KTAJ-TV (channel 16) is a religious television station licensed to St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, serving the St. Joseph and Kansas City markets as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's transmitter is located at the intersection of East 23rd Street and Topping Avenue in Kansas City's Blue Valley section.
KTAJ-TV formerly operated from studios on Northwest Seymour Avenue in the Tiffany Springs area of Kansas City. That facility was one of several closed by TBN in 2019 following the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s repeal of the "Main Studio Rule", which required full-service television stations like KTAJ-TV to maintain facilities in or near their communities of license.[1]
Although KTAJ-TV mainly serves the Kansas City area, because St. Joseph is a separate media market, it is officially assigned by Nielsen to that community and market.[2] The station has been available on cable television providers in both the St. Joseph and Kansas City markets since its sign-on, though national providers usually choose to carry the national TBN feed instead outside cases where KTAJ's main channel is required to be carried under must-carry provisions.[3]