KKAP

KKAP is a religious television station identified with UHF channel 36 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The station operates within the Daystar Television Network, a Christian television group associated with Word of God Fellowship, Inc. Its direct ownership is attributed to Community Television Educators, a Daystar-related subsidiary, placing KKAP within a nonprofit-oriented religious broadcasting structure rather than a conventional commercial local-station group. The station began broadcasting in May 2001. Its facilities include studios on Shackelford Drive in Little Rock's Beverly Hills area, while its transmission facilities are located on Shinall Mountain near the Chenal Valley neighborhood. These locations support KKAP's local over-the-air service in the Little Rock market and surrounding parts of Central Arkansas. KKAP was authorized after the Federal Communications Commission had finalized the digital television allotment plan in 1997. As a result, it did not receive a separate companion channel for a digital signal. Instead, the station ended its analog operation on UHF channel 36 on June 12, 2009, and immediately began digital broadcasting on the same channel through a flash-cut conversion. This transition was part of the broader United States conversion from analog to digital television. The station's principal offering is religious television programming distributed under the Daystar network identity. Public reference material identifies KKAP primarily by its broadcast role and affiliation; detailed information about its local programming schedule, individual programs, management, and commercial operations is not established in the supplied sources. Its brand positioning is therefore best understood as a local broadcast outlet for Daystar's Christian television service in the Little Rock area.

KKAP is a religious television station serving Little Rock, Arkansas, and is associated with the Daystar Television Network. The station's ownership structure places it under Community Television Educators, which is identified as a subsidiary of Word of God Fellowship, Inc., the holding organization connected with Daystar. KKAP therefore functions as a local station within a larger Christian broadcasting network rather than as an independent general-interest television operation. The station first signed on in May 2001. Its studios were established on Shackelford Drive in the Beverly Hills section of Little Rock. The station's transmitter is located on Shinall Mountain, near the Chenal Valley neighborhood. The combination of a Little Rock studio base and a high-elevation transmission site reflects the station's role in providing terrestrial television coverage to the local market and nearby areas of Central Arkansas. KKAP's technical history was shaped by the timing of its authorization. The Federal Communications Commission finalized the nationwide digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997. Because KKAP received an original construction permit after that plan had been completed, it was not assigned a separate companion channel for a digital service. The station consequently operated its analog service on UHF channel 36 while preparing to transition to digital broadcasting. On June 12, 2009, KKAP discontinued its analog transmission on channel 36. Rather than moving digital service to another assigned frequency, it performed a flash cut, beginning digital operation on UHF channel 36. The change made KKAP part of the United States television industry's nationwide analog-to-digital transition and preserved channel 36 as the station's recognizable broadcast identity. Available reference material describes KKAP mainly through its ownership, affiliation, facilities, launch, and transmission history. It does not provide a detailed account of local news production, program brands, audience figures, advertising activity, or named executives. The station is therefore most clearly documented as a local Daystar-affiliated religious broadcaster whose core function is the terrestrial distribution of Christian television programming in and around Little Rock.

• 2009

  Analog shutdown and digital flash cut

  [1]KKAPen.wikipedia.org

  KKAP ended its analog transmission on UHF channel 36 on June 12, 2009, and began digital operation on the same UHF channel through a flash-cut conversion.

• 2001

  KKAP begins broadcasting

  [1]KKAPen.wikipedia.org

  KKAP signed on in May 2001 as a religious television station serving the Little Rock, Arkansas area.

• 1997

  FCC digital television allotment plan finalized

  [1]KKAPen.wikipedia.org

  The Federal Communications Commission finalized its digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997. Because KKAP received its original construction permit later, it did not receive a separate companion channel for digital broadcasting.

A local Christian television outlet carrying the programming identity of the Daystar Television Network in the Little Rock, Arkansas market.

• Religious television broadcasting · 2001

  KKAP digital television service

  KKAP's principal service is a digital over-the-air television broadcast for the Little Rock, Arkansas market. The station carries the religious programming identity of the Daystar Television Network and operates from studios on Shackelford Drive, with transmission facilities on Shinall Mountain. Its broadcast service retained UHF channel 36 when the station moved from analog to digital transmission in 2009.

1. 1KKAPen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Daystar Television Networkdaystar.com