's spectrum, remaining mapped to 47.1. ==Newscasts==