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#REDIRECT [[List of stations owned by Innovate Corp.]]
{{short description|Oxygen-affiliated LPTV station in Elizabethtown, Kentucky}}

{{Infobox television station
{{Rcat shell|
| callsign = WKUT-LD
{{R to related topic}}
| city = [[Elizabethtown, Kentucky|Elizabethtown]] (relocated from [[Bowling Green, Kentucky]])
| logo =
| branding =
| digital = 20 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 25
| subchannels =
| translators =
| affiliations = [[Oxygen (TV network)|Oxygen]]
| location = [[Elizabethtown, Kentucky|Elizabethtown]]–[[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]]
| country = [[United States]]
| owner = [[HC2 Holdings]]
| licensee = [[DTV America|DTV America Corporation]]
| founded = January 2, 2007
| airdate = {{ubl|{{start date and age|2007|01|02}} ''(original incarnation)''|{{start date and age|2021|03|15}} ''(current incarnation)''}}
| last_airdate = {{end date and age|2010}} ''(original incarnation)''
| callsign_meaning = KentUcky's TBN
| sister_stations = [[WCZU-LD]], [[WKUW-LD]]
| former_callsigns = WKUT-LP (January–February 2007)
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]] (O&O, 2007-2010)|[[Azteca América]] (O&O, 2021-2022)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''[[Analog television|Analog]]:'''|64 (UHF, 2007-2010)|'''Digital:'''|32 (UHF, 2010-2019)}}
| erp = 13.5 [[Kilowatt|kW]]
| haat = {{Convert|547|ft}}
| class = LD (Low-power digital)
| facility_id = 168485
| coordinates = {{coord|36|57|37|N|86|32|49|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| website = [http://www.dtvamerica.com/ DTV America]
}}
}}

'''WKUT-LD''' is a [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] [[television station]] broadcast from.a transmitter located just north of [[Elizabethtown, Kentucky|Elizabethtown]], [[Kentucky]], [[United States]]. Owned by [[HC2 Holdings]], the station serves as an [[Oxygen (TV network)|Oxygen]] [[network affiliate|affiliate]], broadcasting on [[UHF]] channel 20, but through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], it is displayed on tuners as [[virtual channel]] 25.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rabbitears.info/tvq.php?request=items&facid=168485|title=RabbitEars.Info|website=rabbitears.info}}</ref> While the station is nominally licensed to [[Bowling Green, Kentucky|Bowling Green]], the station is actually based in [[Elizabethtown, Kentucky]], and serving southern portions of the Louisville market.

==History==
===As a TBN O&O translator===
The station's construction permit was granted by the FCC on January 2, 2007. At that time, the station was originally licensed to [[Glasgow, Kentucky]], located in [[Barren County, Kentucky|Barren County]], with the callsign '''WKUT-LP''', broadcasting on [[Analog television|analog]] UHF channel 64.<ref>[http://tvstations.procontentanddesign.com/station/21847_WKUT_LP__channel_64_of_Glasgow__KY/index.htm WKUT-LP, channel 64 of Glasgow, Kentucky - TV Station Listing DB by pro Content and Design]</ref> The signal mainly reached most of Barren County, southern [[Hart County, Kentucky|Hart County]] (including [[Horse Cave, Kentucky|Horse Cave]]), and pathetically small areas of eastern Warren and southeast [[Edmonson County, Kentucky|Edmonson Counties]] (e.g. [[Hays, Kentucky|Hays]], [[Rocky Hill, Edmonson County, Kentucky|Rocky Hill]], [[Pondsville, Kentucky|Pondsville]]), and never reached the local media market's principal city Bowling Green proper. The current '''WKUT-LD''' calls were adopted on February 15, 2007, in an attempt to convert the station to digital. In 2010, the station went silent after being purchased by Budd Broadcasting, and the broadcast license was relocated to Bowling Green.

Before WKUT went silent, it was a low-powered [[Owned and operated station|owned-and-operated]] [[Broadcast relay station|translator]] of TBN, the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]], simulcasting programming via satellite from network flagship [[KTBN-TV]] of [[Santa Ana, California]]. Currently, the nearest full-powered TBN station, however, is [[Hendersonville, Tennessee]]-licensed [[WPGD-TV]]. TBN also operated [[WKUW-LD|WKUW-LP]] on analog channel 60, which was also licensed to Glasgow, and at one time was licensed to [[Smiths Grove, Kentucky|Smiths Grove]], until 2010 when they sold it to Budd Broadcasting, who relocated that station to [[White House, Tennessee]], located within the [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] [[media market]], which is the home market for WPGD. WKUT served as a replacement for [[WKUG-LP]], which was also a TBN O&O translator licensed to Glasgow and was broadcast on analog channel 62; that station operated from 2002 until 2007.

Currently, WPGD serves as the default over-the-air TBN station for the Bowling Green media market. TBN, along with its associated sister multi-cast networks (e.g. [[The Church Channel]], [[JUCE TV]], [[Smile of a Child TV]]), is widely available on virtually all [[cable television]] systems and on both major [[Satellite television|satellite TV]] providers (e.g. [[Dish Network]] and [[DirecTV]]). Some parts of the Bowling Green market could receive WPGD's signal with an antenna, mainly in [[Warren County, Kentucky|Warren]], Barren, and southern [[Butler County, Kentucky|Butler Counties]], along with parts of southern Edmonson County south of the [[Green River (Kentucky)|Green River]]. Other than WPGD's southern Kentucky coverage, [[WCZU-LD]]'s fourth digital subchannel with its carriage of the [[Sonlife Broadcasting Network]], and [[Scottsville, Kentucky|Scottsville]]-licensed [[WPBM-CD]], which technically is in the Nashville market, are currently Bowling Green's only local religious television outlets as they provide syndicated and locally produced religious programming.

===Under DTV America ownership===
In 2015, DTV America Corporation became the operator of both WKUT and WKUW-LD, with the license remaining with Budd Broadcasting.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Seyler | first = Dave | title = DTV America, these Budds are for you| date = 22 January 2015 | url = http://rbr.com/dtv-america-these-budds-are-for-you/ | publisher = Radio+Television Business Report | access-date = January 27, 2015}}</ref> With DTV America elected as WKUT's operator, this made WKUT the in-market sister station to WCZU-LD. On July 17, 2015, DTV America took full control of both WKUT and WKUW and now owns and operates the station outright.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1667539 | title=Application Search Details }}</ref>

The elected site of WKUT-LD's new transmitter was located just off Blue Level Road on the western outskirts of Bowling Green just west of the [[William H. Natcher Parkway|Natcher Parkway]] (now [[Interstate 165 (Kentucky)|Interstate 165]]), thus sharing tower space with FM radio translator station [[W248CF]].

===Under HC2 ownership===
In October 2017, WKUT was one of several dozen stations to be purchased by [[HC2 Holdings]], with DTV America remaining the operator of the station. In the same year, the station has filed a construction permit, which allowed the station to relocate to the [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]] market, electing to transmit the digital signal from a tower located along Springfield Road just east of [[Elizabethtown, Kentucky|Elizabethtown]]. The construction permit's conditions also include the station to broadcast its digital signal on UHF channel 20 due to the channel repacking of the late-2010s. In 2019, HC2 decided to move WKUT's transmission facility to a tower located on Bee Knob Kill along [[Kentucky Route 1158]] in southern [[Meade County, Kentucky|Meade County]] in order for the newly relaunched station to have the signal better serve the [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]] metro area.

On March 15, 2021, WKUT-LD officially returned to the air along with four additional subchannels. WKUT-LD became a [[Azteca América]] Owned-and-operated station and is playing its programming on the main channel of 25.1, hence making WKUT the first [[Spanish language|Spanish-language]] television station based in Kentucky. At the time of the launch, channels 25.2 and 25.4 aired Infomercials, 25.3 runs home shopping programming from [[Shop LC]], and 25.5 runs programming from [[Sony Pictures Television]]'s [[getTV]] network.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shoplc.com/channelFinder.html|title=Shop LC Channel Finder|website=Shop LC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.get.tv/get-the-channel|title=SPE Get The Channel Page &#124; Get TV|website=www.get.tv}}</ref> Later on in Fall 2021, it's DT2 and DT4 subchannels respectively began to air programming from [[New Tang Dynasty Television]] and Novelisima.

Azteca America discontinued operations on December 31, 2022, and WKUT's main channel began airing [[Oxygen (TV network)|Oxygen]] network programming, and WKUT-LD5 switched to [[Timeless TV]] on January 1, 2023.

==Digital channels==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rabbitears.info/tvq.php?request=items&facid=168485 | title=RabbitEars.Info }}</ref>
|-
|| 25.1 || [[720p]] || [[16:9 aspect ratio|16:9]] ||rowspan=5|WKUT-LD || Main WKUT-LD Programming / [[Oxygen (TV network)|Oxygen]]
|-
|| 25.2 ||rowspan=4|[[480i]] ||rowspan=4| [[4:3]] || [[New Tang Dynasty Television|NTDTV]]
|-
|| 25.3 || [[Shop LC]]
|-
|| 25.4 || [[Novelisima]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.novelisima.com/donde-vernos|title=Novelisima|website=www.novelisima.com}}</ref>
|-
|| 25.5 || [[Timeless TV]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timelesstv.com/Distribution.html|title=Timeless TV &#124; Distribution|website=timelesstv.com}}</ref>
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Louisville TV}}
{{Bowling Green TV}}
{{HC2 Holdings}}
{{Other Kentucky Stations}}


[[Category:Television stations in Louisville, Kentucky|KUT-LD]]
[[Category:Television stations in Louisville, Kentucky|KUT-LD]]

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